Sartre's century

Description

This book is presented as a “philosophical research” and it is not about, therefore, from a biography. Does not attempt to recover Sartre's childhood or youth, It does not even attempt to resurrect the crazy years of existentialism, just after the war, when the founder of Les temps modernes presided over a gathering at the Café de Flore, in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, together with his eternal accomplice Simone de Beauvoir. Bernard-Henri Lévy's objective is to follow Sartre's intellectual evolution step by step, who was a disciple of Gide (1869-1951) and Bergson specialist before turning away from them to approach Husserl and Heidegger. Being and nothingness, his most successful philosophical work, converted it since the Liberation (1944) in one of the thinkers with the most influence on a generation eager for freedom and seduced by the theme of commitment, fundamental factor in existentialism.