Hazel E. Barnes (1915–2008)
Autore di An Existentialist Ethics
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Twentieth century interpretations of Euripides' Alcestis; a collection of critical essays (1968) — Collaboratore — 11 copie
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- Data di nascita
- 1915-12-16
- Data di morte
- 2008-03-18
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Boulder, Colorado, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Boulder, Colorado, USA
- Istruzione
- Yale University
Wilson College, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania - Attività lavorative
- philosopher
translator
author
autobiographer
philosophy professor - Relazioni
- Sartre, Jean-Paul (translation)
- Organizzazioni
- University of Colorado at Boulder
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Guggenheim Fellowship (1977)
- Breve biografia
- Hazel Barnes was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. She earned her bachelor's degree from Wilson College in Chambersburg, and her doctorate in Classics from Yale University in 1941. She taught at several colleges and universities before joining the faculty of the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1953, where she worked until her retirement in 1986. In 1979, Prof. Barnes became the first woman to be named Distinguished Professor at CU-Boulder. She was a prominent philosopher and an expert on French existentialism who wrote 12 books on the subject. She became widely known for her 1956 translation of Jean-Paul Sartre's classic work Being and Nothingness. The translation helped bring Sartre's ideas to the English-speaking world. In 1962, Prof. Barnes hosted a television series, "Self Encounter: A Study in Existentialism," which ran for 10 episodes on PBS.
She published her autobiography, The Story I Tell Myself: A Venture in Existentialist Autobiography, in 1997. In her honor, CU-Boulder established the annual Hazel Barnes Prize that is its highest faculty recognition for teaching and research.
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Secondly, there seems in certain places to be an implicit denial of absolute truth, of the kind that Plato discusses.
The last chapter discusses Sartre and Marxism. Sartre was a huge Marxist, and sought to integrate Existentialism into the Marxist philosophy. Sartre changed his opinion a lot, but towards the later years said that role of the philosopher was to aid the worker and support the revolution. Without reading his works, or those of Marx, I don't understand the justification of this, but this seems roughly equivalent to Plato saying that the philosopher should contribute to the good governance of society, if you take the ideas of Marx as given.
This book is a good introduction to Sartre, and covers a lot of his work. A problem that will always be encountered with works like these is that one does not know if the author is misrepresenting the views of the philosopher who is being analysed, without having read the original works. I disagreed with a lot of what she claimed that Sartre was saying, but without reading the original works it is not possible to know who is to blame for this.… (altro)