The Secret Smiles of Things
Sartre’s Realism Reconsidered
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11274837 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Simon Gusman (0000-0002-3575-5687, Radboud University Nijmegen, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 119-137 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-8548 • E-ISSN: 1572-851X |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s10746-021-09604-4 |
| OpenAlex | W3191677315 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 8 |
In this article, I argue against a widespread misconception concerning the nature of things in Sartre’s philosophy. Sartre’s conception of the nature of things concerns the idea that outside of consciousness a single undifferentiated mass of brute being exists which is divided into definitive things by consciousness. I propose a different reading of Sartre’s realism. Such a reading is based primarily on Nausea, Being and Nothingness and Consciousness of Self and Knowledge of Self states that, contra common conception, there is no brute being outside of consciousness, but rather, a vast multitude of different things
Consciousness · Epistemology · Linguistics · Multitude · Nothing · Political philosophy · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Reading (process · Realism · Historical Philosophy and Science · Law · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Psychology · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |