North American Sartre Society

Nass 2008 Program

Minutes from the Business Meeting (April 2008)

Summer 2007 (pdf)

Sartre.org

United Kingdom Sartrean Society

Sartre (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

Sartre (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

Sartre’s Political Philosophy (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

Sartre’s page at the Nobel Foundation

Sartre’s Writings at Marxists.org

Past President: Adrian van den Hoven
President: Christine Daigle
Co-President: Jonathan Judaken
Treasurer: Ken Andersons
Co-Secretaries (and Newsletter): Michelle Darnell and Elizabeth Butterfield
Webmaster: Farhang Erfani
Members-at-large: Ronald Santoni, Dennis Gilbert and Yan Hamel

Published by Berghahn Books, Sartre Studies International has the aim to become the focus of an international reassessment of the relevance and validity of Sartrean ideals and aspirations to a contemporary world that seems disturbingly far from them. It will act as the principal forum in the English-speaking world for debates on Sartre as well as Sartrean studies—theoretical, literary and political projects inspired by Sartre. It will publish articles of a multidisciplinary, cross-cultural and international character reflecting the full range and complexity of Sartre’s own interests.

We invite articles on Sartre, reinterpretations of his work, close textual analyses, readings of recently published works, comparisons of Sartre and other writers, and critiques of Sartre’s thought. We also invite political, literary, philosophical and biographical essays motivated by Sartre, which use his thought as well as other intellectual tools, to explore the meanings of our culture and social life.

In particular, the journal will give prominence to the views of the leading Sartre specialists in the world today, and will assess the significance of Sartre’s philosophical, political, literary and cultural ideas to the 1990s and beyond. It will seek to extend and enrich the debate on Sartrean ideas through comparative analysis with other major contemporary intellectual figures. The journal will also bring to the attention of an English-speaking readership previously untranslated work on Sartre, and highlight the achievements of writers and intellectuals influenced by his seminal ideas. In addition, each number of the journal will contain reviews of recently published books devoted to Sartrean studies and a Notice board of recent and forthcoming events such as conferences, publications and media broadcasts linked to Sartre’s life, work and intellectual legacy.

The North American Sartre Society is dedicated to the study of all aspects of the work and thought of Jean-Paul Sartre. The Society does not endorse any one theoretical orientation in Sartre studies, but rather encourages and supports work from a variety of perspectives. The Society does so principally by sponsoring and organizing a conference, held roughly every year-and-a-half, in which scholars from across North America and around the world present their work on Sartre, and by publishing a journal, Sartre Studies International, which all dues-paying members of the Society receive by subscription. All those who are interested in Sartre are cordially invited to join the Society, and to submit their work to be considered for our conferences and/or our journal.

Anyone who is interested in joining NASS should contact Berghahn Books, 150 Broadway, Suite 812, New York, NY 10038 . Contact Ken Anderson to add your name to our mailing list.

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