Being And Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre - 1966: The Compat Text

New York: Washington Square Press, Inc. , 1966. Second printing. Wraps. Near Good. Translated and with an introduction by Hazel E. Barnes, University of Colorado. The major work of Jean-Paul Almard Sartre ( 1905 - 1980 ) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, screenwriter, politial activist, biographer, literary critic - " sought to understand human existence and what is to be human, the groundlessness and the radical freeedom of the human condition contrasted with the world of things , amidst tthe co-existence of facts and freedoms, in an indifferent world .......Left alone, condemned to be free " Existence Precedes Essence " .... And the conficting themes of Confonmity ( mauvais foi ) and the authentic life of Being , Being and Nothingness ( L'Etre et le Neant ) - Sartre's book of 1943 A work of the basic tenants of his thought , of inherent power and epic in scope Contents : Intro : The Pursuit of Being ( 6 chapters ) .... Part One : The Problem of Nothingness.... Part Two : Being-For-Self..... Part Three :Being-For-Others..... Part Four : Having, Doing, and Being. ....Conclusion . Key to Special terminology . Index. Green and black colored softcover book ( 4 1/4 X 7 1/8 X 1 5/8 ) 783 pages. Book weighs 1 pound. Page margin tanning in 47 year old Sartre important book

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