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Talia Morag (ed.), Sartre and Analytic Philosophy, Routledge, 2024, 302 pp., $190 (hbk), ISBN 9781138316058.
Reviewed by James Kinkaid, Bilkent University
Sartre and Analytic Philosophy collects together essays by thirteen analytically trained philosophers that, rather than engaging in interpretive disputes about Sartre’s texts, mine those texts for insights capable of making an impact on contemporary anglophone philosophy. Morag’s editorial introduction offers a psychoanalytic interpretation of the analytic/continental “divide” in terms of imaginary stereotypes and the mechanism of projection. Since the editorial introduction does not include a summary of the chapters, I will provide one here. The contributions can be roughly divided into five thematic clusters. Let me mention at the outset that most of the contributions focus on the philosophy of mind. While this is perhaps natural given that Sartre was a phenomenologist, I would have liked to see more engagement with Sartre’s ontology and metaphysics.
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