Contents

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Note on abbreviations

1.  Introduction: Sartre vivant

Steven Churchill and Jack Reynolds

2.  Life and works

Gary Cox

PART I: PSYCHOLOGY, PSYCHOANALYSIS AND LITERATURE

3.  Sartre and Husserl’s Ideen: phenomenology and imagination

Beata Stawarska

4.  Sartre’s understanding of the self

Christian Onof

5.  Contingency and ego, intentionality and nausea

Steven Churchill

6.  Sartre: novelist and playwright

Adrian van den Hoven

7.  Psychoanalysis and existential psychoanalysis

Betty Cannon

PART II: ONTOLOGY: FREEDOM, AUTHENTICITY AND SELF-CREATION

8.  Nothingness and negation

Sarah Richmond

9.  The look

Søren Overgaard

10.  Bad faith

David Detmer

11.  Authenticity

Jonathan Webber

12.  Knowledge

Anthony Hatzimoysis

13.  The fundamental project

Paul Crittenden

14.  Self-making and alienation: from bad faith to revolution

Thomas W. Busch

PART III: ETHICS AND POLITICS

15.  Politics and the engaged intellectual

William L. McBride

16.  Sartre’s theory of groups

Peter Caws

17.  Sartre’s second or dialectical ethics

Thomas C. Anderson

18.  Hope and affirmation: an ethics of reciprocity

Marguerite La Caze

19.  Sartre’s legacy

Steven Churchill and Jack Reynolds

Bibliography

Index