The Historian, December 22nd, 2007
Jean-Paul Sartre. By Andrew Leak. (London: Reaktion Books, 2006. Pp. vii, 167. $16.95.)
Writing a short biographical introduction to Sartre is no easy feat, and it would be difficult to top this author's effort. After all, Sartre was one of the most prolific intellectuals of the twentieth century, producing forty thousand pages of literature, philosophy, journalism, screen plays, and works of theater. The high priest of existentialism, he has emerged as "the most written-about twentieth-century author" (8).
Andrew Leak's virtue is to have succinctly encapsulated Sartre's personality and co...
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