Hazel Estella Barnes was an American

United States

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 philosopher, author, and translator. Best known for her popularization of existentialism

Existentialism

Existentialism is a term applied to a school of 19th- and 20th-century philosophers who, despite profound doctrinal differences, shared the belief that philosophical thinking begins with the human subject—not merely the thinking subject, but the acting, feeling, living human individual...

 in America, Barnes translated the works of Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was a French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. He was one of the leading figures in 20th century French philosophy, particularly Marxism, and was one of the key figures in literary...

 as well as writing original works on the subject. After earning her Ph.D. from Yale

Yale University

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 in 1941, she spent much of her career at the University of Colorado

University of Colorado at Boulder

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. In recognition of her long tenure and service to the University, in 1991 CU established the Hazel Barnes Prize for faculty who best embody "the enriching interrelationship between teaching and research."

Her autobiography

Autobiography

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, The Story I Tell Myself : A Venture in Existentialist Autobiography, was published in 1997

1997 in literature

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Original works

• The Literature of Possibility: a Study in Humanistic Existentialism (1959)
• Hippolytus In Drama And Myth (1960)
• An Existentialist Ethics (1967)
• The University as the New Church (1970)
• Sartre (1973)
• The Meddling Gods: Four Essays on Classical Themes (1974)
• Sartre and Flaubert (1981)
• The Story I Tell Myself : A Venture in Existentialist Autobiography (1997)

Translations

• Being and Nothingness (1956)
• Existential Psychoanalysis (1962)
• The Problem of Method (1963)

External links

• Hazel Barnes article at the Window.