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Open library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Last july, deborah received a strange package in the mail the package contained a book. The being of consciousness, we said in the introduction, is a being such that in its being, its being is in question, this means that the being of consciousness does not coincide with itself in a full equivalence. See more ideas about vintage pop art, this or that questions and cold war propaganda. Letre et le neant, essai dontologie phenomenologique being and nothingness, jeanpaul sartre being and nothingness. Being and nothingness by sartre is according to me, is an absolutely wonderful book on philosophy one can not give a miss. The central work by one of the worlds most influential thinkers, it altered the course of western philosophy.
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