Sartre on Sin

Sartre on Sin: Between Being and Nothingness argues that Jean-Paul Sartre''s early, anti-humanist philosophy is indebted to the Christian doctrine of original sin. On the standard reading, Sartre''s most fundamental and attractive idea is freedom: he wished to demonstrate the existence of human freedom, and did so by connecting consciousness with nothingness. Focusing on Being and Nothingness, Kat...