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Sartre and Magic - Being, Emotion and Philosophy (Hardcover)
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Sartre and Magic - Being, Emotion and Philosophy (Hardcover)
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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.
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