Sartre

and Nothingnesson the nature of time consciousness, as he would Husserl and Heidegger, the next two major influences on his phil ...

In addition to lectures at the E ́cole, theNormalienstook classes at the Sorbonne, though Sartre was noticeable by his frequent ...

he continued to employ the method of “eidetic reduction” (the free imaginative variation of examples to arrive at the immediate ...

letters to her as “Mon charmant Castor” and dedicated his masterwork, Being and Nothingness“au Castor.” As agre ́ge ́s, Sartre a ...

financial support after they had become simply friends. But he managed to guard a special place in his life for Beauvoir. Philos ...

Sartre would draw on Greek mythology to present his philosophical message.^21 The psychological insights of these works reveal S ...

Wagner and Wagner’s wife, Cosima, during Nietzsche’s visit to their Swiss lakeside home at Triebschen, which he had been followi ...

subsequent plays and novels; in fact it inspires the English title for one of his plays: “Loser Wins.”^31 This mantra will echo ...

If he had been her lover, perhaps he would have suffered less because, happy in so many other ways, he would not have thought ab ...

remark about his childhood experience of the “necessity” of the plot’s unfolding in the movie that leads him to realize the “con ...

Sartre’s desire to intertwine philosophy and imaginative literature, in a manner not unlike that of Plato himself. As with many ...

He seeks to fashion an ethic (une morale) for himself, one free from the vain pursuit of happiness (le bonheur) and from the man ...

When Er finally encounters the Titans (actually, Prometheus is mistaken for one), we find them engaged in the kind of argument w ...

over the years.^44 When Er mentions his interest in formulating an ethics, the god exclaims: “An ethics, what foolishness! But g ...

is the most Nietzschean of Sartre’s currently accessible texts, not only in its obvious concern with style but also in its conte ...

“Experience has taught me that the history of various forms of rationality is sometimes more effective in unsettling our certitu ...

mentioned explicitly. Sartre’s point is that henceforth truth is fixed and static. The paradoxes of change and motion are margin ...

“Legend of the Certain” Textual problems aside, these fragments chiefly elaborate claims made in the original version. We discov ...

clear that the hereditary enemy of the City, the scientist, is becoming domesticated and thereby conserves a place in the polis ...

Sartre composes hisWar Diaries, he will have taken steps to free himself of this mythical figure, though not entirely, as the ca ...