Both Being and Time and Being and Nothingness were left unfinished

Evidence

Being and Nothingess shares something else with Being and Time: it is unfinished. Both works end by dangling the prospect of a second part which will complete the argument of the book. Heidegger promises to demonstrate his ultimate point: that the meaning of Being is Time. Sartre promises to provide a foundation for existentialist ethics. Neither keeps the promise. What we do get in Being and Nothingness is an extended examination of human freedom, precisely worked out on the basis of a simple vision. Sartre argues that freedom terrifies us, yet we cannot escape it, because we are it. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 495

Categorization

• XREF: Sartre’s ‘we cannot escape freedom because we are it’ prefigures his later ‘condemned to be free’ claim discussed elsewhere.