Truth and Existence. Problems of Method

«Truth and Existence» — a work from the mature period, published posthumously. It allows the reader to trace the author's thought process after the book «Being and Nothingness», with which this essay is closely related and should be viewed as a transition from it to the next fundamental work. This edition presents the original text of the essay. In it, Sartre, using the left page of the notebook as margins, recorded thoughts that he later intended to develop, as well as a plan for the new moral concept he was creating. As the author himself wrote: «I am searching for a modern morality… I am trying to determine what choice a person can make for themselves and for the world in 1948». In the work «Problems of Method» (1957, 1960), the French philosopher and writer Jean-Paul Sartre attempts to reconcile Marxism with existentialism. Exploring the complex relationship between the two philosophical schools, Sartre suggests that they are actually compatible and even complement each other. Without this essay, written almost simultaneously with his programmatic work «Critique of Dialectical Reason» (Vol. 1 – 1960; Vol. 2, unfinished, – 1985), it is impossible to gain a sufficiently complete understanding of Sartre's philosophy.