Admittedly, it may have not been easy to balance depth and breadth, especially given the book's aim. Some essays emphasize depth over breadth whereas others stress breadth over depth. The aim of the book is "to make Sartre's broader body of work accessible to a wider audience" (3). There is some overlap among the essays, but that is inevitable given the interconnectedness of Sartre's concepts. Each stands alone even if each of them builds off of the previous essay. The three parts roughly correspond to Sartre's early, middle, and late periods, respectively. The volume is divided into three parts - Part I: Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature, Part II: Ontology: Freedom, Authenticity and Self-Creation, and Part III: Ethics and Politics. This is a collection of scrupulously written essays by contemporary Sartre scholars seeking to explain, as the title suggests, Sartre's fundamental concepts.
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