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"First published in French in 1943 Jean-Paul Sartre's L'Être et le Néant is one of the greatest philosophical works of the twentieth century. In it, Sartre offers nothing less than a brilliant and radical account of the human condition. The English philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch wrote to a friend of "the excitement - I remember nothing like it since the days of discovering Keats and Shelley and Coleridge". What gives our lives significance, Sartre argues in Being and Nothingness, is not pre-established for us by God or nature but is something for which we ourselves are responsible. Combining this with the unsettling view that human existence is characterized by radical freedom and the inescapability of choice, Sartre introduces us to a cast of ideas and characters that are part of philosophical legend: anguish; the 'bad faith' of the memorable waiter in the café; sexual desire; and the 'look' of the other, brought to life by Sartre's famous description of someone looking through a keyhole. Above all, by arguing that we alone create our values and that human relationships are characterized by hopeless conflict, Sartre paints a stark and controversial picture of our moral universe and one that resonates strongly today. This new translation includes a helpful Translator's Introduction, notes on the translation, a comprehensive index and a foreword by Richard Moran."--Book jacket.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction. The idea of the phenomenon
• The phenomenon of being and the being of the phenomenon
• The prereflective 'cogito' and the being of the 'percipere'
• The being of the 'percipi'
• The ontological proof
• Being in itself
• Part one. The problem of nothingness. The origin of negation. Questioning ; Negations ; The dialectical conception of nothingness ; The phenomenological conception of nothingness ; The origin of nothingness
• Bad faith. Bad faith and lies ; Forms of bad faith ; The ̀faith' of bad faith
• Part two. Being-for-itself. The immediate structures of the for-itself. Self-presence ; The for-itself's facticity ; The for-itself and the being of value ; The for-itself and the being of possibles ; My self and the circuit of ipseity
• Temporality. Phenomenology of the three temporal dimensions ; The ontology of temporality ; Original temporality and psychological temporality : reflection
• Transcendence. Knowledge as a type of relation between the for-itself and the in-itself ; On determination as negation ; Quality and quantity, potentiality and equipmentality ; World-time ; Knowledge
• Part three. Being-for-the-other. The Other's existence. The problem ; The reef of solipsism ; Husserl, Hegel, Heidegger ; The look
• The body. The body as being-for-itself : facticity ; The body-for-the-Other ; The third ontological dimension of the body
• Concrete relations with the Other. Our first attitude towards the Other : love, language, masochism ; The second attitude towards the Other : indifference, desire, hatred, sadism ; "Being-with" (Mitsein) and the "we"
• Part four. To have, to do, and to be. Being and doing : freedom. The first condition of action is freedom ; Freedom and facticity : the situation ; Freedom and responsibility
• To do and to have. Existential psychoanalysis ; To do and to have : possession ; The revelation of being through qualities
• Conclusion. In-itself and for-itself : some metaphysical observations ; Moral perspectives.

Author/Creator:

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980 , author

Contributors:

Richmond, Sarah , translator

Languages:

English
French

Language Notes:

Translated from the French.

Main Work:

Être et le néant [by Sartre, J.P.] (English)

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Being and nothingness : an essay on phenomenological ontology [by Sartre, J.P.] (Washington Square Press/Atria, and imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2021 — ISBN 9781982105457; OCLC Number 1084426740)

Subjects:

Existentialism

Existential psychology

Ontology

Genres:

Informational works

General Notes:

"First Washington Square Press/Atria Books paperback edition"--Colophon.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 813-818) and index.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (lxix, 853 pages)

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

B819 .S27213 2021eb

ISBNs:

9781982105440 (hardback) [Invalid]
1982105445 (hardback) [Invalid]
9781982105457 (paperback) [Invalid]
1982105453 (paperback) [Invalid]
9781982105464 (ebook)
1982105461 (ebook)

OCLC Numbers:

1367352390