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    Every Album, Every Song

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  • Simply Sartre

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  • Sartre Explained

    From Bad Faith to Authenticity

    by David Detmer ...
    Series series Ideas Explained
    The French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre (19051980) was the major representative of the philosophical movement called existentialism,” and he remains by far the most famous philosopher, worldwide, of the postWorld War Two era.This book will provide readers with all the help they will need to find their own way in Sartre’s works. Author David Detmer provides a clear, accurate, and accessible guide ... Read more

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  • Zinnophobia

    The Battle Over History in Education, Politics, and Scholarship

    by David Detmer ...
    Zinnophobia offers an extended defense of the work of radical historian Howard Zinn, author of the bestselling A People's History of the United States, against his many critics. It includes a discussion of the attempt to ban Zinn's book from Indiana classrooms; a brief summary of Zinn's life and work; an analysis of Zinn's theorizing about bias and objectivity in history; and a detailed response ... Read more

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  • Freedom As a Value

    A Critique of the Ethical Theory of Jean-Paul Sarte

    by David Detmer ...
    This dramatic re-evaluation of Sartre’s ethical theory establishes its author as a leading American exponent of phenomenology and wins many new followers for Sartre in the English-speaking world. ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Simply Sartre

    by David Detmer ...
    Narrated by Angus Freathy ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 50 min

    Born in Paris, Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) was largely raised by his mother and his maternal grandparents after his father died when he was two. He attended the renowned École Normale Supérieure, where he studied psychology, philosophy, ethics, sociology, and physics. In 1929, he met Simone de Beauvoir, who went on to become a celebrated feminist writer and philosopher, with whom he had a ... Read more

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  • Phenomenology Explained

    From Experience to Insight

    by David Detmer ...
    Series Book 9 - Ideas Explained
    Phenomenology is one of the most important and influential philosophical movements of the last one hundred years. It began in 1900, with the publication of a massive two-volume work, Logical Investigations, by a Czech-German mathematician, Edmund Husserl. It proceeded immediately to exert a strong influence on both philosophy and the social sciences. For example, phenomenology provided the central ... Read more

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