Folio Essais: Existen Est Un Huma (Paperback)

from breakbeat

This book is split into 3 distinct parts: an introduction, the main text which is a transcribe of the lecture Sartre gave "Existentialism is a humanism" with the question & answer session which followed, then a commentary on Camus's the Stranger. The introduction is really well written and unlike...

from stillatim

Sartre will never be my favorite philosopher, but he's a great scratching post--pretty good at criticizing others, very good at diagnosing social malaise, solid enough at saying how he wishes thing are, but just awful at making those three things hang together in any coherent way. When he tries t...

from IvanaG.

This is well-written, because it can be read by everyone and it´s full of thoughts. Thanks to this book, you can easily realize what one philosophical system means and on what grounds it stands. So if you are a layman to philosophy or existentialism, this is a good book for beginning. But: exis...

from FluidMindOrg

If you've read anything by Sartre or Camus you may have came away with a feeling that Existentialism is a philosophy of nihilism or despair. That, indeed, was one of the main criticisms of Sartre's philosophy in his day. In this lecture he speaks frankly about Existentialism and defends it agains...

from FluidMindOrg

If you've read anything by Sartre or Camus you may have came away with a feeling that Existentialism is a philosophy of nihilism or despair. That, indeed, was one of the main criticisms of Sartre's philosophy in his day. In this lecture he speaks frankly about Existentialism and defends it agains...