Being and Nothingness Author:Jean-Paul Sartre In this, his major work, Jean-Paul Sartre provides us with a systematic presentation of his philosophy of being. He discusses human consciousness and the nature of the world in which it is involved, and explains his views on social relations, his doctrine of freedom, and the theory of existential psychoanalysis. — This book is indispensable to th... more »e reader seriously interested in an understanding of existentialism and its importance as one of the leading philosophical movements of the twentieth century.« less