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Hazel
Estella Barnes (December 16, 1915 – March 18, 2008) was an American
philosopher, author, and translator. Best known for her popularization of
existentialism in America, Barnes translated the works of Jean-Paul Sartre as
well as writing original works on the subject. After earning her Ph.D. in
Classics from Yale in 1941, she spent much of her career at the University of
Colorado. In 1979, Barnes became the first woman to be named Distinguished
Professor at CU-Boulder.[1]
In recognition of her long tenure and service to the University, in 1991 CU
established the Hazel Barnes Prize[2]
for faculty who best embody "the enriching interrelationship between teaching
and research." In 1962, Barnes was the host of a television series -- "Self
Encounter: A Study in Existentialism"—which ran for 10 episodes and appeared
on National Public Television.[3]
Her autobiography, The Story I Tell Myself : A Venture in Existentialist
Autobiography, was published in 1997.
Barnes recounts in her autobiography taking on the translation of Being
and Nothingness unexpectedly. Writing to the main American publisher of
existentialist writers with a book proposal on the general topic, Barnes
received a reply that included an invitation to engage in the translation. She
took the publishers up on the offer, thinking it might be a good way to
familiarize herself with Sartre's thought. "I was quite casual about it all
...." she writes, "[never asking myself] whether with only three years of
badly taught high school French and one yearlong course in college, and a bare
minimum of background in philosophy, I was qualified to do the task."[4]
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