Jean-Paul Sartre: 'Being and Nothingness'
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This week, a chapter from a new LRB audiobook, Becoming a Philosopher: Spinoza to Sartre by Jonathan Rée. This collection of ten biographical pieces, read by Rée, describes the lives of some of most influential thinkers of the past four hundred years and the radical and sometimes bizarre ideas that emerged from them. The audiobook also includes an introductory conversation between Rée and Thomas Jones, host of the LRB Podcast. In this free chapter, Rée looks at the life of Jean-Paul Sartre up to the publication of his first major philosophical work, Being and Nothingness, in 1943.
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So Sartre was a poseur, a self serving phony and a first class fraud. He was a Nazi collaborator who lied about his role in the French resistance. While he lived, sadly, no one dated to call his bluff. Can anyone today speak rationally about "existentialism"? In terms of his work "Being and Nothingness," existentialism is the nothingness part. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2007/03/the-problem-with-sartre.html