![]() ![]() Nearly eighty years later, we are still talking about this book. An eight-hundred-page treatise on ontology which, somehow, became widely read-or at least widely talked about. This book is the defining monument of that school. He did everything: writing novels and plays, founding and editing a journal, engaging in political activism, and pioneering a philosophical school: existentialism. Jean-Paul Sartre was the defining intellectual of his time, at least on the European continent. It has everything to attract a self-styled intellectual: a reputation for difficulty, a hefty bulk, a pompous title, and the imprimatur of a famous name. I went crazy trying to read that thing.” Ever since that memorable description, this book has held a special allure for me. ![]() Being-in-myself, being-for-myself, being-of-myself, being-across-myself, being-by-myself. “I had to read this in college,” he told me. In the Heat: Elche… on Alicante & the Island of…Ģ023: New Year… on In the Heat: Elche & …īeing and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre Jaca: A Slightly Uns… on A Highly Unsuccessful Jou… Reflections on Readi… on Ancient Cities: Istanbul ![]()
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