ABSTRACT
This book is a reading of Jean-Paul Sartre’s philosophical writings. Its aim is to present and criticize the arguments found in those writings, which constitute Sartre’s claim to attention from other philosophers. A reading: while the arguments I present here are those that have impressed themselves upon me in working my way, sometimes quickly and sometimes slowly, Sometimes with delight and sometimes in despair, through Sartre’s monumental corpus-about 10,000 pages of it, not counting the fiction and the theatre-I cannot claim that they reflect Sartre’s own intentions adequately, or that many of them could not be successfully refuted by other arguments drawn from the same corpus. But still a reading, that is to say the result of a careful perusal of those pages, and of reflection on them over a period of years, so that at the same time I do not think that an entirely alternative account of Sartre’s philosophical views could reasonably be given.
