Jean-Paul Sartre is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important and controversial philosophers of the twentieth century. In this volume, a team of leading international philosophers examine the nature and extent of Sartre's achievement and consider its importance to contemporary philosophy. The chapters, all of which are commissioned for this volume, cover the central aspects of Sartre's philosophy. These include: the ethics of authenticity; freedom imagination emotion; the body; perception and action in Sartre's "Nausea"; ontology and nothingness; existentialism and psychoanalysis; art and aesthetics; and, selfhood and self-awareness. "Reading Sartre: On Phenomenology and Existentialism" is an indispensable resource for understanding Sartre's philosophy. It is essential reading for students of phenomenology, existentialism, ethics and aesthetics and anyone interested in the relationship between phenomenology and analytic philosophy.