Published: 2018-12-211

Jean-Paul Sartre and Absurd of Existence. ”Nausea” and ”Being and Nothingness”

Marta Agata Chojnacka
Humanities and Natural Sciences
Section: articles
https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.2627

Abstract

The main task of this work is to track down the absurdities of human existence which are described in the Jean-Paul Sartre’s texts. By analyzing the content of a novel Nausea author present the founding of Sartre’s theory of the existentialism that was later developed in the most famous philosophical work of the French philosopher, namely Being and nothingness. The thesis of this work is as follows: Sartre’s philosophical texts contain overall interpretation of existentialism. His literary texts give specific examples of human behavior, relationships, and activities immersed in absurd and illustrate the thesis from Sartre’s philosophical works. This article combines information contained in the philosophical and literary writings. In the first part author presents Sartre’s biography, emphasizing his literary and philosophical interests. Author tries to demonstrate absurdities of notion of existence in Nausea and Being and Nothingness to give an existential definition of the human being.

Keywords:

Jean-Paul Sartre, existentialism, absurd, existence, nausea, human beeing

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Chojnacka, M. A. (2018). Jean-Paul Sartre and Absurd of Existence. ”Nausea” and ”Being and Nothingness”. Humanities and Natural Sciences, (24), 489–501. https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.2627

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