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Jean-Paul Sartre's technical and multifaceted concept of magic is central for understanding crucial elements of his early philosophy (1936-1943), not least his conception of the ego, emotion, the imaginary and value.
Daniel O'Shiel follows the thread of magic throughout Sartre's early philosophical work. Firstly, Sartre's work on the ego (1936) shows a personal, reflective form of consciousness that is magically hypostasized onto the pre-reflective level. Secondly, emotion (1938) is inherently magical for Sartre because emotive qualities come to inhere in objects and thereby transform a world of pragmatism into one of captivation. Thirdly, analyses of The Imaginary (1940) reveal that anything we imagine is a spontaneous creation of consciousness that has the power to enchant and immerse us, even to the point of images holding sway over us. Culminating with Sartre's ontological system of Being and Nothingness (1943), O'Shiel argues that Sartre does not do away with the concept, but in fact provides ontological roots for it. This is most evident in Sartre's analyses of value, possession and language.
A second part shows how such Sartrean magic is highly relevant for a number of concrete case studies: the arts, advertising, racism and stupidity, and certain instances of psychopathology. O'Shiel shows that Sartre's magical being is important for any contemporary philosophical anthropology because it is essentially at work at the heart of many of our most significant experiences, both creative and damaging.
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction: Magic, Sartre and his melting pot
PART I. MAGIC IN SARTRE'S EARLY PHILOSOPHY (1936-1943)
Chapter 1. Self- and Public Bewitchment: Sartre's Ego (1936)
1.1. The ego as object pole of reflective consciousness
1.2. States, actions and qualities of the ego
1.3. The ego's magic
1.4. Interpersonality and magic
Chapter 2. Transforming Worlds: Sartre on Emotion (1938)
2.1. Transforming the world: emotive consciousness
2.2. The world transforming: Others and emotion
2.3. Centrifugal and centripetal: magic as the unifying element to Sartre's emotive consciousness
Chapter 3. Evoking Absence: Sartre's Imaginary (1940)
3.1. Situating Sartre's imaginary: between perception and concept
3.2. Experiencing and evoking absence: perception, imagination and the analogon
3.3. The magic of the imaginary, and its complications
Chapter 4. Magic Ontologized: Being and Nothingness (1943)
4.1. Sartre's ontological categories
4.1.1. Being-in-itself
4.1.2. Being-for-itself
4.1.3. Being-for-others
4.2. Sartre's trinity of ontological affectivity: nausea, anguish and shame
4.3. The impossible synthesis: facticity, value and magic
4.4. Possession and quality
4.5. Language and the magic of the other
Interlude
PART II. SARTREAN MAGIC IN OPERATION
Chapter 5. Magic and the Arts
5.1. Play, artistic creation and magic
5.2. Sartre, literature and philosophy
Chapter 6. Advertising
6.1. Advertising and its magic
6.2. Advertising, the market and rising technology
Chapter 7. Racism and Other Figures of Magical Non-Thinking
7.1 Not thinking, like a stone: Sartre on racism and stupidity
7.2. Magical non-thought, society and philosophy
Chapter 8. Magic and Psychopathology
8.1. Hypercaptivation: dreams and psychopathology
8.2. The case of Schreber: a Sartrean reading
Final remarks: Sartrean Magic, Philosophy and the Future
Notes
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