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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Kirkpatrick, Kate
Titre(s) : Sartre on sin [Texte imprimé] : between being and nothingness / Kate Kirkpatrick
Publication : Oxford : Oxford University press, copyright 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XII-262 p.) ; 23 cm
Collection : Oxford theology and religion monographs
Lien à la collection : Oxford theology and religion monographs
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 243-258. Notes bibliogr. Index
Sartre on Sin: Between Being and Nothingness' argues that Jean-Paul Sartre's early,
anti-humanist philosophy is indebted to the Christian doctrine of original sin. On
the standard reading, Sartre's most fundamental and attractive idea is freedom: he
wished to demonstrate the existence of human freedom, and did so by connecting consciousness
with nothingness. Focusing on Being and Nothingness, Kate Kirkpatrick demonstrates
that Sartre's concept of nothingness (le néant) has a Christian genealogy which has
been overlooked in philosophical and theological discussions of his work. Previous
scholars have noted the resemblance between Sartre's and Augustine's ontologies: to
name but one shared theme, both thinkers describe the human as the being through which
nothingness enters the world. However, there has been no previous in-depth examination
of this 'resemblance'. Using historical, exegetical, and conceptual methods, Kirkpatrick
demonstrates that Sartre's intellectual formation prior to his discovery of phenomenology
included theological elements-especially concerning the compatibility of freedom with
sin and grace. After outlining the French Augustinianisms by which Sartre's account
of the human as 'between being and nothingness' was informed, Kirkpatrick offers a
close reading of Being and Nothingness which shows that the psychological, epistemological,
and ethical consequences of Sartre's le néant closely resemble the consequences of
its theological predecessor; and that his account of freedom can be read as an anti-theodicy.
Sartre on Sin illustrates that Sartre' s insights are valuable resources for contemporary
hamartiology. --! From book jacket
Sujet(s) : Sartre, Jean-Paul (1905-1980) -- Critique et interprétation
Péché
Indice(s) Dewey : 111.5 (23e éd.) = Non-être, néant
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780198848868 (br.). - ISBN 0198848862
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47250355x
Notice n° :
FRBNF47250355
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Table des matières : Introduction ; French sins, I: 'Les mystiques du néant' and 'les disciples de Saint Augustin' ; French sins, II: individuals and their sins ; Problems of nothingness: identity, anxiety, and bad faith ; The fallen self: in search of lost being ; Lonely togetherness: shame, the body, and dissimilarity ; Freedom: on being our own nothingness ; Death of God, death of love: the hermeneutics of despair ; Sin is dead, long live sin!
