Jean-Paul Sartre was a towering figure in twentieth-century philosophy and literature, co-founder of existentialism and author of Being and Nothingness and Existentialism Is a Humanism. His writing blends rigorous phenomenological inquiry with socio-political critique, always insisting that human fr...

Jean-Paul Sartre was a towering figure in twentieth-century philosophy and literature, co-founder of existentialism and author of Being and Nothingness and Existentialism Is a Humanism. His writing blends rigorous phenomenological inquiry with socio-political critique, always insisting that human freedom comes with responsibility.