Jean Paul Sartre's Existentialism

in Literature and Philosophy

Ashok Malhotra

Oneonta, NY: Oneonta Philosophy Studies, 1995
154 + x pages -- ISBN 1-883058-14-7

Contents

FOREWORD

CHAPTER ONE:
NAUSEA: A CONTROVERSIAL WORK

  • A Philosophical Novel
  • A Psychological Novel
  • An Artistic Milestone in Twentieth-Century Literature
CHAPTER TWO:
NAUSEA: AS A WORK OF ART

  • Summary of the Story
  • Literary Technique as Method
  • Simile and Metaphor
  • Humor
  • Satire
  • Irony
  • Appropriateness of the Diary Form
CHAPTER THREE:
EXISTENTIAL THEMES IN NAUSEA

  • Existence
  • Nausea
  • Freedom
  • Justification of Existence
CHAPTER FOUR:
NAUSEA: AN EXPRESSION OF EXISTENTIAL PHILOSOPHY?

  • Existential Philosophy in Being and Nothingness
  • Comparison of Nausea and Being and Nothingness
CHAPTER FIVE:
SARTRE'S EXISTENTIALISM AND ITS RELEVANCE

CHAPTER SIX:
PHILOSOPHICAL IDEAS IN IMAGINATIVE LITERATURE

  • Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha
  • Sartre's Novel, Nausea
  • Discussion of Philosophical Themes
  • Comparison of Hesse's Siddhartha and Sartre's Nausea
NOTES AND REFERENCES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Preface

The first four chapters of the present work were published as a book in 1978 under the title of Jean-Paul Sartre's Existentialism In Nausea And Being And Nothingness. In this revised edition, I have added two new chapters on Sartre's Existentialism And Its Relevance, and Philosophical Ideas In Imaginative Literature. These essays offer innovative approaches to read the novel Nausea.

Sartre's Existentialism And Its Relevance discusses Sartre's contribution to contemporary philosophy and the significance of his existentialism for the twentieth century human being. It focuses on the ethical and social dimensions of Sartre's philosophy. The chapter on Philosophical Ideas In Imaginative Literature reveals the interconnection between philosophy, art and literature, and discusses the literary expression of the major themes in the novels Siddhartha by Hesse and Nausea by Sartre. The addition of these chapters offers a more comprehensive picture of Sartre's philosophy and literature.

The entire text has been revised to make it gender neutral. The language of the text is simplified to reach the students who are taking their first course in philosophy or literature or existentialism.

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