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Good condition. [6], 85, [5] pages. Footnote. Cover is worn and soiled. Some ink marks noted. Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (21 June 1905-15 April 1980) was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. He was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism and phenomenology, and one of the leading figures in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism. His work has also influenced sociology, critical theory, post-colonial theory, and literary studies, and continues to influence these disciplines. Sartre was also noted for his open relationship with prominent feminist and fellow existentialist philosopher and writer Simone de Beauvoir. Together, Sartre and de Beauvoir challenged the cultural and social assumptions and expectations of their upbringings, which they considered bourgeois, in both lifestyle and thought. The conflict between oppressive, spiritually destructive conformity (mauvaise foi, literally, "bad faith") and an "authentic" way of "being" became the dominant theme of Sartre's early work, a theme embodied in his principal philosophical work Being and Nothingness (L'Être et le Néant, 1943). Sartre's introduction to his philosophy is his work Existentialism Is a Humanism (L'existentialisme est un humanisme, 1946), originally presented as a lecture. He was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature despite attempting to refuse it, saying that he always declined official honours and that "a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution". Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre, born in 1935 and died on September 16, 2016, is a French personality, adopted by the writer Jean-Paul Sartre in 1964. Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre had a brief love affair with Sartre in 1956. He adopted her in 1964 to be his heir and managed his literary heritage after his death. She is thus the sister-in-law of Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir. Editor, she worked on the Russell Tribunal reports in the late sixties. In 1980, when Sartre died, she became his universal legatee. In this startling essay, Jean-Paul Sartre concludes that the United States is practicing genocide in Vietnam. Using the standards of international law, the practices of Hitler and others, the statements of high-ranking Americans, and the testimony of American soldiers, Sartre demonstrates our intention to make the war in Vietnam an example to all the world of the consequences of a revolution we do not approve. We are killing Vietnamese, he asserts, not because they are soldiers fighting our soldiers, not because they are the "enemy" of "conventional" wars, but because the death of any Vietnamese is part of our demonstration of worldwide power, of warning to others. Because the national press in the United States chose not to fully report the investigations of the Tribunal, established at the suggestion of Bertrand Russell, Arlette El Kaim-Sartre, Sartre's adopted daughter, has written a lengthy introduction to her father's essay summarizing both the evidence and the judgments of the tribunal.