#jean paul satre

[blackswaneuroparedux]

His [Foucault's] vision of European culture as the institutionalised form of oppressive power is taught everywhere as gospel, to students who have neither the culture nor the religion to resist it. Only in France is he widely regarded as a fraud.

- Roger Scruton on Michel Foucault

During student protests in Paris in 1968, Roger Scruton, a francophile, watched students overturn cars to erect barricades and tear up cobblestones to throw at police. It was at that moment he realised he was a conservative.

For Scruton, he didn’t think much of Jean Paul Satre, the father of existentialism, who cobbled together the essence of his philosophy from Alexandre Kojève's reading of Hegel in his famous seminar at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in the 1930s. His listeners included Bataille, Aron, Merleau-Ponty, Lacan and Simone de Beauvoir. Each of them drew something different from him. For Sartre, the idea of the self-created individual with radical freedom. Expressed very early on in La nausée, this freedom is a source of anguish for a consciousness which not only considers that the surrounding world has no meaning other than that which it can possibly confer on it, but which experiences itself as a kind of nothingness.

How, starting from such a philosophy, does Sartre arrive at the idea of commitment to revolution and socialism? It is a mystery. Scruton wrote, "According to the metaphysics enunciated in Being and Nothingness, the correct answer to the question "To what shall I commit myself?" should be: What does it matter, as long as you can want it as a law for yourself." "But this is not the answer offered by Sartre, whose commitment is to an ideal that is at odds with his own philosophy.”

With his theory of episteme, Foucault gives us a new version of the Marxist concept of ideology.

Despite what some might think, Scruton wasn’t entirely dismissive of Foucault whose thought was more subtle and interesting than Sartre’s. Scruton confesses a certain tenderness for Michel Foucault's style, for his flamboyant imagination. But Scruton does not see his archaeology of knowledge as a great innovation. According to a habit shared by many French left-wing intellectuals, like Sartre himself, Foucault intended to tear away the veils behind which the relations of domination are hidden, to unmask the deceptions of others. With Sartre, it was in the name of a vague nostalgia for personal authenticity. Foucault, on the other hand, looked for the secret structures of power behind all institutions - and even at work in language.

But the historical horizon on which Foucault projected this quest, which postulated a rupture between the "classical age" of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and the bourgeois world that would follow the French Revolution, showed that, despite his claims, Foucault had remained a prisoner of Marxism. Moreover, as Scruton would write, “his theory of episteme is a rehash of the Marxist theory of ideology. Moreover, he considers power only from the perspective of domination. “

But the main criticism that Scruton finds fault with Foucault is the one found in the post-enlightenment thinkers: relativism. If each era generates the discursive formations that correspond to its system of power, including the sciences, then truth does not exist. Everything is discourse...

Photo: Jean-Paul Satre and Michel Foucault take a stand during the Paris Student Riots, May 1968.

#scruton #roger scruton #quote #michel foucault #jean paul satre #satre #postmodernism #relativism #philosophy #society #europe #education #learning #students #universities #leftist thinkers #may riots 1968 #paris #france

[darkacademiaposts]

i make coffee. i pretend i’m in love with the idea of being alive. i make a point not to stare at the knives sitting on the counter top by the stove

#jean paul satre

[liesandbrokenhearts]

you where reading philosophy some time ago, is there new book or interesting thing that you have found in your exploration?

Oh yeah I was really into phenomenology awhile ago! I was trying to get into a lot back then, I miss it but now since I have a job I just have a zombie brain that seeks out no new information when I’m not working it’s really sad. I wanna read a couple books though I could list and stuff I want to try to get to though

#ask #anon #Jean Paul satre

[convolv0]

Cercare di leggere un libro perché il mio main blorbo l'ha letto e annoiarsi a morte mi sembra criminale but here we are

#angel ats #angel btvs #la nausea Satre #jean paul satre

[hairtusk]

Jean-Paul Satre, Antisemite and Jew (1944)

#i read this essay for the first time a few years ago #and it's really haunted my view of my own beauty and sexuality ever since #but he's right. as he often is. :(( #satre #jean paul sartre #antisemitism #misogyny

[jhadengaforever]

#philosophy #existentialism #jean-paul satre #simone de beauvoir #amazing

[faultyfoundations]

Sam and Dean as Electra and Orestes from The Flies by Jean-Paul Satre.

#sam winchester #dean winchester #spn #supernatural #spnedits #web weaving #comparative #sammy sunday #gnawing on their early season relationship like its a chew toy in the corner

[ddarker-dreams]

☾ book recommendations: *✲⋆.

my all time favorites:

the brothers karamazov by fyodor dostoevsky

notes from underground by fyodor dostoevsky

the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde

frankenstein by mary shelly

the plague by albert camus

we have always lived in the castle by shirley jackson

others that i'd recommend:

break the body, haunt the bones by micah dean hicks

tomie by junji ito

uzumaki by junji ito

berserk by kento miura

the haunting of hill house by shirley jackson

i have no mouth, and i must scream by harlan ellison

the tell-tale heart by edgar allen poe

the cask of amontillado by edgar allen poe

rebecca by daphne du maurier

wuthering heights by emily brontë

dune by frank herbert

a shadow over innsmouth by h. p. lovecraft

the color out of space by h. p. lovecraft

the dunwich horror by h. p. lovecraft

crime and punishment by fyodor dostoevsky

demons by fyodor dostoevsky

the idiot by fyodor dostoevsky

jane eyre by charlotte brontë

animal farm by george orwell

do androids dream of electric sheep? by philip k. dick

a long fatal love chase by louisa may alcott

the stranger by albert camus

the metamorphosis by franz kafka

the trial by franz kafka

dragonwyck by anya seton

discipline and punish by michel foucalt

the castle of otranto by horace walpole

faust by johann wolfgang von goethe

the fall by albert camus

the myth of sisyphus by albert camus

the strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde by robert louis stevenson

blood meridian by cormac mccarthy (do look into the content warnings though, there's heavy violence/depictions of 1840s-1850s racism)

the death of ivan ilyich by leo tolstoy

the dead by james joyce

the overcoat by nikolai gogol

dead souls by nikolai gogol

hiroshima by john hersey

useful fictions: evolution, anxiety, and the origins of literature by michael austin

no exit by jean paule satre

candide by voltaire

white nights by fyodor dostoevsky

notes from a dead house by fyodor dostoevsky

the shock doctrine by naomi klein

#i'll keep on adding to this as i continue reading!!! #recommendations

[belle-keys]

Whats classic books you find underrated?

Oh, another question I love! This one is a little bit harder because most classics books (especially by white English-speaking writers) get their clout and more. But still, there's some books that I wish would get more mainstream hype.

Beloved by Toni Morrison. I know she's extremely popular in the US and that she has a whole-ass Nobel Prize. She's one of the greats! But I still want to hear this book in people's mouths more when we discuss the most exceptional modern classics.

No Exit by Jean-Paul Satre. Really encapsulates everything pertinent about existential thought. Gave us The Good Place. "Hell is other people". Amazing.

A House For Mr. Biswas by VS Naipaul. Appreciated in nicher circles, I guess, but I'd love to see a Trinidadian author (yes, I know he was like, evil, but still) get more flowers on a mainstream level.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë. Stop leaving my girlie out of the Brontë conversations, please and thanks!

A Separate Peace by John Knowles. Is this the original dark academia bildungsroman? Donna Tartt what are you doing on the floor?! Anyway, I feel sorry for people who didn't read this as a kid or adolescent.

#classics #classic literature #classic lit #english literature #english lit #french literature #toni morrison #vs naipaul #jean paul sartre #no exit #huis clos #a separate peace #anne bronte #the tenant of wildfell hall #gothic literature #favourite books #book blog #books and literature #dark academia

[moonah-rose]

Julian: It's so unfair. Why couldn't I have died with a bunch of my Conservative chums? Instead I'm trapped here for eternity with you lot.

Thomas: Jean-Paul Satre said that Hell is being trapped forever in a room with your friends.

Julian: Thomas, all his mates were French!

#incorrect bbc ghosts #source: red dwarf #bbc ghosts #julian fawcett #thomas thorne

[joeinct]

Jean-Paul Satre by Antanas Sutkus, 1965

#antanas sutkus #jean-paul sartre

[liesandbrokenhearts]

#play #no exit #jean Paul satre

[sextonpistol666]

♡ books for deranged philosophising girlies in an existential crisis ♡

-nausea by jean-paul satre

-thus spoke zarathustra by friedrich nietzsche

-letters from a stoic by lucius annaeus seneca

-beyond good and evil by friedrich nietzsche

-republic by plato

-nicomachean ethics by aristotle

-ethics by benedict de spinoza

-the stranger by albert camus

#girlblogging #books

[thevagabondexpress]

"relics and standards.docx" for WIP Wednesday, please!

"Bad dream," said Woodsworth. "Weird dream. Weird bad dream. Jean-Paul Satre acid trip gone wrong kind of a dream. Never had anything like this before."

#wake the terror #relics & standards

[doctorbunny]

MILGRAM fandom extra reading recommendation:

An older Philosphy Tube video, in which Abby discusses her experiences in an abusive relationship, how love can be used against you and Jean Paul Satre's play No Exit

#milgram #ミルグラム #Youtube

[callmearcturus]

Hi I have been thinking about this and vibrating all day and I thought you might like to chew on it: Can we talk about the fact that Dave is the only one of the beta kids whose bedroom is drawn without an exit? (John and Rose both have doors and Jade has stairs; Dave has a closet where a bedroom door would otherwise be.)

me, in my best Detective Pony drawl: Oh shit would you look at that, I do so love a reference to the great French existentialist Jean-Paul Satre. Of course, No Exit has only three characters, two women and a man, coincidentally the same configuration of Dave's companions. Thus Dave metaphorically plays the unspoken fourth character in No Exit, the audience, trapped in the same room as blah blah blah blah blah

me, srs: okay but the funny thing about Dave is in Collide the beta kids all get a moment that acknowledges their origins to when they matured as people and while John, jade, and rose are shown to have made that journey around the time of their godtiering, Dave's is tacitly said to have been not when he godtiered but on the meteor which feels like it fits in neatly there.

#whomstve