[Marxism-Thaxis] Sartre

2004-03-05 Thread Chris Burford
I need to review a clinical psychiatric book that draws theoretical inspiration from some of Sartre's formulas about subject and object. I am writing to ask for advice on what reservations are there about Sartre's philosophical approach. I feel uneasy about him, despite his left wing claims, and

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Sartre

2004-03-06 Thread Jim Farmelant
I don't know if this will be of any use to you or not, but Martin Morf had an article "Sartre, Skinner, and the Compatibilist Freedom To Be Authentically" in the journal Behavior and Philosophy, 26 (1), 29-43. (http://www.behavior.org/journals_BP/1998/Morf_abstract.cfm). In that article he attemp

[Marxism-Thaxis] Sartre Against Stalinism

2006-07-20 Thread Ralph Dumain
Sartre Against Stalinism (Berghahn Monographs in French Studies) (Paperback) by Ian H. Birchall http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1571815422/sr=1-8/qid=1153464464/ref=sr_1_8/103-5565342-4139061?ie=UTF8&s=books I just learned of this book. Has anybody seen it? ___

[Marxism-Thaxis] Sartre on Thaxis

2008-08-15 Thread Charles Brown
M-TH: Life Is Beautiful Charles Brown CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us Wed Mar 3 07:07:16 MST 1999 Previous message: M-TH: Re: who reads marx? Next message: M-TH: Outlaw the Nazis and KKK ! Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] --

[Marxism-Thaxis] Sartre on Thaxis

2008-08-27 Thread Charles Brown
Sartre on Thaxis Ralph Dumain rdumain at autodidactproject.org Fri Aug 15 11:12:30 MDT 2008 Previous message: [Marxism-Thaxis] Sartre on Thaxis Next message: [Marxism-Thaxis] Russian Support for Iran Sanctions at Risk amid Georgia Rift Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject

[Marxism-Thaxis] Sartre on Thaxis

2008-08-28 Thread Charles Brown
Sartre on Thaxis Ralph Dumain I deliberately boycotted "Life Is Beautiful" because I find the basic premise obscene. Life was and could not be beautiful in a Nazi concentration camp under any circumstances. Find me one Holocaust survivor who would say such a thing. CB: Good point. How

[Marxism-Thaxis] Sartre on Thaxis

2008-08-28 Thread Charles Brown
Jim Farmelant > > I'm thinking that as between Sartre and Althusser, Sartre. Sartre > was > in the Resistence and in a concentration camp. He was in the > struggle > for real. Actually, Sartre was never in a concentration camp. He was in a POW camp after having been caputured by the Germans

[Marxism-Thaxis] Sartre on Thaxis

2008-08-29 Thread Charles Brown
edit] La Nausée and existentialism As a junior lecturer at the Lycée du Havre in 1938, Sartre wrote the novel La Nausée (Nausea) which serves in some ways as a manifesto of existentialism and remains one of his most famous books. Taking a page from the German phenomenological movement, he believ

[Marxism-Thaxis] Sartre and Althusser

2008-09-18 Thread Charles Brown
Sartre, Althusser and the ontology of everyday lifeJean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser have at- ... Both Sartre and Althusser attempt to inte- ... ogies of Sartre and Althusser is that Sartre for- ... www.springerlink.com/index/M73V0777QJ2704GK.pdf - Similar pages by G Snedeker - 1984 - Related ar

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Sartre on Thaxis

2008-08-15 Thread Ralph Dumain
I deliberately boycotted "Life Is Beautiful" because I find the basic premise obscene. Life was and could not be beautiful in a Nazi concentration camp under any circumstances. Find me one Holocaust survivor who would say such a thing. I would imagine Marx would be pretty nauseated by this as w

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Sartre on Thaxis

2008-08-15 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:56:22 -0400 "Charles Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > M-TH: Life Is Beautiful > Charles Brown CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us > Wed Mar 3 07:07:16 MST 1999 > > Previous message: M-TH: Re: who reads marx? > Next message: M-TH: Outlaw the Nazis and KKK ! > Messages

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Sartre on Thaxis

2008-08-28 Thread Charles Brown
>>> "Charles Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/28/2008 9:51 AM >>> Sartre on Thaxis Ralph Dumain I deliberately boycotted "Life Is Beautiful" because I find the basic premise obscene. Life was and could not be beautiful in a Nazi concentration camp under any circumstances. Find me one Holocaust

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Sartre on Thaxis

2008-08-28 Thread Ralph Dumain
I know Lawler, but I didn't know he could write such utter rubbish. He must know that all this is false. At 10:03 AM 8/28/2008, Charles Brown wrote: >.. I just saw the amazing film, "Life Is Beautiful." Such a >title for > a > film > centered on life in a Nazi concentration >camp. And yet

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Sartre on Thaxis

2008-08-28 Thread Charles Brown
As Lawler ^^^ oops, that 's not Lawler. It's me . ^^^ said back when this thread went on : The theoretical basis I see for his emphasizing Hegelian > subject, "early" Marx, perhaps reflected below, is that we are no > longer > in the period when Marxists treat political economy as "a process

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Sartre on Thaxis

2008-08-28 Thread Charles Brown
>>> Ralph Dumain I know Lawler, but I didn't know he could write such utter rubbish. He must know that all this is false. CB: Well, that's certainly are conclusory remark with no supporting argumentation. It's not _all_ false. He may be involved in some reaching outside his own think

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Sartre on Thaxis

2008-08-28 Thread Charles Brown
Jean-Paul Sartre Full name Jean-Paul Sartre Birth June 21, 1905 (Paris, France) Death April 15, 1980 (aged 74) (Paris, France) School/tradition Existentialism, Marxism Main interests Metaphysics, Epistemology, Ethics, Politics, Phenomenology, Ontology Notable ideas "Existence precedes esse

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Sartre on Thaxis

2008-08-30 Thread CeJ
I see Sartre as a true contemporary of Russell in oh so many ways. Sartre blunders through a lot of philosophy in order to try and integrate Marxism into 'mainstream' philosophy. But that would be mainstream according to what French intellectuals might think philosophy is, and that would be the 50

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Sartre on Thaxis

2008-08-30 Thread CeJ
>>I can't say I found anything by Camus very funny until the much later Fall >>(if you find arch-irony funny).<< Now that I think about it, that is wrong. I remember some 'lyrical' essays, some of which seem fairly early. The account of being taken to an amateur boxing match is truly funny, as is

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Sartre on Thaxis

2008-08-31 Thread CeJ
>>And if you read Nausea back to back with Being and Nothingness, it is one of >>those few occasions where you get philosophy dramatized in a work of fiction >>combined with a long philosophical tract. << Went through my Sartre (in cardboard boxes because I had to move my office last month) coll

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Sartre on Thaxis

2008-09-01 Thread CeJ
Ignoring the advice of philosophy guides on Sartre, I delved a bit into his later work, Critique of DR. This was envisioned as a two-volume work, but the second one Sartre abandoned, and it was published in an unfinished state posthumously. The first volume was published in 1960. That is the year C

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Sartre on Thaxis

2008-09-02 Thread Ralph Dumain
from Critique of Dialectical Reason. Jean-Paul Sarte 1960 The Dogmatic Dialectic and the Critical Dialectic http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/sartre/works/critic/sartre2.htm Section 1 of Sartre on totalization: I do not understand this conclusion: "In the end, this means that we are confr

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Sartre on Thaxis

2008-09-02 Thread Charles Brown
>>> Ralph Dumain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09/02/2008 2:06 AM >>> from Critique of Dialectical Reason. Jean-Paul Sarte 1960 The Dogmatic Dialectic and the Critical Dialectic http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/sartre/works/critic/sartre2.htm CB: This part sounds like an old thaxis thread: 6

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Sartre on Thaxis

2008-09-02 Thread CeJ
>>Did Sartre in fact have exchanges with Althusser in the 1950s?<< That's a good question. Althusser's academic star really reaches zenith (in terms of publications) in the 1960s. But I think Althusser and Sartre were in frequent communication through the French Communist Party, but also connect a