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The Rhetoric of Imagination in Sartre's Philosophy and Prose
Language and Engagement: The Rhetoric of Imagination in Sartre’s Philosophy and Prose Merel Aalders (11753560) Master Thesis UvA Philosophy First Reader: dr. A. van Rooden Second reader: dr. E.C Brouwer September 2018 1 Table of Contents Abstract ................................................................................................................................. 3 Introduction .......................................................................................................................... 4 1. Early Engagement: A Literature of Praxis ........................................................................ 8 I Being and Nothingness: Consciousness and Freedom .................................................... 8 II What is Literature?: Consciousness, Freedom and Creative Imagination ................. 10 III The Relationship between Reader and Writer ........................................................... 14 IV The Situation of the Writer .......................................................................................... 15 V Between Language and World ...................................................................................... 19 2. Late Engagement: Materiality, Alienation and Ambiguity ............................................ 25 VI Engagement Evolves ..................................................................................................... 25 VII Disinformation and the Inexpressible ........................................................................ 28 VIII Materiality, Ambiguity -
Existentialism in Two Plays of Jean-Paul Sartre
Journal of English and Literature Vol. 3(3), 50-54, March 2012 Available online at http://www.academicjournals.org/IJEL DOI:10.5897/IJEL11.042 ISSN 2141-2626 ©2012 Academic Journals Review Existentialism in two plays of Jean-Paul Sartre Cagri Tugrul Mart Department of Languages, Ishik University, Erbil, Iraq. E-mail: [email protected]. Tel: (964) 7503086122. Accepted 26 January, 2012 Existentialism is the movement in the nineteenth and twentieth century philosophy that addresses fundamental problems of human existence: death, anxiety, political, religious and sexual commitment, freedom and responsibility, the meaning of existence itself (Priest, 2001: 10). This study tries to define what existentialism is and stresses themes of existentialism. This research finally points out these themes of existentialism by studying on two existentialist drama plays written by Jean-Paul Sartre who was a prominent existentialist writer. The plays by Sartre studied in this research are ‘The Flies’ and ‘Dirty Hands’. Key words: Existentialism, freedom, absurdity, anguish, despair, nothingness. INTRODUCTION Existentialism is the philosophy that makes an religious, political, or sexual commitment? How should authentically human life possible in a meaningless and we face death? (Priest, 2001: 29). We can briefly define absurd world (Panza and Gale, 2008: 28). It is essentially existentialism as: ‘existentialism maintains that, in man, the search of the condition of man, the state of being and in man alone, existence precedes essence’. This free, and man's always using his freedom. Existentialism simply means that man first is, and only subsequently is, is to say that something exists, is to say that it is. -
Nausea and the Adventures of the Narrative Self Ben Roth1
How Sartre, Philosopher, Misreads Sartre, Novelist: Nausea and the Adventures of the Narrative Self Ben Roth1 Besides, art is fun and for fun, it has innumerable intentions and charms. Literature interests us on different levels in different fashions. It is full of tricks and magic and deliberate mystification. Literature entertains, it does many things, and philosophy does one thing. Iris Murdoch (1997, p. 4) If there is something comforting—religious, if you want—about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long. Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow (p. 434) Both those who write in favor of and against the notion of the narrative self cite Sartre and his novel Nausea as exemplary opponents of it. Alasdair MacIntyre, a central proponent of the narrative self, writes: “Sartre makes Antoine Roquentin argue not just [...] that narrative is very different from life, but that to present human life in the form of a narrative is always to falsify it” (1984, p. 214). Galen Strawson, a critic of narrativity, writes that “Sartre sees the narrative, story-telling impulse as a defect, regrettable. [...] He thinks human Narrativity is essentially a matter of bad faith, of radical (and typically irremediable) inauthenticity” (2004, p. 435). I think that this type of interpretation of Nausea is blindered and bad and relies on an impoverished approach to reading fiction typical of philosophers: of taking one character at one moment as mouthpiece for both a novel as a whole and author behind it. Beginning as it does in description, the novel challenges these conceptual orders rather than taking one side or the other; it thus invites us to rethink the terrain of narrativity. -
ED311449.Pdf
DOCUMENT RESUME ED 311 449 CS 212 093 AUTHOR Baron, Dennis TITLE Declining Grammar--and Other Essays on the English Vocabulary. INSTITUTION National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana, Ill. REPORT NO ISBN-0-8141-1073-8 PUB DATE 89 NOTE :)31p. AVAILABLE FROM National Council of Teachers of English, 1111 Kenyon Rd., Urbana, IL 61801 (Stock No. 10738-3020; $9.95 member, $12.95 nonmember). PUB TYPE Books (010) -- Viewpoints (120) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC10 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *English; Gr&mmar; Higher Education; *Language Attitudes; *Language Usage; *Lexicology; Linguistics; *Semantics; *Vocabulary IDENTIFIERS Words ABSTRACT This book contains 25 essays about English words, and how they are defined, valued, and discussed. The book is divided into four sections. The first section, "Language Lore," examines some of the myths and misconceptions that affect attitudes toward language--and towards English in particular. The second section, "Language Usage," examines some specific questions of meaning and usage. Section 3, "Language Trends," examines some controversial r trends in English vocabulary, and some developments too new to have received comment before. The fourth section, "Language Politics," treats several aspects of linguistic politics, from special attempts to deal with the ethnic, religious, or sex-specific elements of vocabulary to the broader issues of language both as a reflection of the public consciousness and the U.S. Constitution and as a refuge for the most private forms of expression. (MS) *********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. *********************************************************************** "PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY J. Maxwell TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC)." U S. -
Jean-Paijl Sai?Tre
t\O EXIT AND BY JEAN-PAIJL SAI?TRE VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL RANDOM HOUSE, INC' . NEW YORK VINTAGE BOOKS . A DIVISION OF + Vintage International Edit ion, October 1989 xorr: All inquiries regarding professional or amateur performance rights should be addressed to LEs EDrrIoNs NAGBL-IARIs, 7 Rue de Savoie, Paris 6, France. Permission to use for such performances the translations ap- pearing in this volume must be obtained in writing from AIFnBD A. KNopF, INc., 201 East 50th Street, New York, New York 10022. Copyright 1946, 1947 by Stuart Gilbert Copyright 1948, 1949 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Copyright renewed 1974 by Maris Agnes Mathilde Gilbert Copyright renewed 1976 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. By arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review to be printed in a magazine or newspaper. No Exit and The Flies, first published in the United States on February 20, 1947, by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., and in Great Britain under the title The Flies and In Camera by Hamish Hamilton, Ltd., in 1946. The Flies, published in France as Les Mouches, Copyright by Librairie Gallimard, 1943, and No Exit as Huis CIos, Copyright by Librairie Gallimard, 1945. The Respectful Prostitute and Dirty .Elands were published in the United States in rHREE pI,Ays on August 22, L949, by Alfred A. -
A Critical Analysis of Jean Paul Sartre's Existential Humanism with Particular Emphasis Upon His Concept of Freedom and Its Moral Implications
University of Windsor Scholarship at UWindsor Electronic Theses and Dissertations Theses, Dissertations, and Major Papers 1-1-1963 A critical analysis of Jean Paul Sartre's existential humanism with particular emphasis upon his concept of freedom and its moral implications. Joseph P. Leddy University of Windsor Follow this and additional works at: https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/etd Recommended Citation Leddy, Joseph P., "A critical analysis of Jean Paul Sartre's existential humanism with particular emphasis upon his concept of freedom and its moral implications." (1963). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 6331. https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/etd/6331 This online database contains the full-text of PhD dissertations and Masters’ theses of University of Windsor students from 1954 forward. These documents are made available for personal study and research purposes only, in accordance with the Canadian Copyright Act and the Creative Commons license—CC BY-NC-ND (Attribution, Non-Commercial, No Derivative Works). Under this license, works must always be attributed to the copyright holder (original author), cannot be used for any commercial purposes, and may not be altered. Any other use would require the permission of the copyright holder. Students may inquire about withdrawing their dissertation and/or thesis from this database. For additional inquiries, please contact the repository administrator via email ([email protected]) or by telephone at 519-253-3000ext. 3208. A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF JEAN PAUL SARTRE'S EXISTENTIAL HUMANISM WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS UPON HIS CONCEPT OF FREEDOM AND ITS MORAL IMPLICATIONS A THESIS Submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies through the Department of Philosophy in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts at Assumption University of Windsor by JOSEPH P. -
'Introduction: Uprooting the Chestnut Tree'
NOVA University of Newcastle Research Online nova.newcastle.edu.au Rolls, Alistair; Rechniewski, Elizabeth “Uprooting the chestnut tree: Nausea today” Sartre's Nausea: Text, Context, Intertext p. 1-27 (2005) Available from: http://www.brill.com/products/book/sartres-nausea Accessed from: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1055600 UPROOTING THE CHESTNUT TREE: NAUSEA TODAY ALISTAIR ROLLS, ELIZABETH RECHNIEWSKI 2005, the centenary of Jean-Paul Sartre’s birth, is an opportune time to re-engage with his most famous creation, a book that has marked readers around the world since its publication in France in 1938. This is a time to celebrate the ongoing success of this most famous of French thinkers, and to re-consider what Nausea has come to ‘mean’ and what the future holds for it as a reading, teaching and researching experience. Twenty-five years since his death, everything is still to be said about the most renowned of his orphans. For Sartre’s masterpiece of French fiction still has the potential to proliferate academic discourse across university departments and across continents. The essays that follow do not treat Nausea as a set of readings that need to be conveyed or passed on to posterity; they explore the living text, exposing its potential to generate new discourse well into the new millennium. In April 2000 the French television network Arte aired, as part of their series Le Sens de l’histoire, a programme dedicated to Jean-Paul Sartre. The programme - a discussion of Sartre the philosopher and phenomenon - was prefaced by a short film directed by Guy Seligmann, Sartre: Vingt ans d’absence. -
9781496222152.Pdf
Empire and Catastrophe France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization Series editors: A. J. B. Johnston, James D. Le Sueur, and Tyler Stovall Regeneration through Empire: French Pronatalists and Colonial Suspects: Suspicion, Imperial Rule, and Colonial Colonial Settlement in the Third Republic Society in Interwar French West Africa Margaret Cook Andersen Kathleen Keller To Hell and Back: The Life of Samira Bellil Apostle of Empire: The Jesuits and New France Samira Bellil Bronwen McShea Translated by Lucy R. McNair French Mediterraneans: Transnational and Introduction by Alec G. Hargreaves Imperial Histories Colonial Metropolis: The Urban Grounds of Anti- Edited and with an introduction by Patricia M. E. Lorcin Imperialism and Feminism in Interwar Paris and Todd Shepard Jennifer Anne Boittin The Cult of the Modern: Trans-Mediterranean France and Paradise Destroyed: Catastrophe and Citizenship in the the Construction of French Modernity French Caribbean Gavin Murray-Miller Christopher M. Church Cinema in an Age of Terror: North Africa, Victimization, Nomad’s Land: Pastoralism and French Environmental and Colonial History Policy in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean World Michael F. O’Riley Andrea E. Duffy Medical Imperialism in French North Africa: Regenerating The French Navy and the Seven Years’ War the Jewish Community of Colonial Tunis Jonathan R. Dull Richard C. Parks I, Nadia, Wife of a Terrorist Making the Voyageur World: Travelers and Traders in the Baya Gacemi North American Fur Trade Transnational Spaces and Identities in the Carolyn Podruchny Francophone World A Workman Is Worthy of His Meat: Food and Edited by Hafid Gafaïti, Patricia M. E. Lorcin, and David Colonialism in Gabon G. -
The Problem of Dirty Hands: Can Public Guilt Produce Public Awareness?
The Problem of Dirty Hands: Can Public Guilt Produce Public Awareness? By Boris Litvin The Department of Political Science in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree with honors of Bachelor of Arts The University of Michigan March 2011 Advised by Jennet Kirkpatrick ii Abstract What implications does a dirty-handed politician‟s assertion that dirty hands are necessary for certain political achievements have on our understanding of the relationship between political actors and the political community? The problem of dirty hands, as described in Michael Walzer‟s “Political Action: The Problem of Dirty Hands,” occurs when a political actor finds that he must transgress one of his moral principles to accomplish what he sees as the right (and necessary) political action. While various political theorists have suggested that a political actor facing the problem of dirty hands ought to act as a consequentialist (and value the political outcomes of his actions above the “moral transgressions” they may require) or as a moral absolutist (and value his or her moral principles above any political goals), Walzer argues that a political actor can meet both moral-absolutist and consequentialist moral demands provided he does what is politically necessary (thereby violating his morals) but understands himself to be guilty as a result. Through guilt, we know the politician truly values the moral principles he has had to violate. As a result, Walzer suggests that a public display of guilt may help the dirty-handed political actor meet his or her moral and political obligations. My thesis explores the implications of Walzer‟s public guilt from the standpoint of the political community at which the declaration of guilt is directed. -
Drones and Dirty Hands Ben Jones University of Kansas
Drones and Dirty Hands Ben Jones University of Kansas John M. Parrish Loyola Marymount University Forthcoming in Preventive Force: Targeted Killing and Technology, ed. Kerstin Fisk and Jennifer Ramos (New York University Press) The period known as the “War on Terror” has prompted a revival of interest in the problem of “dirty hands”: the idea that political actors frequently confront choices where they cannot fulfill their responsibilities to the public welfare without violating ordinary moral obligations to avoid violence, deception, and similar forms of wrongdoing (Walzer 1973). Several motifs from the dirty hands literature have migrated into public discourse: in particular, the image of the anguished public leader committed to protect the public’s safety but seemingly forced into distasteful acts of violence to achieve this noble end. This renewed interest is hardly surprising, given that the September 11th attacks led policymakers anxious to prevent another attack into a reconsideration of just the kinds of morally troubling tactics that the literature about dirty hands addresses. Popular news stories regularly characterize President Obama as personally wrestling with the insoluble moral dilemmas inherent in “the president’s attempt to apply the ‘just war’ theories of Christian philosophers to a brutal modern conflict,” yet ultimately resolving these conflicts in favor of the more aggressive course of action (Becker and Shane 2012). It is easy to understand why the notion of dirty hands appeals to political actors concerned with polishing the president’s image. More surprising, however, some political theorists have begun adopting a similar interpretation of contemporary targeted killing policies. Notable in this regard is political theorist Stephen de Wijze (2009), who contends that a policy of using preventive (lethal) force against terrorist actors is (under specified but not uncommon circumstances) an instance of a dirty-handed moral dilemma (see also Kaag and Kreps 2014, 11-14). -
The Problem of Dirty Hands in Democracies
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by White Rose E-theses Online The Problem of Dirty Hands in Democracies Christina Nick Submitted in accordance with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy The University of Leeds School of Philosophy, Religion, and History of Science September 2019 The candidate confirms that the work submitted is her own and that appropriate credit has been given where reference has been made to the work of others. This copy has been supplied on the understanding that it is copyright material and that no quotation from the thesis may be published without proper acknowledgement. The right of Christina Nick to be identified as Author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. © 2019 The University of Leeds and Christina Nick 1 Acknowledgements This thesis has only been possible because of the huge support that I have received over the last four years from the amazing people around me. I owe all of you my eternal gratitude (and probably a lot of pints). First and foremost I have to thank my supervisors Carl Fox and Rob Lawlor for painstakingly tearing apart everything that I have written over the years and making me re-write it until it started to vaguely resemble a philosophical argument. Thank you for taking the time to read through all of my ramblings and assuring me that I could finish this project when I didn’t believe it myself. I would not have been able to write this thesis without the financial support from the IDEA Centre. -
Existentialist Narrators in the Novels of Albert Camus, Jean Paul Sartre, and Don Delillo Courtney Mullis Coastal Carolina University
Coastal Carolina University CCU Digital Commons Honors College and Center for Interdisciplinary Honors Theses Studies Spring 5-15-2015 Unlikely Heroes in Despair: Existentialist Narrators in the Novels of Albert Camus, Jean Paul Sartre, and Don DeLillo Courtney Mullis Coastal Carolina University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.coastal.edu/honors-theses Part of the English Language and Literature Commons Recommended Citation Mullis, Courtney, "Unlikely Heroes in Despair: Existentialist Narrators in the Novels of Albert Camus, Jean Paul Sartre, and Don DeLillo" (2015). Honors Theses. 13. https://digitalcommons.coastal.edu/honors-theses/13 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Honors College and Center for Interdisciplinary Studies at CCU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Honors Theses by an authorized administrator of CCU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. '' Unlikely Heroes in Despair: Existentialist Narrators in the Novels of Albert Camus, Jean Paul Sartre, and Don DeLillo 2015 BY Courtney Mullis English Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts In the Honors Program at Coastal Carolina University May 2015 Mullis I Introduction Existentialism is a field of philosophy concerned with questions about existence, death God, and consciousness. It is "a doctrine that concentrates on the existence of the individual, who, being free and responsible, is held to be what he makes himself by the self-development of his essence through acts of the will" (OED Online). Writing by existentialist philosophers "often belongs more to literature than to philosophy" (Bigelow 173).