Sartre and Clio
Subtitle: encounters with history
By: Mark Hulliung
Publisher: Paradigm Publishers; Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Boulder, CO
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781612050447; 9781612050454
Subjects: Political and social views
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: to historicize or not to historicize; title: From time to history; title: The historical search for the unhistorical; title: Human history and the human condition; title: History and revolution; title: History and a note on ethics.