Being and Nothingness. An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology. Translated and with an introduction by Hazel E. Barnes. by Sartre, J. P. (Jean-Paul), 1905-1980. Barnes, Hazel E., translator

Philosophical Library, NY [1956]. Hard Cover. xliii, 636 p., index. Bertrand Russell comments, in his Wisdom of the West (NY, 1989), ‘For poetic vagueness and linguistic extravagence [sic] this is in the best of German traditions. Its attempt at turning a particular outlook on life into an ontological theory seems somewhat eccentric to the traditional philosopher, whether he belong to the rationalist or the empiricist camp. It is as though one were to turn Dostoevsky's novels into philosophic textbooks.' Dj worn, chipped; ink owner name; VG. Stock#22594.