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Sep 2024
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Jean-Paul Sartre: 'Being and Nothingness...

THE LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS
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This week, a chapter from a new LRB audiobook, Becoming a Philosopher: Spinoza to Sartre by Jonathan Rée. This collection of ten biographical pieces, read by Rée, describes the lives of some of most influential thinkers of the past four hundred years and the radical and sometimes bizarre ideas that emerged from them. The audiobook also includes an introducto ... Show More
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