Jean-Paul Sartre

Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogues his every feeling and sensation about the world and people around him. His thoughts culminate in a pervasive, overpowering feeling of nausea which "spread at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the bottom of our time, the time of purple suspenders and broken chair seats; it is made of wide, soft instants, spreading at the edge, like an oil stain." Roquentin's efforts to try and come to terms with his life, his philosophical and psychological struggles, give Sartre the opportunity to dramatize the tenets of his Existentialist creed. The introduction for this edition of Nausea by Hayden Carruth gives background on Sartre's life and major works, a summary of the principal themes of Existentialist philosophy, and a critical analysis of the novel itself.

In these four plays, Jean-Paul Sartre, the great existentialist novelist and philosopher, displays his mastery of drama. NO EXIT is an unforgettable portrayal of hell. THE FLIES is a modern reworking of the Electra-Orestes story. DIRTY HANDS is about a young intellectual torn between theory and praxis. THE RESPECTFUL PROSTITUTE is an attack on American racism.

Jean-Paul Sartre, the great French existentialist, displays his mastery of drama in NO EXIT, an unforgettable portrayal of hell. The play is a depiction of the afterlife in which three deceased characters are punished by being locked into a room together for all eternity. It is the source of Sartre's especially famous and often misinterpreted quotation "L'enfer, c'est les autres" or "Hell is other people", a reference to Sartre's ideas about the Look and the perpetual ontological struggle of being caused to see oneself as an object in the world of another consciousness.

'The Wall', the lead story in this collection, introduces three political prisoners on the night prior to their execution. Through the gaze of an impartial doctor--seemingly there for the men's solace--their mental descent is charted in exquisite, often harrowing detail. And as the morning draws inexorably closer, the men cross the psychological wall between life and death, long before the first shot rings out. This brilliant snapshot of life in anguish is the perfect introduction to a collection of stories where the neurosis of the modern world is mirrored in the lives of the people that inhabit it.

«Garcin : - Le bronze... (Il le caresse.) Eh bien, voici le moment. Le bronze est là, je le contemple et je com prends que je suis en enfer. Je vous dis que tout était prévu. Ils avaient prévu que je me tiendrais devant cette cheminée, pressant ma main sur ce bronze, avec tous ces regards sur moi. Tous ces regards qui me mangent... (Il se retourne brusquement.) Ha ! vous n'êtes que deux ? Je vous croyais beaucoup plus nombreuses. (Il rit.) Alors, c'est ça l'enfer. Je n'aurais jamais cru... Vous vous rappelez : le soufre, le bûcher, le gril... Ah ! quelle plaisanterie. Pas besoin de gril : l'enfer, c'est les Autres.»

Donc j'étais tout à l'heure au Jardin public. La racine du marronnier s'enfonçait dans la terre, juste au-dessous de mon banc. Je ne me rappelais plus que c'était une racine. Les mots s'étaient évanouis et, avec eux, la signification des choses, leurs modes d'emploi, les faibles repères que les hommes ont tracés à leur surface. J'étais assis, un peu voûté, la tête basse, seul en face de cette masse noire et noueuse entièrement brute et qui me faisait peur. Et puis j'ai eu cette illumination. Ça m'a coupé le souffle. Jamais, avant ces derniers jours, je n'avais pressenti ce que voulait dire " exister ".

It was to correct common misconceptions about his thought that Jean-Paul Sartre, the most dominent European intellectual of the post-World War II decades, accepted an invitation to speak on October 29, 1945, at the Club Maintenant in Paris. The unstated objective of his lecture (“Existentialism Is a Humanism”) was to expound his philosophy as a form of “existentialism,” a term much bandied about at the time. Sartre asserted that existentialism was essentially a doctrine for philosophers, though, ironically, he was about to make it accessible to a general audience. The published text of his lecture quickly became one of the bibles of existentialism and made Sartre an international celebrity. The idea of freedom occupies the center of Sartre’s doctrine. Man, born into an empty, godless universe, is nothing to begin with. He creates his essence—his self, his being—through the choices he freely makes (“existence precedes essence”). Were it not for the contingency of his death, he would never end. Choosing to be this or that is to affirm the value of what we choose. In choosing, therefore, we commit not only ourselves but all of mankind. This book presents a new English translation of Sartre’s 1945 lecture and his analysis of Camus’s The Stranger, along with a discussion of these works by acclaimed Sartre biographer Annie Cohen-Solal. This edition is a translation of the 1996 French edition, which includes Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre’s introduction and a Q&A with Sartre about his lecture.

Being & Nothingness is without doubt one of the most significant philosophical books of the 20th century. The central work by one of the century's most influential thinkers, it altered the course of western philosophy. Its revolutionary approach challenged all previous assumptions about the individual's relationship with the world. Known as 'the Bible of existentialism', its impact on culture & literature was immediate & was felt worldwide, from the absurdist drama of Samuel Beckett to the soul-searching cries of the Beat poets. Being & Nothingness is one of those rare books whose influence has affected the mindset of subsequent generations. Seventy years after its 1st publication, its message remains as potent as ever--challenging readers to confront the fundamental dilemmas of human freedom, choice, responsibility & action.

Большинство критиков считают философскую драму Сартра «Мухи» самой удачной. Основная тема пьесы – свобода, сопротивление духовному порабощению и искупление. Пьеса была поставлена в 1943 году, во времена нацистской оккупации Франции, но Сартр сумел провести ее через фашистских цензоров. Основанная на греческой мифологии, она имела грандиозный политический подтекст, обличая бедственное положение порабощенных людей. Когда Орест прибывает в родной Аргос, его наводнили рои мух – наказание богов жителям, не предотвратившим убийство царя Агамемнона, отца Ореста. Мать Ореста, Клитемнестра, делит трон и ложе с убийцей отца, Эгисфом. Сестра Ореста, Электра, живет в родном доме на положении служанки.

The Age of Reason is set in 1938 and tells of Mathieu, a French professor of philosophy who is obsessed with the idea of freedom. As the shadows of the Second World War draw closer -- even as his personal life is complicated by his mistress's pregnancy -- his search for a way to remain free becomes more and more intense.

An extraordinary picture of life in France during the critical eight days before the signing of the fateful Munich Pact and the subsequent takeover of Czechoslovakia in September 1938. Translated from the French by Eric Sutton.

With a new preface by Michael Walzer Jean-Paul Sartre's book is a brilliant portrait of both anti-Semite and Jew, written by a non-Jew and from a non-Jewish point of view. Nothing of the anti-Semite either in his subtle form as a snob, or in his crude form as a gangster, escapes Sartre's sharp eye, and the whole problem of the Jew's relationship to the Gentile is examined in a concrete and living way, rather than in terms of sociological abstractions.

La clarificacion de las relaciones entre el marxismo y el existencialismo es uno de los problemas basicos de esta obra. La tarea de Sartre ha consistido en escribir un libro de Sociologia en el que estudia el grupo social dialectica y existencialmente.

Dans cette pièce de théâtre, c'est bien la question du choix qui se trouve au centre de la réflexion proposée, question du choix inévitablement corrélée à la question de la liberté, motif qui s'impose comme un véritable leitmotiv dans toute l'œuvre de Sartre. Le diable et le bon dieu est une pièce fortement empreinte par le thème de la cruauté, une cruauté qui se veut multiple. C'est ces diverses formes que peut prendre la cruauté que nous livre ici l'auteur. Il se demande comment la mise en évidence de la cruauté permet de servir sa propre réflexion.

First published in France in 1937, this important essay marked a turning point in Sartre's philosophical development. Before writing it, he had been closely allied with phenomenologists such as Husserl and Heidegger. Here, however, Sartre attacked Husserl's notion of a transcendental ego. The break with Husserl, in turn, facilitated Sartre's transition from phenomenology to the existentialist doctrines of his masterwork, Being and Nothingness, which was completed a few years later while the author was a prisoner of war. This student-friendly edition of The Transcendence of the Ego also includes an introduction and notes/annotations by the translators.

First published in 1940, Sartre's The Imaginary is a cornerstone of his philosophy. Sartre had become acquainted with the philosophy of Edmund Husserl in Berlin and was fascinated by his idea of the "intentionality of consciousness" as a key to the puzzle of existence. Against this background, The Imaginary crystallized Sartre's worldview and artistic vision. Here he presented the first extended examination of the concepts of nothingness and freedom, both of which are derived from the ability of consciousness to imagine objects both as they are and as they are not. These ideas would drive Sartre's existentialism and his entire theory of human freedom, laying the foundation for his masterwork Being and Nothingness three years later. This new translation by Jonathan Webber rectifies flaws in the terminology of the first translation and recaptures the essence of Sartre's phenomenology. Webber's perceptive new introduction helps to decipher this challenging, seminal work, placing it in the context of the author's work and the history of philosophy.

La nausea (1938) ha dato origine a quanto affermava il suo autore Jean-Paul Sartre, recensendo un romanzo di Faulkner: «I buoni romanzi finiscono per somigliare moltissimo ai fenomeni naturali; si dimentica il loro autore, li si accetta come pietre o alberi, perché ci sono, perché esistono». Piú di mezzo secolo dopo la sua pubblicazione, questo romanzo trasgressivo e ricchissimo ci restituisce il disagio della pace in agonia in Francia, nell’Europa, nel mondo alla vigilia della Seconda guerra mondiale: il libro piú libero di Sartre, il libro piú disinteressato e piú appassionato insieme.

No exit, unabridged. Edition of Sartre's well known existentialist novel.

"El existencialismo es un humanismo" se ha convertido en un clásico del pensamiento occidental del siglo XX, sobre todo porque en él aparecen expuestas de una forma clara y accesible, no sólo el pensamiento de Jean-Paul Sartre sino también las propuestas fundamentales del existencialismo. En cierto sentido, este breve texto resume las claves de toda la obra sartreana posterior, pues el pensador francés se mantuvo siempre fiel a los principios básicos trazados en él. El pensamiento de Sartre se revela como un instrumento muy útil para afrontar el presente.

« Comme tu tiens à ta pureté, mon petit gars ! Comme tu as peur de te salir les mains. Eh bien, reste pur ! A quoi cela servira-t-il et pourquoi viens-tu parmi nous ? La pureté, c'est une idée de fakir et de moine. Vous autres, les intellectuels, les anarchistes bourgeois, vous en tirez prétexte pour ne rien faire. Ne rien faire, rester immobile, serrer les coudes contre le corps, porter des gants. Moi j'ai les mains sales. Jusqu'aux coudes. Je la ai plongées dans la merde et dans le sang. » Créée en 1948 au théâtre Antoine par François Périer et André Luguet, Les Mains sales, pièce sur l'engagement politique, est une des œuvres théâtrales les plus retentissantes de l'auteur de Huis clos, des Mouches, de La Putain respectueuse, des Séquestrés d'Altona, du Diable et le bon Dieu.

- Il m'a empoisonnée ? - Eh oui, madame. - Mais pourquoi ? pourquoi ? - Vous le gêniez, répond la vieille dame. Il a eu votre dot. Maintenant il lui faut celle de votre sœur. Ève joint les mains dans un geste d'impuissance et murmure, accablée : - Et Lucette est amoureuse de lui ! La vieille dame prend alors une mine de circonstance : - Toutes mes condoléances... Mais voulez-vous me donner une signature ? Machinalement, Ève se lève, se penche sur le registre et signe. - Parfait, conclut la vieille dame. Vous voilà morte officiellement. Ève hésite, puis s'informe : - Mais où faut-il que j'aille ? - Où vous voudrez. Les morts sont libres.