Sartre's Phenomenology

by David Reisman and David A. Reisman

Book Overview

In Being and Nothingness Sartre picks up diverging threads in the phenomenological tradition, weaves them together with ideas from Gestalt and behaviourist psychology, and asks: What is consciousness? What is its relationship to the body, to the external world, and to other minds? Sartre believes that the mind and its states are by-products of introspection, created in the act that purports to discover them. How does this happen? And how are we able...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826487254
• ISBN13: 9780826487254
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"