Between being and nothingness : sin in Jean-Paul Sartre by Kirkpatrick, K

“…</p> <p>The thesis therefore (i) outlines the French Augustinianisms by which, I argue, Sartre’s account of the human as ‘between being and nothingness’ was informed; in order to (ii) undertake a close reading of <em>Being and Nothingness</em>, which shows (a) that the psychological, epistemological, and ethical consequences of Sartre’s <em>le néant</em> closely resemble the consequences of its theological predecessor and (b) that his account of freedom can be read as an anti-theodicy; and finally (iii) to argue constructively that Sartre is a useful resource for contemporary hamartiology. …”