Sartre

seeks the original choice, which it aims to capture in a self-evident intuition” (BN 571 ). It is the subject’s immediate grasp ...

these “material meanings” far enough. Armed with existential psycho- analysis, Sartre aims to uncover not just the sexual or pow ...

are subsequent to being and presuppose it. Being is without reason, without cause, and without necessity; the very definition of ...

freely chosen among others to realize this passion” (BN 626 , emphasis added). Authenticity, then, will consist in embracing tha ...

Kosackiewicz played Electra, was not a success, it confirmed Sartre’s confidence in his ability as a dramaturge. It was produced ...

Toward the end of the play, Orestes enunciates the moral of the story and of Sartrean existentialism: “For I, Zeus, am a man, an ...

in funding the production. The new producer had his own ideas of who should play the roles. Beauvoir recalls that “at this point ...

9 Existentialism: the fruit of liberation A dmitting that“it is not pleasant to be taken for a public monument while one is stil ...

scarcely prevented Sartre from producing a systematic existentialist ontology as we observed inBeing and Nothingness.^2 That cre ...

lecture the following year, he continued: “Yet in the depths of [the tortured men’s] solitude, it was the others, all the others ...

to compare it with what might be called the “ratifying” lecture/event “Is Existentialism a Humanism?” that took place two weeks ...

philosopher of freedom now begins to cash in the concept of freedom-in- situation that he had introduced inBeing and Nothingness ...

BNnow conjoined with the basic principle of existential psychoanalysis that human reality is a totality, not a collection (see I ...

to literature and will go on to undergird his theory of history, though without bearing the label “committed.” “We write for our ...

This is both its weakness and its strength, for it enables us to capture Sartre’s thoughts “on the wing” as it were, as he stret ...

evinces a characteristically Sartrean regard for imaginative consciousness as value-constituting. In the language ofThe Imaginar ...

anguish: the imperative entails a “feeling of total and profound responsibility” for all people. He likens it to what the comman ...

appeal to an abstract, normative human nature.^21 The intersubjective into which I am indubitably thrown by mycogito, he insists ...

cautions, “I have acknowledged that existence precedes essence, and that man is a free being who, under any circumstances, can o ...

and Nothingness, the principle is better read as an anticipation of the mutuality prized by theCritique. In this lecture it is m ...