Being and Nothingness

First published in French in 1943 Jean-Paul Sartre’s L’Être et le Néant is one of the greatest philosophical works of the twentieth century. In it Sartre offers nothing less than a brilliant and radical account of the human condition. The English philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch wrote to a friend of the excitement – I remember nothing like it since the days of discovering Keats and Shelley and Coleridge. This new translation the first for over sixty years makes this classic work of philosop...See More