L'Être et le Néant. Essai d'ontologie phénoménologique.

SARTRE (Jean-Paul).

L'Être et le Néant. Essai d'ontologie phénoménologique.

BEING AND NOTHINGNESS: INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR

Seventh edition. 8vo. 722, [4] pp. Contemporary quarter black morocco with marbled paper covered boards, spine with five single raised bands outlined in blind, second panel lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, speckled edges, ribbon place marker (crude tape reinforcements to pp. 13-14 without loss of text, annotations in ink and pencil to p. 9, a few instances of pencilled underling and marginal highlighting, paper stock uniformly browned, newspaper clippings loosely inserted at rear). Paris, Librairie Gallimard, Bibliothèque des Idées, 1943.

£3,750.00

SARTRE (Jean-Paul).

L'Être et le Néant. Essai d'ontologie phénoménologique.

A presentation copy of Being and Nothingness, Sartre’s greatest philosophical work and the foundational text of French existentialism, inscribed by the author ‘A Monsieur Faraggi avec la très sincère sympathie de Jean-Paul Sartre 27 décembre 50’ in black ink to the dedication page.

Sartre’s Being and Nothingness owed an enormous debt to the influence of Martin Heidegger, who Sartre had first read in 1940 while interned as a prisoner of war. Its central idea, that “existence precedes essence”, asserts that human beings are not born with any predefined nature. Instead, first and foremost, we are beings that exist in the world, and we establish who we are during the course of lived experiences. Signed copies of any edition are quite uncommon.

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