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Chargement... Existentialism is a Humanismpar Jean-Paul Sartre
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I cannot discover any truth whatsoever about myself except through the mediation of another. The other is essential to my existence, as well as to the knowledge I have of myself. Under these conditions, my intimate discovery of myself is at the same time a revelation of the other as a freedom that confronts my own and that cannot think or will without doing so for or against me. We are thus immediately thrust into a world that we may call "intersubjectivity." It is in this world that man decides what he is and what others are. I have to admit that—at least insofar as it is laid out here—existentialism is an unconvincing philosophical position. While it is easy to get swept away in Sartre's rhetoric, the theory makes more sense as an analysis of a particular psychology rather than a metaphysical state of existence. Sartre will never be my favorite philosopher, but he's a great scratching post--pretty good at criticizing others, very good at diagnosing social malaise, solid enough at saying how he wishes thing are, but just awful at making those three things hang together in any coherent way. When he tries to bring it together, it's mostly just a smushing of Kant, Heidegger, Hegel, Nietzsche and others, with an unfortunate attempt to keep hold of human nature theorizing under a different guise. On the upside, Sartre gives us gems like this: "Obviously, I do not mean that when I choose between a cream pastry and a chocolate eclair, I am choosing in anguish." Speak for yourself, JP. I read this as a warm up to reading Being and Nothingness (wish me luck!). A very simplified summary of Sartre's thoughts provided by Sartre himself. Reading this you can just tell that any subtleness of his thought is left unspoken in order to just get the main ideas across, but it felt valuable enough as a taster. Truthfully I preferred his review of Camus's The Stranger more than the lecture on his own thinking. You can taste Sartre's excitement at this work and how it engaged and beguiled him. And also understand why they were immediately drawn to each other until that friendship eventually went to hell. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"It was to correct common misconceptions about his thought that Sartre accepted an invitation to speak on October 29, 1945, at the Club Maintenant in Paris. The unstated objective of his lecture ("Existentialism Is a Humanism") was to expound his philosophy as a form of "existentialism," a term much bandied about at the time. Sartre asserted that existentialism was essentially a doctrine for philosophers, though, ironically, he was about to make it accessible to a general audience. The published text of his lecture quickly became one of the bibles of existentialism and made Sartre an international celebrity." "The idea of freedom occupies the center of Sartre's doctrine. Man, born into an empty, godless universe, is nothing to begin with. He creates his essence--his self, his being--through the choices he freely makes ("existence precedes essence"). Were it not for the contingency of his death, he would never end. Choosing to be this or that is to affirm the value of what we choose. In choosing, therefore, we commit not only ourselves but all of mankind." "This edition of Existentialism Is a Humanism is a translation of the 1996 French edition, which includes Arlette Elkaim-Sartre's introduction and a Q & A with Sartre about his lecture. Paired with "Existentialism Is a Humanism" is another seminal Sartre text, his commentary on Camus's The Stranger. In her foreword, intended for an American audience, acclaimed Sartre biographer Annie Cohen-Solal offers an assessment of both works."--From publisher's description. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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