SARTRE
Arthur C. Danto
Fontana Modern Masters · Edited by Frank Kermode
Condition
Good. Vntage paperback showing expected age-toning and handling wear. The cover remains intact and legible, with no structural issues to the text block. Very little force to spine, and age toning to pages.
About the Book
Arthur C. Danto offers a clear, sympathetic, and tightly argued introduction to the philosophical world of Jean-Paul Sartre. While Sartres vocabularyanguish, nothingness, engagement, shamehas long passed into the cultural bloodstream, Danto emphasises the rigorous conceptual structure behind these terms.
Synthesising Being and Nothingness and Critique of Dialectical Reason, he presents Sartres system as a unified philosophical undertaking: one that joins ontology, logic, moral responsibility and political awareness in a single overarching vision. Dantos exposition pays particular attention to Sartres contributions to theories of language, consciousness, knowledge, the self, and human values.
As with the strongest volumes in the Fontana Modern Masters series, this book functions as an accessible point of entry, a compact guide, and an analytical appreciation of a major twentieth-century thinker.
About the Author
Arthur C. Danto (19242013) was a leading American philosopher, art critic, and professor at Columbia University. Though widely known for his later work in aesthetics and the philosophy of art, he was equally adept at presenting complex philosophical systems with clarity and precisionqualities that make this small volume one of the more respected introductions to Sartre.
