title: Jean-Paul Sartre: Basic Writings
author:  Jean-Paul Sartre 
description: ."brings together just the texts, ordered in the right way, to draw the student into Sartre."<BR>-John J. Compton, emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University <BR>"This immensely useful volume makes it possible for readers to get a substantial and comprehensive knowledge of Sartrean philosophy. It is a remarkable achievement."<BR>- Hazel E. Barnes, University of Colorado at Boulder <BR>..."this is a worthwhile and illuminating book."<BR>-Baroness Mary Warnock <BR>
zlib_text: PHILOSOPHY & PSYCHOLOGY 
  Reason and Violence is an introduction to the thought of 
  the great French existentialist philosopher and novelist, 
  Jean-Paul Sartre, by two British psychoanalysts whose 
  own thinking has been profoundly influenced by Sartre's 
  work. Laing and Cooper see in Sartre one of the most 
  radical thinkers of the century, a man who has brought 
  about a revolution in man's understanding of himself. 
  Feeling that until now Sartre has largely been judged as 
  the author of Being and Nothingness and of other philo­
  sophical writings, novels, and plays, Laing and Cooper 
  focus their study on three basic works of Sartre's later 
  years: Saint Genet, Questions de Methode, and Critique 
  de la Raison Dialectique. 
  The three volumes expounded here span the distance 
  from individual biography to the basic theory of groups 
  and social organizations: from Saint Genet, perhaps the 
  most penetrating attempt by one man to understand the 
  life of another living man, to the Critique, whic