“A Kind of Magic”: Emotions, Imagination, Language – A Reading of Sartre
In: Research in PhenomenologyUMR-CNRS 8163 STL
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This paper maintains that Sartre’s concept of magic has to be considered as a full-fledged and quite technical phenomenological concept. Such concept (a) describes a very specific way in which one is able to be conscious-of-something and (b) reveals some structural features of consciousness and its mode of existence. Moreover (c) the “magical” cluster emotions-imagination-language also appears to be the existential matrix, as it were, from which fictions are generated: starting from the most original fiction of all, namely the constitutive fiction upon which each individual existence is built, i.e. the fiction of one’s own essence.
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“A Kind of Magic”: Emotions, Imagination, Language – A Reading of Sartre
In: Research in PhenomenologyUMR-CNRS 8163 STL
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Abstract
This paper maintains that Sartre’s concept of magic has to be considered as a full-fledged and quite technical phenomenological concept. Such concept (a) describes a very specific way in which one is able to be conscious-of-something and (b) reveals some structural features of consciousness and its mode of existence. Moreover (c) the “magical” cluster emotions-imagination-language also appears to be the existential matrix, as it were, from which fictions are generated: starting from the most original fiction of all, namely the constitutive fiction upon which each individual existence is built, i.e. the fiction of one’s own essence.
| All Time | Past 365 days | Past 30 Days | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abstract Views | 621 | 117 | 7 |
| Full Text Views | 65 | 8 | 0 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 180 | 27 | 0 |