Moments of disruption : Levinas, Sartre, and the question of transcendence / Kris Sealey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sealey, Kris, 1978-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lévinas, Emmanuel.

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980.

Sartre, Jean-Paul.

Transcendence (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Ethical and political implications of Levinas' and Sartre's accounts of human existence"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""The Argument�s Trajectory""; ""Overview""; ""Chapter 1 The Role of Being in Sartre�s Model of Transcendence-as-Intentionality""; ""I. The Implications of the Intentional Structure of Consciousness""; ""Husserl�s Position, According to Sartre""; ""Sartre�s Critique of Husserl""; ""Sartre�s Position: Consciousness is an Impersonal Field of Spontaneity""; ""II. The Role of Being in Sartre�s Theory of Consciousness""; ""Transphenomenal Being""; ""III. Intentionality Rests on a Negative Relation to Being""

""Consciousness is the Source of the �Not� in Being""""IV. Sartre�s Model of Transcendence: The Movement of a Radically Free Consciousness""; ""The Free Creativity of Consciousness""; ""The Waiter in Bad Faith""; ""The Experience of Anguish""; ""VI. Facticity in Consciousness�s Relation to Being""; ""Chapter 2 Positionality in Levinas�s Transcendence-as-Excendence""; ""I. Behind a Liberal Conception of Identity""; ""II. Beyond Liberalism and Nationalism""; ""The “moi� and the “soi�""; ""No Exit for “Le Moi�""; ""III. Before �Being in the World�""; ""Insomnia""

""The Effort of the “Moi� in Hypostasis""""The Passion and Activity of Sensibility""; ""Enjoyment""; ""IV. Excendence Takes Place Prior to Freedom""; ""Excendence is Concretized in Absolute Passivity""; ""Death as the Ultimate Depositioning""; ""Chapter 3 Levinasian Positionality in Sartre�s Account of Nausea""; ""I. Positionality and Beginning""; ""II. The Time of Alterity as a Time of Solitude""; ""“First-� and “Second-�Order Solitude""; ""“Identity in Intentionality� and “Identity in Recurrence�""; ""III. Roquentin�s Journey in Nausea""; ""Roquentin�s Horror""

""IV. Transcending despite “Nausea�?""""Nausea as a Revelation of Facticity""; ""Nausea as the Groundwork for the Phenomenological Reduction""; ""Chapter 4 Levinasian Positionality Implicit Sartre�s Affective Experiences""; ""I The Body as Facticity""; ""The Affectivity of “Pain Consciousness�""; ""The Inadequacy of Intentionality""; ""II. Finding Levinasian Passivity in Sartre�s Descriptions of Shame""; ""Sartre�s Descriptions of “Being-Seen�""; ""Situating Shame Beyond Reflective and Prereflective Experience""; ""III. Passivity in Levinas�s Reading of Shame""

""Chapter 5 Levinas and Sartre on the Question of the Other""""I. The Other is “Extramundane� for Both Sartre and Levinas""; ""The Non-Manifestation of Levinas�s Other""; ""II. Sartre�s Alienation before the Other""; ""Sartre on Obligation""; ""III. Freedom as the source of all value""; ""IV. Levinas�s Substitution: Freedom Is Not Primary""; ""V. Limitations and Values""; ""Concluding Remarks""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438448664

143844866X

OCLC:

868930207