Not Washed or Cooked, # 269

The final entry from Jean-Paul Sartre, Basic Writings is the one that would probably have impressed Sartre least, since his idea is complicated enough without a careless error in its key phrase:

Jean-Paul Sartre, Basic Writings, ed. by Stephen Priest (London & New York: Routledge, 2001), p. 16

Having said on the first day of mangles from this text that I’d given up on the book after the introduction, I’d also point out that there may be more errors in this first chapter than are documented here, as I was just skim-reading it to check whether it was suitable to recommend to students.

The responsibility for close-reading/editing, proof-reading and polishing texts for publication belongs to the author and publisher, of course; but it cannot truly be said that readers and buyers of this book have been treated with much respect by either, despite the fact that the Routledge’s website boasts the company to be ‘the world’s leading academic publisher in the Humanities and Social Sciences’.

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