Understanding Sartre: Existentialism Is A Humanism

by Hercules Bantas

Overview

In 'Existentialism is a Humanism', Jean-Paul Sartre defended existential philosophy from a wide range of criticisms, including a popular perception that many of its key tenets were overly pessimistic. This essay-length guide explains many of the arguments Sartre presented in the lecture, including key concepts such as abandonment, and existence preceding essence.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940044204003
Publisher:	Hercules Bantas
Publication date:	12/18/2012
Series:	Understanding Philosophy , #9
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	166 KB

About the Author

Dr Hercules Bantas has been teaching and reading the human sciences for over a decade. It is his opinion that he is too often immersed in some weighty tome or other, the author of which always uses one thousand words where one hundred words would suffice. It was while juggling no less than three weighty tomes by the same author and trying to understand what the fellow was trying to say that the idea of The Reluctant Geek Guides was born. He is well aware that publishing clearly written and unambiguous guides to important ideas in the human sciences is frowned upon in some circles, but he's going to do it anyway. Despite his well documented grumpiness, Hercules claims to like people and can be contacted by email at reluctantgeek[at]tpg.com.au.