Family Idiot

Gustave Flaubert, 1821–1857, An Abridged Edition

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

Av Jean-Paul Sartre, Joseph S. Catalano

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An approachable abridgment of Sartre’s important analysis of Flaubert. From 1981 to 1994, the University of Chicago Press published a five-volume translation of Jean-Paul Sartre’s The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857, a sprawling masterwork by one of the greatest intellects of the twentieth century. This new volume delivers a compact abridgment of the original by renowned Sartre scholar, Joseph Catalano. Sartre claimed that his existential approach to psychoanalysis required a new Freud, and in his study of Gustave Flaubert, Sartre becomes that Freud. The work summarizes Sartre’s overarching aim to reveal that human life is a meaningful adventure of freedom. In discussing Flaubert’s work, particularly his classic novel Madame Bovary, Sartre unleashes a fierce critique of modernity as nihilistic and demeaning of human dignity.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-01-19
Mått157 x 218 x 25 mm
Vikt431 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor304
FörlagThe University of Chicago Press
ISBN9780226822327
ÖversättareCosman, Carol

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Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) was a French philosopher and leading figure of the existentialist movement. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964. Joseph S. Catalano is professor emeritus of philosophy at Kean University. He is the author Reading Sartre and The Saint and the Atheist. Carol Cosman was a translator of French literature and letters, including works by Camus, Balzac, Beauvoir, and Durkheim.

Editor’s IntroductionChapter One: Problem: A Family Idiot Who Became a GeniusChapter Two: Quidquid voluerisChapter Three: Gustave at FifteenChapter Four: A Rediscovered ChildhoodChapter Five: To Act or To WriteChapter Six: Being SeenChapter Seven: AmbivalentChapter Eight: Birth of the GarçonChapter Nine: A ReviewChapter Ten: The Last Spiral: The EventChapter Eleven: Hysterical Commitment: Neurosis as ResponseChapter Twelve: Approaching ConversionChapter Thirteen: ConversionChapter Fourteen: The (Second) ProblemChapter Fifteen: (The Problem Concluded): The Objective SpiritChapter Sixteen: Neurosis: Personal and ObjectiveChapter Seventeen: Objective Neurosis and Madame BovaryEditor’s ConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

“The nihilism of the imaginary, as it is elaborately anatomized in The Family Idiot, is [not] a mere nineteenth-century curiosity or a local feature of some specifically French middle-class culture; nor is it a private obsession of Jean-Paul Sartre himself. Turning things into images, abolishing the real world, grasping the world as little more than a text or sign-system—this is notoriously the very logic of our own consumer society, the society of the image or the media event . . . [The Family Idiot] may well speak with terrifying immediacy [today].”