Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) was a hugely influential French philosopher, novelist, playwright, and pamphleteer. In 1964 he declined the Nobel Prize for Literature. Among his most well-known works available in English are
Nausea,
Being and Nothingness,
No Exit,
Critique of Dialectical Reason, and
The Words.
Ronald Aronson
is the author of
The Dialectics of Disaster, After Marxism, Camus and Sartre and
Living Without God. He teaches at Wayne State University.
Adrian van den Hoven is Professor Emeritus at the University of Windsor and founding Executive Editor of
Sartre Studies International. He has translated Sartre, Camus, and other French writers, and is the author of several books about Sartre. He was twice elected President of the North American Sartre Society.