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Examination of human consciousness; philosophy, metaphysics, semantics, existentialism.
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Foreword
The Roots of Existentialism
An Introduction by Jean Wahl
Part I
The Humanism of Existentialism
Freedom and Responsibility
The Desire to Be God
Part II
The Problem of Nothingness
The Problem of Negation
1. The Question
2. Negations
3. The Dialectical Concept of Nothingness
4. The Phenomenological Concept of Nothingness
5. The Origin of Nothingness
Bad Faith
1. Bad Faith and Falsehood
2. Patterns of Bad Faith
3. The "Faith" of Bad Faith
Part III
The Emotions: Outline of a Theory
Introduction: Psychology, Phenomenology, and Phenomenological Psychology
1. The Classical Theories
2. The Psychoanalytic Theory
3. A Sketch of a Phenomenological Theory
Conclusion
Part IV
The Role of the Image in Mental Life
1. The Symbol
2. Symbolic Schemes and Illustrations of Thought
3. Image and Thought
4. Image and Perception
Part V
What Is Writing?
Part VI
Essays in Aesthetics
1. The Venetian Pariah
2. The Quest for the Absolute
3. The Paintings of Giacometti
4. The Mobiles of Calder
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index
Authors & Contributors edit
- Jean-Paul Sartre (Author)
Other Contributors:
- Jean Wahl (Introduction)
- Wade Baskin (Foreword)
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 194
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