Sartre and the International Impact of Existentialism

Sartre and the International Impact of Existentialism
	Preface
	Contents
	Notes on Contributors
	1: An Overview of the International Reception of Existentialism: The Existentialist Tsunami
		A Question of Methodology—Communication Theory
		The Senders—Sartre, Beauvoir, Camus, Merleau-Ponty
		The Repeaters—Translators, Publishers, Emigrants, Journalists
		Noise—Censorship, Social Taboos
		Channels—Visits, Books, Theater, Articles, Film
		First Message—An Absurd, Contingent World Worth Rebelling Against
		Second Message—You Are Free, Therefore Choose
		Third Message—No to Discrimination Against Women, Jews, Blacks, Homosexuals
		Fourth Message—Engage Yourself
		Distorted Messages—Limits of Freedom, Politics
		Failed Messages—Marxism, Ethics, Philosophy, Psychology
		Feed-back
		The Existentialist Tsunami
		References
	Part I: North America
	2: Sartre and the American New Left
		II
		III
		IV
		V
		VI
		VII
		References
	3: The Absurd: Postwar Reception and Wartime Echoes at Yale French Studies
		1948: Communicating Anguish
		1955: Language in a Historical Situation
		1959: The Decomposition of Language
		References
	4: Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer, a Signpost for Existentialism’s Reception in the American South
		Introduction
		Some Biographical Highlights of Walker Percy
		The Reception of The Moviegoer
		The Moviegoer as Reception
		The Kierkegaardian Structure of The Moviegoer
		References
	5: The Reception of Sartre’s Plays: The Respectful Prostitute and Dirty Hands During the Cold War Period
		References
	Part II: Europe Outside France
	6: Guéhenno in Gehenna. The English and German Translations of La nausée
		The Genesis of the Two English and German Editions
		Comparing the Four Translations
		Conclusion
		References
	7: “Existentialist Hu-ha”?: Censoring the Existentialists in the British Theater
		The Lord Chamberlain and Censorship of the British Theater
		Perceptions of Existentialism and Existentialist Playwrights
		Huis clos
		La putain respecteuse
		Conclusion
		References
			Bibliography of The Lord Chamberlain’s Correspondence Archive
	8: The Impact in Italy of Sartre and His Thinking
		Sartre as a Political Intellectual in Italy’s Post-War Period
		Sartre between Marxism and Post-Marxism
		References
	9: Toward an Ethics of Singularity: Temporality, Irreversibility, and Need in the Dialogue between Jean-Paul Sartre and Enzo Paci
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		References
	10: Sartre in Germany—Even in the East
		References
	11: French Cultural Policy and the Transfer of Existentialism in Allied-Occupied Austria
		Austria, pays ami
		Skipping The Flies
		Catholic Criticism or a Believer in Spite of Himself
		Cold War Disinvolvement
		References
	Part III: Asia, Latin America, and Africa
	12: The Journey of Sartrean Existentialism into Turkey
		Sartrean Existentialism in Turkey
		From 1946 to 1959
		From 1960 to 1970
		From 1970 to 2019
		Summary and Concluding Remarks
		References
			Bibliography of Sartre’s Book-Length Works in Turkish
	13: Middle Eastern Existentialism
		Political and Literary Influence was Ubiquitous but Not Deep Enough
		Philosophical Adaptation
		Abdel Rahman Badawi
		Ali Shariati
		Future Young Existentialists
		References
	14: Arab Existentialism: What Was It?
		The Challenge
		An Abstract Engagement
		Commitment
		Counter-Culture
		Universal Emancipation
		Conclusion
		References
	15: Sartre’s Presence in Israeli Literature: The Case of Hanoch Levin
		References
	16: The Discovery of the Other in Post-War Japan: Two Sartreans on Kyoto School and Zainichi Koreans
		Yoshirō Takeuchi: Reception of Sartre as the Philosopher of the Post-War Period
		Michihiko Suzuki and the Zainichi, People Transformed into the Other
		Conclusion
		References
	17: A Brief History of the Reception of Sartre in Argentina
		Introduction
		Sur and Losada: First Spanish Translations of Sartre’s Texts
		Existentialism in Argentina: Several Academic Studies About Sartre’s Philosophical System
		The New Argentinian Left and Contorno Magazine: Intellectuals’ Social Engagement
		The Fall of Sartre and the Rise of Structuralism in Argentina
		References
	18: Existentialism Against Colonialism: Sartre, Fanon, and the Place of Lived Experience
		References
	Part IV: Science and Arts
	19: Existential Psychoanalysis in America
		Part I: Psychology Without a Subject
		Part II: Sartre’s Reception and the Therapeutic Encounter
		References
	20: Existentialism and Cinema: The Dialectic of Bad Faith and Authenticity in Federico Fellini’s 8½
		Film and Existential Philosophy
		Existentialism and Italian Cinema
		8½: An Existentialist Interpretation
		The Nightmare of Alienation and the Look
		Existence and Things: How Sad Having to Play a Role
		Bad Faith and Authenticity: How to Live Without Fleeing from Responsibility
		Paradise Is Other People
		References
	Index