Research Catalog

Title

Sartre and magic : being, emotion and philosophy / by Daniel O'Shiel.

Author

O'Shiel, Daniel

Publication

• London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Description

viii, 198 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"Jean-Paul Sartre's technical and multifaceted concept of magic is central for understanding crucial elements of his early philosophy (1936-1943), not least his conception of the ego, emotion, the imaginary and value. Daniel O'Shiel follows the thread of magic throughout Sartre's early philosophical work. Firstly, Sartre's work on the ego (1936) shows a personal, reflective form of consciousness that is magically hypostasized onto the pre-reflective level. Secondly, emotion (1938) is inherently magical for Sartre because emotive qualities come to inhere in objects and thereby transform a world of pragmatism into one of captivation. Thirdly, analyses of The Imaginary (1940) reveal that anything we imagine is a spontaneous creation of consciousness that has the power to enchant and immerse us, even to the point of images holding sway over us. Culminating with Sartre's ontological system of Being and Nothingness (1943), O'Shiel argues that Sartre does not do away with the concept, but in fact provides ontological roots for it. This is most evident in Sartre's analyses of value, possession and language. A second part shows how such Sartrean magic is highly relevant for a number of concrete case studies: the arts, advertising, racism and stupidity, and certain instances of psychopathology. O'Shiel shows that Sartre's magical being is important for any contemporary philosophical anthropology because it is essentially at work at the heart of many of our most significant experiences, both creative and damaging."--Back cover.

Subject

• Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980 > Criticism and interpretation
• Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980
• Emotions (Philosophy)
• Otology

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-192) and index.

Contents

pt. One Magic in Sartre's Early Philosophy (1936 -- 43) -- 1. Self- and Public Bewitchment: Sartre's Ego (1936) -- The ego as object pole of reflective consciousness -- States, actions and qualities of the ego -- The ego's magic -- Interpersonality and magic -- 2. Transforming Worlds: Sartre on Emotion (1938) -- Transforming the world: Emotive consciousness -- The world transforming: Others and emotion -- Centrifugal and centripetal: Magic as the unifying element to Sartre's emotive consciousness -- 3. Evoking Absence: Sartre's Imaginary (1940) -- Situating Sartre's imaginary: Between perception and concept -- Experiencing and evoking absence: Perception, imagination and the analogon -- The magic of the imaginary and its complications -- 4. Magic Ontologized: Being and Nothingness (1943) -- Sartre's three ontological categories -- Being-in-itself -- Being-for-itself -- Being-for-others -- Sartre's trinity of ontological affectivity: Nausea, anguish and shame -- The impossible synthesis: Facticity, value and magic -- Possession, quality and magic -- Language and the magic of the other -- Interlude -- pt. Two Sartrean Magic in Operation -- 5. Magic and the Arts -- Play, artistic creation and magic -- Sartre, literature and philosophy -- 6. Advertising -- Advertising and its magic -- Advertising, the market and rising technology -- 7. Racism and Other Figures of Magical Non-Thinking -- Not thinking, like a stone: Sartre on racism and stupidity -- Magical non-thought, society and philosophy -- 8. Magic and Psychopathology -- Hypercaptivation: Dreams and psychopathology -- The case of Schreber: A Sartrean reading -- Final Remarks: Sartrean Magic, Philosophy and the Future.

Call Number

JFE 19-10366

ISBN

• 9781350077669
• 1350077666

OCLC

1056693985

Author

O'Shiel, Daniel, author.

Title

Sartre and magic : being, emotion and philosophy / by Daniel O'Shiel.

Publisher

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-192) and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 19-10366