John and Jean-Paul I am going to begin working on a series in which I go thru Sartre's Being and Nothingness, chapter by chapter, defining terms, clarifying the basic message and analyzing it, in the hopes of understanding existentialism better, to better help me complete the work on my own book, The Relativity of Being.

I will try to do a couple sections each week, but will deal with one at a time. I will basically be breaking it down to 3 sections:

1) define terms. Sartre uses a lot of big words, non-english words, etc. I want to define these to make it easier to understand what he is talking about.

2) highlight references. Sartre uses a lot of references in his writing, which is great. Sometimes, tho, he seems to assume that the reader is familiar with the reference, so I am going to try to make the reference more familiar to my readers, and to me.

3) Break down what the heck he is talking about! Most of what he says is pretty dense and hard to conceptualize so I will do my best to break thru all the arguments and get to the heart of the point he is trying to make.

Hopefully once this is done I will understand Being and Nothingness (and you will too!)  ¶ 12:02 PM 0 comments