[Writers & Readers Documentary Comic Book 01] • Sartre for Beginners

Sartre For Beginners"ais an accessible yet sophisticated introduction to the life and works of the famous French philosopher, Jean Paul Sartre. Sartre was a member of the French underground during WWII, a novelist, a playwright, and a major influence in French political and intellectual life.

The book opens with a biographical section, introducing the significant events in the life of the man who coined the term OC existentialism.OCO

Then it examines SartreOCOs early philosophical works. Ideas from SartreOCOs other fictional and dramatic works are discussed, but the greatest part is the presentation of the main concepts from SartreOCOs Being and Nothingness (1943). These include the topics of consciousness, freedom, responsibility, absurdity, OC bad faith, OCO authenticity, and the hellish confrontation with other people.

Finally, the book deals with SartreOCOs modification of his early existentialism to compliment his conversion to a kind of OC existentialOCO Marxism.

"Sartre For Beginners"asummarizes the work of the most renown philosopher of the 20th Century.a