An in-depth analysis of two of Sartrepsquo;s contemporaries, Bataille and Blanchot.
Iconic French novelist, playwright and essayist Jean-Paul Sartre (1905idash;1980) is widely recognized as one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, and his work has remained relevant and thought-provoking through the decades. The Seagull Sartre Library now presents some of his most incisive philosophical, cultural, and literary critical essays in newly designed and affordable editions.
idquo;There is a crisis of the essay,adquo; begins Sartre as he ventures into a long analysis of the work of one of his contemporaries who he argues might save this form: Georges Bataille. From there, Sartre moves on in this compact volume to consider Aminadab, the most important work of another hugely influential philosopher, Maurice Blanchot, through whom, writes Sartre, rdquo;the literature of the fantastic continues the steady progress that will inevitably unite it, ultimately, with what it has always been.ldquo;
