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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It was to correct common misconceptions about his thought that Sartre accepted an invitation to speak on October 29, 1945, at the Club Maintenant in Paris. The unstated objective of his lecture (&#8220;Existentialism Is a Humanism&#8221;) was to expound his philosophy as a form of &#8220;existentialism,&#8221; a term much bandied about at the time. Sartre asserted that existentialism was essentially a doctrine for philosophers, though, ironically, he was about to make it accessible to a general audience. The published text of his lecture quickly became one of the bibles of existentialism and made Sartre an international celebrity.<br/>The idea of freedom occupies the center of Sartre&#8217;s doctrine. Man, born into an empty, godless universe, is nothing to begin with. He creates his essence&#8212;his self, his being&#8212;through the choices he freely makes (&#8220;existence precedes essence&#8221;). Were it not for the contingency of his death, he would never end. Choosing to be this or that is to affirm the value of what we choose. In choosing, therefore, we commit not only ourselves but all of mankind.<br/>This edition of <em>Existentialism Is a Humanism</em> is a translation of the 1996 French edition, which includes Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre&#8217;s introduction and a Q&amp;A with Sartre about his lecture. Paired with &#8220;Existentialism Is a Humanism&#8221; is another seminal Sartre text, his commentary on Camus&#8217;s <em>The Stranger</em>. In her foreword, intended for an American audience, acclaimed Sartre biographer Annie Cohen-Solal offers an assessment of both works.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It was to correct common misconceptions about his thought that Sartre accepted an invitation to speak on October 29, 1945, at the Club Maintenant in Paris. The unstated objective of his lecture (&#8220;Existentialism Is a Humanism&#8221;) was to expound his philosophy as a form of &#8220;existentialism,&#8221; a term much bandied about at the time. Sartre asserted that existentialism was essentially a doctrine for philosophers, though, ironically, he was about to make it accessible to a general audience. The published text of his lecture quickly became one of the bibles of existentialism and made Sartre an international celebrity.<br/>The idea of freedom occupies the center of Sartre&#8217;s doctrine. Man, born into an empty, godless universe, is nothing to begin with. He creates his essence&#8212;his self, his being&#8212;through the choices he freely makes (&#8220;existence precedes essence&#8221;). Were it not for the contingency of his death, he would never end. Choosing to be this or that is to affirm the value of what we choose. In choosing, therefore, we commit not only ourselves but all of mankind.<br/>This edition of <em>Existentialism Is a Humanism</em> is a translation of the 1996 French edition, which includes Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre&#8217;s introduction and a Q&amp;A with Sartre about his lecture. Paired with &#8220;Existentialism Is a Humanism&#8221; is another seminal Sartre text, his commentary on Camus&#8217;s <em>The Stranger</em>. In her foreword, intended for an American audience, acclaimed Sartre biographer Annie Cohen-Solal offers an assessment of both works.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the more amusing failures in twentieth century philosophy. By completely blowing the arguments about morality, he actually fails to prove the four-word title of his lecture.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I stole this book from the tvi library and almost couldn't transfer out of the school because of it. hey, the book was worth it.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It was to correct common misconceptions about his thought that Sartre accepted an invitation to speak on October 29, 1945, at the Club Maintenant in Paris. The unstated objective of his lecture (&#8220;Existentialism Is a Humanism&#8221;) was to expound his philosophy as a form of &#8220;existentialism,&#8221; a term much bandied about at the time. Sartre asserted that existentialism was essentially a doctrine for philosophers, though, ironically, he was about to make it accessible to a general audience. The published text of his lecture quickly became one of the bibles of existentialism and made Sartre an international celebrity.<br/>The idea of freedom occupies the center of Sartre&#8217;s doctrine. Man, born into an empty, godless universe, is nothing to begin with. He creates his essence&#8212;his self, his being&#8212;through the choices he freely makes (&#8220;existence precedes essence&#8221;). Were it not for the contingency of his death, he would never end. Choosing to be this or that is to affirm the value of what we choose. In choosing, therefore, we commit not only ourselves but all of mankind.<br/>This edition of <em>Existentialism Is a Humanism</em> is a translation of the 1996 French edition, which includes Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre&#8217;s introduction and a Q&amp;A with Sartre about his lecture. Paired with &#8220;Existentialism Is a Humanism&#8221; is another seminal Sartre text, his commentary on Camus&#8217;s <em>The Stranger</em>. In her foreword, intended for an American audience, acclaimed Sartre biographer Annie Cohen-Solal offers an assessment of both works.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[the Existentialist Bible, if I may, or less provocatively, a beginner's guide and old-timer's refresher. basically spells out what existentialism is and is not. something I like to go back to and reference when plagued by indecision.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[short synopsis of the essential doctrines of sartrean existentialism.  i'm trying to understand it more completely.  thus, i have taken up the challenge to read being and nothingness.  problem:  it's fucking massive.  does this fool think he's god?  why he gota try to write a book longer than the mu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5479135">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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