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Sartre and Clio: Encounters with History

By Mark Hulliung

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2012
ISBN
1612050441, 9781612050447
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
656 kB (671476 bytes)
Pages
176\170
Scanned
yes
Time added
2016-09-21 09:57:42
World;Civilization & Culture;Expeditions & Discove

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.

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