It is this condition that causes anguish and the desire to flee from and escape from it through dreams designed to lead one toward a more meaningful end (destiny, determinism, or God). In his account, Sartre reflects on the conundrum in which the human exists within an overall condition of nothingness, or no thing-ness, which ultimately allows for free consciousness yet simultaneously constrains one to making continuous conscious choices. A direct response to Martin Heidegger's Being and Time, which Sartre read as a prisoner of war in 1940, the text reflects on consciousness, being, and phenomena, ultimately asserting that "existence precedes essence", or that the individual must create their own values and identity as this is not something given inherently. Rare and desirable signed.Ĭonsidered to be French philosopher Jean Paul Sartre's masterpiece, Being and Nothingness is the most important non-fiction expression Sartrean existential philosophy. Signed by Sartre on the front free endpaper. New York: The Philosophical Library, 1956.įirst edition of Sartre’s masterpiece.
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