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1946 book by Jean-Paul Sartre

Existentialism Is a Humanism (French: L'existentialisme est un humanisme) is a 1946 work by the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, based on a lecture by the same name he gave at Club Maintenant in Paris, on 29 October 1945.

In early translations, Existentialism and Humanism was the title used in the United Kingdom; the work was originally published in the United States as Existentialism, and a later translation employs the original title.

Summary

Sartre asserts that the key defining concept of existentialism is that the existence of a person is prior to their essence or "existence precedes essence".

Thus, Sartre rejects what he calls "deterministic excuses" and claims that people must take responsibility for their behavior.

Sartre defines anguish as the emotion that people feel once they realize that they are responsible not just for themselves, but for all humanity. Anguish leads people to realize that t