Jean-Paul Sartre, the seminal smarty-pants of mid-century thinking, launched the existentialist fleet with the publication of <i>Being & Nothingness</i> in 1943. Tho the book is thick, dense & unfriendly to careless readers, it's indispensable to those interested in the philosophy of consciousness & free will. Some of his arguments are fallacious, others are unclear, but for the most part his thoughts penetrate deeply into fundamental philosophical territory. Basing his conception of self-consciousness loosely on Heidegger's
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