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Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) es una de las figuras ms destacadas del pensamiento existencial, que en nuestros das est recobrando vigencia, como prueba el renovado inters por Albert Camus, as como por la propia obra pstuma sartreana. En el conjunto de la misma, Verdad y existencia ocupa una posicin destacada desde un doble punto de vista. En primer lugar, en el contexto de la evolucin del pensamiento sartreano, representa un hito significativo entre sus dos obras filosficas mayores, El ser y la nada (1943) y Crtica de la razn dialctica (1960).Escrito en 1948, a continuacin de Cahiers pour une morale, este opsculo se inscribe en buena medida en el mbito de las reflexiones sartreanas para fundamentar una tica desde sus principios ontolgicos, en tenso dilogo con la problemtica de la filosofa de la historia planteada por Hegel y el marxismo. En segundo lugar, en tanto que su redaccin estuvo motivada, por otra parte, por la lectura de la traduccin francesa de la conferencia de Heidegger De l'essencede la verit, las concepciones del filsofo alemn son referente polmico para Sartre y lo llevan a tematizar sus propias teoras gnoseolgicas en estrecha articulacin con sus posiciones tico-ontolgicas, que alcanzan de ese modo un nuevo nivel de elaboracin.Presentamos el texto tal como aparece en la edicin original de la hija adoptiva del autor, Arlette Elkam-Sartre. La introduccin ha corrido a cargo de Celia Amors, catedrtica de Filosofa de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

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Sartre is the dominant figure in post-war French intellectual life. A graduate of the prestigious Ecole Normale Superieure with an agregation in philosophy, Sartre has been a major figure on the literary and philosophical scenes since the late 1930s. Widely known as an atheistic proponent of existentialism, he emphasized the priority of existence over preconceived essences and the importance of human freedom. In his first and best novel, Nausea (1938), Sartre contrasted the fluidity of human consciousness with the apparent solidity of external reality and satirized the hypocrisies and pretensions of bourgeois idealism. Sartre's theater is also highly ideological, emphasizing the importance of personal freedom and the commitment of the individual to social and political goals. His first play, The Flies (1943), was produced during the German occupation, despite its underlying message of defiance. One of his most popular plays is the one-act No Exit (1944), in which the traditional theological concept of hell is redefined in existentialist terms. In Red Gloves (Les Mains Sales) (1948), Sartre examines the pragmatic implications of the individual involved in political action through the mechanism of the Communist party and a changing historical situation. His highly readable autobiography, The Words (1964), tells of his childhood in an idealistic bourgeois Protestant family and of his subsequent rejection of his upbringing. Sartre has also made significant contributions to literary criticism in his 10-volume Situations (1947--72) and in works on Baudelaire, Genet, and Flaubert.

In 1964 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature and refused it, saying that he always declined official honors. (Bowker Author Biography)