Being and Nothingness was "a pretentious metaphysical thesis" and "principally an exercise in misusing the verb 'to be'." The philosopher William Barrett, writing in "Irrational Man" (1958), described "Being and Nothingness" as "a great, uneven, brilliant and verbose tome". He noted Sartre's debts to Heidegger, but nevertheless credited him with originality. He criticized Sartre for neglecting Heidegger's "notion of the truth of Being", his understanding of what it means for a subject or object to be. In his view, Sartre failed to "deal with the problem of truth in a radical and existential way", instead viewing truth in "the ordinary intellectualistic sense that
Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist 1974. In 2013 an edition with a new foreword by the philosopher Alexander Nehamas was published. "Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist" was reviewed by Chris Terry in "Times Higher Education". The book was also discussed by the philosopher Richard Rorty in "The New Republic". Rorty described the book as "path-breaking", but wrote that it had been superseded by the philosopher Richard Schacht's "Nietzsche" (1983), which in Rorty's view was more comprehensive, better organized and more helpful to readers who were new to Nietzsche and needed help in understanding the apparent contradictions in Nietzsche's views. "Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist" received positive reviews