Sartre

perceptual or imaging, is subject to the same principle of “inner time consciousness” that Husserl expounded and Sartre has adop ...

“Conduct in the Face of the Irreal” Sartre’s previous treatment of emotional consciousness should temper any lingering Cartesian ...

What he calls our “conduct” in the face of the irreal, therefore, is entirely the reaction of our perceptual or emotional consci ...

reaction that it demands of us...An abyss separates the real from the imaginary... The present requires an adaptation that the m ...

that these absurd partial systems are the result of a “leveling-down of our normal consciousness rendered momentarily incapable ...

perception. If I reflect on my perceiving, that perception is reenforced by the implicit comparison “and not dreaming.” But if I ...

an irreal world. The dream is a privileged experience that can help us to conceive what a consciousness would be like that had l ...

It is significant that Sartre distinguishes two distinct methods for relating consciousness and imagination: the phenomenologica ...

Sartre distinguishes imaging from memory and from anticipation. Memory, he explains, gives us access to a real object but as pas ...

of irreality” (Imaginary 183 ). But this thesis, he insists, in turn requires placing the irrealized object “on the margin of th ...

Kantian “regressive” argument as failing to address the concrete, “existential” character of the imaging act.^41 Revealing that ...

for the logical forms of negation (doubt, restriction, etc.) as for its affective and active forms (prohibition, consciousness o ...

But he now corrects the mistaken conception of the creative act that sees the artist imposing his mental image on the physical m ...

“Aesthetic contemplation is an induced dream and the passage to the real is an authentic awakening” (Imaginary 193 ). In a concl ...

6 The necessity of contingency: Nausea W ehavewitnessedSartre’s initial encounter with and subse- quent haunting by the problem ...

contingency into a novel.^4 Sartre had been working on the second version of his “factum” while in Berlin, balancing his morning ...

Sartre presented the completed second version of the factum for Beauvoir’s assessment since mutual critique had become a common ...

editor, Jean Paulhan, even awarded him a contract for monthly essays on whatever topic interested him.^11 His literary career wa ...

If what he would later call the “myth” ofl’homme seulguided his life as a Normalien, its influence continued in hisThe Legend of ...

Anton Roquentin is such an individual who surveys, analyzes and records in a detached, phenomenological manner the actions, even ...