Jean-Paul Sartre: 'Being and Nothingness'

This week, a chapter from a new LRB audiobook, Becoming a Philosopher: Spinoza to Sartre by Jonathan Rée. This collection of ten biographical pieces, read by Rée, describes the lives of some of most influential thinkers of the past four hundred years and the radical and sometimes bizarre ideas that emerged from them. The audiobook also includes an introductory conversation between Rée and Thomas Jones, host of the LRB Podcast. In this free chapter, Rée looks at the life of Jean-Paul Sartre up to the publication of his first major philosophical work, Being and Nothingness, in 1943. Podcast listeners can get 20% off using the code POD20 at checkout. Buy the audiobook here and listen in your preferred podcast app: https://lrb.me/audio Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.