Sartre

Unfortunately, only six of these fifteen^3 notebooks seem to have survived the misfortunes of war.^4 But if you supplement what ...

Which only means that I no longer think with an eye to certain strictures (the Left, Husserl), etc., but with a total gratuitous ...

Stoic,” probably alluding to a remark he made in a letter to Beauvoir: “I’m writing at great length in my little notebook: the m ...

tendencies that he had contracted from his opposition to his professors. In that sense, it would replay the work of Roquentin, w ...

freedom grounded in Nothingness (le Ne ́ant). Each will find theoretical analysis and systematic unification inBeing and Nothing ...

calls in BN“A knowledge that is ignorance and an ignorance that knows better.” As we shall examine at length when we discussBNla ...

Being-in-situation A second feature of authentic existence consists in recognizing one’s “situation.” Again, that crucial term i ...

increasingly toward the politics of the Left and its alternative to the bourgeois “humanism” that he had rejected so categorical ...

It’s because we are not only human reality [Dasein] as Heidegger believes. We are a transcendental consciousnessthat makes itsel ...

for-itself or consciousness. In other words, the for-itself “others” both itself (since it is not self-identical and this otheri ...

directed, and in which he played the role of one of the Magi. The authorities of the camp obviously thought such a production – ...

stones and roots and everything which has weight and tends downward; it’s because of it that you weigh heavily on the road and p ...

The reluctant masterwork:Being and Nothingness( 1943 ) It is probably true that Sartre’s theater won him a wider international a ...

Imaginary. It will recur, enhanced by explicit dialectical reasoning, as the progressive-regressive method inSearch for a Method ...

its claims, how they coalesce to form a Sartrean vision of the world and the individual’s place at its center, and the way they ...

can attend to the being of the phenomena but “brackets” or “suspends” access to the transphenomenal.^34 Whatever transcendence o ...

“the dimension of transphenomenal being in the subject” (BNli). This is what Sartre called the “for-itself ” inWD. Again, as con ...

By qualifying the phenomenon of being as noncognitive (likeAngst or boredom, for example) and by giving ontological primacy to t ...

intuition or it is nothing.”^36 Husserl’s “reduced” field that is satisfied with “transcendence within immanence,” Sartre believ ...

“Part I: The Problem of Nothingness” In hisWar DiariesSartre had sketched the basic theme of the previous section and of the pre ...