What is Being and Nothingness?
'''''Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology '''''is a [[book]] written by [[France|French]] [[philosopher]] [[Jean-Paul Sartre]]. Published in 1943, Being and Nothingness aimed to make certain the facts of [[human]] [[existence]]. Sartre wanted to show that [[free will]] exists.<ref name=levy>Neil Levy, ''Sartre'' (Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2002), p. 111</ref> It can be considered part of a type of [[philosophy]] called [[existentialism]].<ref>''Existentialist Literature and Aesthetics'', ed. William Leon McBride (New York; London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1997), p. 104</ref> == References == {{reflist}} {{lit-stub}} {{italic title}} [[Category:Works of philosophy]] [[Category:1943 books]] [[Category:French literature]]