Meet Jean Paul Sartre (Existentialism)
Explore the core of existentialism with Jean-Paul Sartre's essential works, including Nausea, Being and Nothingness, and No Exit—your curated guide to his philosophy.
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Nausea
by Jean-Paul Sartre
Presents Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialist novel, first published in 1938, in which Antoine Roquentin, a French writer, chronicles his reactions to the world and people around him, which combine to give him an overpowering feeling of nausea.
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Being and Nothingness
by Jean-Paul Sartre
Sartre explains the theory of existential psychoanalysis in this treatise on human reality.
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Existentialism and Human Emotions
by Jean-Paul Sartre
Proposes that individuals must create their own values, take responsibility for their actions, and find a sense of meaning while living in a universe without purpose.
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IMAGINARY: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY OF THE IMAGINATION; ED. BY ARLETTE ELKAIM-SARTRE.
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The Age of Reason
by Jean-Paul Sartre
The first novel of Sartre's monumental Roads to Freedom series, The Age of Reason is set in 1938 and tells of Mathieu, a French professor of philosophy who is obsessed with the idea of freedom. As the shadows of the Second World War draw closer -- even as his personal life is complicated by his mistress's pregnancy -- his search for a way to remain free becomes more and more intense.
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No Exit and Three Other Plays
by Jean-Paul Sartre
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • Four seminal plays by one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. An existential portrayal of Hell in Sartre's best-known play, as well as three other brilliant, thought-provoking works: the reworking of the Electra-Orestes story, the conflict of a young intellectual torn between theory and conflict, and an arresting attack on American racism.
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The Wall (Intimacy) and Other Stories
by Jean-Paul Sartre
One of Sartre's greatest existentialist works of fiction, The Wall contains the only five short stories he ever wrote. Set during the Spanish Civil War, the title story crystallizes the famous philosopher's existentialism.
