Being and nothingness by jean-paul sartre biography

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Being and Nothingness: A Phenomenological Essay on Ontology is a book written by French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, published in As an existentialist philosopher, Sartre explores the ontological concepts of being from Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time in constructing this philosophical account.

Being and nothingness by jean-paul sartre biography

He focuses on the notion of “existence precedes existence” in developing the ideas on phenomenological consciousness and the questions of freedom and free will.

Sartre draws from Edmund Husserl’s phenomenological thought but develops his own theory on consciousness, existence, and being.

He argues that being-for-itself, as opposed to being-in-itself, creates the condition of nothingness, hence the origin of negation. N