Jean-Paul Sartre // L'Existentialisme est un Humanisme

Limited First Edition, one of the 500 copies on Vellum (“Vélin Supérieur”, number 159), the only deluxe edition.

In fine condition, in a beautiful box by Julie Nadot.

"L’existentialisme est un humanisme" presents Sartre’s defense of existentialism, based on his 1945 lecture.

He argues that humans are not born with a fixed essence—we become who we are through our actions (“L’existence précède l’essence”).

Rejecting excuses and determinism, Sartre insists on radical freedom and personal responsibility: “Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.”

A manifesto of agency, moral courage, and intellectual defiance, Sartre’s book remains a cornerstone of 20th-century thought, a landmark in modern philosophy.