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Existentialism and Humanism
Jean-Paul Sartre

Translated by Philip Mairet

"...a polemical work, full of Sartre's acute awareness of contemporary problems...He provides a clear and lively explanation of the main concepts of his existentialism avoiding almost completely technicalities and philosophical jargon. He defines exi

This lecture was delivered by Jean-Paul Sartre in Paris in 1945; it is a defence of Existentialism as a doctrine true to Humanism, as opposed to a purely nihilistic creed. It also includes objections made to the original lecture at the club Maintenant which shows how well Sartre could hold his own against criticism.


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Jean-Paul Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. He died in Paris in 1980.

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