Work of Sartre: Search for Freedom

by István Mészáros

This work offers a comprehensive view of Sartre's achievements and the debates surrounding them. It traces the inner unity underlying the formal variations in his work, covering his life and going on to examine the major individual works. It also interprets Being and Nothingness.

Genres: Philosophy

230 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1979

About the author

István Mészáros was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher. Described as "one of the foremost political philosophers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries" by Monthly Review, Mészáros wrote mainly about the possibility of a transition from capitalism to socialism.

Reviews

[Jay Rothermel]

Welp...

I had to split my assessment of the book into 4 posts.

Reading notes: The Work of Sartre by István Mészáros
https://marxistupdate.blogspot.com/20...

George Novack on Sartre's phenomenology
http://marxistupdate.blogspot.com/201...

Sartre's Marxism: untenable assertions and equally untenable omissions
http://marxistupdate.blogspot.com/201...

Sartre: pseudo-Marxism, boxing metaphores, and scarcity
http://marxistupdate.blogspot.com/201...