Being and Nothingness

by Sartre, Jean-Paul

• ISBN13: 9780802214867
• ISBN10: 080221486X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1982-04-01
• Publisher: Book Sales

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	p. vii
Translator's Introduction	p. viii
Introduction: The Pursuit of Being	p. xlv
The Problem of Nothingness
The Origin of Negation	p. 3
The Question	p. 3
Negations	p. 6
The Dialectical Concept of Nothingness	p. 12
The Phenomenological Concept of Nothingness	p. 16
The Origin of Nothingness	p. 21
Being-for-Itself
Immediate Structures of the For-Itself	p. 49
Presence to Self	p. 49
The Facticity of the For-Itself	p. 55
The For-Itself and the Being of Value	p. 60
The For-Itself and the Being of Possibilities	p. 71
The Self and the Circuit of Selfness	p. 78
Temporality	p. 83
Phenomenology of the Three Temporal Dimensions	p. 83
The Ontology of Temporality	p. 106
Original Temporality and Psychic Temporality: Reflection	p. 126
Transcendence	p. 147
Knowledge as a Type of Relation Between the For-Itself and the In-Itself	p. 148
Determination as Negation	p. 156
Quality and Quantity Potentiality, Instrumentality	p. 162
The Time of the World	p. 180
Knowledge	p. 192
Being-for-Others
The Existence of Others	p. 197
The Problem	p. 197
The Reef of Solipsism	p. 199
Husserl, Hegel, Heidegger	p. 209
The Look	p. 228
The Body	p. 279
The Body as Being-For-Itself: Facticity	p. 282
The Body-For-Others	p. 315
The Third Ontological Dimension of the Body	p. 327
Concrete Relations With Others	p. 337
First Attitude Toward Others: Love, Language, Masochism	p. 340
Second Attitude Toward Others: Indifference, Desire, Hate, Sadism	p. 355
"Being-With" (Mitsein) and the "We"	p. 389
Having, Doing and Being
Being and Doing: Freedom	p. 409
Freedom: The First Condition of Action	p. 409
Freedom and Facticity: The Situation	p. 457
Freedom and Responsibility	p. 529
Conclusion
In-Itself and For-Itself: Metaphysical Implications	p. 535
Ethical Implications	p. 543
Key to Special Terminology	p. 547
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