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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461271903321

Autore

Reisman David <1963->

Titolo

Sartre's phenomenology / By David Reisman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; New York, : Continuum, 2007

ISBN

1-4725-4747-0

1-283-20786-9

9786613207869

1-4411-9587-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (157 p.)

Collana

Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy

Disciplina

171/.2

Soggetti

Existentialism

Existential psychology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- 1: Domesticating Sartre: Morris and the 'Body-subject' -- 2: Intentionality and Temporality -- 3: Impure reflection -- 4: Pure reflection -- 5: The Three Ontological Dimensions of the Body and the Role of the Look -- 6: Bad Faith, Ambiguity, and the Ambiguity of "I" -- 7: Sartre and Strawson -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In Being and Nothingness Sartre picks up diverging threads in the phenomenological tradition, weaves them together with ideas from Gestalt and behaviourist psychology, and asks: What is consciousness? What is its relationship to the body, to the external world, and to other minds? Sartre believes that the mind and its states are by-products of introspection, created in the act that purports to discover them. How does this happen? And how are we able to perceive ourselves as persons - physical objects with mental states? Sartre's Phenomenology reconstructs Sartre's answers to these crucial questions. On Sartre's view, consciousness originally apprehends itself in terms of what it is consciousness of, that is, as an activity of apprehending the world. David Reisman traces the path from this minimal form of self-consciousness to the perception of oneself as a full-blown person. Similar considerations apply to the perception of others. Reisman describes Sartre's account of the transition from one's original



apprehension of another consciousness to the perception of other persons. An understanding of the various levels of self-apprehension and of the apprehension of others allows Reisman to penetrate the key ideas in Being and Nothingness, and to compare Sartre to analytic philosophers on fundamental questions in the philosophy of mind