Some years ago, at a meeting of the Groupe d’études sartriennes in Paris, one of the editors made the claim that to understand Sartre one had to view him as a person who constantly measured himself against the leading lights of the past, of his age, and that at the same time, he foreshadowed the coming age. The contributions in this issue reveal the extent to which recent Sartre scholarship illustrates this point since they emphasize to what enormous degree Sartre remains pivotal to the understanding of ethical questions, postmodernism and such thinkers as Marcuse, Foucault and Fanon, but also such stellar figures from the past as Goethe and Nietzsche.
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Editorial
Sartre at One Hundred: A Man of the Nineteenth Century Addressing the Twenty-First?
Thomas R. Flynn
We are celebrating the centennial year of the birth of Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980). His death and the huge funeral cortege that spontaneously gathered on that occasion marked the passing of the last of the philosophical "personalities" of our era. Contrast, for example, his departure, which I did not witness, with that of Michel Foucault, which I did. The latter was acknowledged in a modest ceremony at the door of the Salpêtrière Hospital; his private funeral in the province was even more stark. The two passings exhibit the distinction graphically. Foucault, the most likely candidate to become Sartre's successor as reigning intellectual on the Left Bank, exited the institution that had figured in several of his books attended by a small crowd of a couple hundred, admittedly assembled without public notification, on a damp morning to hear Gilles Deleuze read a brief passage from the preface to The Uses of Pleasure. Describing philosophy as "the critical work that thought brings to bear on itself," the message had an ironically haunting Sartrean ring.
In Sartre Studies International
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2005
- Article Type:
- Introduction
- Pages:
- 1–14 (14 total)
Representations, History, and Wartime France
Brett Bowles
In a 1989 article published by Annales under the title “Le monde comme représentation,”1 Roger Chartier articulated a conceptual framework for bridging the gap that had traditionally separated the history of mentalities from social and political history. While the former field—pioneered by Georges Duby, Robert Mandrou, and Philippe Ariès in the 1960s—had legitimized the study of collective beliefs, anxieties, and desires as historical phenomena, the latter remained largely devoted to more concrete, easily quantifiable factors such as structures, institutions, and material culture. Drawing on the anthropological and psychoanalytical premises that had informed the work of Michel Foucault, Louis Marin, and Michel de Certeau, among others, Chartier emphasized the performative dimension of individual and collective representations in order to argue that they should be understood not only as evidence registering the exercise of social and political power, but as underlying catalysts of change in their own right. Like habitus, Pierre Bourdieu’s complex model of social causality and evolution, Chartier framed representation as a symbiotic “structuring structure” that deserved to sit at the heart of historical inquiry.
In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2014
- Article Type:
- Introduction
- Pages:
- 1–3 (3 total)
Editorial
John Gillespie and Katherine Morris
, among others, connections are formed with Deleuze, Badiou, Kristeva, Lacan, Foucault, and Agamben. We can be sure that in these dark times, Sartre, were he still with us, would have provided a powerful voice reminding us of the importance of freedom
Book Reviews
Alice L. Conklin Les Enfants de la colonie: Les métis de l’Empire français entre sujétion et citoyenneté by Emmanuelle Saada
Jason Earle Surrealism and the Art of Crime by Jonathan P. Eburne
Paul Jankowski Reconciling France against Democracy: The Croix de Feu and the Parti Social Français, 1927–1945 by Sean Kennedy
Jean-Philippe Mathy French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, & Co. Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States by François Cusset
David Lepoutre La France a peur. Une histoire sociale de l'« insécurité » by Laurent Bonelli
In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2010
- Article Type:
- Book Review
- Pages:
- 134–150 (17 total)
Beauvoir and Writing as the Creation of the Self
Memoirs, Diaries, Biography
Liesbeth Schoonheim
disciplinary boundaries and with other thinkers such as Foucault, the historical contextualisation of Beauvoir's autobiographical texts deepens our understanding of the ethical, political and epistemological stakes in the production of the self through acts of
In Sartre Studies International
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2020
- Article Type:
- Review Article
- Pages:
- 77–88 (12 total)
Sartre and Beauvoir on Women's Psychological Oppression
Mary Edwards
, Saint Genet, 37, 57, 291. 89 Sartre, Saint Genet , 37. 90 CDR 233. 91 CDR 234. 92 Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Winchester, UK: Zero Books, 2009), 13. 93 See Bartky's influential essay, ‘Foucault, Femininity
In Sartre Studies International
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 46–75 (30 total)