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Makes a Brilliant Doorstop!!! I would recommend this "existentialism Bible" to only two types of believer- a)the serious philosophy student who has to read it because their tutor said so b)prisoners of war or similar, as a method of torture. This is tedium incarnate. What Jean-Paul does is spend 650 cursed pages rambling aimlessly and vaguely about the nature of existence only to draw such earth-shattering conclusions like "consciousness is consciousness of consciousness" and (too) many other frankly useless anecdotes.more info
Speculative? System-building? Abstract? Gut-wrenching! Sartre builds up a big, abstract, speculative system, apparently as a framework for his belief in human freedom, choice, and responsibility. What does this construction accomplish that simple assertions wouldn't of our freedom, our not being determined, our defining ourself via our yet-to-be-accomplished projects, our responsibility rooted in our unavoidable need to make choices? Perhaps both emphasis (you'll be less likely to forget you are free), elaboration (you'll learn more what being free as well as... more info
A long haul, but brilliant Probably the best description of what this book is about comes from the subtitle, 'An essay on phenomenological ontology'- its a thorough analysis of the nature of existence from the point of view of human consciousness. Sartre begins with our most basic knowledge and works his way up to the complexities of human relationships, leaving nothing out. The first Part (of four) of the book centres around the two fundamental components of consciousness. Being is what we are aware of as existing; and Nothingness... more info
Satisfyingly Weighty Alongside Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception, de Beauvoir's Second Sex and Heidegger's Being and Time this book seems to have that requisite broadness of the beam to be considered foundational existentialist fodder. Which is curious, really, given the anti-foundationalist nature of existentialism. But on to content - this is definitely not the place, like the other tomes mentioned above, to start from for an understanding of existential phenomenology. For that I heartily recommend "Existentialism:... more info
