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Sartre on Affectivity
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In the Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions (1939) Jean-Paul Sartre presents an original account of emotional phenomena. His account focuses on the phenomenology of affectivity, a topic that is taken up in a section of The Imaginary (1940), in which he explores the relation between the subjective and objective aspects of affective experience. This chapter offers a close reading of the section from The Imaginary with a view to laying out clearly its proposed analysis of feelings, and places that analysis in the context of Sartre’s theory of our conscious engagement with the world. The chapter concludes with some critical remarks about the coherence of Sartre’s phenomenological account of emotions.
Title: Sartre on Affectivity
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In the Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions (1939) Jean-Paul Sartre presents an original account of emotional phenomena.
His account focuses on the phenomenology of affectivity, a topic that is taken up in a section of The Imaginary (1940), in which he explores the relation between the subjective and objective aspects of affective experience.
This chapter offers a close reading of the section from The Imaginary with a view to laying out clearly its proposed analysis of feelings, and places that analysis in the context of Sartre’s theory of our conscious engagement with the world.
The chapter concludes with some critical remarks about the coherence of Sartre’s phenomenological account of emotions.
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