Jean Paul Sartre 1906–1980 - France

'I am obliged to will the liberty of others at the same time as mine' Existentialism and Humanism

Encyclopedia Entries

Jean-Paul Sartre	Oxford Companion to Philosophy
Jean-Paul Sartre	Encyclopedia Britannica
Jean-Paul Sartre	Wikipedia

OCP articles on: abandonment, bad faith, dirty hands, emotion and feeling, existence precedes essence, existentialism, for-itself and in-itself, French philosophy, self-deception, sexual morality, and slime. 

Questions of 

self-consciousness, freedom, imagination

Reading

Writing available on the net

Also

A. Cohen-Solal, Sartre (London, 1987).
 C. Howells (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Sartre (Cambridge, 1992).
 F. Jeanson, Sartre and the Problem of Morality (Indiana, 1980).
 P. Chiodi, Sartre and Marxism (New York, 1976).
 J.-P. Sartre, La Nausée (Paris, 1938); tr. Robert Baldick as Nausea (Harmondsworth, 1965).
 J.-P. Sartre, L'Etre et le néant (Paris, 1943); tr. Hazel Barnes as Being and Nothingness (London, 1969).
 J.-P. Sartre, L'Existentialisme et un humanisme (Paris, 1946); tr. Philip Mairet as Existentialism and Humanism (London, 1948).
 J.-P. Sartre, Critique de la raison dialectique (Paris, 1960); tr. Alan Sheridan-Smith as Critique of Dialectical Reason (London, 1976).

Commentaries

The Realm of Existentialism.

Primary sources:

• The Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre, ed. by Robert D. Cummings (Random House, 1972) 
• Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: A Phenomenological Essay on Ontology, tr. by Hazel E. Barnes (Washington Square, 1993) 
• Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism and Human Emotions (Lyle Stuart, 1984) 
• Jean-Paul Sartre, Basic Writings, ed. by Stephen Priest (Routledge, 2001) 

Secondary sources:

• The Cambridge Companion to Sartre, ed. by Christina Howells (Cambridge, 1992) 
• Feminist Interpretations of Jean-Paul Sartre, ed. by Julien S. Murphy (Penn. State, 1999) 
• Gregory McCulloch, Using Sartre: An Analytical Introduction to Early Sartrean Themes (Routledge, 1994) 

Quotations

''Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if God does not exist there is at least one being whose existence comes before its essence, a being which exists before it can be defined by any conception of it. That being is man....''
[Existentialism and Humanism]

Jean-Paul Sartre
''Conflict is the original meaning of being-for-others.''
[Being and Nothingness]

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''Consciousness is a being, the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.''
[Being and Nothingness]

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''Hell is other people!''
[In Camera]

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''Man is a useless passion.''
[Being and Nothingness]

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''Man is condemned to be free.''
[Existentialism and Humanism]