Sartre as Biographer

220 pp. "Since 1945 Sartre has devoted more pages to biography than to any other genre or subject. In this perceptive book, Douglas Collins analyzes Sartre's biographical enterprise, its place in his thought and development, and shows us much about Sartre and about biography in the 20th century. He examines Sartre's sources and locates his biographies in the history of ideas, discusses the role of the biographies in Sartre's theories of alienation and the imagination, paying particular attention to the relation between ethics and epistemology in his thought."