The Power Of Consciousness And The Force Of Circumstances In Sartre S Philosophy

Author : Thomas W. Busch
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1989-11-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0253114039

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The Power of Consciousness and the Force of Circumstances in Sartre's Philosophy by Thomas W. Busch Pdf

"Displaying a masterful grasp of the texts, the author shows how otherness forces itself upon the existentialist Sartre, gradually constraining him to modify his understanding of consciousness as omnipotent. The issue is Sartre's discovery of the social and its conceptual assimilation into his individualistic, consciousness-oriented philosophy." -- Thomas R. Flynn "This very successful and accessible scholarly book... is simultaneously a succinct and clear overview of Sartre's philosophical works.... and a fresh consideration of Sartre's body of work." -- Choice "Busch's admirably clear and compact discussion is essential reading for Sartre scholars, since it powerfully addresses many issues dividing them... " -- Ethics "... a useful overview of the evolution of Sartre's thought... " -- Review of Politics "... a thought provoking reassessment of Sartre's philosophical career." -- Man and World "... succinct, richly documented survey... " -- International Studies in Philosophy

Author : Robert K. Bolger,Scott Korb
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441192066

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Gesturing Toward Reality: David Foster Wallace and Philosophy by Robert K. Bolger,Scott Korb Pdf

Asked in 2006 about the philosophical nature of his fiction, the late American writer David Foster Wallace replied, "If some people read my fiction and see it as fundamentally about philosophical ideas, what it probably means is that these are pieces where the characters are not as alive and interesting as I meant them to be." Gesturing Toward Reality looks into this quality of Wallace's work-when the writer dons the philosopher's cap-and sees something else. With essays offering a careful perusal of Wallace's extensive and heavily annotated self-help library, re-considerations of Wittgenstein's influence on his fiction, and serious explorations into the moral and spiritual landscape where Wallace lived and wrote, this collection offers a perspective on Wallace that even he was not always ready to see. Since so much has been said in specifically literary circles about Wallace's philosophical acumen, it seems natural to have those with an interest in both philosophy and Wallace's writing address how these two areas come together.

Author : William L. McBride
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135631826

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Existentialist Ontology and Human Consciousness by William L. McBride Pdf

Existentialist Ontology and Human Consciousness The majority of the distinguished scholarly articles in this volume focus on Sartre's early philosophical work, which dealt first with imagination and the emotions, then with the critique of Husserl's notion of a transcendental ego, and finally with systematic ontology presented in his best-known book, Being and Nothingness. In addition, since his preoccupation with ontological questions and especially with the meanings of ego, self, and consciousness endured throughout his career, other essays discuss these themes in light of later developments both in Sartre's own thought and in the phenomenological, hermeneutic, and analytic traditions.

Author : Stephen Wang
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780813215761

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Aquinas and Sartre by Stephen Wang Pdf

Thomas Aquinas and Jean-Paul Sartre are usually identified with completely different philosophical traditions: intellectualism and voluntarism. In this original study, Stephen Wang shows, instead, that there are some profound similarities in their understanding of freedom and human identity.

Author : Sofia Miguens,Gerhard Preyer,Clara Bravo Morando
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317399285

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Pre-reflective Consciousness by Sofia Miguens,Gerhard Preyer,Clara Bravo Morando Pdf

Pre-reflective Consciousness: Sartre and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind delves into the relationship between the current analytical debates on consciousness and the debates that took place within continental philosophy in the twentieth century and in particular around the time of Sartre and within his seminal works. Examining the return of the problem of subjectivity in philosophy of mind and the idea that phenomenal consciousness could not be reduced to functional or cognitive properties, this volume includes twenty-two unique contributions from leading scholars in the field. Asking questions such as: Why we should think that self-consciousness is non-reflective? Is subjectivity first-personal? Does consciousness necessitate self-awareness? Do we need pre-reflective self-consciousness? Are ego-disorders in psychosis a dysfunction of pre-reflective self-awareness? How does the Cartesian duality between body and mind fit into Sartre’s conceptions of consciousness?

Author : Yiwei Zheng
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0739111175

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Ontology and Ethics in Sartre's Early Philosophy by Yiwei Zheng Pdf

At the end of Being and Nothingness, French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-80) claims that his ethics follow from his ontology and are based on it. Zheng (philosophy, St. Cloud State U.) investigates whether, and to what extent, that is true. After studying in detail the important notions in his early ontology and ethics, including some notorio

Author : Kathleen V. Wider
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781501711664

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The Bodily Nature of Consciousness by Kathleen V. Wider Pdf

In this work, Kathleen V. Wider discusses Jean-Paul Sartre's analysis of consciousness in Being and Nothingness in light of recent work by analytic philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists. She brings together phenomenological and scientific understandings of the nature of consciousness and argues that the two approaches can strengthen and suppport each other. Work on consciousness from two very different philosophical traditions—the continental and analytic—contributes to her explanation of the deep-seated intuition that all consciousness is self-consciousness.

Author : J. C. Berendzen,Gregory Hoskins
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781498298513

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Living Existentialism by J. C. Berendzen,Gregory Hoskins Pdf

Writing in the late 1990s about the tendency of encyclopedists to designate existentialism a finished project, Thomas W. Busch cautions that such hasty periodization risks distorting our understanding of the contemporary philosophical scene and of depriving ourselves of vital resources for critiquing contemporary forms of oppression, what Garbriel Marcel referred to as processes of dehumanization. We should recall that "existentialism made possible present forms of Continental philosophy, all of which assume the existentialist critique of dualism, essentialism, and totality in modern philosophy," and we should acknowledge that "existentialism remains capable of haunting today's scene as an important and relevant critic." Offered in honor of Thomas W. Busch after his more than fifty years of work in philosophy, the essays in this volume attest to existentialism as a living project. The essays are written by scholars who championed existentialism in America and by scholars who now seek to extend existentialist insights into new territory, including into research in cognitive science. The essays range from studies of key figures and texts to explorations of urgent topics such as the nature of freedom and the possibility of what Busch calls "incorporation," a sense of communicative solidarity that respects difference and disagreement.

Author : Kris Sealey
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438448664

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Moments of Disruption by Kris Sealey Pdf

In Moments of Disruption, Kris Sealey considers Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Paul Sartre together to fully realize the ethical and political implications of their similar descriptions of human existence. Focusing on points of contact and difference between their writings on transcendence, identity, existence, and alterity, Sealey presents not only an understanding of Sartrean politics in which Levinas's somewhat apolitical program might be taken into the political, but also an explicitly political reading of Levinas that resonates well with Sartre's work. In bringing together both thinkers accounts of disrupted existence in this way, a theoretical place is found from which to question the claim that politics and ethics are mutually exclusive.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780521826402

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Sartre by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert C. Solomon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006-07-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0198040105

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Dark Feelings, Grim Thoughts by Robert C. Solomon Pdf

In the same spirit as his most recent book, Living With Nietzsche, and his earlier study In the Spirit of Hegel, Robert Solomon turns to the existential thinkers Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre, in an attempt to get past the academic and political debates and focus on what is truly interesting and valuable about their philosophies. Solomon makes the case that--despite their very different responses to the political questions of their day--Camus and Sartre were both fundamentally moralists, and their philosophies cannot be understood apart from their deep ethical commitments. He focuses on Sartre's early, pre-1950 work, and on Camus's best known novels The Stranger, The Plague, and The Fall. Throughout Solomon makes the important point that their shared interest in phenomenology was much more important than their supposed affiliation with "existentialism." Solomon's reappraisal will be of interest to anyone who is still or ever has been fascinated by these eccentric but monumental figures.

Author : Thomas C. Anderson
Publisher : Open Court Publishing
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0812692330

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Sartre's Two Ethics by Thomas C. Anderson Pdf

Sartre's moral thinking progressed from an abstract, idealistic ethics of authenticity to a more concrete, realistic, and materialistic morality. Much of Sartre's important unpublished work on ethics - relevant to both his 'first' and his 'second' ethics - has become available to scholars only in the years since his death. Only now has it become possible to give a complete presentation of both the first and the second ethics and to accurately identify their relationship. Sartre's Two Ethics also presents Professor Anderson's original criticisms of Sartre's two ethics, and concludes that the second is a significant advance over the first.

Author : Max Deutscher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351776141

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Genre and Void by Max Deutscher Pdf

This book was first published in 2003: Developing a reading of some of Beauvoir's and Sartre's most influential writings in philosophy, Max Deutscher explores contemporary philosophy in the light of the phenomenological tradition within which Being and Nothingness and The Second Sex occurred as striking events operating on the border of the modern and the post-modern. Deutscher traces the shifts of genre that produce their gendered philosophies, and responds in terms of contemporary experience to the mood and the arguments of their works. Drawing upon the writings of two contemporary critics in particular - Michele Le Dœuff and Luce Irigaray - Deutscher reworks this part of philosophy's history in order to advance thinking in contemporary philosophy, generate renewed philosophical reflection on consciousness, freedom and one's relation to others, and to return a look still cast in our direction from an earlier time.

Author : Steven Churchill,Dr. Jack Reynolds
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317546689

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Jean-Paul Sartre by Steven Churchill,Dr. Jack Reynolds Pdf

Most readers of Sartre focus only on the works written at the peak of his influence as a public intellectual in the 1940s, notably "Being and Nothingness". "Jean-Paul Sartre: Key Concepts" aims to reassess Sartre and to introduce readers to the full breadth of his philosophy. Bringing together leading international scholars, the book examines concepts from across Sartre's career, from his initial views on the "inner life" of conscious experience, to his later conceptions of hope as the binding agent for a common humanity. The book will be invaluable to readers looking for a comprehensive assessment of Sartre's thinking - from his early influences to the development of his key concepts, to his legacy.

Author : Robert Solomon,David Sherman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781405143042

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The Blackwell Guide to Continental Philosophy by Robert Solomon,David Sherman Pdf

The Blackwell Guide to Continental Philosophy is an accessible but sophisticated introduction to the most important figures in Continental philosophy in the last 200 years. Presents a definitive introduction to the core figures and topics of continental philosophy. Contains newly commissioned essays, all of which are written by internationally distinguished scholars. Provides a solid foundation for further study. Subjects include Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Marx and Marxism, Nietzsche, Husserl and Phenomenology, Heidegger, Sartre, critical theory, Habermas, Gadamer, Foucault, Derrida, postmodernism, and French feminism.