Jean Paul Sartre Resource Page
Had I dreamed of this enormous presence?
It was there in the garden, toppled down into the trees,
all soft, sticky, soiling everything, all thick, a jelly. And I was inside...
I was frightened, furious...I hated this ignoble mess.
Mounting up, mounting up as high as the sky,
spilling over, filling everything with its gelatinous slither...
I was not surprised, I knew it was the World,
the naked World suddenly revealing itself,
and I choked with rage at its gross, absurd being.
I got up and went out. Once at the gate, I turned back.
Then the garden smiled at me. I leaned against the gate and watched for a long time.
The smile of the trees, of the laurel, meant something;
that was the real secret of existence.
I remembered one Sunday, not more than three weeks ago,
I had already detected everywhere a sort of conspirational air.
Was it in my intention? I felt with boredom that I had no way of understanding.
No way. Yet it was there, waiting, looking at one...
I could not understand it,
even if I could have stayed leaning against the gate for a century;
I had learned all I could about existence.
Primary Sources:
The Transcendence of the Ego: An Existential Theory of Consciousness (1936),
Willams and Kirkpatrick, trans.(1957)
Nausea (1938), L. Alexander trans.(1949)
The Emotions: Outline of Theory (1939), B. Frechtman, trans. (1948)
Psychology of Imagination 1940, Annonymous, trans. (1948)
Les Mouches: A Play (1943), The Flies
Huis clos: A Play (1943), No Exit
Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology (1943),
H. Barnes trans. (1956)
Existentialism (1946), B. Frechtman, trans.(1947)
Situations (3 vols) (1947, 48, 49)
Anti-Semite and Jew (1946), G. Becker, trans. (1948)
Lucifer and the Lord: A Play (1951), K. Black, trans. (1952)
Saint Genet, comedien et martyre (1952)
The Roads to Freedom:
1. The Age of Reason
2. The Reprieve
3. Troubled Sleep
Critique of Dialectical Reason
The Words, B. Frechtman trans.
The War Diaries, Q. Hoare trans.
Flaubert
The Family Idiot
The Freud Scenario
Notebooks for an Ethics, D. Pellauer, trans.
Secondary:
J. Dempsey: The Psychology of Sartre
W. Desan: The Tragic Finale
I. Murdoch: Sartre, Romantic Rationalist
M. Natanson: A Critique of Jean-Paul Sartre's Ontology
A. Stern: Sartre: His Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
T. Anderson: The Foundation and Structure of Sartrean Ethics
L. Bell; Sartre's Ethics of Ambiguity
T. Busch: The Power of Consciousness
and the Force of Circumstances in Sartre's Philosophy
D. Detmer: Freedom as a Value:
A Critique of the Ethical Theory of Jean Paul Sartre
T. Flynn: Sartre and Marxist Existentialism:
The Test Case of Collective Responsibility
W. McBride: Sartre's Political Theory