Being and Nothingness

L'Etre Et Le Neant

The publication of Being and Nothingness in 1943 heralded the birth of Sartre as a philosopher. He began to use his independent perspectives and philosophical terms to express his understanding of the world: Man is being-for-itself, possessing a transcendental quality, perpetually changing, and realized in the passage of time. Precisely because of its temporal nature, "being-for-itself" is not, like "being-in-itself," a being that "is what it is," but rather a being that constantly appears "not what it is and what it is not." What man is refers only to what he was; the future does not exist. The present is a negation that connects the past and the future, effectively a nothingness. Therefore, man is destined to be free; freedom is his destiny. Man must freely make a series of choices for himself. It is in this process of free choice that man imbues objects with meaning, yet he bears full responsibility for all his choices.
Being and Nothingness (revised version) is translated based on the 1981 French edition published by Gallimard Bookstore.

2014-09-01

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