ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with basic concepts in Being and Nothingness. It presents the analysis of sociological orientations, especially the work of Max Weber. The chapter deals with five issues: human action and time in Jean-Paul Sartre and Weber; time and freedom: the existential experience of absence; freedom and anguish; anguish and the spirit of seriousness; and voluntarism and the act of valuation. It briefly discusses existence and existentialism. The chapter briefs the exposition of Sartre's existentialism. It analyzes and elucidates Sartre's existentialism through the eyes of Max Weber. Sartre attacks the natural scientific emphasis on objective structures as completely deterministic of human behavior. In the social sciences such emphasis has produced a methodology of society and history that is basically a methodology of inert ex teriority. Historical and sociological types of analysis are methodologically and temporally related. The interdependence of history and society is the point of departure for Weber's major works.
