Talking with Sartre: Conversations and Debates
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| Rating | : | 4.86 (794 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0300159013 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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Margaret E. Leahy said WOW!!!. For those who think philosophical ideas are only for philosophers, this book will change your mind. Gerassi has the type of relationship with Sartre that allows true "Conversations" and "Debates" to take place. There is give and take, history and humor. At times you can almost see the two of them facing off over one of those small, round French cafe tables challenging the ideas of the other. If you want to read two great minds passionately engaged in ideas as well as the reflections of two old friend, be sure to get this book. You won't regret it.. A Winner! Gerassi's conversations with Sartre are witty, insightful, and deeply human. It reveals the complexities of the French philosopher while also disclosing new aspects of his thinking. It's hard to book this book down. Get it, you won't regret it!. A Window Inside One of the 20th Century's Greatest Minds What John Gerassi has done here is nothing less than opened a window to one of the greatest minds of the 20th century.Where much of Sartre's philosophical prose is difficult to tackle for lay readers, the interviews/conversations in this book allow the philosopher to convey his ideas with straightforward clarity as he and Gerassi discuss topics ranging from existential philosophy, to Cold War party politics and superpower imperialism, to literature and drama.Gerassi explains that these conversations were culled from 2000 single spaced typed transcript pages of interviews he conducted with Sarte in the early 1970s. T
From Publishers Weekly With a decidedly political focus, these lively and candid conversations from the early 1970s between the famed French philosopher and his godson are a fascinating glimpse into Sartre's efforts to reconcile existentialism with Maoism and his own increasingly revolutionary leanings. . This can make for repetition and occasional tedium that could easily have been remedied by more disciplined editing and a less ideologically strident framework. That Gerassi (Jean-Paul Sartre) is clearly on close personal terms with his subject is always apparent, and this allows for wonderfully frank accounts of Sartre's childhood, various affairs and women, as well as asides about his drug use and bizarre, recurring hallucinations of crabs. The author incessantly returns to political questions, examining Sartre's various left-wing commitments, his views on Soviet Russia, Cuba, the Israel-Palestine conflict, in addition to the broader questions of how social conscience re
What would it be like to be privy to the mind of one of the twentieth century’s greatest thinkers? John Gerassi had just this opportunity; as a child, his mother and father were very close friends with Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, and the couple became for him like surrogate parents. We also gain insight into his perspectives on the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the disintegration of colonialism. These conversations add an intimate dimension to Sartre’s more abstract ideas. With remarkable rigor and intensity, they also provide a clear lens through which to view the major conflagrations of the past century. . Authorized by Sartre to write his biography, Gerassi conducted a long series of interviews between 1970 and 1974, which he has now edited to produce this revelatory and breathtaking portrait of one of the world’s most famous intellectuals. Through the interviews, with both their informalities and their tensions, Sartre’