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Record Nr.

UNINA9910420928103321

Autore

Heldt Caleb

Titolo

Immanence and Illusion in Sartre’s Ontology of Consciousness [[electronic resource] /] / by Caleb Heldt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

3-030-49552-3

9783030495527

(paper)

9783030495510

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xl, 195 pages)

Disciplina

848.91409

Soggetti

Ontology

Phenomenology 

Philosophy of mind

Phenomenology

Philosophy of Mind

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Being, Nothingness, and Becoming -- 2. Pre-Reflective Consciousness and (Non-)Thetic Awareness -- 3. Transcendent (Non-)Thetic Awareness -- 4. Time-Consciousness: Physic and Transcendental -- 5. From Temporality to Wordly and Psychic Spatiality -- 6. From the Ontological to the Psychological: Memorial Totalization, Illusory Immanence and Transcendental Potentitality. .

Sommario/riassunto

This book is a critical re-evaluation of Jean-Paul Sartre’s phenomenological ontology, in which a theory of egological complicity and self-deception informing his later better known theory of bad faith is developed. This novel reinterpretation offers a systematic challenge to orthodox apprehensions of Sartre’s conceputualization of transcendental consciousness and the role that the ego plays within his account of pre-reflective consciousness. Heldt persuasively demonstrates how an adequate comprehension of Sartre’s theories of negation and reflection can reveal the world as it appears to human



consciousness as one in which our reality is capable of becoming littered with illusions. As the foundation upon which the rest of Sartre’s philosophical project is built, it is essential that the phenomenological ontology of Sartre’s early writings be interpreted with clarity. This book provides such a reinterpretation. In doing so, a philosophical inquiry emerges which is genuinely contemporary in its aim and scope and which seeks to demonstrate the significance of Sartre’s thought, not only as significant to the history of philosophy, but to ongoing debates in continental philosophy and philosophy of mind.