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By Jean-Paul Sartre

Truth and Existence, written in accordance with Martin Heidegger's Essence of Truth, is a made from the years whilst Sartre was once achieving complete stature as a thinker, novelist, playwright, essayist, and political activist. This concise and fascinating textual content not just provides Sartre's ontology of fact but additionally addresses the most important ethical questions of freedom, motion, and undesirable faith.

Truth and Existence is brought via a longer biographical, old, and analytical essay via Ronald Aronson.

"Truth and Existence is one other very important aspect within the lately released hyperlinks among Sartre's existentialist ontology and his later moral, political, and literary issues. . . . the wonderful advent via Aronson can help readers now not skilled in examining Sartre."—Choice

"Accompanied through a great advent, this dense, lucidly translated treatise finds Sartre as a traditionally 20th-century figure."—Publishers Weekly

Jean-Paul Sartre (1906-1980) used to be provided, yet declined, the Nobel Prize for literature in 1964. His many works of fiction, drama, and philosophy comprise the enormous learn of Flaubert, The relatives Idiot, and The Freud Scenario, either released in translation through the college of Chicago Press.

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