New to Kindle: Jean-Paul Sartre

“The betterment of the world is the dream of every generation, and this applies particularly to the true poet and scientist. This was Nobel's dream. This is one measure of the scientist's significance. And this is the source and strength of Sartre's inspiration. As an author and philosopher, Sartre has been a central figure in postwar literary and intellectual discussion—admired, debated, criticized. His explosive production, in its entirety, has the impress of a message; it has been sustained by a profoundly serious endeavour to improve the reader, the world at large.”  —Nobel Lectures, Literature 1901-1967, Editor Horst Frenz. Sartre refused the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature, stating that, above all, a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution.

Renowned French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980) was a defining voice in the creation of existential thought. His seminal work Being and Nothingness takes a revolutionary look at ethics, ontology, and personal freedom. Sartre argued that humans are unique among life forms in our ability to choose. As part of this “freedom over choice,” we have complete and total responsibility over our actions. In that, Sartre claims, “Every man is condemned to freedom.” 

Explore this and other works from one of history’s greatest minds, now available for your Kindle. Other Jean-Paul Sartre ebooks include The Emotions, Existential Psychoanalysis, To Freedom Condemned, What Is Literature, Essays in Aesthetics, Existentialism and Human Emotions, Literature & Existentialism, and The Philosophy of Existentialism.