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Audiobook of Existentialism is a Humanism, a lecture given by Jean-Paul SARTRE in October 1945 in Paris, then published in 1946. SUMMARY 0:00 Title & introductory music — THE LECTURE — 0:59 Introduction: criticisms against existentialism 5:56 Definition of existentialism: existence precedes essence 12:54 Responsibility & anguish of the free man; bad faith 21:09 Man, condemned to be free: everything is permitted if God does not exist (+ example of the dilemma of the adolescent who must choose between abandoning his mother or giving up joining the Resistance) 34:57 Commitment to abandonment: man is only what he does 46:47 Response to the accusation of subjectivism 54:38 1st objection: existentialism, license to do anything and everything 1:00:15 2nd objection: if there are no a priori values, we cannot judge others 1:08:51 3rd objection: if we choose values, they are not serious (+ definition of humanism, and distinction between existentialist humanism and classical humanism) — THE DISCUSSION — 1:15:08 Discussion (first question) 1:20:58 Discussion (with Pierre Naville) 1:49:29 The Valley of Bells, M. Ravel ♪♬ Music: The Valley of Bells, excerpt from Miroirs, by Maurice RAVEL (1906), here performed by Jean-Yves THIBAUDET, and available at the following link: • Ravel: Miroirs, M. 43: 5. The Valley of... ◙ Illustration accompanying the reading: L'enchantement, Encre by Gao XINGJIAN (2011).