Sartre's itinerary from self-presence to "abandon"

From: Philosophy Today | Date: October 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

Simone de Beauvoir warns us in the preface to the printed text which appeared as an appendix to La Ceremonie des Adieux as Entretiens avec Jean-Paul Sartre, and which is the transcript of the interviews which she conducted with Sartre during the summer of 1974, that these yielded no "unexpected revelations" (Beauvoir 1981, 163). I find however, that the term abandon ("letting go"),' which Sartre uses repeatedly in a certain section of his dialogue with Beauvoir, is rather new and unexpected in his usual vocabulary, which, as a whole, greatly privileges the rational and action. And the candid ...

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