Absence and trauma in the being for-it-self: A reading of Jean-Paul Sartre’s ontology from Dominick LaCapra

Authors

  • Rafael Pérez Baquero a:1:{s:5:"es_ES";s:21:"Universidad de Murcia";} Spain

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24310/Contrastescontrastes.v26i3.10399

Keywords:

trauma, absence, Sartre, being for-it-self, intersbujectivity

Abstract

This paper aims at delving further into the notions of Sartre´s ontological phenomenology by means of hermeneutic analysis provided by Dominick LaCapra’s intellectual history. LaCapra’s ideas stand out for its potentiality when it comes to address how some intellectuals from the 20th have dealt with the experience of violence and uncertainty stemming from their historical context. With a view to taking forward this hermeneutic background, this paper explores Sartre’s ideas on the being of consciousness, intersubjectivity and the existential project by endorsing the lens provided by LaCapra’s works.

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Author Biography

Rafael Pérez Baquero, a:1:{s:5:"es_ES";s:21:"Universidad de Murcia";}

Rafael Pérez Baquero held a Phd in Philosophy at the University of Murcia (Spain), with a Fellowship by Spanish Ministry of Education. His doctoral dissertation was entitle Narrating History, Remembering Trauma: Memory and Forgetfulness of Spanish Civil War, eighty years later. Philosophy Graduate by University of Murcia (2009-2013). MA in Theoretical and Practical Philosophy, and University Expert in Social Memory and Human Rights (2018), by UNED (2013-2014). Visiting Researcher at Romance Studies Department, Cornell University and at Languages and Cultures Department, Birkbeck. University of London. His investigation attempts to delve into the definition of the dynamics and influences that arise between collective memory and the writing of history; in order to apply this theoretical background to the Spanish case. Specifically, he intends to explore the evolution of the memory of the Civil War (1936-39) during the democratic transition and thereafter.

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Published

2021-07-20

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Pérez Baquero, R. (2021). Absence and trauma in the being for-it-self: A reading of Jean-Paul Sartre’s ontology from Dominick LaCapra. Contrastes. Revista Internacional De Filosofía, 26(3), 89–109. https://doi.org/10.24310/Contrastescontrastes.v26i3.10399

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