Existentialist Ontology and Human Consciousness

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William Leon McBride
Taylor & Francis, 1997 - Philosophy - 374 pages

Existentialist Ontology and Human ConsciousnessThe 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.

 

Contents

The Development and Meaning of TwentiethCentury Existentialism
1
Kierkegaard Dostoevsky Nietzsche Jaspers Heidegger
2
Sartres Life Times and Vision du Monde
3
Existentialist Ontology and Human Consciousness
4
JeanPaul Sartres Philosophy of Freedom
30
Sartre and Le Néant
47
The Revealing and Making of Being
59
Imagination in Sartre
103
A Journey Between Versions
167
Sartres Words on the Self
181
Sartre on the SelfDeceivers Translucent Consciousness
201
The Failure of SelfConsciousness in Sartres
219
Two Problems of Being and Nonbeing in Sartres
239
Sartres LExistentialisme est un Humanisme
273
The Place of Les Mots in Sartres Philosophy
292
Praxis Need and Desire in Sartres Later Philosophy
313

A New Approach to Sartres Theory of Emotions
117
Sartre on the Emotions
135
Existentialist Ethics 6 Existentialist Politics and Political Theory 7 Existentialist Literature and Aesthetics
147
Sartre and James on the Role of the Body in Emotion
149
Sartres Linguistic Phenomenology
324
Sartre and Hermeneutics
355
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William L. McBride Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University, is co-founder of the North American Sartre Society, and the first chairperson of its executive board. His most recent publications include Social and Political Philosophy and Sartre's Political Theory. He was recently named Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques by the French Government, and has served as Chairperson of the Committee on International Cooperation of the American Philosophical Association and as President of the Societe Americaine de Philosophie de Langue Francaise.