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Author Sealey, Kris, 1978-

Title Moments of disruption : Levinas, Sartre, and the question of transcendence / Kris Sealey
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, [2013]
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Description 1 online resource (226 pages)
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 ConsciousnessThe 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 PassivityDeath 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 FacticityThe 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 PrimaryV. Limitations and Values; Concluding Remarks; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary "Ethical and political implications of Levinas' and Sartre's accounts of human existence"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Lévinas, Emmanuel
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980
SUBJECT Lévinas, Emmanuel fast
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980 fast
Subject Transcendence (Philosophy)
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
Transcendence (Philosophy)
Form Electronic book
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