Reading Sartre: On Phenomenology and Existentialism

by Webber; Jonathan

• ISBN13: 9780415550963
• ISBN10: 0415550963
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2010-10-07
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Jean-Paul Sartre was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. The fourteen original essays in this volume focus on the phenomenological and existentialist writings of the first major phase of his published career, arguing with scholarly precision for their continuing importance to philosophical debate.Aspects of Sartre's philosophy under discussion in this volume include:Consciousness and self-consciousnessImagination and aesthetic experienceEmotions and other feelingsEmbodimentSelfhood and the OtherFreedom, bad faith, and authenticityLiterary fiction as philosophical writingReading Sartre: on Phenomenology and Existentialism is an indispensable resource for understanding the nature and importance of Sartre's philosophy. It is essential reading for students of phenomenology, existentialism, ethics, or aesthetics, and for anyone interested in the roots of contemporary thought in twentieth century philosophy.

Author Biography

Jonathan Webber is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Cardiff University. He is the author of The Existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre (Routledge, 2009) and translator of Sartre's book The Imaginary (Routledge, 2004).

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
The ethics of authenticity	p. 1
Imagination in non-representational painting	p. 15
What is it like to be free?	p. 31
The transcendental dimension of Sartre's philosophy	p. 48
A Sartrean critique of introspection	p. 90
Imagination and affective response	p. 100
Being colonized	p. 73
The significance of context in illustrative examples	p. 118
The graceful, the ungraceful and the disgraceful	p. 130
Magic in Sartre's early philosophy	p. 145
Alienation, objectification, and the primacy of virtue	p. 161
Bad faith and the Other	p. 180
Pre-refLective self-consciousness and the autobiographical ego	p. 195
Shame and the exposed self	p. 211
Bibliography of Sartre's works cited	p. 227
Bibliography of other works cited	p. 230
Index	p. 239
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