Sartre - Lévy, Bernard-Henri

Bernard-Henri Lévy 

Sartre

The Philosopher of the Twentieth Century. With Andrew Brown

Übersetzer: Brown, Andrew
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Sartre

Levy depicts Sartre as a man who could succumb to the twentieth century's catastrophic attraction to violence and the false messianism of its total political solutions, while also being one of the fiercest critics of its illusions and shortcomings.

A whole man, made of all men, worth all of them, and any one of them worth him. This was how Jean-Paul Sartre characterized himself at the end of his autobiographical study, Words. And Bernard-Henri Lévy shows how Sartre cannot be understood without taking into account his relations with the intellectual forebears and contemporaries, the lovers and friends, with whom he conducted a lifelong debate. His thinking was essentially a tumultuous dialogue with his whole age and himself. He learned from Gide the art of freedom, and how to experiment with inherited fictional forms. He was a fellow-traveller of communism, and yet his relations with the Party were deeply ambiguous. He was fascinated by Freud but trenchantly critical of psychoanalysis. Beneath Sartres complex and ever-mutating political commitments, Lévy detects a polarity between anarchic individualism on the one hand, and a longing for absolute community that brought him close to totalitarianism on the other. Lévy depicts Sartre as a man who could succumb to the twentieth centurys catastrophic attraction to violence and the false messianism of its total political solutions, while also being one of the fiercest critics of its illusions and shortcomings.

Reviews:
enthralling, absolutely enthralling. Christian Sauvage, Le Journal du Dimanche
Sartre, who had refused all kinds of introspection, is here thoroughly revisited in both his life and work. In this journey through the century in which Sartre lived, one learns as much about the twentieth century as one does about Sartre. This is Bernard Henri Lévy at his very best. Marcel Neusch, La Croix
This biography of the French guru is brilliant' George Walden, The Sunday Telegraph
Levy is seldom a less than engaging guide to the drama of the rise and fall of one of the last century's most prominent writers and thinkers' 'Aengus Collins, Irish times'
Bernard-Henri Lévy wonderfully resurrects Jean-Paul as a colossus bestriding the age...It would be hard to imagine a better translation of BHL oracular French. Andrew Brown succeeds in bringing Lévy so fllamingly to life as a passionately engaged and combative speaker that you can hear him holding forth on the other side of the table in the Flore or the Deux Magots' 'Andy Martin, Daily Telegraph
...the book's enthousiasm is infectious. It delves sympathetically into Sartre's ideas and makes a strong case for their importance.' 'Economist'
Bernard-Henri Levy is a philosopher and a writer. He is a member of the Selection Committee of the Editions Grasset, and he runs La Regle du Jeu magazine. He writes a weekly column in the magazine, Point and chairs the Conseil de Surveillance of La Sept-Arte.
Counseil de Surveillance of La Sept-Arte

Produktinformation
  • Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
  • 2003
  • Ausstattung/Bilder: 544 pages; 229 x 152 mm
  • Seitenzahl: 536
  • Englisch
  • Abmessung: 232mm x 162mm x 49mm
  • Gewicht: 912g
  • ISBN-13: 9780745630090
  • ISBN-10: 074563009X
  • Best.Nr.: 13622992
"The booka s enthusiasm is infectious. It delves sympathetically into Sartrea s ideas and makes a strong case for their importance." The Economist "This biography of the French guru is brilliant." George Walden, The Sunday Telegraph "Enthralling, absolutely enthralling." Christian Sauvage, Le Journal du Dimanche "Bernard--Henri Levy wonderfully resurrects Jean--Paul as a colossus bestriding the age...It would be hard to imagine a better translation of BHL oracular French. Andrew Brown succeeds in bringing Levy so flamingly to life as a passionately engaged and combative speaker that you can hear him holding forth on the other side of the table in the Flore or the Deux Magots" Andy Martin, Daily Telegraph "Sartre, who had refused all kinds of introspection, is here thoroughly revisited in both his life and work. In this journey through the century in which Sartre lived, one learns as much about the twentieth century as one does about Sartre. This is Bernard Henri Levy at his very best." Marcel Neusch, La Croix "Levy is seldom a less than engaging guide to the drama of the rise and fall of one of the last centurya s most prominent writers and thinkers" Aengus Collins, Irish Times
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung - RezensionBesprechung von 06.11.2002
Das Chamäleon des 20. Jahrhunderts
Bohemien, Ein-Mann-Partei und Propagandaschreier, begnadeter Autor und Totengräber der Literatur: Bernard-Henri Lévys große Biographie macht Sartre wieder lebendig
Nur die Lektüre gab dem jungen Rekruten Lebensmut. Aus der Erziehungsanstalt hatte sich der Achtzehnjährige in den Militärdienst geflüchtet. Außerhalb der Kaserne Langeweile und im Soldatenalltag unerträgliche Disziplin: Am schlimmsten aber war die Aussicht, über Nacht nach Indochina abkommandiert zu werden. Bücher waren es, die ihn vor Verzweiflung bewahrten: er las Proust, Balzac und einen Gegenwartsautor, an dem er die Klarheit der Gedanken, die trockene Intelligenz, die Willenskraft und die Erkenntnis schätzte, dass der Mensch auf sich gestellt und alleine für seine Handlungen verantwortlich ist.
Wir befinden uns im Jahr 1951, der junge Rekrut heißt François Truffaut, der von ihm bewunderte Autor ist Jean-Paul Sartre. Knapp zwanzig Jahre später – das Foto eines Passanten hat die Szene festgehalten – verkauft Truffaut zusammen mit Simone de Beauvoir und Jean-Paul Sartre auf den Straßen des Pariser Quartier Latin das verbotene maoistische Blatt …

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Bernard-Henri Lévy ist Philosoph, Publizist, Aktivist und einer der namhaftesten Intellektuellen Frankreichs. Er berät die französische Regierung in diplomatischen Angelegenheiten und seine Stimme hat großes gesellschaftspolitisches Gewicht.
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