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First published in Great Britain in 1968, this is an authoritative introduction to the life of one of the greatest intellectual figures of the twentieth century. Prompted by the belief that none of the parts of Sartre's work is fully intelligible apart from the whole , this ambitious volume attempts to provide a synoptic view of Sartre's oeuvre in its entirety. The editor, Robert Denoon Cumming, has organised the work around certain concepts which are central to Sartrian thought, notably Consciousness in its relation to Being, to 'the Other', to Art, Literature, History and Society. The reader can see for himself how Sartre's aesthetic and highly individual existentialism of La Nausee is systematically transformed into the neo-Marxist sociological theory of his Critique de la Raison dialectique. By a skilful process of editing, Professor Cumming has provided an authoritative introduction to the life of one of the greatest intellectual figures of modern times.
First published in Great Britain in 1968, this is an authoritative introduction to the life of one of the greatest intellectual figures of the twentieth century. Prompted by the belief that none of the parts of Sartre's work is fully intelligible apart from the whole , this ambitious volume attempts to provide a synoptic view of Sartre's oeuvre in its entirety. The editor, Robert Denoon Cumming, has organised the work around certain concepts which are central to Sartrian thought, notably Consciousness in its relation to Being, to 'the Other', to Art, Literature, History and Society. The reader can see for himself how Sartre's aesthetic and highly individual existentialism of La Nausee is systematically transformed into the neo-Marxist sociological theory of his Critique de la Raison dialectique. By a skilful process of editing, Professor Cumming has provided an authoritative introduction to the life of one of the greatest intellectual figures of modern times.
Philosophers are committed to objective understanding, but
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"Philosophy as . . . a rigorous science . . . the dream is over,"
Edward Husserl once declared. Heidegger (Husserl's successor),
Derrida, and Rorty have propounded versions of "the end of
philosophy." Cumming argues that what would count as philosophy's
coming to an end can only be determined with some attention to
disruptions which have previously punctuated the history of
philosophy. He arrives at categories for interpreting what is at
issue in such disruptions by analyzing Heidegger's and Husserl's
break with each other, Heidegger's break with Sartre, and
Merleau-Ponty's break with Sartre.
"Husserl had captured me, I saw everything in terms of the
perspectives of his philosophy," wrote Sartre of his conversion to
Husserl's phenomenology. In the present volume Cumming analyzes
Sartre's transformation of Husserl's phenomenological method into a
rudimentary dialectic. Cumming thus provides an introduction to
phenomenology itself, and more generally to the ways in which debts
to previous philosophies can be refurbished in later philosophies.
He shows how phenomenology, which for Husserl was a theory of
knowledge in which "we can always presume sincerity," becomes for
Sartre a theory in which imagination, self-deception, and role
playing are crucial.
In this final volume of Robert Denoon Cumming's four-volume history
of the phenomenological movement, Cumming examines the bearing of
Heidegger's philosophy on his original commitment to Nazism and on
his later inability to face up to the implication of that
allegiance. Cumming continues his focus, as in previous volumes, on
Heidegger's connection with other philosophers. Here, Cumming looks
first at Heidegger's relation to Karl Jaspers, an old friend on
whom Heidegger turned his back when Hitler consolidated power, and
who discredited Heidegger in the denazification that followed World
War II. The issues at stake are not merely personal, Cumming
argues, but regard the philosophical relevance of the personal.
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