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Hope now :

[Book]

the 1980 interviews /

Jean-Paul Sartre and Benny Lévy ; translated by Adrian van den Hoven, with an introduction by Ronald Aronson.

Chicago, Ill. :

The University of Chicago Press,

©1996.

vi, 135 pages ;

22 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine derived contents note: Table of contents for Hope now : the 1980 interviews / Jean-Paul Sartre and Benny Lévy ; translated by Adrian van den Hoven, with an introduction by Ronald Aronson. -- Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog -- Information from electronic data provided by the publisher. May be incomplete or contain other coding. -- Introduction -- Sartre's Last Words by Ronald Aronson -- Abduction of an Old Man? -- Reciprocity? -- Between Two Strong Systems? -- The Wily Old Man? -- The Sartre-Levy Relationship -- Sartre's Intention -- New Ideas: Changes in Sartre's Thought -- New Ideas: To Be Developed -- New Ideas: Contrasts with Marxism -- The Sartre-Levy Relationship Revisited -- Hope Now: The 1980 Interviews -- Translator's Note by Adrian van den Hoven -- Presentation by Benny Levy -- The Interviews -- Jean-Paul Sartre and Benny Levy -- 1. Beyond Failure -- 2. The Desire for Society -- 3. About Man -- 4. Does One Always Live Ethically? -- 5. A Thought Created by Two People -- 6. The Left's Basic Principles -- 7. A Transhistorical End -- 8. More Fundamental than Politics -- 9. Children of the Mother -- 10. Sons of Violence -- 11. Unity through Insurrection -- 12. The Real Jew and the One -- The Final Word by Benny Levy -- The Logos and the Myth -- The Pure Future and Death -- The Messiah -- The Resurrection -- Notes -- Index -- Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Sartre, Jean Paul, 1905- Interviews, Philosophers France Interviews.

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In March of 1980, just a month before Sartre's death, Le Nouvel Observateur published a series of interviews, the last ever given, between the blind and debilitated philosopher and his young assistant, Benny Levy. Some readers were scandalized and denounced the interviews as distorted, inauthentic, 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 recently converted orthodox Jew, who had twisted the words and thoughts of an ailing Sartre to his own ends. Or had he?

Shortly before his death, Sartre confirmed the authenticity of the interviews and their puzzling content. Over the past fifteen years, it has become the task of Sartre scholars to unravel and understand them. Presented in this fresh, meticulous translation, the interviews are framed by two provocative essays by Benny Levy himself, accompanied by a comprehensive introduction from noted Sartre authority 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, confirm and add to Sartre's overall philosophy. This absorbing volume at last contextualizes and elucidates the final thoughts of a brilliant and influential mind.

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English

Sartre, Jean-Paul,1905-1980

Sartre, Jean-Paul,1905-1980

Sartre, Jean-Paul,1905-1980

Sartre, Jean-Paul.

Philosophers-- France, Interviews.

Filosofie.

Hope.

Interview

Philosophers.

France.

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Sartre, Jean-Paul,1905-1980.

Lévy, Benny,1945-2003.

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