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Jean-Paul Sartre and Existentialism

Jean-Paul Sartre and Existentialism. Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) Nausea (novel) – 1938 The Wall (stories) – 1939 The Flies (play) – 1943 Being and Nothingness – 1943 No Exit (play) – 1944 Roads to Liberty (novel trilogy) – 1945-49 Existentialism is a Humanism – 1946

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Jean-Paul Sartre and Existentialism

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  1. Jean-Paul Sartre and Existentialism

  2. Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) Nausea (novel) – 1938 The Wall (stories) – 1939 The Flies (play) – 1943 Being and Nothingness – 1943 No Exit (play) – 1944 Roads to Liberty (novel trilogy) – 1945-49 Existentialism is a Humanism – 1946 What is Literature? (essay) – 1947 Notebooks for an Ethics (posthum.) – 1948 Search for a Method – 1957 The Condemned of Altona (play) – 1959 Critique of Dialectical Reason – 1960 Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986)

  3. NY Times, 1964 (Existentialist thinks his writings would be compromised.) «A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.»

  4. Existentialism: An Ontology(Being andSubjectivity) Ambiguity of Being Human Being-in-itself (objecthood, facticity, non-conscious) Being-for-itself (indeterminatesubjecthood, transcendence,consciousness)

  5. Existentialism: An Ontology(Intersubjectivity) Being-for-others (objectification, alienation, gaze of the other) Human reality is an uneasy combination of the three kinds of being

  6. «What if there is no God?»: Meaning of Life? Love and Death, Woody Allen (1975) https://youtu.be/Ob8my6YrOAE

  7. Existentialism: An Ethics of Freedom Existence precedes essence Man is what he makes of himself Man is freedom and responsibility Man must choose himself (what he concretely does in a situation) abandonment, anguish The Scream, Edvard Munch (1893 version)

  8. Existentialism: An Ethics of Authenticity Bad faith vs. free choice Seeing as necessity, fact or inevitable what is undecided or a choice Seeing oneself as an object («Me» or Ego) Mauvaise foi: Bad faith, self-deception Flight from freedom and contingency

  9. ExistentialismcontraBad Faith and Inauthenticity

  10. «The Wall»: Spanish Revolution and Civil War (1936-39) Tom Mann Company International Brigade fighters from Britain (Tom Steinbock from Ireland) Anarchist and Socialist Workers’ Unions (Spanish anarchist Pablo Ibbieta)

  11. «The Wall»: Questions for Section • What does the figure of the «wall» stand for in the story? • What are the reactions or realizations of the three characters as they wait to be executed in the morning? • What happens when the dimension of the future is closed to the characters? • What kind of choices, if any, are made by the characters under the circumstances depicted in the story? • How can we interpret the ending of the story from an existentialist point of view?

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