READING ON NAUSEA AND THE IMMORALIST THROUGH EXISTENTIALISM

Diva Wenanda

doi:10.21107/prosodi.v15i2.12180

READING ON NAUSEA AND THE IMMORALIST THROUGH EXISTENTIALISM

Prosodi ◽

10.21107/prosodi.v15i2.12180 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 15 (2) ◽

pp. 135-139

Author(s):

Diva Wenanda

Keyword(s):

Andre Gide ◽

Jean Paul ◽

The Individual ◽

André Gide

The concept of existentialism is that the existence of a person is prior to their essence. The term "existence precedes essence" subsequently became a maxim of the existentialist movement. Put simply, this means that there is nothing to dictate that person's character, goals in life, and so on; that only the individual can define their essence. This study discussed existentialism in Nausea by Jean Paul Sartre and The Immoralist by Andre Gide, through Roquentin and Michel as the Characters. Roquentin and Michels, they tend to have an absolute freedom, means there is no influence from outside. What they actually want sometimes lies no motives why they are doing that thing.

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Sexuality, Authenticity, and Modernity

Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence ◽

10.1017/s0841820900003088 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 67-82 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Leslie Green

Keyword(s):

Central Theme ◽

Andre Gide ◽

States Of Affairs ◽

Living Well ◽

The Individual ◽

André Gide ◽

Or History

In his Journals for 26 December 1921, André Gide wrote:The borrowed truths are the ones to which one clings most tenaciously, and all the more so since they remain foreign to our intimate self. It takes much more precaution to deliver one's own message, much more boldness and prudence, than to sign up with and add one's voice to an already existing party .... I believed that it is above all to oneself that it is important to remain faithful.This celebration of fidelity to oneself gives voice to a central theme of modern consciousness: the search for authenticity. The idea that there is an ‘intimate self’ whose needs cannot be fulfilled by following ‘borrowed truths’ is a familiar modern notion and one that contrasts sharply with traditional outlooks. In many pre-modern societies value was believed to be less responsive to the individual: gods, natures, or history were the sort of things that inscribed value on states of affairs, and thus on our lives. Living well was not, therefore, a matter of being true to ourselves, but being true to our creators, natures, or traditions. Moral truths were precisely those things that were borrowed; that was what made them true

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‘A Petty Form of Suffering’

Body & Society ◽

10.1177/1357034x18760176 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 24 (1-2) ◽

pp. 88-102

Author(s):

Naomi Segal

Keyword(s):

Social World ◽

Social Contexts ◽

Andre Gide ◽

Book Of Job ◽

Diary Entry ◽

Jean Paul ◽

The Social ◽

Skin Ego ◽

André Gide

‘Itching is a petty form of suffering,’ wrote André Gide in 1931. Itching may be occasional or obsessive; it positions a person inside a body that exists in familial and social contexts; it can be evoked in debates about righteousness and justice. This article begins with discussion of the work of Didier Anzieu, psychoanalyst author of The Skin-ego: among the nine ‘functions’ of the skin-ego that Anzieu describes, the last is ‘toxicity’, the skin turned against itself in a gesture of self-destruction. In my discussion of three other texts, I connect Gide’s diary entry to his sexuality; Lorette Nobécourt’s novel to the social world; the book of Job to the metaphysics of virtue; and to these I append two semi-comic moments from Jean-Paul Sartre and Sarah Winman, and discussions of ‘leprosy’ and psoriasis, two versions of feeling (in both senses) that one has a skin.

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Jérémy Cerrano, ed.,Pierre-Victor Galland, 1822-1892: Un Tiepolo français au XIXe siècle. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 2006. 232 pp., 266 color pls., 13 b/w ills., bibliog. Paper, EUR 35.Jean-Paul Bouillon, ed.,Maurice Denis (1870-1943)., exh. cat. Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2006. 304 pp., 242 color pls., 26 b/w ills., 1 map, 2 appendixes, bibliog., index. Paper, EUR 39.Jean-Paul Bouillon,Maurice Denis: Six essais. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 2006. 191 pp., 46 color pls., bibliog., index. Paper, EUR 23.André Gide and Maurice Denis,Correspondance 1892-1945., ed., Pierre Masson and Carina Schäfer with, Claire Denis. Paris: Gallimard, 2006. 421 pp., 89 b/w ills., 4 appendixes, index. Paper, EUR 25.Agnès Delannoy ,Maurice Denis: La Légende de saint Hubert 1896-1897. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 1999. 132 pp., 123 color pls., 24 b/w ills., bibliog., 3 appendixes. EUR 15.

Studies in the Decorative Arts ◽

10.1086/652854 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

pp. 210-217

Author(s):

Rossella Froissart-Pezone

Keyword(s):

Andre Gide ◽

Jean Paul ◽

Xixe Siecle ◽

André Gide ◽

Xixe Siècle

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Jean-Paul Bouillon. Maurice Denis : le spirituel dans l’art ; André Gide — Maurice Denis : correspondances 1892-1945 ; Maurice Denis (1870-1943)

Critique d’art ◽

10.4000/critiquedart.891 ◽

2007 ◽

Author(s):

Marianne Jakobi

Keyword(s):

Andre Gide ◽

Jean Paul ◽

André Gide

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Gewalt und Kommunikation

Phänomenologische Forschungen ◽

10.28937/1000107819 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 2011 (1) ◽

pp. 5-28

Author(s):

Jens Bonnemann

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Moral Philosophy ◽

The Other ◽

Practical Philosophy ◽

Valuable Contribution ◽

Human Species ◽

Normal Case ◽

Jean Paul ◽

Philosophy Of Dialogue ◽

The Individual

In ethics, when discussing problems of justice and a just social existence one question arises obviously: What is the normal case of the relation between I and you we start from? In moral philosophy, each position includes basic socio-anthropological convictions in that we understand the other, for example, primarily as competitor in the fight for essential resources or as a partner in communication. Thus, it is not the human being as isolated individual, or as specimen of the human species or socialised member of a historical society what needs to be understood. Instead, the individual in its relation to the other or others has been studied in phenomenology and the philosophy of dialogue of the twentieth century. In the following essay I focus on Martin Buber’s and Jean-Paul Sartre’s theories of intersubjectivity which I use in order to explore the meaning of recognition and disrespect for an individual. They offer a valuable contribution to questions of practical philosophy and the socio-philosophical diagnosis of our time.

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