Sartre's French Contemporaries and Enduring Influences

Download or read book Sartre's French Contemporaries and Enduring Influences written by William L. McBride and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sartre's French Contemporaries and Enduring Influences This final volume examines Sartre's best-known philosophical contemporaries in France-Albert Camus, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Simone de Beauvoir-in terms of both their own philosophical insights and their relationship to Sartre's thought. The articles also offer some suggestive connections between Sartre's thought and subsequent developments in European philosophy, notably structuralism, poststructuralism, and postmodernism. The comparatively recent nature of much of this scholarship is solid testimony to the enduring influence of Sartrean existentialism.