La philosophie classique va trouver chez Sartre, malgré les prétentions les plus révolutionnaires de ce dernier, son plus grand défenseur. S'il faut parler, à propos de Descartes, d'un centrement "cartésien" du sujet, et ce, en pleine révolution Copernici enne, il importe de comprendre que Sartre va redoubler, par sa théorie de l'intentionnelité, l'effet de centrement opéré par Descartes, lui aussi en pleine époque de décentrements. En effet, à l'instar de Descartes qui assure la primauté ontologique de la conscience contre le malin génie, le Dieu trompeur, la folie et le rêve, Sartre va réassurer la primauté ontologique d'un être qui , dorénavant, n'est que "pour-soi", et ce, contre tout déterminisme, qu'il soit d'ordre psychanalytique, sociologi que, économique ou autre. Par sa théorie du néant, Sartre ne fait au fond qu'infi ni ti ser la substance cartésienne à un degré d'être qui manque justement de tout ce qu'il faut pour "être". Ainsi, cet être ne saurait être déterminé autrement que par une reprise intentionnelle. Par là, et bien qu'il évacue de la conscience toute représentation pour laisser ouvert le vide stratégique qu'est le néant, Sartre n'en garde pas moins toute sa portée à la pensée représentât!ve, dans la mesure justement où le substrat de la Représentation, à savoir le Sujet, est maintenu intact, comme est demeurée intacte la théorie de l'adéquation qui assure que le connaissant "n'ajoute rien à la nature du connu". En ce sens, dans la mesure où l'ordre des valeurs prime sur l'ordre du réel , il nous faut parler, sur le plan épistémologique, du cartésianisme de Sartre. Sartre demeure un penseur pré-critique et ce, jusqu'au tout dernier tome de son étude sur Flaubert. Il faudra attendre le transcendantalisme kantien, la constitution philosophique de la finitude, pour que le sujet cartésien soit véritablement ébranlé et le régime de l'adaequatio bouleversé, par le schématisme notamment. Nous voulons dire par là, et d'une manière plus générale, que la révolution copernicienne opérée par Kant constitue le seuil de notre modernité. l'épistémè structurale y trouve ses premiers fondements, ceux justement que Sartre va chercher à contourner. La philosophie du sujet se voit chez Kant retirer tout privilège. On ne retrouvera donc pas, comme chez le penseur de Koenisberg, d'"assomption du sujet" comme on a trop souvent l'habitude de le répéter, mais bien, comme le diront Lacoue-Labarthe et Nancy, son "exténuation". La subjectivité transcendantale ne doit pas être soumise à une lecture cartésienne. Il nous est apparu que par le transcendantalisme se trouve ouverte une problématique du sens en dehors de la pensée représentative, le sens comme "production de sens”. C'est là, dans ce qui nous semble constituer une "théorie générale des productions" (Deleuze), que la pensée structurale trouve son unité la plus profonde, désinvestissant le sujet libre, conscient et volontaire ainsi que le régime classique de l 'adaequa t i o. Ainsi, sur un même sol, ou si l'on préfère, dans un même espace, vont converger des penseurs aussi différents que Foucault, Deleuze, Lévi-Strauss, Bourdieu, Faye, Althusser... Nous croyons, en effet, que le "recours" au transcendanta l i sme kantien permet d'éclairer, comme le montre J. Petitot, d'un regard nouveau les apories constitutives des sciences de l'homme en leur caractère structural et dynamique, à condition d'admettre que l'anthropologie kantienne qui constitue la première grande représentation de l'homme, fonctionne aussi comme son désinvestissement systématique. Le sujet kantien répondant à l'exigence première de sa philosophie est "problématique". A fortiori, nous ne saurions retrouver chez Kant, après la première Critique, quelque retour en force de la théologie. Celle-ci se verra, comme le sujet, transcendantalisée. seront soumis au règne d'une analysis situs. Di eu et l'homme Dès lors, le sens devra répondre à des exigences topologiques et relationnelles. Kant a ouvert une époque, la nôtre.

Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2001. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The problem explored in this study concerns authenticity, and can be formulated as the question: 'How does one become oneself? In order to answer this query, related issues must be addressed, for example: the nature of consciousness/ self-awareness; the individual's relationship to society; the meaning of existence, and so forth. The reply's of three thinkers, Kierkegaard, Sartre and Jung, will be discussed in this investigation. They have been selected for several reasons: Each of their respective theories addresses issues that are generally pertinent in contemporary society, such as: the alienation and dissociation of individuals from each other and themselves through mass-mindedness and the impersonal nature of state and religious institutions; the anxiety that many experience due to, firstly, a lack of confidence in the abovementioned institutions and, secondly, a loss of trust in existing (political, religious, moral, social) life-strategies, because these often fail to give a convincing sense of meaning and purpose to life. Each of the three thinkers places the 'self at the center of their philosophy, and addresses many similar themes which share between them a family resemblance that admits of comparison. The theories are presented in an order that · allows for a dialectical approach to the problem of self: Kierkegaard's fundamentally Christian theory is presented as thesis, and Sartre's atheistic position as anti-thesis. Jung's theory of the psyche is presented as synthesis, because it is antimetaphysical, but nevertheless claims to prove empirically that a convincing religious/ spiritual experience is the key ingredient for authenticity. The outcome of the enquiry will show that the three thinkers point from different directions towards the same basic conceptualization of the 'self: The self is both a project and a goal or, to put it differently, a journey and a destination, the goal/destination being the synthesis of the various disparate and conflicting elements that influence or make up the personality. The study as a whole echoes the three individual approaches in describing the condition of modem man as a malady or sickness, which is the lack of authenticity, of which the symptoms are falsehood, anxiety, alienation, crippled relationships, lack of responsibility and adaptibility, and perhaps, on a larger scale, issues such as social/ political injustice and conflict. The cure for this malady is an enhancement of consciousness/ awareness that is known as 'the self. The self is seen as a 'becoming' and a choice, a dynamic synthesis, something which is not given and cannot be taken for granted, but must be actively striven for. The study outlines and explores the nature and value of such a project towards the self. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie beskou die probleem van outentisiteit, wat as die vraag, 'Hoe word ek myself?', gestel kan word. Om hierdie vraag te beantwoord, moet verdere kwessies, soos byvoorbeeld die aard van (self)bewussyn, die verhouding waarin die indivudu tot die samelewing staan, en die betekenis van 'bestaan' ( eksistensie ), ook aangespreek word. Die voorstelle van drie denkers, Kierkegaard, Sartre and Jung, word bespreek in hierdie tesis. Die drie is vir verskeie redes uitgesoek: Elkeen van hulle spreek pertinente kwessies rondom die modeme samelewing aan, byvoorbeeld: individue se vervreemding en verwydering van hulself en ander weens die massa-mentaliteit en onpersoonlike aard van staats- en godsdienstige instellings; die angs en spanning wat baie ervaar as gevolg van 'n gebrek aan vertroue in bogenoemde instellings, asook 'n gebrekkige geloof in bestaande (politiese, godsdienstige, more le, so si ale) lewensstrategiee wat nie meer daarin slaag om sin of rede aan die lewe te gee nie. Elkeen van die drie denkers plaas die 'self sentraal tot hulle filosofie, en spreek temas aan wat onderling familie-ooreenkomste vertoon, en daarom onderlinge vergelyking toelaat. Die teoriee word aangebied in 'n volgorde wat 'n dialekti~se aanslag tot die probleem moontlik maak: Kierkegaard se Christelike teorie word as tese aangebied, en Sartre se ateistiese posisie as anti-tese. Jung se teorie van die psige word as sintese voorgehou, want, alhoewel dit geen metafisiese aansprake maak nie, beskou dit 'n oortuigende religieuse/ geestelike ervaring as die hoofbestandeel vir outentisiteit. Die gevolgtrekking van die ondersoek sal wys dat die drie denkers vanuit verskillende rigtings na dieselfde konsepsie van die 'self wys: Die self is sowel 'n projek as 'n doel, of, anders gestel, 'n reis en 'n bestemming. Die doel/ bestemming is 'n sintese van die verskillende, onderling botsend~ elemente waaruit die self bestaan en waardeur dit beinvloed word. Die studie in geheel volg die voorbeeld van die drie denkers deur die modeme mens se 'toestand' as 'n soort siekte te beskryf. Die simptome van hierdie siekte, of gebrek aan outentisiteit, is valsheid, angs, vervreemding, gebrekkige verhoudings, die afwesigheid van persoonlike verantwoordelikheid en aanpasbaarheid, en ook miskien kwessies soos sosiale en politiese onreg en konflik. Die remedie vir so 'n siekte is die 'self: 'n verheldering en intensifisering van bewussyn, wat gesien kan word as 'n 'wording' en 'n keuse, 'n dinamiese sintese, iets wat nie as voor-die-hand-liggend beskou kan word nie, maar wat aktief nagestreef moet word. Hierdie studie ondersoek die aard en waarde van so 'n projek gerig op die self

The aim of this thesis is to investigate the highly moral ethic of social duty and responsibility which animates the work of Alejo Carpentier. In order to examine this theme, I have studied, in particular, the following six novels: ‘El reino de este mundo', Los pasos perdidos', ‘El acoso', El siglo de las luces', ‘El recurso del método', and ‘La consagración de la primavera'. In the Introduction, I have investigated the various philosophical questions raised by the concept of responsibility : the debate about freewill and determinism has been examined, and the Existentialist philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre has been chosen as the most helpful in an investigation of Carpentier's theory of responsibility, due to a great coincidence of thought between the two writers. The protagonists of the novels in question have been grouped according to various distinguishing tendencies or characteristics, and have been analysed in the light of the Sartrian concepts of good and bad faith. These groupings are as follows: “the deluded intellectual”, “two tyrants”, “the lesson of experience”, and “the committed individual”. The success, or failure, of these characters, in matching up to the goals of self-transcendence and responsible commitment posed by Carpentier has been charted throughout Chapters One to Four, and deductions have been made about the various forms of bad faith in which the characters indulge. The conclusions that I have drawn from this detailed investigation of characters in good and bad faith are, firstly, that Carpentier sees man's goal in life as the attainment of self-knowledge and the honest acceptance of responsibility for the self : once this state of good faith has been achieved, man is able to commit himself to the never-ending struggle for the improvement of the social situation. Acceptance of responsibility for the self is vital, in Carpentier's canon, for without such acceptance, positive commitment is impossible. Secondly, I have concluded that, according to Carpentier, commitment is an inevitable part of life, and that Carpentier's goal, then, is that we should actively commit ourselves to a positive cause through recognition of our responsibility for ourselves and our society, rather than tacitly accept the status quo through a passive or deterministic attitude.

The thesis inquires into the theme of political judgement and aims to rethink it from the perspective of twentieth-century philosophies of existence. It seeks to take up the contemporary challenge of political judgement that remains inadequately addressed within recent theorizing: how, given the modern breakdown of metaphysical absolutes, to reinvigorate the human capacity for political judgement as a practical activity able to confront the ambiguous, plural and complex character of our postfoundational world. Against this background, the thesis aspires to reclaim the distinctly historical orientation of twentieth-century existentialism, in particular the work of Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus and Hannah Arendt. It draws on their aesthetic sensibility to resuscitate the human judging ability in its worldly ambiguity and point towards an account of political judgement capable of facing up to the challenges of our plural and uncertain political reality. Retrieving their vigilant assumption of the situated, worldly condition of human political existence and the attendant perplexity of judging politically, the aim of the thesis is to suggest how the existentialists' insights can be brought to bear on contemporary problematics of political judgement that seem to elude the grasp of abstract standards and predetermined yardsticks.

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O presente estudo propõe-se ao levantamento das relações intertextuais tantas vezes apontadas, porém quase nunca aprofundadas por nossa crítica literária entre o filósofo existencialista Jean-Paul Sartre e o romancista brasileiro Carlos Heitor Cony. Em seu conjunto, o trabalho baseia-se em dois planos: no primeiro, são criteriosamente assinaladas as semelhanças temáticas e, eventualmente, formais da prosa ficcional de ambos, tendo por objetos de estudo os seus respectivos romances de estreia: A náusea e O ventre; no segundo, o mais relevante para meus atuais propósitos, acentua-se a investigação das diferenças, sobretudo estilísticas, da literatura conyana em relação à do pensador francês. Portanto, em sentido mais amplo, o trabalho trata-se de uma ampla reflexão acerca do processo de apropriação antropofágica na linha oswaldiana de alguns dos típicos temas existencialistas de Sartre e de sua adaptação por meio de um estilo que denota traços individuais cujas características são a ironia cortante, o humor sarcástico e algum lirismo por parte de Cony, do que decorre um inusitado acariocamento do Existencialismo sartriano. Dentro dos limites formais deste tipo de estudo, são ainda referidos diversos outros textos filosóficos e literários destes intelectuais em uma tentativa de corte transversal o mais elucidativo possível de suas obras. / The present study intends to inquire the intertextual relations – often pointed, though almost never deepened by our literary criticism – among the existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre and the Brazilian novelist Carlos Heitor Cony. In its whole, the study is based upon two levels: in the first one, the thematic and occasionally formal similitudes in the fictional prose of both authors are criterioulsy shown, taking as objects their respective first novels: The Nausea and The Womb. In the second level, which is the most relevant among my purposes at this moment, there is an emphasis on the differences, mainly stylistic, of Cony’s literature in relation to the one by the French philosopher. Therefore, in a larger sense, this study is about a broad reflection regarding the anthropophagical appropriation in the oswaldian line of some of the typical sartrean existentialistic themes, and its adaptation through a style that denotes individual traces whose characteristics are acid irony, sarcastic sense of humor and some lyricism by Cony – from which flows an unexpected tropical and loose philosophical vision (in the carioca style) of the sartrean existentialism. Within the formal limits of this kind of research, many other philosophical and literary texts from these scholars are also referred to, planned as a transversal cut which intends to be able of elucidating as much as possible from their work.

In this dissertation I explain the transition from modernism to postmodernism through the study of the French existentialist novel. I follow theories that demonstrate that the latter owes its success to historiographic metafiction. By setting off the aporias that deeply penetrate modern novels, I demonstrate the obsolescence of the prototype of the realist novel and I explain the impasses towards which the project of a committed literature lead, inscribed in the line of realism and aimed at an almost direct relation with society and history through the mediation of art between 1945 and 1955 in France. / On one hand I consider literature as an object which can be described by the methodologies of history. On the other hand I suggest an analysis of the historicity of the text that is constituted by the dynamic system generated by the interaction, the interdependence, and the correlation of the poetic and aesthetic parameters and the factors of the historical context. My aim is to set off the poetic and aesthetic mecanism of stability and of transformation of literary creation according to the dynamic relation between the vector of the project associated to realism and the one of the prototype associated to the novel. I think that late modernism produces paradoxical configurations of the novel because it is the period in which the project of realism becomes lapsed and the prototype of the realist novel becomes dilapidated. / Among the works that are exemplary of the tension between fiction and history and between project and prototype in the framework of the representation of reality and of the inscription of history in novels, I identified Albert Camus' La Peste, Simone de Beauvoir's Les Mandarins and Jean-Paul Sartre's Les Chemins de la liberte . I conclude that the enterprise of committed literature was an aporias because it was generated from the impoverishment of the project of realism and the obsolescence of the prototype of the novel. Later literature was extricated, firstly, by the radically and extremely metafictional writing of the Nouveau Roman and, secondly, it was changed by postmodern historiographic metafiction. The crisis of history and of the writing of history was solved by works in which there is the acknowledgement and the use of sophisticated mediations to evoke and inscribe history in different ways.

O presente estudo propõe-se ao levantamento das relações intertextuais tantas vezes apontadas, porém quase nunca aprofundadas por nossa crítica literária entre o filósofo existencialista Jean-Paul Sartre e o romancista brasileiro Carlos Heitor Cony. Em seu conjunto, o trabalho baseia-se em dois planos: no primeiro, são criteriosamente assinaladas as semelhanças temáticas e, eventualmente, formais da prosa ficcional de ambos, tendo por objetos de estudo os seus respectivos romances de estreia: A náusea e O ventre; no segundo, o mais relevante para meus atuais propósitos, acentua-se a investigação das diferenças, sobretudo estilísticas, da literatura conyana em relação à do pensador francês. Portanto, em sentido mais amplo, o trabalho trata-se de uma ampla reflexão acerca do processo de apropriação antropofágica na linha oswaldiana de alguns dos típicos temas existencialistas de Sartre e de sua adaptação por meio de um estilo que denota traços individuais cujas características são a ironia cortante, o humor sarcástico e algum lirismo por parte de Cony, do que decorre um inusitado acariocamento do Existencialismo sartriano. Dentro dos limites formais deste tipo de estudo, são ainda referidos diversos outros textos filosóficos e literários destes intelectuais em uma tentativa de corte transversal o mais elucidativo possível de suas obras. / The present study intends to inquire the intertextual relations – often pointed, though almost never deepened by our literary criticism – among the existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre and the Brazilian novelist Carlos Heitor Cony. In its whole, the study is based upon two levels: in the first one, the thematic and occasionally formal similitudes in the fictional prose of both authors are criterioulsy shown, taking as objects their respective first novels: The Nausea and The Womb. In the second level, which is the most relevant among my purposes at this moment, there is an emphasis on the differences, mainly stylistic, of Cony’s literature in relation to the one by the French philosopher. Therefore, in a larger sense, this study is about a broad reflection regarding the anthropophagical appropriation in the oswaldian line of some of the typical sartrean existentialistic themes, and its adaptation through a style that denotes individual traces whose characteristics are acid irony, sarcastic sense of humor and some lyricism by Cony – from which flows an unexpected tropical and loose philosophical vision (in the carioca style) of the sartrean existentialism. Within the formal limits of this kind of research, many other philosophical and literary texts from these scholars are also referred to, planned as a transversal cut which intends to be able of elucidating as much as possible from their work.

O presente estudo propõe-se ao levantamento das relações intertextuais tantas vezes apontadas, porém quase nunca aprofundadas por nossa crítica literária entre o filósofo existencialista Jean-Paul Sartre e o romancista brasileiro Carlos Heitor Cony. Em seu conjunto, o trabalho baseia-se em dois planos: no primeiro, são criteriosamente assinaladas as semelhanças temáticas e, eventualmente, formais da prosa ficcional de ambos, tendo por objetos de estudo os seus respectivos romances de estreia: A náusea e O ventre; no segundo, o mais relevante para meus atuais propósitos, acentua-se a investigação das diferenças, sobretudo estilísticas, da literatura conyana em relação à do pensador francês. Portanto, em sentido mais amplo, o trabalho trata-se de uma ampla reflexão acerca do processo de apropriação antropofágica na linha oswaldiana de alguns dos típicos temas existencialistas de Sartre e de sua adaptação por meio de um estilo que denota traços individuais cujas características são a ironia cortante, o humor sarcástico e algum lirismo por parte de Cony, do que decorre um inusitado acariocamento do Existencialismo sartriano. Dentro dos limites formais deste tipo de estudo, são ainda referidos diversos outros textos filosóficos e literários destes intelectuais em uma tentativa de corte transversal o mais elucidativo possível de suas obras. / The present study intends to inquire the intertextual relations – often pointed, though almost never deepened by our literary criticism – among the existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre and the Brazilian novelist Carlos Heitor Cony. In its whole, the study is based upon two levels: in the first one, the thematic and occasionally formal similitudes in the fictional prose of both authors are criterioulsy shown, taking as objects their respective first novels: The Nausea and The Womb. In the second level, which is the most relevant among my purposes at this moment, there is an emphasis on the differences, mainly stylistic, of Cony’s literature in relation to the one by the French philosopher. Therefore, in a larger sense, this study is about a broad reflection regarding the anthropophagical appropriation in the oswaldian line of some of the typical sartrean existentialistic themes, and its adaptation through a style that denotes individual traces whose characteristics are acid irony, sarcastic sense of humor and some lyricism by Cony – from which flows an unexpected tropical and loose philosophical vision (in the carioca style) of the sartrean existentialism. Within the formal limits of this kind of research, many other philosophical and literary texts from these scholars are also referred to, planned as a transversal cut which intends to be able of elucidating as much as possible from their work.

Cette thèse a pour but d’étudier certains aspects de la présence et de la construction du personnage du Noir dans la littérature dramatique française du XXème siècle et, plus spécifiquement, deux pièces de théâtre: La Putain respectueuse (1946) de Jean-Paul Sartre et Combat de nègre et de chiens (1979) de Bernard-Marie Koltès. Ce travail est divisé en trois grandes parties, subdivisées en chapitres. La première partie offre des éléments pour la mise en contexte de la représentation du Noir dans le théâtre français. Elle est divisée en deux chapitres: dans le premier, il s’agit d’un bref panorama du personnage du Noir dans le théâtre français du XXème siècle, élaboré à partir de Du Noir au Nègre: l’image du Noir au théâtre, de Marguerite de Navarre à Jean Genet (1550-1960) (1998), étude de Sylvie Chalaye. Le deuxième chapitre présente des informations sur Les Nègres (1959) de Jean Genet, ainsi qu’une courte réflexion sur l’importance de cette oeuvre dans le processus de transformation de la représentation du Noir dans le théâtre français de 1940 à 1970. Dans la deuxième et la troisième parties, sont traitées, respectivement, La Putain respectueuse et Combat de nègre et de chiens. L’étude des deux obéit à une même organisation: initialement, un chapitre sur le parcours de chaque auteur, puis sur la genèse de chaque pièce. Ensuite, un chapitre pour l’analyse dramatologique de chaque texte (divisé en trois sous-parties: l’intrigue et l’organisation de l’action, l’analyse du temps et de l’espace, l’étude des personnages). Finalement, deux chapitres plus thématiques: l’un relatif au personnage du Noir dans chaque pièce, l’autre consacré à quelques questions d’interprétation, ce qui permet de dialoguer avec certaines études critiques qui se sont penchées sur le sujet. En guise de conclusion, les considérations finales s’efforcent d’offrir une vue d’ensemble de la thèse et cherchent à mettre en évidence quelques points en commun entre la pièce de Sartre et celle de Koltès, surtout en ce qui regarde l’image du personnage du Noir. / O objeto de estudo desta tese de doutorado é a verificação de aspectos da presença e construção do personagem negro na literatura dramática francesa do século XX, com base em duas peças teatrais: La Putain respectueuse (1946), de Jean-Paul Sartre, e Combat de nègre et de chiens (1979), de Bernard-Marie Koltès. O trabalho divide-se em três partes, subdivididas em capítulos. A primeira parte versa sobre elementos de contextualização da representação do negro no teatro francês, segmentada em dois capítulos: no primeiro, um rápido panorama histórico a partir do estudo apresentado por Sylvie Chalaye em Du Noir au Nègre: l’image du Noir au théâtre, de Marguerite de Navarre à Jean Genet (1550-1960) (1998). O segundo contém informações sobre Les Nègres (1959), de Jean Genet, bem como uma breve reflexão sobre a importância dessa obra no processo de transformação da representação teatral do negro entre a década de 1940 e 1970. A segunda e terceira partes tratam, respectivamente, de La Putain respectueuse e Combat de nègre et de chiens. Ambas possuem exatamente a mesma estrutura, iniciando pelos percursos dos autores, e, na sequência, a gênese das peças, as análises dramatológicas dos textos (divididas em três seções: intriga e organização da ação; tempo e espaço; e personagens) e encerrando com reflexões mais temáticas: uma relativa ao personagem negro em cada um dos textos e outra acerca das questões de interpretação, num diálogo direto com alguns estudiosos e críticos e suas diferentes propostas de olhares. No fechamento da tese, à guisa de conclusão, são apresentadas as considerações finais, retomando o conjunto abordado na pesquisa e estabelecendo alguns pontos de aproximação entre as peças de Sartre e Koltès, principalmente no que diz respeito à imagem do personagem negro.