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Sartre on Violence: Curiously Ambivalent

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Description for Sartre on Violence: Curiously Ambivalent Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF3; JFFE. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 13. Weight in Grams: 327.

From "Materialism and Revolution" (1946) through Hope Now (1980), Jean-Paul Sartre was deeply engaged with questions about the meaning and justifiability of violence. In the first comprehensive treatment of Sartre’s views on the subject, Ronald Santoni begins by tracing the full trajectory of Sartre’s evolving thought on violence and shows how the "curious ambiguity" of freedom affirming itself against freedom in his earliest writings about violence developed into his "curiously ambivalent" position through his later writings.

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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780271023014
SKU
V9780271023014
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About Ronald E. Santoni
Ronald E. Santoni is Maria Theresa Barney Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Denison University and a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University. His previous books include Bad Faith, Good Faith, and Authenticity in Sartre's Early Philosophy (1995).

Reviews for Sartre on Violence: Curiously Ambivalent
“Across the years and through a number of writings that exhibit ‘an unsteady but tested line of continuity, development and coherence,’ Sartre came to realize that violence is at once freedom-affirming and freedom-destroying—a particularly uncomfortable situation for a philosopher of freedom with quasi-utopian social ideals. This insightful analysis of Sartre’s ‘curiously ambivalent’ understanding of violence and its justification is the ... Read more

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