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Sartre Studies International: Volume 17, Number 1, Spring 2011

Posted on Mar 1, 2011 in News, SSI

Philosophy in Black: African Philosophy as a Negritude pp. 1-19(19) Author: Jacques, Tomaz Carlos Flores Abstract African philosophy, as a negritude, is a moment in the postcolonial critique of European/Western colonialism and the bodies of knowledge that sustained it. Yet a critical analysis of its’ original articulations reveals the limits of this critique and more broadly of postcolonial studies, while also pointing towards more radical theoretical possibilities within...

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Sartre Studies International: Volume 16, Number 2, Winter 2010

Posted on Dec 1, 2010 in News, SSI

Celebrating the Critique’s Fiftieth Anniversary pp. 1-16(16) Author: Aronson, Ronald Abstract When published, Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason appeared to be a major intellectual and political event, no less than a Kantian effort to found Marxism, with far-reaching theoretical and political consequences. Claude Levi-Strauss devoted a course to studying it, and debated Sartre’s main points in The Savage Mind ; Andre Gorz devoted a major article to explaining...

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Sartre Studies International: Volume 15, Number 2, Winter 2009

Posted on Jul 23, 2010 in News, SSI

Table of Contents Nausea, Melancholy and the Internal Negation of the Past pp. 1-16(16) Author: Clayton, Cam Untrue to One’s Own Self: Sartre’s The Transcendence of the Ego pp. 17-34(18) Author: Garcia, Iker Thinking Things: Heidegger, Sartre, Nancy pp. 35-53(19) Author: Morin, Marie-Eve Sartre & the Other: Conflict, Conversion, Language & the We pp. 54-77(24) Author: Rae, Gavin Sartre’s Theater of Resistance: Les Mouches and the Deadlock of Collective...

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Sartre Studies International: Volume 16, Number 1, Spring 2010

Posted on Mar 1, 2010 in News, SSI

Existentialism and Art-Horror pp. 1-23(23) Author: Hanscomb, Stuart Abstract This article explores the relationship between existentialism and the horror genre. Noël Carroll and others have proposed that horror monsters defy established categories. Carroll also argues that the emotion they provoke – ‘art-horror’ – is a ‘composite’ of fear and disgust. I argue that the sometimes horrifying images and metaphors of Sartre’s early...

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