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Play in the work of Jean-Paul Sartre
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Rethinking Existentialism in Psychotherapy, London, UK13 January 2016
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‘Renouncing the ivory tower, I should like the world to appear to me in its full, threatening reality – but I do not, therefore, want my life to stop being a game. That’s why I subscribe whole-heartedly to Schiller’s phrase: “Man is fully a man only when he plays.”’
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Play Vs.
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“…play…the least possessive attitude; it strips the real of its reality” (BN, 580)
“The serious man is “of the world” and has no resource in himself.” (BN, 580)
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“Play … releases subjectivity … As soon as a man apprehends himself as free and wishes to use his freedom, a freedom, by the way which could just as well be his anguish, then is activity is play.” (BN, 580-581)
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“…The first principle of play is man himself; through it he escapes his natural nature; he himself sets and value and rules for his acts and consent to play only according to the rules which he himself has established and defined.” (BN, 581)
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“This particular type of project, which has freedom for its foundation and its goal, deserves a special study. It is radically different from all others in that it aims at a radically different type of being.” (BN, 581)
Concluding remarks…
Bibliography
Anderson, T.C. (1993) Sartre’s Two Ethics: From Authenticity to Integral Humanity. Chicago, IL: Open Court. Bell, L.A. (1989) Sartre’s Ethics of Authenticity. London: The University of Alabama Press. Pitt, R. (2013) Who is the Revolutionary in Being and Nothingness? in Severally Seeking Sartre (ed. O’Donohoe, B.) (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK)Pitt, R. (2013) Play and Being in John-Paul Sartre’s Being and Nothingness in The Philosophy of Play (eds. Maclean, M; Russell, W; & Ryall, E.) (Routledge, UK)Pitt, R. (2012) Jean-Paul Sartre and the Question of Emancipation. Ph.D. thesis. University of Essex. Sartre, J.-P. (1996). Being and Nothingness (H. E. Barnes, Trans.). UK: Routledge.Sartre, J.-P. (1999). War diaries: Notebooks from a phoney war 1939-40 (Q. Hoare, Trans.). London, UK: Verso. Zheng, Y. (2001) ‘On Pure Reflection in Sartre’s Being and Nothingness’. Sartre Studies International, 7(1): 19–42.Zheng, Y. (2002) ‘Sartre on Authenticity’. Sartre Studies International, 8(2): 127–140. Zheng, Y. (2005) Ontology and Ethics in Sartre’s Early Philosophy. Oxford: Lexington Books.