Skitse til en teori om følelserne

by Jean-Paul Sartre, Pihl-Grafisk Design v/Trine Louise Pihl Hansen (Cover), Jens Eisenhardt (Translation)

Hvilken betydning har følelserne? I hvilken forstand hører de med til en menneskelig eksistens? Det er sådanne spørgsmål, den franske filosof Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-80) stiller i denne bog.


Sartre argumenterer for en ’fænomenologisk’ psykologi som alternativ til den traditionelle psykologi. I denne argumentation præsenteres vi for centrale fænomenologiske begreber som ’bevidsthed’ og ’verden’. Hvad følelsen ’betyder’ er den menneskelige tilværelse som en væren-i-verden. For Sartre er ’følelsernes verden’ en magisk verden, der ligner drømmens, men den er samtidig en måde at opdage verden på. Paradoksalt nok viser det sig, at mennesket har en frihed over for verden, selv om det måske kun er en frihed til at unddrage sig.


Denne lille bog udkom oprindeligt i 1939 og foregriber på flere måder Sartres første filosofiske hovedværk Væren og intet fra 1943.


Skitse til en teori om følelserne udkom for første gang på dansk i 1969 og genudgives nu i Hans Reitzels Forlags serie Klassikere.

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Published February 14, 2022

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Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic, considered a leading figure in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism. Sartre was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism (and phenomenology). His work has influenced sociology, critical theory, post-colonial theory, and literary studies. He was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature despite attempting to refuse it, saying that he always declined official honors and that "a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution."
Sartre held an open relationship with prominent feminist and fellow existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir. Together, Sartre and de Beauvoir challenged the cultural and social assumptions and expectations of their upbringings, which they considered bourgeois, in both lifestyles and thought. The conflict between oppressive, spiritually destructive conformity (mauvaise foi, literally, 'bad faith') and an "authentic" way of "being" became the dominant theme of Sartre's early work, a theme embodied in his principal philosophical work Being and Nothingness (L'Être et le Néant, 1943). Sartre's introduction to his philosophy is his work Existentialism Is a Humanism (L'existentialisme est un humanisme, 1946), originally presented as a lecture.