Sartre's phenomenology / David Reisman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reisman, David, 1963-

Series:

Continuum studies in continental philosophy

Continuum studies in Continental philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980.

Sartre, Jean-Paul.

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980. Être et le néant.

Existentialism.

Existential psychology.

Strawson, P. F.

Physical Description:

150 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, [2007]

Summary:

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. In 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.

Contents:

1 Sartre and Strawson 1

Persons as fundamental particulars in our conceptual scheme 4

The properties we attribute to persons 11

Beyond Strawson 15

2 Pre-reflective consciousness and the perceptive field 26

Sartre and Husserl on consciousness and its objects 27

Consciousness, negation, and temporality 34

Pre-reflective self-consciousness and reflection 40

3 Impure reflection and the constitution of the psyche 45

Pure and impure reflection 48

Impure reflection, the ego, and psychic objects 52

The ontological status of the psychic 57

Impure reflection as the constitution of an outline for the body 68

4 The Look and the constitution of persons 75

The body-for-itself, the body-for-others, and the Look 78

The role of the Look in apprehending other persons and the objective world 84

The role of the Look in apprehending oneself 95

5 Bad faith 112

Bad faith 116.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [131]-147) and index.

ISBN:

0826487254

9780826487254

OCLC:

74568575