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For those interested in the scholarship of Jean-Paul Sartre, below is information on a newly released publication:

Ben O’Donohoe and Jean-Pierre Boulé are pleased to announce the publication of the following book with Cambridge Scholars Publishing:
http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Jean-Paul-Sartre–Mind-and-Body–Word-and-Deed1-4438-2949-8.htm

Jean-Paul Sartre: Mind and Body, Word and Deed celebrates Sartre’s polyvalence with an examination of Sartrean philosophy, literature, and politics. In four distinct yet related sections, twelve scholars from three continents examine Sartre’s thought, writing and action over his long career. “Sartre and the Body” reappraises Sartre’s work in dialogue with other philosophers past and present, including Maine de Biran, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Didier Anzieu. “Sartre and Time” offers a first-hand account by Michel Contat of Sartre and Beauvoir working together, and a “philosophy in practice” analysis by François Noudelmann. “Ideology and Politics” uses Sartrean notions of commitment and engagement to address modern and contemporary politics, including insights into Castro, De Gaulle, Sarkozy and Obama. Finally, an important but neglected episode of Sartre’s life-the visit that he and Beauvoir made to Japan in 1966-is narrated with verve and humour by Professor Suzuki Michihiko, who first met Sartre during that visit and remained in touch subsequently. Taken together, these twelve chapters make a strong case for the continued relevance of Sartre today.

“This is an impressive collection of essays by two of the UK’s most dedicated Sartre scholars. The questions of embodied consciousness and of words and/as actions are both timely and perennial; that is to say, urgent, in view of the rapid advances of neuroscience, and yet amongst the ‘universal’ issues that philosophy is constantly trying to come to terms with. This work represents a substantial contribution from Boulé and O’Donohoe.”
Christina Howells, Professor of French, Wadham College, Oxford

CONTENTS

Introduction 1
Jean-Pierre Boulé and Benedict O’Donohoe

Part I: Sartre and the Body

Chapter One 9
Sartre’s Treatment of the Body in Being and Nothingness:
The “Double Sensation”
Dermot Moran

Chapter Two 27
Living and Knowing Pain: Sartre’s Engagement with Maine de Biran Michael Gillan Peckitt

Chapter Three 41
Jean-Paul Sartre and Didier Anzieu: Consensuality Naomi Segal

Chapter Four 53
“The Childhood of a Leader” Revisited: Salauds and Moustaches Gary Cox

Part II: Sartre and Time

Chapter Five 65
Sartre’s Timetable
François Noudelmann

Chapter Six 71
How Sartre and Beauvoir Worked Together
Michel Contat

Part III: Sartre: Ideology and Politics

Chapter Seven 93
France and Cuba, Castro and De Gaulle: Revisiting Sartre’s “Ouragan sur le Sucre”
John Ireland

Chapter Eight 111
What Can Philosophers Teach Politicians?
Jean-Pierre Boulé

Chapter Nine 131
Sartre’s Concept of Man: Existentialism and Feminism Sawada Nao

Chapter Ten 149
Murakami, Obama, Sarkozy: What is an Intellectual?
Benedict O’Donohoe

Part IV: Sartre in Japan

Chapter Eleven 167
How to Welcome an Intellectual Superstar: Sartre and the Japanese Press in 1966 Suzuki Masamichi

Chapter Twelve 183
An Intellectual Star Remembered: Sartre’s 1966 Visit to Japan Suzuki Michihiko with Sawada Nao