Paul Vincent Spade's "Jean-Paul Sartre"

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Sartre (not Spade), looking unusually suave.

This Web Page is maintained by Paul Vincent Spade, Professor of Philosophy at Indiana
University, Bloomington (spade@indiana.edu)

There is a surprising lack of material on Sartre available on the Web. Here are some small
contributions to fix that appalling situation:

Serious stuff:
Note: Most of the materials in this section are in the Adobe "PDF" format. In order to make
use of them, you will need a copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader, which can be downloaded as

freeware from Adobe Systems Incorporated. You can do it right here. (Acrobat
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Jean Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness: Class Notes, Fall 1995. (sartre1.pdf =
1,147,027 bytes).
This is a set of class notes for a graduate-level course I taught in the Fall semester,
1995, on Sartre's early philosophy. The main work, of course, was Being and
Nothingness, but we also discussed Husserl's The Idea of Phenomenology, Sartre's
Transcendence of the Ego and other works along the way. (Some of them we
discussed at length.)
 Jean Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness: Course Materials. (sartre2.pdf = 404,906
bytes).
This is a set of class materials going with the course described above. They include
a list of relevant primary and secondary books, outlines of Husserl's The Idea of
Phenomenology and of various sections of Being and Nothingness, notes on
Transcendence of the Ego, a fairly extensive discussion of "Existentialism Is A
Humanism," and other things.

Christopher Vaughan, Pure Reflection: Self-Knowledge and Moral Understanding

in the Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre (Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University, 1993)
(Vaughan.pdf = 664,792 bytes).

Not So Serious Stuff:

Jean-Paul Sartre's famous "cookbook," recently discovered and published. I have
personally tried some of these recipes, and they're "authentically" delicious! (HTML
format, for your viewing pleasure.)

A Ukrainian translation of this site may be found here: http://www.stoodio.org/pvspade-

sartre by Getbookee.com.

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