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This book explores the relevance of Sartre's work for various areas in contemporary philosophy, including the imagination, philosophy of language, skepticism, social ontology, logic, film, practical rationality, emotions, and psychoanalysis.
List of contents
Introduction: Analytic vs. Continental from an imaginative and psychoanalytic perspective
Talia Morag 1. Logical, Phenomenological, and Metalogical Negation: Sartre with Frege (and Badiou)
Paul M. Livingston 2. Sartre's Activity-Based Model of Experience
Stephen White 3. Self-consciousness and uses of 'I': Sartre and Anscombe
Valérie Aucouturier 4. Peculiar access: Sartre, self-knowledge, and the question of the irreducibility of the first-person perspective
Pierre-Jean Renaudie and Jack Reynolds 5. Some problems of other minds
Katherine J. Morris 6. Skepticism as Nihilism: Sartre's
Nausea reads Cavell
David Macarthur 7. The Secret Passion: Sartre, Huston, and the Freud Screenplay
Robert Sinnerbrink 8. Sartre's Bad Faith, the Freudian Unconscious, and a case of #METOO
Talia Morag 9. Anguish and Anxiety
Anthony Hatzimoysis 10. Sartre, James, and the Transformative Power of Emotion
Demian Whiting 11. Sartre and Political Imagining
Genevieve Lloyd 12. Sartre's Solution to the Antinomy of Social Reality in the
Critique of Dialectical Reason Sebastian Gardner.
About the author
Talia Morag (PhD, Sydney University) is a Senior Lecturer in philosophy at Australian Catholic University. She works on philosophical psychology, ethics, liberal naturalism, psychoanalysis, emotion, and social psychology. She is the author of
Emotion, Imagination, and the Limits of Reason (Routledge, 2016), and received the Annette Baier Prize (2020).
