Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology
by Jean-Pau Sartre
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Author: Jean-Pau SartreEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1969-11-01
ISBN: 0415040299
Number of pages: 688
Publisher: Routledge
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Book Review: Incredible insights tarnished by a flawed ontology
Summary: 4 Stars
Parts of this book deserve 5 stars. Much of what Sartre has to say in it is cuttingly insightful, indeed life-changing. His writing is lucid (perhaps too lucid for philosophy - this was Merleau-Ponty's opinion) and the book is a great read. But underlying everything, with huge passages directed exclusively to it, is Sartre's own ontology, mish-mash of Descartes (via Husserl), Hegel and Heidegger, which falls well short of Heidegger's own subtlety. This has led to a certain contempt among serious continental philosophers for Sartre's work. Ironically, for all that, he has had an obvious powerful influence on many of them. This is not a book to be ignored by ANYONE.
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