Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology

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		Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology
		Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology

基本信息·出版社：Routledge
·页码：688 页
·出版日期：2003年08月
·ISBN：0415278481
·条形码：9780415278485
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
·丛书名：Routledge Classics
·外文书名：存在与虚无

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The central work by one of the world's most influential thinkers, this classic altered the course of western philosophy. It is without doubt one of the most significant books of the twentieth century.
作者简介 Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-80). The foremost French thinker and writer of the early post-war years. His books have exerted enormous influence in philosophy, literature, art and politics.
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Jean-Paul Sartre, the seminal smarty-pants of mid-century thinking, launched the existentialist fleet with the publication of Being and Nothingness in 1943. Though the book is thick, dense, and unfriendly to careless readers, it is indispensable to those interested in the philosophy of consciousness and free will. Some of his arguments are fallacious, others are unclear, but for the most part Sartre's thoughts penetrate deeply into fundamental philosophical territory. Basing his conception of self-consciousness loosely on Heidegger's "being," Sartre proceeds to sharply delineate between conscious actions ("for themselves") and unconscious ("in themselves"). It is a conscious choice, he claims, to live one's life "authentically" and in a unified fashion, or not--this is the fundamental freedom of our lives.

Drawing on history and his own rich imagination for examples, Sartre offers compelling supplements to his more formal arguments. The waiter who detaches himself from his job-role sticks in the reader's memory with greater tenacity than the lengthy discussion of inauthentic life and serves to bring the full force of the argument to life. Even if you're not an angst-addicted poet from North Beach, Being and Nothingness offers you a deep conversation with a brilliant mind--unfortunately, a rare find these days. --Rob Lightner --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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'Being and Nothingness is a magnificently imaginative redescription of the human situation. Sartre follows up on leads provided by Hegel and Heidegger in order to replace the Platonic/Aristotelian account of human beings as primarily knowers with a neo-Nietzschean conception of humans as self-creators.' - Richard Rorty

'Being and Nothingness is a philosophical masterpiece, and a document of what life in the twentieth century was about. It is rare for a work to present such exquisitely abstract thought made vivid through examples imagined by a great novelist.' - Arthur C. Danto, Columbia University

'A fascinating and intriguing work providing a full-blown metaphysic backed by, and at the same time providing the basis for, a complete theory of man.' - Times Literary Supplement

'Full of fascinating and profound analyses of human devices and desires.' - Iris Murdoch

'Rooted in the tragic circumstance of war and occupation, profoundly marked by Heidegger yet also written against him, Sartre's treatise remains a classic. What accounted for the impact of the work on successive generations was the tension between philosophic argument, social insight and the genius for narrative, for the concrete particular, distinctive of Sartre.' - George Steiner

A fascinating and intriguing work providing a full-blown metaphysic backed by, and at the same time providing the basis for, a complete theory of man - Times Literary Supplement

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