Huis-clos
by Jean-Paul Sartre · first published 1947
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…instance: - Scriptures of the major religions - The Conquest of Happiness (Bertrand Russell) - On Aggression (Konrad Lorenz) - Crowds and Power (Elias Canetti) - LSD, My Problem Child (Albert Hofmann) - Huis Clos (J.P. Sartre) - Essays by Michel de Montaigne - The Incoherence of the Incoherence (Ibn Rushd)
on “Books Every Entrepreneur Should Read” ↗Sartre would be the most popular author, with "No Exit" (Huis Clos) being the classic text (it includes the famous "Hell is other people" line). I'm personally also rather fond of The Flies (Les Mouches).
on “Albert Camus” ↗…so one could consult a précised synopsis (reckon it'd still be considered a 'legitimate' learning exercise (I can hear my once lecturers wincing and grinding teeth at the thought!). 24. No Exit - (Fr. Huis clos)—Jean-Paul Sartre The French title translates into English as 'In Camera' although it's better known as No Exit in the Anglophone world. No Exit is a famed but short [hence quickly read] play by Sartre…
on “Philosophy of Science: Suggested Core Readings and Background Texts [pdf]” ↗It's not any worse than Dante Alighieri's Inferno, or the mythic punishments for Sisyphus, Tantalus, Prometheus, or Loki. Nor is it as tediously psychological as Sartre's No Exit (Huis Clos). I assure you, I am well aware of the boundary between fact and fiction. I am actually a bit worried that you find words and imagination to be cause for concern. That fear leads to censorship, which…
on “Martin Shkreli indictment [pdf]” ↗…perspective of others that causes us so much existential dread and pain. I've never been entirely clear on whether Sartre intended this or not, but it always seemed glaringly obvious to me that the problem in Huis Clos was not that they were trapped for eternity with other people: it was the specific other people they were trapped with. People who magnified all their own flaws and threw them back in their faces. If,…
on ““Nihilism is OK” is not OK” ↗