SARTRE’S VIOLENT MAN AS A GNOSTIC NIHILIST

Sartre’s description of violence from his often-neglected Notebooks for an Ethics can be analyzed from a psychological point of view in relationship with other negative passions like hatred, fury, pain and sufferance. Literary characters such as Seneca’s Medea or Anouilh’s Antigone seem to embody t...

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Main Author: Ştefan BOLEA
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Published: Babeș-Bolyai University 2017-08-01
Series:Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Philosophia
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Online Access:https://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbphilosophia/article/view/3278
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description Sartre’s description of violence from his often-neglected Notebooks for an Ethics can be analyzed from a psychological point of view in relationship with other negative passions like hatred, fury, pain and sufferance. Literary characters such as Seneca’s Medea or Anouilh’s Antigone seem to embody this fundamental characteristic of violence: the alliance with an ontological striving for destruction. In this paper we provide an interpretation of the Sartrean portrait of the violent man, analyzing its connections with his existential doctrine from Being and Nothingness, and its affinity with modern nihilism (Nietzsche and Cioran) and Gnostic dualism (Catharism and Manicheanism).
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spelling doaj-art-fe424b7cc486497bbcef716f30cf28872025-08-20T03:15:57ZdeuBabeș-Bolyai UniversityStudia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Philosophia2065-94072017-08-0162210.24193/subbphil.2017.2.01SARTRE’S VIOLENT MAN AS A GNOSTIC NIHILISTŞtefan BOLEA0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2030-6536Researcher PhD, Faculty of Philosophy, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Email: stefan.bolea@gmail.com. Sartre’s description of violence from his often-neglected Notebooks for an Ethics can be analyzed from a psychological point of view in relationship with other negative passions like hatred, fury, pain and sufferance. Literary characters such as Seneca’s Medea or Anouilh’s Antigone seem to embody this fundamental characteristic of violence: the alliance with an ontological striving for destruction. In this paper we provide an interpretation of the Sartrean portrait of the violent man, analyzing its connections with his existential doctrine from Being and Nothingness, and its affinity with modern nihilism (Nietzsche and Cioran) and Gnostic dualism (Catharism and Manicheanism). https://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbphilosophia/article/view/3278destruction, freedom, transcendence, facticity, Gnosticism, nihilism, existentialism
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SARTRE’S VIOLENT MAN AS A GNOSTIC NIHILIST
Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Philosophia
destruction, freedom, transcendence, facticity, Gnosticism, nihilism, existentialism
title SARTRE’S VIOLENT MAN AS A GNOSTIC NIHILIST
title_full SARTRE’S VIOLENT MAN AS A GNOSTIC NIHILIST
title_fullStr SARTRE’S VIOLENT MAN AS A GNOSTIC NIHILIST
title_full_unstemmed SARTRE’S VIOLENT MAN AS A GNOSTIC NIHILIST
title_short SARTRE’S VIOLENT MAN AS A GNOSTIC NIHILIST
title_sort sartre s violent man as a gnostic nihilist
topic destruction, freedom, transcendence, facticity, Gnosticism, nihilism, existentialism
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