Title: Sartre and Clio : encounters with history /
Authors: Hulliung, Mark
Publisher: Paradigm Publishers,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Sartre, Jean-Paul, Political and social views.
Abstract: In Nausea, the 1938 novel that made Sartre famous, the protagonist is a historian who abandons the biography he is writing because he comes to believe that all histories are fictional, escapist, and useless. He sought the one and only truth of history; a truth that would revolutionize the world. By the time Sartre published his most mature works, he claimed to have written a biography that was perfectly true. This book examines how and why Sartre s position on the possibility and worth of historical knowledge changed so dramatically. In addition, it illuminates Sartre s unique contribution to the grand debate between Marxist and anarchist revolutionaries a debate that continues today. Show more Show less.
Contents: Introduction: to historicize or not to historicize -- From time to history -- The historical search for the unhistorical -- Human history and the human condition -- History and revolution -- History and a note on ethics.