Sartre

shorthand for individual qualities, agents, actions or events. Nietzsche offered a powerful metaphor to describe the emergence o ...

modification, namely, what he termed “dialectical” nominalism in the Critique. In what sense nominalism can be “dialectical” rem ...

“intentionality” that will release him from the inside–outside dichotomy; much less has he discerned the dialectic that will ren ...

Without pursuing any further the twists and turns of Sartre’s analytical tale, suffice it to summarize his concept of the solita ...

3 Teaching in the lyce ́e, 1931 – 1939 F rom the timehe left the army to replace an ailing instructor in the lyce ́e at Le Havre ...

commonly regarded as frivolous entertainment rather than as a genuine art form. But Sartre had something of importance to say on ...

a child Sartre had appreciated, speaks to its moral duties: the victory of virtue over vice, of heroism and justice over cowardi ...

another with a strict necessity.” But unlike the abstractness of music or even of the theater, the film unveils the humdrum dura ...

A lost treasure It was during his first year at Le Havre that Sartre jotted down some thoughts in a notebook now known as theCar ...

These remarks demand elaboration. Does Sartre mean that contin- gency is a “purely psychologicalErlebniss,” as he will say of th ...

contingency the way the movies enabled us to experience the weight of our destiny rather than merely conceive of it in an antise ...

mentioned in Sartre’s DES thesis at the E ́cole, as well as inThe Legend of Truth, and is listed in his application letter to th ...

We have just noted how in part two the notebook addresses the issue of contingency that had held Sartre’s interest since high sc ...

“possibles” (as whatever was conceivable as not self-contradictory) was a common argument against “idealist” philosophy over the ...

imaginary. But that same interest supports his ongoing commitment to the imagistic reasoning of his literary arguments, his fasc ...

and which, moreover, is not correlative to consciousness because consciousness can exist without an ego (for example, in extreme ...

for his letter indicates how he wished to “market” himself to the fellowship committee and stands in some contrast with what he ...

The overlap of psychology and philosophy was not foreign to Husserlian phenomenology. Indeed, one of the founding traumas in Hus ...

not have been as stunning as Beauvoir described. In fact, Sartre recalls having read Levinas’sThe Theory of Intuition in the Phe ...

concept of “comprehension” assumed growing importance in his own epistemology. But this could have been due to Heidegger’s conce ...