01204 a2200217 4500 20250526161936.0 250430042001GB eng 9780415254045 BC Taylor & Francis GBP 14.99 BB 01 eng QD thema HP bic PHI000000 bisac Jean-Paul Sartre 144 What is Literature? 2 Oxford Routledge 20010518 288 p Jean-Paul Sartre was one of the most important philosophical and political thinkers of the twentieth century. His writings had a potency that was irresistible to the intellectual scene that swept post-war Europe, and have left a vital inheritance to contemporary thought. The central tenet of the Existentialist movement which he helped to found, whereby God is replaced by an ethical self, proved hugely attractive to a generation that had seen the horrors of Nazism, and provoked a revolution in post-war thought and literature. In What is Literature? Sartre the novelist and Sartre the philosopher combine to address the phenomenon of literature, exploring why we read, and why we write. 10774 10774