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| Using Sartre: An Analytical Introduction to Early Sartrean Themes | 
 enlarge | Author: Gregory Mcculloch
Publisher: Routledge
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 167336
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
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Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 041510954X
Dewey Decimal Number: 194
EAN: 9780415109543
ASIN: 041510954X
Publication Date: June 16, 1994
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 Highly recommended. January 24, 2001
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
McCulloch's book, though disappointingly short, offers a lucid exegesis of Sartre's philosophy. Whilst sympathetic to much of what Sartre says on the nature of the mind-world relationship (unsuprisingly, since McCulloch sees Sartre's philosophical intentions as similar to his own - i.e. a phenomenologically sound characterisation of this relationship), he breaks with the overly sycophantic continental tradition and criticises Sartre's inadequate theories pertaining to the psychology of being. His theory of inter-personal relations is (correctly) dismissed as phenomenologically obtuse; his characterisation of the phenomenon of 'bad faith' is shown to be problematic (if not entirely unworkable) and his back-to-front account of the problem of anguish is appropriately condemned. Very little of any worth has been written on Sartre; most of what has been written is by Sartre-apologists and is accordingly dogmatic. McCulloch's book, though imperfect, is a valuable attempt to rectify this problem and I strongly recommend it. (If by 'missing the point' Mr/Ms Kelly's thought is that McCulloch is not sympathetic to every aspect of Sartre's philosophy, one can only suggest that he/she takes a look outside his or her window and attempts to understand the world as it is, rather than through the eyes of Sartre-the-novelist.)
 McCulloch misses the point March 30, 2000
1 out of 7 found this review helpful
McCulloch announces an intention in writing this book to get analytic philosophy to take another look at the value of Sartre's philosophy from its own viewpoint. If this is really a sympathetic analytic account of Sartre, then there is no hope for the reconciliation of analytic and "continental" schools. McCulloch's reading of Sartre is as incorrect as any other analytic philosopher's. He glosses over what is inconvenient and distorts Sartre's work. This book undermines its own mission in its basic hostility to Sartre's project.
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