Sartre's Life, Times and Vision du Monde

William L. McBride Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University, is co-founder of the North American Sartre Society, and the first chairperson of its executive board. His most recent publications include Social and Political Philosophy and Sartre's Political Theory. He was recently named Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques by the French Government, and has served as Chairperson of the Committee on International Cooperation of the American Philosophical Association and as President of the Societe Americaine de Philosophie de Langue Francaise.

• Alexander, Ian W. Jean-Paul Sartre and Existential Philosophy Cambridge Journal 1(1948) * Arendt, Hannah. French Existentialism Nation 162 (1946) * Barnes, Hazel. Personal Recollections Sartre Studies International 1 (1995); Barnes, Hazel. Sartre's War Diaries: Prelude and Postscript Bulletin de la Soci t Am ricaine de Philosophie de Langue Fran aise 4 (1992) * Cohen-Solal, Annie. Tracking Down a Willing and Reluctant Hero L'Esprit Createur 29 (1989) * Dieckmann, Herbert. French Existentialism Before Sartre Yale French Studies 1 (1948) * Flynn, Thomas R. L'imagination au Pouvoir: The Evolution of Sartre's Political and Social Thought Political Theory 7 (1979) * Fulton, Ann. Apostles of Sartre: Advocates of Early Sartreanism in American Philosophy Journal of the History of Ideas 55 (1994) * Gerassi, John. The Second Death of Jean-Paul Sartre in Sander H. Lee, ed., Inquiries Into Values (Mellen Press, 1988) * Gerassi, John. Using Sartre's Regressive/Progressive Method against Him: From Guilt to Commitment French Review 55 (1983) * Invitto, Giovanni. Esistere per Miti. Sartre e l'America, in Giovanni Invitto, Esistenzialismo e Dintorni: Saggi Storiografici (Milano: Franco Angeli, 1992) Translated by William L. McBride * Kuykendall, El anor H. Sartre on Violence and Fraternity in Simon Glynn, ed., Sartre: An Investigation of Some Major Themes (Brookfield, VT: Avebury/Gower Publishing Co., 1987) * LaCapra, Dominick. Sartre and the Question of Biography French Review 55 (1982) * Marcel, Gabriel. Existence and Human Freedom in Gabriel Marcel, ed., The Philosophy of Existentialism (The Citadel Press, 1956) * McBride, William L. Community: The Dialectic of Abandonment and Hope in Light of Sartre's Last Words Bulletin de la Soci t Am ricaine de Philosophie de Langue Fran aise 4 (1992) M sz ros, Istv n. From 'The Legend of Truth' to a 'True Legend': Phases of Sartre's Development Telos 25 (1975). * Monasterio, Xavier O. Sartre and the Existential Approach International Philosophical Quarterly 21 (1981) Peyre, Henri. Existentialism-A Literature of Despair? Yale French Studies 1 (1948) Rybalka, Michel. Towards a Biography of Sartre: Practical and Critical Problems French Review 55 (1982) * Schwarzschild, Steven S. J.-P.Sartre as Jew Modern Judaism 3 (1983); Spiegelberg, Herbert. Sartre's Last Word on Ethics in Phenomenological Perspective in Simon Glynn, ed., Sartre:An Investigation of Some Major Themes (Brookfield, VT: Avebury/Gower Publishing Co., 1987).