ABSTRACT
Being and Nothingness is a complex and dense work, and yet Jean-Paul Sartre invites the readers, to work out the adventure of his book along with him. All philosophical works are written by adults who tend to forget what it was like when they were children. It is natural, and Sartre is no exception, at least in his early philosophical works. The two volumes of Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason are devoted to showing how our individual lives work out their meanings in the complex material world in which we live. Regardless of how the forces of history work upon us, there are still personal and family dramas. Indeed, the longest and most exhaustive study by Sartre is about a middle-class French family, the Flauberts. All of Sartre's philosophy details how the meaning of each life reveals the meaning of existence for all humanity.
