What is Literature? - Routledge Classics

Jean-Paul Sartre was one of the most important philosophical and political thinkers of the twentieth century. His writings had a potency that was irresistible to the intellectual scene that swept post-war Europe, and have left a vital inheritance to contemporary thought. The central tenet of the Existentialist movement which he helped to found, whereby God is replaced by an ethical self, proved hugely attractive to a generation that had seen the horrors of Nazism, and provoked a revolution in post-war thought and literature. 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.

ISBN:	9780415254045
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Imprint:	Routledge
Published date:	18 May 2001
DEWEY:	801
DEWEY edition:	21
Language:	English
Number of pages:	251
Weight:	316g
Height:	194mm
Width:	132mm
Spine width:	21mm

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