

The major exceptions are three of the four monographs that preceded Being and Nothingness.


Sartre's association with Gallimard began with the publication of his earlier novel La Nausée – Nausea – in 1938, and for the most part, Gallimard remained Sartre's publisher throughout Sartre's life, putting into print both his literary and his philosophical works. Perhaps, then, it is best to simply note that the book was published in French by Gallimard in 1943, and that it was successfully translated by Hazel Barnes in 1956. This work can be effectively viewed as a reply to Martin Heidegger's own first book Being and Time but if one is not familiar with Heidegger, this is hardly a useful observation. This second part concerns a more formal and somewhat more chronological reflection on the four works examined previously, and thus we begin here to redo the last chapter of the first part, namely, a study of Being and Nothingness.
