"Sartre's Second Century" reflects the richness of Sartre's vision of the human condition, the diversity of the means he employed in grappling with it, and the lengthy trajectory of his itinerary, in ...a variety of wider cultural perspectives. The centenary of Sartre's birth in 2005 was the primary occasion for many of the essays incuded in this volume. Hosted by the UK or North American Sartre Societies, contributors participating in Sartre's centennial celebrations were asked to address the c.
This article will examine the ways in which de-personalization of consciousness constitutes an unavoidable reading clue in order to understand the existential phenomenological conception of human ...freedom championed by Jean-Paul Sartre. Thus, the study of The Transcendence of the Ego , and of Being and Nothingness , among a few other of Sartre’s writings from the thirties, will allow the reader to discover that the consciousness as an impersonal transcendental field is built as an onto-phenomenological foundation for the full assertion of human freedom. Man is only free, by definition, when he is capable of exiling the ego from consciousness.
Editorial Gillespie, John H; Richmond, Sarah
Sartre studies international,
06/2018, Letnik:
24, Številka:
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One could be forgiven for asserting that Jean-Paul Sartre’s existentialism has become fashionable again, a worldview fitting for our time. How else can we interpret last year’s publication of Surfing ...with Sartre by Adam James, with existential freedom compared to the controlled manipulation of the surfing board?
The Nuclear Age is said to be defined by the notion of existential threat. The ability to destroy human societies in their entirety with a single class of weaponry raises profound questions about ...human existence. It even gives us a new form of species extinction – ‘thermonuclear omnicide’. Unsurprisingly, existentialism was a philosophy that found its feet in the shadow of the bomb. This article explores the possibilities and limits of an existentialist approach to nuclear dangers. It contrasts the views of two figures central to early existentialism: Jean-Paul Sartre and Raymond Aron. Sartre responded to the existential threat of nuclear war with moral outrage about the ‘unreality’ of the Cold War politics driving the arms race and an existentialist call to reject militaristic social norms. Aron, a key figure in early IR realism, famously rejected existentialism and turned instead to outlining norms for an international society that might better restrain nuclear-armed decision-makers. Bringing Sartre’s and Aron’s post-Second World War discussions into the new century, this article argues that the ongoing, and even growing, threats posed by nuclear weapons highlight the limits of Sartre’s approach as a guide to authentic existence in modern life. Instead, it supports Aron’s more conservative approach but also draws on Existentialism to extend it, strengthening the nuclear taboo for the sake of human survival as a persistent but urgent political project. At a moment in IR when scholars and other analysts are once again critiquing the fragile norms of global order and speculating about the dawn of a ‘Third Nuclear Age’, theoretical reflection on the politics of existential threats and the hard choices they entail remain indispensable aspects of IR’s theoretical toolkit. While Sartre and other existentialists argued convincingly that existence precedes essence, Aron reminds us that survival remains a precondition for both.
Jean-Paul Sartre and Jan Patočka claim to go beneath the phenomenal correlation between the subject and the world discovered by Husserl in order to account for it from a more fundamental plane. Their ...going below the “universal
a priori
of correlation” allows them to describe it more thoroughly. But we wish to show that Sartre’s description remains dependent on a philosophical realism which prevents him from accounting for the genesis of the correlation. Patočka, however, achieves just this thanks to his conception of an originary appearing. To verify this thesis, we will investigate the status of the body in both authors, so far as a successful account of the body should ensure the connection between the original plane and the openness to the world characteristic of the subject. Recognizing this function in the body, we ask if either Sartre’s or Patočka’s philosophy grants to the body the place it deserves and suggest that only Patočka achieves this, while Sartre is prevented from doing so by his realism.
In this paper we explore the notion of rehearsal as a way to develop an embodied and enactive account of imagining. After reviewing the neuroscience of motor imagery, we argue, in the context of ...performance studies, that rehearsal includes forms of imagining that involve motor processes. We draw on Sartre’s phenomenology of imagining which also suggests that imagining involves motor processes. This research in neuroscience and phenomenology, supports the idea of an embodied and enactive account of imagination.
The same can also be said of French intellectuals' role in shaping the discussion of decolonisation—the work of James D. Le Sueur in particular stands out in this aspect.1 Focusing on Sartre but ...looking beyond the hexagon, Yoav Di-Capua fills an important scholarly gap as he shows the impact that the famous existentialist had on literature and society in independent Arab nations. The third chapter continues with the theme of commitment and the debate that it caused between a newer generation who wished to be committed writers and the older pre-independence authors who believed in "art for art's sake" (79). Chapter eight, which covers the visit of Sartre and De Beauvoir to the region shows that neither philosopher–both sympathetic to the State of Israel as a consequence of having witnessed state Anti-Semitism in France–was prepared to question the Jewish state's right to exist.
Anti-Racism and Existential Philosophy Belle, Kathryn Sophia; Edward O’Byrn
Sartre studies international,
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27, Številka:
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Kathryn Sophia Belle’s (formerly Kathryn T. Gines’) publications engaged in this interview:
2003 (Fanon/Sartre 50 yrs) “Sartre and Fanon Fifty Years Later: To Retain or Reject the Concept of Race,”
...Sartre Studies International
, Vol. 9, Issue 2 (2003): 55-67, https://doi.org/10.3167/135715503781800213.
2010 (Convergences) “Sartre, Beauvoir, and the Race/Gender Analogy: A Case for Black Feminist Philosophy” in
Convergences: Black Feminism and Continental Philosophy
, pages 35-51. Eds. Maria Davidson, Kathryn T. Gines, Donna Dale Marcano. New York: SUNY, 2010.
2011 (Wright/Legacy) “The Man Who Lived Underground: Jean-Paul Sartre and the Philosophical Legacy of Richard Wright,”
Sartre Studies International
, Vol. 17, Issue 2 (2011): 42-59, https://doi.org/10.3167/ssi.2011.170204.
2012 (Reflections) “Reflections on the Legacy and Future of Continental Philosophy with Regard to Critical Philosophy of Race,”
The Southern Journal of Philosophy
, Vol. 50, Issue 2 (June 2012): 329-344, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-6962.2012.00109.x.
Poverty as a concept aligns well with a continuous lack of human basic existential needs. This lack or need makes poverty usually associated with economic considerations. Understanding poverty ...holistically is also premised on the lack of human capacity development such as abilities and capabilities, intelligence quotient, accessing opportunities, growth and all round physical advancement. What is clearly prevalent in the determination of poverty is a “lack of basic needs” which can be material or immaterial. In this paper, we attempted to show the nexus between human will and poverty from an ontological and conceptual approach. Our theoretical framework was to delineate the human will into two aspects: individual and collective. Employing the critical and analytical method of investigation, we set out to interrogate the nature of the human will, equality and equity and the role individual and collective will plays in the entrenchment and elimination of global poverty. One of the major findings of the paper is that, capitalism, socialism and communism all arising from the human will, as an ideological imprint, bifurcate humanity and creates a scenario where life becomes the survival of the fittest. Hence, the human will is a serious subject matter with varied implications for poverty.
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