Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology

lxvii, 636 pp. Translated into English from the original French, with a preface and introduction, by Hazel E. Barnes. From the jacket: "For the first time Sartre's major opus is now available in English. Here Sartre has systematically presented his philosophy of Being. He discusses human consciousness and the nature of the world in which it is involved. There is a full presentation of his views on social relations, his doctrine of freedom, and an exposition of existential psychoanalysis. The book is a sine qua non for any understanding of existentialism and its importance as one of the leading philosophical movements of the twentieth century."