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Being and Nothingness

essay by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Being and Nothingness
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Being and Nothingness

Summary

Being and Nothingness is a written work[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of written_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (581 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Being and Nothingness authored Jean-Paul Sartre[3].
  • Being and Nothingness received the Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century[4].
  • Being and Nothingness's image is recorded as Cover Das Sein und das Nichts.jpg[5].
  • Being and Nothingness's instance of is recorded as written work[6].
  • Being and Nothingness's publisher is recorded as Éditions Gallimard[7].
  • Being and Nothingness's movement is recorded as atheist existentialism[8].
  • Being and Nothingness's genre is recorded as essay[9].
  • Being and Nothingness's GND ID is recorded as 4138406-4[10].
  • Being and Nothingness's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 119448763[11].
  • Being and Nothingness's language of work or name is recorded as French[12].
  • Being and Nothingness's country of origin is recorded as France[13].
  • Being and Nothingness's publication date is recorded as +1943-00-00T00:00:00Z[14].
  • Being and Nothingness's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01b8sr[15].
  • Being and Nothingness's Open Library ID is recorded as OL1161325W[16].
  • Being and Nothingness's has edition or translation is recorded as Q126600800[17].
  • Being and Nothingness's has edition or translation is recorded as Q126601099[18].
  • Being and Nothingness's has edition or translation is recorded as Q122026555[19].
  • Being and Nothingness's dedicated to is recorded as Simone de Beauvoir[20].
  • Being and Nothingness's main subject is recorded as ontology[21].
  • Being and Nothingness's LibraryThing work ID is recorded as 8986[22].
  • Being and Nothingness's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Being-and-Nothingness[23].
  • Being and Nothingness's title is recorded as {'lang': 'fr', 'text': "L'Être et le Néant"}[24].
  • Being and Nothingness's subtitle is recorded as {'lang': 'fr', 'text': "Essai d'ontologie phénoménologique"}[25].
  • Being and Nothingness's Encyclopædia Universalis ID is recorded as l-etre-et-le-neant[26].
  • Being and Nothingness's Quora topic ID is recorded as BEING-AND-NOTHINGNESS[27].

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Designation and Status

Being and Nothingness's instance of is recorded as written work[6].

Why It Matters

Being and Nothingness ranks in the top 2% of written_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (581 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

FAQs

What awards did Being and Nothingness receive?

Honors received include Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century[4].

Related Entities

France Jean-Paul Sartre ontology Simone de Beauvoir

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . openlibrary.org. Retrieved . openlibrary.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . Frédéric Pagès. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . Quora. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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