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The ‘Magical World’ of Emotions and Its Triumph: on the Ontological Inconsistency in Sartre’s Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions
Sophia Pub Date : 2020-06-01 , DOI: 10.1007/s11841-020-00775-8
Renxiang Liu

In this paper, I explore the ontological implication of Sartre’s and Heidegger’s phenomenological accounts of emotion. I start by looking at Sartre’s notion of the ‘magical world’ in his booklet Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions, showing how emotion, for him, reveals the overall structure of ‘human reality’ rather than a dispensable aspect of it. Discussing experiences of the magical world allowed Sartre to ‘bracket’ what he called ‘the determinism of the world’, which predominated naturalist-representationalist psychology of emotion in his time. Then I derive from Sartre’s account of emotion an ontological implication, i.e., that the world is primarily magical. Without at once deciding whether this applies to Sartre, I exhibit how radical it can get by examining Heidegger’s more consistent account of emotion in Being and Time. There, it turns out that the determinist, neutral world championed by representationalism relies on an ‘emotionless emotion’ and thus is not fundamental. Finally, I suggest that, while textual evidences in Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions are inconsistent and allow a strong and a weak interpretation of its ontological implication, the former should be favored in consideration of Sartre’s later development.

中文翻译:

情感的“魔法世界”及其胜利:论萨特的情感理论素描中的本体论不一致

在这篇论文中,我探讨了萨特和海德格尔关于情绪的现象学解释的本体论含义。我首先看萨特在他的小册子《情感理论素描》中关于“魔法世界”的概念,展示了情感对他来说是如何揭示“人类现实”的整体结构,而不是它的一个可有可无的方面。讨论魔法世界的经历使萨特能够“支持”他所谓的“世界的决定论”,这在他那个时代主导了自然主义-表现主义的情感心理学。然后我从萨特对情感的描述中推导出一种本体论的含义,即世界主要是神奇的。我没有立即决定这是否适用于萨特,而是通过检查海德格尔在《存在与时间》中对情感的更一致的描述来展示它可以变得多么激进。那里,事实证明,表征主义所倡导的决定论的、中立的世界依赖于一种“无情的情感”,因此不是根本性的。最后,我建议,虽然《情感理论素描》中的文本证据不一致,并允许对其本体论含义的强弱解释,但考虑到萨特后来的发展,前者应该受到青睐。
更新日期:2020-06-01
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