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Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions ( French: Esquisse d'une théorie des émotions) is a 1939 book by the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. This work contains some of his thoughts about human and emotions. Some of his ideas later appeared in his masterpiece Being and Nothingness .
- Jean Paul Sartre
- France
- 1939
- Esquisse d'une théorie des émotions
This brilliant short work - which contains some of the principal ideas later to appear in his masterpiece Being and Nothingness - is Sartre at his best: insightful, engaging and controversial. Far from constraining one's freedom, as we often think, Sartre argues that emotions are fundamental to it and that an emotion is nothing less than 'a ...
- London
- 1st Edition
Published in 1939, the Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions culminates in an extended “Outline for a Phenomenological Theory”, whose aim is to do justice to the signification of the emotion, by revealing which aspects of reality are signified, in what way, and to what purpose, when one is emotionally engaged with the world.
In the Sketch Sartre identifies three components of every emotional experience: an intentional act, an observable behavior, and a physical change. His task is to convince the reader that they are moments of. an act of consciousness. Emotion is essentially an intentional act because it requires an object to exist (57).
- Sartre’s Life
- Early Works
- The Ontology of Being and Nothingness
- The For-Itself in Being and Nothingness
- Relations with Others in Being and Nothingness
- Authenticity
- Other Contributions to Existential Phenomenology
- Conclusion
- References and Further Reading
Sartre was born in 1905 in Paris. After a childhood marked by the early death of his father, the important role played by his grandfather, and some rather unhappy experiences at school, Sartre finished High School at the Lycée Henri IV in Paris. After two years of preparation, he gained entrance to the prestigious Ecole Normale Supérieure, where, f...
Sartre’s early work is characterised by phenomenological analyses involving his own interpretation of Husserl’s method. Sartre’s methodology is Husserlian (as demonstrated in his paper “Intentionality: a fundamental ideal of Husserl’s phenomenology”) insofar as it is a form of intentional and eidetic analysis. This means that the acts by which cons...
Being and Nothingnesscan be characterized as a phenomenological investigation into the nature of what it is to be human, and thus be seen as a continuation of, and expansion upon, themes characterising the early works. In contrast with these however, an ontology is presented at the outset and guides the whole development of the investigation. One o...
The structure and characteristics of the for-itself are the main focal point of the phenomenological analyses of Being and Nothingness. Here, the theme of consciousness’s power of negation is explored in its different ramifications. These bring out the core claims of Sartre’s existential account of the human condition.
So far, we have presented the analysis of the for-itself without investigating how different individual for-itself’s interact. Far from neglecting the issue of inter-subjectivity, this represents an important part of Sartre’s phenomenological analysis in which the main themes discussed above receive their confirmation in, and extension to the inter...
If the picture which emerges from Sartre’s examination of human relationships seems rather hopeless, it is because bad faith is omnipresent and inescapable. In fact, Sartre’s philosophy has a very positive message which is that we have infinite freedom and that this enables us to make authentic choices which escape from the grip of bad faith. To un...
If Being and Nothingnessrepresents the culmination of Sartre’s purely existentialist work, existentialism permeates later writings, albeit in a hybrid form. We shall briefly indicate how these later writings extend and transform his project of existential phenomenology.
Sartre’s existentialist understanding of what it is to be human can be summarised in his view that the underlying motivation for action is to be found in the nature of consciousness which is a desire for being. It is up to each agent to exercise his freedom in such a way that he does not lose sight of his existence as a facticity, as well as a free...
a. Sartre’s Works
1. “Intentionality: a Fundamental Ideal of Husserl’s Phenomenology” (1970) transl. J.P.Fell, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 1 (2), 4-5. 2. Psychology of the Imagination(1972) transl. Bernard Frechtman, Methuen, London. 3. Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions (1971) transl. Philip Mairet, Methuen, London. 4. The Transcendence of the Ego: An Existentialist Theory of Consciousness(1957) transl. and ed. Forrest Williams and Robert Kirkpatrick, Noonday, New York. 5. Being and Not...
b. Commentaries
1. Caws, P. (1979) Sartre, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London. 2. Danto, A. C. (1991) Sartre, Fontana, London. 3. Howells, C. (1988) Sartre: The Necessity of Freedom, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 4. Howells, C. ed. (1992) Cambridge Companion to Sartre, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 5. Murdoch, I. (1987) Sartre: Romantic Rationalist, Chatto and Windus, London. 6. Natanson, M. (1972) A Critique of Jean-Paul Sartre’s Ontology, Haskell House Publishers, New York. 7. Schilpp, P. A...
Author Information
Christian J. Onof Email: c.onof@imperial.ac.uk University College, London United Kingdom
Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions. Jean-Paul Sartre. Routledge ( 1971 ) Copy BIBTEX. Abstract. Although written fairly early in his career, in 1939, _Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions_ is considered to be one of Jean-Paul Sartre's most important pieces of writing.
Although written fairly early in his career, in 1939, Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions is considered to be one of Jean-Paul Sartre's most important pieces of writing. It not only...
