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Sartre’owskie medytacje
Sartre’s Meditations

Author(s): Camille Riquier
Subject(s): Metaphysics, Phenomenology
Published by: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Sartre; Descartes; freedom; existential psychoanalysis; metaphysics;

Summary/Abstract: Passing through the German phenomenological influences of Husserl and Heidegger, Sartre’s philosophy does not break the resistant bond that firmly fixes his thought to the Cartesian tradition. Instead it seems that Sartre’s investigation finds in the field of phenomenology a powerful relay and some meaningful resources to keep on questioning some Cartesian problems and, on the other hand, to clarify and to appropriate those theories which have been gleaned from Descartes’ philosophy. This paper aims at describing how Sartre’s philosophy, rising against the official shape of Cartesianism, brings an unusual Descartes forth. Following this different interpretation the path of the Meditations on First Philosophy could be travelled once again in an original and innovative way, giving a new life to Descartes’ thought.

  • Issue Year: 62/2017
  • Issue No: 62supl.
  • Page Range: 75-93
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Polish