The Work of Sartre by Meszaros Istvan

Author:Meszaros, Istvan [Meszaros, Istvan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2012-06-30T23:00:00+00:00

Inevitably, if this is the ontological structure of being, then the deepest ontological meaning of human reality cannot be other than suffering, and the consciousness of this human reality must be defined as an ontologically unhappy consciousness: an approach which, again, radically liquidates all historical connotations of Hegel’s concept of “unhappy consciousness”:

. . . human reality arises as such in the presence of its own totality or self as a lack of that totality. . . . it combines in itself the incompatible characteristics of the In-itself and the For-itself. . . . The being of human reality is suffering because it rises in being as perpetually haunted by a totality which it is without being able to be it, precisely because it could not attain the In-itself without losing itself as For-itself. Human reality therefore is by nature an unhappy consciousness with no possibility of surpassing its unhappy state. (90)

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