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    Sartre's Relationalist(-ish) Theory of Perception1.Valerie Bernard - 2024 - Sartre Studies International 30 (2):20-39.
    In this paper, I argue that Jean-Paul Sartre's theory of the imagination emerges out of a position on perception that is similar to modern naïve realism in that he seeks to add elements of what today is called “relationalism” to his phenomenological description of perceptual and imaginative experience. The problem is that it is not clear that relationalism can be added to the phenomenologist's intentional theory of consciousness in the way Sartre recommends. This paper takes an analytic approach to understanding (...)
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    Les Mandarins: What can Literature do?Juliana de Albuquerque - 2024 - Sartre Studies International 30 (2):69-79.
    In this essay I shall consider the different perspectives adopted by the characters in Simone de Beauvoir's Les Mandarins on literature, its relation to politics and the role of the writer in society. Far from being outdated, the questions of whether literature should be politically committed and to what extent works of literature can be said to effect social change are still central to our attempts to navigate contemporary culture. Addressing these questions in Les Mandarins, I argue that Beauvoir's work (...)
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    Feminine Complicity and Women's ‘Destiny’1.Mary L. Edwards - 2024 - Sartre Studies International 30 (2):80-92.
    This essay argues that the depiction of two female characters’ situations, friendship, and self-understandings in The Mandarins (Les mandarins, 1954) develops Beauvoir's theorization of feminine complicity in The Second Sex (Le deuxième sexe, 1949). Through its prolonged focus on the concrete situations of two female characters, the novel enables Beauvoir to explore the (hetero)sexual and metaphysical sources of feminine complicity in depth. The result is that The Mandarins illustrates why women who are, to greater or lesser degrees, complicit with the (...)
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    Reading Les Mandarins.John Gillespie - 2024 - Sartre Studies International 30 (2):57-68.
    This article advocates reading Les Mandarins taking into account, first of all, that it is a novel, leaving aside the familiar theories that it is a roman-à-clef, a roman-à-thèse, a biographical chronicle, or all three. It considers the novel's setting, point of view, plot and character in relation to political activism, love relationships, the literary vocation, as well as its metaphysical framework. I argue that this approach leads to a more complete understanding of the novel's multi-layered world, avoiding the distracting (...)
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    Sartre and Deleuze on Otherness1.Andrew M. Jampol-Petzinger - 2024 - Sartre Studies International 30 (2):1-19.
    This paper gives an account of Gilles Deleuze's and Jean-Paul Sartre's respective conceptions of “the Other” as this concept evolves in relation to Sartre's earliest insights into self/Other dynamics in his 1937 essay, The Transcendence of the Ego. By reading Deleuze through his early interlocutor—the philosopher and author Michel Tournier—I argue that the account of Otherness presented in Deleuze's early (and later disavowed) “Sartrean” works represents a critique of Sartre's own revisions to the concept of Otherness in his 1943 magnum (...)
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    Heterosex and Becoming Woman.Dianna Taylor - 2024 - Sartre Studies International 30 (2):93-104.
    The question of precisely what Simone de Beauvoir means when she asserts in The Second Sex that “[o]ne is not born, but rather becomes, woman” continues to be the subject of scholarly debate (TSS, 283). The more traditional view sees Beauvoir referring to a process whereby female human beings are socialized according to, and subsequently internalize and constitute themselves in terms of, prevailing norms of femininity. An alternative perspective asserts that the act of engaging in heterosexual intercourse marks the point (...)
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    Sartre, Virtue Ethics, and the Indirection Problem.Kaj André Zeller - 2024 - Sartre Studies International 30 (2):40-56.
    This article addresses the ‘Indirection Problem’ in Sartrean ethics of authenticity and compares it to the problem of the same name in virtue ethics. Both ethical frameworks encounter a disharmony between core concepts and proper motivation. The article reviews the indirection problem in virtue ethics, highlighting Swanton's solution of defining virtues as promoting specific values. It then explores how Sartrean ethics faces a more profound indirection problem due to the elusive nature of its core concept—authenticity. The motivation for authenticity cannot (...)
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    Who's Still Afraid of Sartre?Annie Cohen-Solal & John H. Gillespie - 2024 - Sartre Studies International 30 (1):1-5.
    Annie Cohen-Solal, Sartre's biographer and author, was one of the keynote speakers at last year's UK Sartre Society Conference at La Maison française in Oxford. The title of her talk echoed that of a key article she published in Le Monde on 12/13 March 2023, ‘Qui a encore peur de Sartre?’, which brilliantly characterises Sartre's position in France and in the world. The article is translated in full below.
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    Jon Webber's Rethinking Existentialism.Matthew Eshleman - 2024 - Sartre Studies International 30 (1):6-7.
    The three articles and commentary that follow began as talks for a book symposium dedicated to Jon Webber's monograph Rethinking Existentialism. The talks were given for a plenary session at the United Kingdom Sartre Society meeting, held at the Maison Française d'Oxford on 3 July 2023. Organised to honour the excellence of Webber's work on Sartre, the Symposium aimed to call attention to the importance of his monograph. Since Rethinking Existentialism centrally addresses Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Frantz Fanon, (...)
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    Towards Two Accounts of Sartrean Authenticity.Matthew Eshleman - 2024 - Sartre Studies International 30 (1):8-30.
    Motivated by Jonathan Webber's recent work, this article addresses what I call ‘the normative bridge problem’ in the early work of Jean-Paul Sartre: What justifies the move from an agent explicitly recognising and affirming her freedom to an obligation to respect the freedom of others? Many sympathetic Sartre commentators have argued that Sartre lacks resources to justify this obligation (Anderson, Heter, Webber) and, hence, that Sartre fails to traverse the normative bridge. This article hypothesizes that Sartre does not need to (...)
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    Rethinking Beauvoir.Kate Kirkpatrick - 2024 - Sartre Studies International 30 (1):31-46.
    I have been invited to respond to Rethinking Existentialism's engagement with the work of Simone de Beauvoir, and I do so in three parts. First, I introduce Webber's Beauvoir, moral theorist, and raise some textual and conceptual objections to his argument for a ‘categorical imperative for authenticity’ in Chapter 10. Second, I turn to historical and conceptual challenges to Webber's definition of existentialism, including meta-philosophical questions about his use of literature in general and Beauvoir's novel She Came to Stay in (...)
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    Black Orpheus, Fanon and the Negritude Movement.Komarine Romdenh-Romluc - 2024 - Sartre Studies International 30 (1):47-63.
    In Rethinking Existentialism, Jonathan Webber examines Fanon's engagement with the Negritude movement, focusing on his discussion in Black Skin, White Masks. A portion of Fanon's text discusses an interpretation of the movement advanced by Sartre in his essay ‘Black Orpheus’. Here, I raise some difficulties for what I will call Webber's ‘black agency’ reading of Fanon, before presenting an alternative. I argue that Fanon accepted certain important Negritude ideas, particularly Césaire's conception of a therapeutic method called the nekyia, and that (...)
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    The Beauty and the Beast.Luca Tripaldelli - 2024 - Sartre Studies International 30 (1):93-115.
    This essay analyses Sartre's Nausea as a site of posthumanist revolt against the more humanistic sentiments of Being and Nothingness. Placing it alongside Derrida's exploration of animality and the human in The Animal That Therefore I Am, it examines the profusion of ‘bestial references’ in Sartre's text, and how the text promotes a postmodern openness to the multiplicity of existence by viewing the alterity of animals in a positive light.
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    Rethinking Existentialism.Jonathan Webber - 2024 - Sartre Studies International 30 (1):64-92.
    This article is a response to critiques of my book Rethinking Existentialism in this symposium. It begins with a reflection on the nature of this discussion. Then it reformulates Eshleman's ‘bridge problem’ to defend my view that eudaimonist arguments cannot establish that we ought to respect freedom. Next, it shows how my interpretation of Beauvoir's argument for authenticity can incorporate Kirkpatrick's reading of Beauvoir's ethics. Then it uses Romdenh-Romluc's description of Fanon's therapeutic methodology to present a comparative reading of Fanon (...)
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