Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology

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Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology (French: L'Être et le néant : Essai d'ontologie phénoménologique), sometimes subtitled A Phenomenological Essay on Ontology, is a 1943 philosophical treatise by Jean-Paul Sartre that is regarded as the beginning of the growth of existentialism in the 20th century. Its main purpose was to define consciousness as transcendent. A.) Being and Nothingness is clearly influenced by Martin Heidegger's Being and Time, though Sartre was... full article at wikipedia
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