Now with a new foreword by Harvard professor of philosophy Richard Moran, this clear-eyed translation guarantees that the groundbreaking ideas that Sartre introduced in this resonant work will continue to inspire for generations to come.

Far from being an internal, passive container for our thoughts and experiences, human consciousness is constantly projecting itself into the outside world and imbuing it with meaning. Read Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre with a free trial. Seventy years after its 1st publication, its message remains as potent as ever-challenging readers to confront the fundamental dilemmas of human freedom, choice, responsibility & action. In a new and more accessible translation, this foundational text argues that we alone create our values and our existence is characterized by freedom and the inescapability of choice. Being & Nothingness is one of those rare books whose influence has affected the mindset of subsequent generations. The Pre-reflective cogito and the being of the percipere. A brilliant and radical account of the human condition, Being and Nothingness explores what gives our lives significance. Being and nothingness : a phenomenological essay on ontology /. In 1943, Jean-Paul Sartre published his masterpiece, Being and Nothingness, and laid the foundation of his legacy as one of the greatest twentieth century philosophers. “This is a philosophy to be reckoned with, both for its own intrinsic power and as a profound symptom of our time” ( The New York Times). Kant was an idealist, believing that we have no direct way of perceiving the external world and that all we have access to is our ideas of the world, including what our senses tell us. Revisit one of the most important pillars in modern philosophy with this new English translation-the first in more than 60 years-of Jean-Paul Sartre’s seminal treatise on existentialism. Being and nothingness A phenomenological essay on ontology by Jean-Paul Sartre 4. In the introduction to Being and Nothingness, Sartre details his rejection of Kant’s concept of noumenon.

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