Being And Nothingness

by Sartre, Jean-Paul

• ISBN13: 9780671867805
• ISBN10: 0671867806
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-08-01
• Publisher: Washington Square Press

Summary

The often criticized philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre encompasses the dilemmas and aspirations of the individual in contemporary society. This work of power and epic scope provides a vivid analysis for all who would understand one of the most influential philosophic movements of this or any age.

Author Biography

Jean-Paul Sartre was born in Paris in 1905 and died in 1980. A philosopher, author, and social critic, he was a key figure among the French intellectuals who resisted the Nazi occupation during World War II. His many plays and novels also express existential themes

Table of Contents

Translator's Preface	vii
Translator's Introduction	ix
Introduction The Pursuit of Being
The Phenomenon	3	(4)
The Phenomenon of Being and the Being of the Phenomenon	7	(2)
The Pre-Reflective Cogito and the Being of the Percipere	9	(8)
The Being of the Percipi	17	(4)
The Ontological Proof	21	(3)
Being-In-Itself	24	(9)
PART ONE The Problem of Nothingness
The Origin of Negation	33	(53)
The Question	33	(3)
Negations	36	(8)
The Dialectical Concept of Nothingness	44	(5)
The Phenomenological Concept of Nothingness	49	(7)
The Origin of Nothingness	56	(30)
Bad Faith	86	(33)
Bad Faith and Falsehood	86	(10)
Patterns of Bad Faith	96	(16)
The ``Faith'' of Bad Faith	112	(7)
PART TWO Being-for-Itself
Immediate Structures of the For-Itself	119	(40)
Presence to Self	119	(8)
The Facticity of the For-Itself	127	(6)
The For-Itself and the Being of Value	133	(14)
The For-Itself and the Being of Possibilities	147	(8)
The Self and the Circuit of Selfness	155	(4)
Temporality	159	(79)
Phenomenology of the Three Temporal Dimensions	159	(28)
The Ontology of Temporality	187	(24)
Original Temporality and Psychic Temporality: Reflection	211	(27)
Transcendence	238	(63)
Knowledge as a Type of Relation Between the For-Itself and the In-Itself	240	(9)
Determination as Negation	249	(8)
Quality and Quantity, Potentiality, Instrumentality	257	(22)
The Time of the World	279	(15)
Knowledge	294	(7)
PART THREE Being-for-Others
The Existence of Others	301	(100)
The Problem	301	(2)
The Reef of Solipsism	303	(12)
Husserl, Hegel, Heidegger	315	(25)
The Look	340	(61)
The Body	401	(70)
The Body as Being-For-Itself: Facticity	404	(41)
The Body-For-Others	445	(15)
The Third Ontological Dimension of the Body	460	(11)
Concrete Relations With Others	471	(88)
First Attitude Toward Others: Love, Language, Masochism	474	(20)
Second Attitude Toward Others: Indifference, Desire, Hate, Sadism	494	(40)
``Being-With'' (Mitsein) and the ``We''	534	(25)
PART FOUR Having, Doing, and Being
Being and Doing: Freedom	559	(153)
Freedom: The First Condition of Action	559	(60)
Freedom and Facticity: The Situation	619	(88)
Freedom and Responsibility	707	(5)
Doing and Having	712	(87)
Existential Psychoanalysis	712	(22)
``Doing'' and ``Having'': Possession	734	(31)
Quality as a Revelation of Being	765	(20)
CONCLUSION
In-Itself and For-Itself: Metaphysical Implications	785	(10)
Ethical Implications	795	(4)
Key to Special Terminology	799	(10)
Index	809