In What is Literature? sartre the novelist and Sartre the philosopher combine to address the phenomenon of literature, exploring why we read, and why we write.

A Harper Perennial Modern Classics reissue of this unflinching examination of post-war French intellectual life, and an amazing chronicle of love, philosophy and politics from one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century.

In a remote seaside village, Niki Jumpei, a teacher and amateur entomologist, is held captive with a young woman at the bottom of a vast sand pit where they are pressed into shovelling off the ever-advancing sand dunes that threaten the village.

A simple psychologically deliberation on the dogmatic issue of hereditary sin.

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A concise introduction to this controversial and important twentieth-century philosopher. David Farrell Krell has improved this collection by adding 'The Way to Language' and the complete version of 'The Origin of the Work of Art'.

Written in French, and then translated into English, by Beckett, Endgame was given its first London performance at the Royal Court Theatre, in 1957.

Presenting case studies of schizophrenic patients, this title intends to make madness and the process of going mad comprehensible. It offers an existential analysis of personal alienation.

The classic study of alienation, creativity and the modern mind

Created and edited by Justin Kestler and Ben Florman, SparkNotes Literature Guides provide analysis of (currently) 175 classic works of English and foreign language literature - novels, biographies, plays and poetry - that most commonly appear on examination syllabuses. These books provide the insights that today's students need to know.

One of Sartre's most important pieces of writing, Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions not only anticipates but argues many of the ideas to be found in his famous Being and Nothingness.

A comprehensive anthology of Soren Kierkegaard's works. Drawn from the volumes of Princeton's Kierkegaard's Writings series, it represents various major aspects of Kierkegaard's career. It reveals the mix of philosophy, psychology, theology, and literary criticism that made Kierkegaard one of the compelling writers of the 19th century.

A new translation and edition of this important and influential statement of Nietzsche's philosophy.

Includes summary but substantial accounts of the thought of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Jaspers, Marcel, Heidegger and Sartre, and a concluding essay that attempts to interpret the whole Existentialist movement.