The Aftermath of War

by Jean-Paul Sartre, Chris Turner (Translator)

Overview

The Aftermath of War brings together essays written in Sartre’s most creative period, just after World War II. Sartre’s extraordinary range of engagement is manifest, with writings on post-war America, the social impact of war in Europe, contemporary philosophy, race, and avant garde art. Carefully structured into sections, the essays range across Sartre’s reflections on collaboration, resistance and liberation in post-war Europe, his thoughts and observations after his extended trip to the USA in 1945, an examination of the failings of philosophical materialism, his analysis of the new revolutionary poetry of ‘negritude’, and his meditations on the visual arts, with essays on the work of Giacometti and Calder, both of whom Sartre knew well.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780857424471
Publisher:	Seagull Books
Publication date:	02/15/2017
Series:	The French List
Pages:	386
Product dimensions:	4.90(w) x 7.80(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-80) was a French novelist, playwright, and biographer who is widely recognized as one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. His work earned him the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Chris Turner is a translator and writer living in Birmingham, UK. He has translated numerous books from French and German, including, for Seagull Books, titles by Jean-Paul Sartre, Roland Barthes, André Gorz, Yves Bonnefoy, and Pascal Quignard, among others.

Table of Contents

Part One
   The Republic of Silence
   Paris under the Occupation
   What is a Collaborator?
   The End of the War
 
Part Two
   Individualism and Conformism in the United States
   Cities of America
   New York, Colonial City
   USA: Presentation
 
Part Three
   Materialism and Revolution
   I.  The Revolutionary Myth
   II. The Philosophy of Revolution
 
Part Four
   Black Orpheus
 
Part Five
   The Quest for the Absolute
   Calder's Mobiles