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Jean-Paul Sartre
Key Concepts
Edited by
Steven Churchill and Jack Reynolds
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Contents
Steven Churchill and Jack Reynolds
Gary Cox
Beata Stawarska
Christian Onof
Steven Churchill
Adrian van den Hoven
Betty Cannon
Sarah Richmond
Sren Overgaard
David Detmer
Jonathan Webber
Anthony Hatzimoysis
Paul Crittenden
Thomas W. Busch
William L. McBride
Peter Caws
Thomas C. Anderson
Marguerite La Caze
Steven Churchill and Jack Reynolds
Thomas C. Anderson is a retired Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he also served as chair. He is the author of The Foundation and Structure of Sartrean Ethics (1979), Sartres Two Ethics: From Authenticity to Integral Humanity (1993) and A Commentary on Gabriel Marcels The Mystery of Being (2006), as well as many articles on Sartre, Marcel and Sren Kierkegaard. He is past president of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, and was the founder and first president of the Gabriel Marcel Society in North America.
Thomas W. Busch is Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University, and is a leading scholar in existentialism. Aside from numerous journal articles in the field, representative books include Circulating Being: From Embodiment to Incorporation: Essays on Late Existentialism (1999), The Power of Consciousness and the Force of Circumstances in Sartres Philosophy (1990), and Merleau-Ponty, Hermeneutics and Postmodernism (edited with Shaun Gallagher, 1992).
Betty Cannon is Adjunct Professor at Naropa University and Professor Emerita of the Colorado School of Mines, where she taught literature and psychology for twenty years. She is the author of Sartre and Psychoanalysis (1991), and numerous chapters and articles on existential therapy. She is a member of the editorial boards for three professional journals: Sartre Studies International, Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry, and Existential Analysis.
Peter Caws is University Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at The George Washington University in Washington, DC. His eight books and more than 150 articles include work on the philosophy of the natural sciences, on ethics and continental philosophy (Sartre and the structuralists), and more recently on psychoanalysis and the human sciences. His books include Religious Upbringing and the Costs of Freedom: Personal and Philosophical Essays (co-edited with Stefani Jones, 2010), Structuralism: A Philosophy for the Human Sciences (1997), and Sartre (1979, 1984).
Steven Churchill has lectured in the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy, including on Jean-Paul Sartres philosophy and literature. He has also served as tutor in Philosophy at La Trobe University, and is writing a PhD on Sartre and Flaubert.
Gary Cox is an honorary research fellow at the University of Birmingham, and the author of several books on Sartre, existentialism and general philosophy, including The Sartre Dictionary (2008), How to Be an Existentialist (2009) and The God Confusion (2013).
Paul Crittenden is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy in the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry at the University of Sydney. He writes mainly on topics in ethics and epistemology, Greek philosophy, and modern European philosophy from Nietzsche to Sartre. Recent publications include Sartre in Search of an Ethics (2009) and Reason, Emotion and Will (2012).
David Detmer is a Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University Calumet. He is the author of Sartre Explained (2008), Challenging Postmodernism: Philosophy and the Politics of Truth (2003) and Freedom as a Value (1988). He is executive editor of Sartre Studies International and a past president of the North American Sartre Society.
Anthony Hatzimoysis is Associate Professor at the History and Philosophy of Science Department of the University of Athens. He is the author of The Philosophy of Sartre (Acumen, 2011), and editor of Philosophy and the Emotions (2003) and Self-Knowledge (2011).
Marguerite La Caze is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Queensland. She has research interests and numerous publications in European and feminist philosophy. Her publications include The Analytic Imaginary (2002), Integrity and the Fragile Self
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