Influence and Reception
Being and Nothingness has been compared to Gilbert Ryle's The Concept of Mind by Iris Murdoch, who writes that continental philosophy shares the same general orientation as English analytic philosophy.
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“It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own characters.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)