Using Sartre: An Analytical Introduction to Early Sartrean Themes

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Using Sartre is an introduction to the philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre, but it is not an ordinary introduction. It both promotes Sartrean views and adopts a consistently analytical approach to him. Concentrating on the early philosophy, up to and including Sartre's masterwork Being and Nothingness, Gregory McCulloch clearly shows how much analytic philosophy misses when it neglects Sartre and the continental tradition in philosophy. In the classic spirit of analytic philosophy, this is a clear, simple and appealingly short exposition of the early work of Sartre. Written specifically for beginners and non-specialists, this book is sure to spark new interest in Sartre and the existentialists, while making a significant contribution to the development of analytical philosophy of mind as well. Preface......Page 10 List of abbreviations......Page 13 1 Overview......Page 14 Methodology......Page 15 A great metaphysical division......Page 16 Aims......Page 17 Sartre’s five theses......Page 18 Notes and further reading......Page 24 Experience......Page 26 Emotions and intentionality......Page 28 A ‘specific manner of apprehending the world’......Page 30 The background: Phenomenology and ‘anthropology’......Page 33 Appendix: intentional objects......Page 38 Notes and further reading......Page 44 3 Nothingness, freedom, anguish......Page 46 Nothingness and possibilities......Page 47 Freedom......Page 51 Aims and values......Page 57 Anguish and the flight from anguish......Page 58 Notes and further reading......Page 63 4 Bad faith and self-deception......Page 65 Self-deception......Page 67 The unconscious......Page 68 Transcendence and facticity: Being’s two faces......Page 69 So what is the solution?......Page 75 What to do?......Page 77 Notes and further reading......Page 83 Imaging and intentionality......Page 84 The Picture Gallery Model of Imaging......Page 85 Crypto-objects......Page 89 The Problem of Phenomenological Presence......Page 91 The Argument from Illusion......Page 94 Notes and further reading......Page 95 6 Realism and idealism......Page 96 Descartes and Berkeley......Page 97 Theories of perception......Page 100 What experience is like......Page 101 Notes and further reading......Page 107 7 Sartrean realism......Page 110 The being of consciousness......Page 111 The being of appearance......Page 115 Externalism: the mind ain’t in the head......Page 119 Externalist phenomenology......Page 120 Elements of idealism?......Page 124 Notes and further reading......Page 130 The problems of the Other......Page 134 The ‘reef of solipsism’......Page 137 Approaching the scepticism......Page 138 Against solipsism: the look......Page 144 Sorcerers......Page 148 The whole useless passion......Page 150 Notes and further reading......Page 153 Index......Page 155