Situating Sartre in Twentieth-Century Thought and Culture

Until recently, the work of Jean-Paul Sartre seemed to have faded out of fashion. Existentialism was replaced by structuralism and poststructuralism, and Sartrean philosophy was relegated to anthologies. In France and the United States, real confrontation with his work has been virtually missing. This collection of essays addresses this absence by shedding light on Sartre's contribution to critical trends that have been developing over the last twenty years, including feminism, gender studies and post-colonial studies. In addition, the essays combine to reassess Sartre's importance in such traditional fields as literature, philosophy and psychoanalysis. An essential, comprehensive volume of work, Situating Sartre in Twentieth-Century Thought and Culture updates and expands the scope of Sartrean studies.

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Acknowledgements - Introduction: From a Post-Imperial Point of View; J-F.Fourny - Search for a Method: Le Scenario Freud; R.Goldthorpe - Flaubert's Blind-Spot. The Fetichization of Subjectivity: Some Notes on the Constitution of Gustave in Sartre's Idiot de la famille; C.Howells - Ethics and Revolution in Sartre's Les Mains sales; C.D.Minahen - Freedom at Work: Sartre on Ponge; N.H.Lancaster - Sartre and the Age of the American Novel; A.Boschetti - The Narrative of Return in Orphee noir; M-P.Ha - Freedom and Flirtation: Bad Faith in Sartre and Beauvoir; T.Moi - Snails and Oysters: Sartre and His Homosexualities; G.H.Bauer - Adrift in the Realm of the Senses; R.Harvey - Apotheosis and Demise of the Philosophy of the Subject: Hegel, Sartre, Heidegger, Structuralism, and Poststructuralism; P.R.Wood - Notes on Contributors - Index