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Philosophy · 17 min

Nausea

By Jean-Paul Sartre

This episode unpacks Sartre's 'Nausea' to reveal how our radical freedom, though unsettling, is the very ground for creating authentic meaning in an indifferent world.

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“This episode unpacks Sartre's 'Nausea' to reveal how our radical freedom, though unsettling, is the very ground for creating authentic meaning in an indifferent world.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

What it is about

Existentialism, Radical Freedom, Meaning-Making

Who it is for

If you've ever felt a quiet unease about the 'given' meaning of things, or the weight of choices that seem to have no pre-ordained right answer, this will resonate, and this will help you see what to do next.

The author

Jean-Paul Sartre, a towering figure of 20th-century philosophy, articulated the clear anxieties and liberating truths of existentialism not just through academic texts, but through the raw, lived experience captured in his seminal novel, 'Nausea'.

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Jean-Paul Sartre

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