![]() ![]() ![]() At the heart of this view are Sartre’s radical conceptions of consciousness and freedom. 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. This new translation, the first for over sixty years, makes this classic work of philosophy available to a new generation of readers. ![]() 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". In it, Sartre offers nothing less than a brilliant and radical account of the human condition. 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. ![]()
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