Revisit one of the most important pillars in modern philosophy with this new English translation of Jean-Paul Sartre's seminal treatise on existentialism. In 1943, Jean-Paul Sartre published his masterpiece, Being and Nothingness, which explores the human condition and argues that we alone create our values. Now with a new foreword by Harvard professor of philosophy Richard Moran, this clear-eyed translation guarantees that the groundbreaking ideas that Sartre introduced in this resonant work will continue to inspire for generations to come.