The Family Idiot

Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) was a French philosopher and leading figure of the existentialist movement. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964. Joseph S. Catalano is professor emeritus of philosophy at Kean University. He is the author Reading Sartre and The Saint and the Atheist. Carol Cosman was a translator of French literature and letters, including works by Camus, Balzac, Beauvoir, and Durkheim.

Editor’s Introduction
Chapter One: Problem: A Family Idiot Who Became a Genius
Chapter Two: Quidquid volueris
Chapter Three: Gustave at Fifteen
Chapter Four: A Rediscovered Childhood
Chapter Five: To Act or To Write
Chapter Six: Being Seen
Chapter Seven: Ambivalent
Chapter Eight: Birth of the Garçon
Chapter Nine: A Review
Chapter Ten: The Last Spiral: The Event
Chapter Eleven: Hysterical Commitment: Neurosis as Response
Chapter Twelve: Approaching Conversion
Chapter Thirteen: Conversion
Chapter Fourteen: The (Second) Problem
Chapter Fifteen: (The Problem Concluded): The Objective Spirit
Chapter Sixteen: Neurosis: Personal and Objective
Chapter Seventeen: Objective Neurosis and Madame Bovary
Editor’s Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index