Sketch for a theory of the emotions
By: Jean-Paul Sartre ; translated by Philip Mairet ; foreword Sebastian Gardner
Contributors: Mairet, Philip, 1886-1975, translator; Gardner, Sebastian, author of introduction, etc
Series: Routledge Great Minds; Routledge great minds
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London, [England]; New York, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781315851006; 9781317914396; 9781317914389; 9781317914372
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Emotions; PHILOSOPHY / General; PSYCHOLOGY / General
Description: Philosopher, novelist, dramatist and existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre is one of the greatest writers of all time. He was fascinated by the role played by the emotions in human life and placed them at the heart of his philosophy. This brilliant short work- which contains some of the principal ideas later to appear in his masterpiece Being and Nothingness- is Sartre at his best: insightful, engaging and controversial. Far from constraining one's freedom, as we often think, Sartre argues that emotions are fundamental to it and that an emotion is nothing less than 'a transformation of the world'. With a new foreword by Sebastian Gardner.
Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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