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Affective Consciousness In La Nausée, Benjamin Suhl Aug 1978

Affective Consciousness In La Nausée, Benjamin Suhl

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

La Nausée, a key to Sartre's work, centers on an affective comprehension of the world, which becomes cognitive in the author's philosophy. Nausea is the affective equivalent of Descartes's systematic doubt and of Husserl's reduction. The recent publication of Sartre's earliest writings permits us to isolate his fundamental concerns, later to be developed in the novel: contingency and its evasion in bad faith. A certain Antoine Roquentin is shaken by the fear of becoming submerged in Bouville, physically and socially. He passes through an acute crisis, recorded blow by blow in his diary. It leads to a radical change …


Space-Time In The Creative Process, Kathleen Cooper Jan 1978

Space-Time In The Creative Process, Kathleen Cooper

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

An inquiry about the nature of the universe and man's ability to perceive it: Do the concepts of time and space veil the realization of man's full potential and responsibility as a creative entity in a creative universe?