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Basic Writings

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Jean-Paul Sartre is one of the most famous philosophers of the twentieth century. The principle founder of existentialism, a political thinker and famous novelist and dramatist, his work has exerted enormous influence in philosophy, literature, politics and cultural studies.
Jean-Paul Sartre: Basic Writings is the first collection of Sartre's key philosophical writings and ...more
Paperback, 336 pages
Published December 19th 2000 by Routledge (first published 2000)
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Recommends it for: those interested in metaphysics, existentialism
this was a fine introduction into Sartre's view of the ontological and phenomological world. I think the editor did a decent job gathering snippets from Sartre's various writings like : Existentialism and Humanism, Being and Nothingness, and Transcendence of the Ego.
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Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre, normally known simply as Jean-Paul Sartre, was a French existentialist philosopher and pioneer, dramatist and screenwriter, novelist and critic. He was a leading figure in 20th century French philosophy.

He declined the award of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his work which, rich in ideas and filled with the spirit of freedom and the quest ...more
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