Hope Now
Hope Now
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This text analyzes a series of interviews between the dying Jean-Paul Sartre and his assistant, Benny Levy, published in March, 1980, in "Le Nouvel Observateur". Due to the difference with Sartre's earlier thought, many denounced them as false until Sartre himself confirmed their authenticity.
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Hope Now by Jean-Paul Sartre
In March of 1980, just a month before Sartre's death, "Le Nouvel Observateur" published a series of interviews between the blind and debilitated philosopher and his young assistant, Benny Levy. Readers were scandalized and denounced the interviews as distorted, inauthentic and even fraudulent. They seemed to portray a Sartre who had abandoned his leftist convictions and rejected his most intimate friends, including Simone de Beauvoir. This man had cast aside his own fundamental beliefs in the primacy of individual consciousness, the inevitability of violence and Marxism, embracing instead a messianic Judaism. No, Sartre's supporters argued, it was his interlocutor, the ex-radical, the orthodox, ultra-right-wing activist who had twisted the words and thought of an ailing Sartre to his own ends. However, shortly before his death, Sartre confirmed the authenticity of the interviews and their puzzling content. Since then, Sartre scholars have sought to unravel and understand these interviews. Presented in this translation, the interviews are framed by two essays by Benny Levy himself, accompanied by an introduction by Ronald Aronson. Placing the interviews in proper biographical and philosophical perspective, Aronson demonstrates that the thought of both Sartre and Levy reveals multiple intentions that, taken together, nevertheless confirm and add to Sartre's overall philosophy.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780226476308 |
| ISBN 10 | 0226476308 |
| Title | Hope Now |
| Author | Jean Paul Sartre |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Publisher | The University of Chicago Press |
| Year published | 1996-05-15 |
| Number of pages | 142 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |