Sartre

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.

• Prologue 1Part I "The Man, a Century" 71 Sartre's Fame 9 2 Stendhal and Spinoza 423 Taking Leave of Gide 744 A "German" Philosopher 1025 Note on the Heidegger Question 134Part II Justice for Jean-Paul Sartre 1631 Existentialism is an Anti-humanism 1652 What is a Monster? (biographical fragments) 2023 Anti-fascist from Beginning to End 2384 Note on the Vichy Question: Sartre in the Resistance 2695 Sartre, Now 295Part III The Madness of the Age 3211 Another Sartre (snapshots) 3232 On the Workings of Error in the Life of an Intellectual 3553 The Confession 3814 Sartre's Failure 4125 Requiem for literature 445Epilogue (The Blind Philosopher) 476Notes 503Index 527

"The book's enthusiasm is infectious. It delves sympathetically into Sartre'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 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 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 Lévy 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 century's most prominent writers and thinkers" Aengus Collins, Irish Times