Jean-Paul Sartre - Philosophical & Literary Works (43 books)

JEAN-PAUL SARTRE (1905-1980) was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. He was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism and phenomenology, and one of the leading figures in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism. His work continues to influence a broad range of disciplines, including sociology, critical theory, post-colonial theory, and literary studies. Sartre was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature but refused it, saying that he always declined official honors and that "a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution."

This collection includes several notable examples of Sartre's fiction and plays; two autobiographical works; and many volumes of his most important philosophical and critical essays, including BEING AND NOTHINGNESS (1943), CRITIQUE OF DIALECTICAL REASON (1960, 1985), and THE FAMILY IDIOT (1981-94), his monumental (and unfinished) analytical study of Gustave Flaubert spanning five volumes and more than 2700 pages.


All the following books are in PDF format unless otherwise noted (there are a handful in EPUB):

* THE AGE OF REASON (Vintage, 1992). Translated by Eric Sutton.

* ANTI-SEMITE AND JEW (Schocken, 1976). Translated by George J. Becker.

* BASIC WRITINGS (Routledge, 2001). Edited by Stephen Priest.

* BAUDELAIRE (New Directions, 1950). Translated by Martin Tunnell.

* BEING AND NOTHINGNESS (Pocket Books, 1971). Translated by Hazel E. Barnes.

* BETWEEN EXISTENTIALISM AND MARXISM (Verso, 2008). Translated by John Matthews.

* COLONIALISM AND NEOCOLONIALISM (Routledge, 2001). Translated by Azzedine Haddour, Steve Brewer and Terry McWilliams.

* THE COMMUNISTS AND PEACE, With A Reply to Claude Lefort (George Braziller, 1968). Translated by Martha H. Fletcher and Philip R. Berk.

* THE CONDEMNED OF ALTONA: A Play in Five Acts (Vintage, 1963). Translated by Sylvia and George Leeson.

* CONVERSATIONS WITH JEAN-PAUL SARTRE (Seagull Books, 2006). With Perry Anderson, Ronald Fraser, Quintin Hoare, and Simone de Beauvoir.

* CRITIQUE OF DIALECTICAL REASON, Vol. 1: Theory of Practical Ensembles (Verso, 2004). New Edition, translated by Alan Sheridan-Smith.

* CRITIQUE OF DIALECTICAL REASON, Vol. 2: The Intelligibility of History [unfinished] (Verso, 1991). Translated by Quintin Hoare.

* THE DEVIL AND THE GOOD LORD & TWO OTHER PLAYS (Alfred A. Knopf, 1960). Translated by Kitty Black, and Sylvia and George Leeson.

* THE EMOTIONS: Outline of a Theory (Carol, 1993). Translated by Bernard Frechtman. -- PDF + EPUB

* EXISTENTIAL PSYCHOANALYSIS (Henry Regnery, 1981). Translated by Hazel E. Barnes. -- EPUB

* EXISTENTIALISM AND HUMAN EMOTIONS (Philosophical Library, 1985). -- EPUB

* EXISTENTIALISM IS A HUMANISM (Yale University Press, 2001). Translated by Carol Macomber.

* THE FAMILY IDIOT: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857 (University of Chicago Press, 1981-94). 5 volumes. Translated by Carol Cosman.

* THE FREUD SCENARIO (Verso, 1985). Translated by Quintin Hoare.

* THE GHOST OF STALIN (George Braziller, 1968). Translated by Martha H. Fletcher with the assistance of John R. Kleinschmidt.

* HOPE NOW: The 1980 Interviews [with Benny Lévy] (University of Chicago Press, 1996). Translated by Adrian van den Hoven.

* THE IMAGINARY: A Phenomenological Psychology of the Imagination (Routledge, 2004). Translated by Jonathan Webber. -- PDF + EPUB

* LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS (Collier Books, 1962). Translated by Annette Michelson.

* NO EXIT & THREE OTHER PLAYS (Vintage, 1989). Translated by Stuart Gilbert and I. Abel. -- PDF + EPUB

* NOTEBOOKS FOR AN ETHICS (University of Chicago Press, 1992). Translated by David Pellauer.

* THE PHILOSOPHY OF EXISTENTIALISM: Selected Essays (Philosophical Library, 1965). Edited with a Foreword by Wade Baskin. -- EPUB

* THE PSYCHOLOGY OF IMAGINATION (Philosophical Library, 1948).

* SAINT GENET: Actor and Martyr (New American Library, 1971).

* SARTRE ON THEATER (Pantheon, 1976). Translated by Frank Jellinek.

* SEARCH FOR A METHOD (Alfred A. Knopf, 1963). Translated by Hazel E. Barnes.

* SELECTED PROSE (Northwestern University Press, 1974). Translated by Richard McCleary; Edited by Michel Contat and Michel Rybalka.

* TALKING WITH SARTRE: Conversations and Debates (Yale University Press, 2009). Edited and translated by John Gerassi.

* THE TRANSCENDENCE OF THE EGO: An Existentialist Theory of Consciousness (Hill & Wang, 1960). Translated and annotated by Forrest Williams and Robert Kirkpatrick.

* THE TRANSCENDENCE OF THE EGO: A Sketch for a Phenomenological Description (Routledge, 2004). Translated by Andrew Brown.

* TRUTH AND EXISTENCE (University of Chicago Press, 1992). Translated by Adrian van den Hoven.

* THE WALL & OTHER STORIES (New Directions, 1969). Translated by Lloyd Alexander.

* WAR DIARIES: Notebooks from a Phoney War, 1939-40 (Verso, 1984). Translated by Quintin Hoare.

* "WHAT IS LITERATURE?" & OTHER ESSAYS (Harvard University Press, 1988). Introduction by Steven Ungar.

* THE WORDS (George Braziller, 1964). Translated by Bernard Frechtman.