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Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology (French: L'Être et le néant : Essai d'ontologie phénoménologique), sometimes published with the subtitle A Phenomenological Essay on Ontology, is a 1943 book by the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre.
- Jean Paul Sartre
- 1943
Dec 23, 2023 · In Being and Nothingness, Sartre lays the foundations for his version of existentialist philosophy. He insists that humans have no predetermined essence or purpose; instead, they must use their autonomy to make meaningful decisions in life without relying on external forces.
Mar 26, 2022 · Being and Nothingness (1943) remains the defining treatise of the existentialist “movement”, along with works from de Beauvoir from this period (e.g., The Ethics of Ambiguity). We cannot do justice to the entirety of the book here, but we can indicate the broad outlines of the position.
The novel stemmed from his belief that “existence precedes essence.”. Five years later, Sartre published (1943), arguably his most famous work. In the book, Sartre sets human consciousness, or nothingness, in opposition to being, or thingness.
The conflict between oppressive, spiritually destructive conformity (mauvaise foi, literally, 'bad faith') and an "authentic" way of "being" became the dominant theme of Sartre's early work, a theme embodied in his principal philosophical work Being and Nothingness (L'Être et le Néant, 1943).
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New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1959. A well-written introduction to Sartre’s thought. Discusses Being and Nothingness thoroughly and, to a lesser degree, Sartre’s fiction and ...
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Being and Nothingness. Being and Nothingness sets out the main philosophical tenets of the ‘classical’ Sartre. Being is subdivided, as it were, into two major regions – being for-itself (l’être pour-soi) or consciousness, and being-in-itself (l’être en-soi) which is everything other than consciousness, including the material world ...
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