Being and nothingness : an essay in phenomenological ontology
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-19802018
Book
"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.
Main title:
Being and nothingness : an essay in phenomenological ontology / Jean-Paul Sartre ; translated by Sarah Richmond ; [foreword by Richard Moran].
Author:
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980, authorRichmond, Sarah, translatorMoran, Richard, 1953-, author of introduction, etc
Imprint:
New York : Routledge, 2018.©2018.
Collation:
lxvii, 848 pages ; 24 cm.
Notes:
"Originally published as Être et le néant"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references and index.Translated from the French.
Contents:
Contents note continued: III.Original temporality and psychological temporality: reflectionch. 3 TranscendenceI.Knowledge as a type of relation between the for-itself and the in-itselfII.On determination as negationIII.Quality and quantity, potentiality and equipmentalityIV.World-timeV.Knowledgept. THREE BEING-FOR-THE-OTHERch. 1 The Other's existenceI.The problemII.The reef of solipsismIII.Husserl, Hegel, HeideggerIV.The lookch. 2 The bodyI.The body as being-for-itself: facticityII.The body-for-the-OtherIII.The third ontological dimension of the bodych. 3 Concrete relations with the OtherI.Our first attitude towards the Other: love, language, masochismII.The second attitude towards the Other: indifference, desire, hatred, sadismIII.`Being-with' (Mitsein) and the `we'pt. FOUR TO HAVE, TO DO AND TO BEch. 1 Being and doing: freedomI.The first condition of action is freedom --Contents note continued: II.Freedom and facticity: the situationIII.Freedom and responsibilitych. 2 To do and to haveI.Existential psychoanalysisII.To do and to have: possessionIII.The revelation of being through qualitiesConclusionI.In-itself and for-itself: some metaphysical observationsII.Moral perspectives.
ISBN:
9780367461409 (paperback)
Dewey class:
194
Language:
EnglishFrench
Subject:
BRN:
762844
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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| Kathleen Syme Carlton | -Society | SOCIETY 194 SART | Available |