SCRIVEN, MICHAEL

Sartre's Existential Biographies

London, Macmillan. 1984, First Edition. (ISBN: 0333319877). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket. x + 152 pages. Between 1946 and 1981 approximately 4,000 pages of Sartre's biographical discourse have been published - almost 2 million words. The average reader rarely associates Sartre's name with biography, but Sartre spent thirty years of his life engaged in oneway or another in writing the biographies of several poets, novelists and dramatists, and one painter. Towards the end of his life Sartre declared that of all the books that he had written those which came closest to his literary ideal were his biographies of Genet and Flaubert. Manifestly, Sartre's existential biographies are a network of contradictions which epitomise the contradictory nature of literature in the society in which we live. This book is an attempt to explain some of these contradictions. NOT EX LIBRARY 24. Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 008410

Catalogue: Philosophy

Keywords: Jean-Paul Sartre, Existential Biography, Baudelaire, Genet, Mallarme, Tintoretto, Flaubert 0333319877

WILSON, JOHN

Language and Christian Belief

London, Macmillan. 1958, First Edition. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with VG+ dustjacket which has age darkening to spine. Christian belief and modern British philosophy have long existed in almost complete isolation from each other; the limited contact made between the two has been on the academic highly specialised level, and has so far been disappointingly indecisive. In this book the author seeks to bridge the gulf between faith and reason, and brings modern analytical philosophy to bear on those problems of logic which are central to religion. NOT EX LIB R1. Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 006890

Catalogue: Philosophy

Keywords: Analytical Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion