Being and NothingnessA philosophical classic and major cornerstone of modern existentialism Often criticized and all-too-rarely understood, the philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre encompasses the dilemmas and aspirations of the individual in contemporary society.Being and Nothingnesscontains all the basic tenets of his thought, as well as all its more intricate details. A work of inherent force and epic scope, it provides a vivid analysis for all who would understand one of the most influential philosophic movements of any age, and makes clear whyThe New York Timeshailed Sartre’s masterpiece as "a philosophy to be reckoned with, both for its own intrinsic power and as a profound symptom of our time." |
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Contents
Translators Preface | viii |
THE PURSUIT OF BEING | 3 |
Chapter One The Origin of Negation | 33 |
The Dialectical Concept of Nothingness | 44 |
The Phenomenological Concept of Nothingness | 49 |
The Origin of Nothingness | 56 |
Chapter Two Bad Faith | 86 |
Patterns of Bad Faith | 96 |
The Time of the World | 279 |
Chapter One The Existence of Others | 301 |
Husserl Hegel Heidegger | 315 |
IV The Look | 340 |
Chapter Two The Body | 401 |
The Third Ontological Dimension of the Body | 460 |
Chapter Three Concrete Relations With Others | 471 |
Indifference | 494 |
HI The Faith of Bad Faith | 112 |
Chapter One Immediate Structures of the ForItself | 119 |
H The Facticity of the ForItself | 127 |
The ForItself and the Being of Value | 133 |
The ForItself and the Being of Possibilities | 147 |
Chapter Two Temporality | 159 |
The Ontology of Temporality | 187 |
Chapter Three Transcendence | 238 |
Determination as Negation | 249 |
Quality and Quantity Potentiality | 257 |
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