Jean-Paul Sartre

the trash

ew..

>>8678530
>>8678531
If you guys have nothing helpful to say I'd suggest you sod off and go back to /b/

>>8678527
I dont know, but try to read being and nothingness without sharting yourself

>>8678527

He's interesting if you want to know how someone can read Heidegger so badly.

>>8678527
Existentialism is a Humanism -> Nausea -> Being and Nothingness.

Before approaching him:

Read the first two of Descartes' Meditations as the cogito is relatively important for Sartre's notion of being and it's development (although it's more than possible to do without it if you're a careful reader), Sartre talks at length about Hegel in B&N, though he isn't essential to his discourse. Husserl is quite important, so read his Cartesian Meditations. Heidegger's Being and Time is essential for Being and Nothingness, but EH and Nausea don't require him. Also read Kierkegaard (Fear and Trembling and Either/Or) for a brief introduction into the previous generation of existentialism.

Be forewarned that Heidegger was of the opinion that Sartre had misread him, although I and a litany of scholars deign to disagree, and, to be fair to Sartre, I don't even think Heidegger properly understood Heidegger.

You start with Kierkegaard. Then you move to Dostoevsky and Nietzsche. Finally, you have a basis on pre-existentialism. Now you can read Sartre.

>>8678549
It was a very honest early warning

>>8678527
Honestly dont
>>8678732
Dont take this guy seriously 1. Because he refers to himself as a scholar 2. Has clearly never read heidegger or massively misunderstood him

>>8678850
[Ok]

>>8678895
Then which existentialist writers should I check into aside from Camus or Sartre?

>>8678900
Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, Heidegger, Levinas, Jaspers, Merleau-Ponty... also Beckett, Freud, Mann but not really philosophers per se

>>8678925
What's a good book by Kierkegaard?

>>8678925
Is fear and trembling good

>>8678927
>>8678936
I suggest reading it, especially if you've ever been an edgy atheist at some point in your life

>>8678944
Nice dubs. What else by Kierkegaard is well written?

>>8678947
either/or
sickness unto death

>>8678527

Not this again... Let Sartre and Camus be. Existentialism has been out of fashion from a couple of decades, at least. Go read some Pynchon and Wallace if you want to be a proper hipster and fuck some girl studying gender shit with piercing on her pussy.