Description: A new translation of two seminal works of existentialism
Review Quotes: "When [Sartre] demands that we take responsibility for our lives, for the shape of our world, for the situation of the least favored--for others as well as ourselves--he is expressing decisively important conditions for learning to live as responsible citizens in this globalized world. This is no outmoded radicalism, but the message of one of the most challenging and contemporary philosophies."--Ronald Aronson, International Herald Tribune
"Sartre matters because so many fundamental points of his analysis of the human reality are right and true, and because their accuracy and veracity entail real consequences for our lives as individuals and in social groups."--Benedict O'Donohoe, Philosophy Now "In this small book, we discover Sartre as more than the café existentialist or the playboy. Here we see the committed philosopher working in public, with many of its evident hazards. Despite its flaws, in Existentialism Is a Humanism, we have a model for a committed philosophy--one that is sorely needed today."--Nicholas Hengen, Rain Taxi Selected as a 2008 AAUP University Press Book for Public and Secondary School Libraries "To understand Jean-Paul Sartre is to understand something important about the present time."--Iris Murdoch