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Author Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980.

Title Being and nothingness : an essay on phenomenological ontology / Jean-Paul Sartre ; translated by Hazel E. Barnes ; introduction by Mary Warnock ; with a new preface by Richard Eyre
Published London : Routledge, 2003

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Description xxi, 659 pages ; 22 cm
Series Routledge classics
Routledge classics.
Contents Introduction: The pursuit of being -- pt. I: The problem of nothingness. The origin of negation ; Bad faith -- pt. II: Being-for-itself. Immediate structures of the for-itself ; Temporality ; Transcendence -- pt. III: Being-for-others. The existence of others ; The body ; Concrete relations with others -- pt. IV: Having, doing, being. Being and doing: Freedom ; Doing and having -- Conclusion -- Key to special terminology
Summary This monumental book, regarded by many as Sartre's greatest achievement, is one of the most influential philosophical works of the 20th century. In it Sartre set out his fundamental views on philosophy and laid the foundations of existentialism
Notes This translation originally published: London: Methuen, 1958
Translated from the French
Includes index
Translated from the French
Subject Existentialism.
Philosophy, French -- 20th century.
Author Warnock, Mary, Writer of introduction
Barnes, Hazel Estella, translator
Eyre, Richard, Writer of preface
ISBN 0415278481
9780415278485
Other Titles Être et le néant. English