CONSCIOUSNESS (NOTHINGNESS) AND RADICAL CONTINGENCY IN SARTRE: Between Philosophy and Literature
Sartre.Consciousness.Contingency. Existence.
This dissertation analyzes the relationship between consciousness (nothingness) and radical contingency in the philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), taking as its main axis The Transcendence of the Ego and Nausea. It argues that, in distinct registers, these works allow us to clarify consciousness as negativity and openness to the world, as well as the radical contingency of existence. From this, it investigates in what sense the articulation between philosophy and literature contributes to explicating the concrete human condition, without reducing literature to mere conceptual illustration. Finally, it discusses how the absence of a prior foundation for existence opens the field of the subject's self-constitution in the world.