Moments Of Disruption: Levinas, Sartre, And The Question Of Transcendence Project Muse Upcc Books

Explores the ethical and political implications of Levinas’s and Sartre’s accounts of human existence. In Moments of Disruption , Kris Sealey considers Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Paul Sartre together to fully realize the ethical and political implications of their similar descriptions of human existence. Focusing on points of contact and difference between their writings on transcendence, identity, existence, and alterity, Sealey presents not only an understanding of Sartrean politics in which Levinas’s somewhat apolitical program might be taken into the political, but also an explicitly political reading of Levinas that resonates well with Sartre’s work. In bringing together both thinkers accounts of disrupted existence in this way, a theoretical place is found from which to question the claim that politics and ethics are mutually exclusive. Contents 8 Acknowledgments 10 Introduction 14 The Argument’s Trajectory 17 Overview 23 Chapter 1 The Role of Being in Sartre’s Model of Transcendence-as-Intentionality 28 I. The Implications of the Intentional Structure of Consciousness 31 Husserl’s Position, According to Sartre 32 Sartre’s Critique of Husserl 34 Sartre’s Position: Consciousness is an Impersonal Field of Spontaneity 37 II. The Role of Being in Sartre’s Theory of Consciousness 38 Transphenomenal Being 41 III. Intentionality Rests on a Negative Relation to Being 43 Consciousness is the Source of the ‘Not’ in Being 44 IV. Sartre’s Model of Transcendence: The Movement of a Radically Free Consciousness 45 The Free Creativity of Consciousness 46 The Waiter in Bad Faith 48 The Experience of Anguish 49 VI. Facticity in Consciousness’s Relation to Being 51 Chapter 2 Positionality in Levinas’s Transcendence-as-Excendence 56 I. Behind a Liberal Conception of Identity 60 II. Beyond Liberalism and Nationalism 63 The “moi” and the “soi” 64 No Exit for “Le Moi” 67 III. Before ‘Being in the World’ 69 Insomnia 72 The Effort of the “Moi” in Hypostasis 74 The Passion and Activity of Sensibility 76 Enjoyment 78 IV. Excendence Takes Place Prior to Freedom 80 Excendence is Concretized in Absolute Passivity 80 Death as the Ultimate Depositioning 82 Chapter 3 Levinasian Positionality in Sartre’s Account of Nausea 86 I. Positionality and Beginning 88 II. The Time of Alterity as a Time of Solitude 90 “First-” and “Second-”Order Solitude 91 “Identity in Intentionality” and “Identity in Recurrence” 92 III. Roquentin’s Journey in Nausea 96 Roquentin’s Horror 97 IV. Transcending despite “Nausea”? 100 Nausea as a Revelation of Facticity 101 Nausea as the Groundwork for the Phenomenological Reduction 103 Chapter 4 Levinasian Positionality Implicit Sartre’s Affective Experiences 108 I The Body as Facticity 110 The Affectivity of “Pain Consciousness” 114 The Inadequacy of Intentionality 117 II. Finding Levinasian Passivity in Sartre’s Descriptions of Shame 118 Sartre’s Descriptions of “Being-Seen” 119 Situating Shame Beyond Reflective and Prereflective Experience 122 III. Passivity in Levinas’s Reading of Shame 125 Chapter 5 Levinas and Sartre on the Question of the Other 130 I. The Other is “Extramundane” for Both Sartre and Levinas 133 The Non-Manifestation of Levinas’s Other 136 II. Sartre’s Alienation before the Other 138 Sartre on Obligation 144 III. Freedom as the source of all value 148 IV. Levinas’s Substitution: Freedom Is Not Primary 155 V. Limitations and Values 160 Concluding Remarks 164 Notes 168 Bibliography 214 Index 218 __Explores the ethical and political implications of Levinas’s and Sartre’s accounts of human existence.__ In __Moments of Disruption__, Kris Sealey considers Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Paul Sartre together to fully realize the ethical __and__ political implications of their similar descriptions of human existence. Focusing on points of contact and difference between their writings on transcendence, identity, existence, and alterity, Sealey presents not only an understanding of Sartrean politics in which Levinas’s somewhat apolitical program might be taken into the political, but also an explicitly political reading of Levinas that resonates well with Sartre’s work. In bringing together both thinkers accounts of disrupted existence in this way, a theoretical place is found from which to question the claim that politics and ethics are mutually exclusive. Ethical And Political Implications Of Levinas' And Sartre's Accounts Of Human Existence--provided By Publisher. Machine Generated Contents Note: Ch. 1 The Role Of Being In Sartre's Model Of Transcendence-as-intentionality -- Ch. 2 Positionality In Levinas's Transcendence-as-excendence -- Ch. 3 Levinasian Positionality In Sartre's Account Of Nausea -- Ch. 4 Levinasian Positionality Implicit Sartre's Affective Experiences -- Ch. 5 Levinas And Sartre On The Question Of The Other. Kris Sealey. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.