References
- Bronislaw Malinowski, Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays (Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1954), pp. 85–87.
- Jean-Paul Sartre, Esquisse d'une théorie des émotions (Paris: Hermann, 1939). In English, The Emotions: Outline of a Theory, trans, by Bernard Frechtman (New York: Philosophical Library, 1948), pp. 68–70.
- L'Imaginaire: Psychologie phénoménologique de l'imagination (Paris: Gallimard, 1940), p. 161. In English, The Psychology of Imagination, trans, anon. (New York: Philosophical Library, 1948. London, Rider, 1949.) I have used my own translation.
- Joseph P. Fell, III, Emotion in the Thought of Sartre (New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1965), p. 44.
- The quotation is from “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” This distinction between simile and metaphor and the commentary on the Eliot quotation I have taken from an unpublished master's thesis by James D. Carmine, “Metaphor and Imagination: A Sartrean Approach” (University of Colorado at Boulder, 1980).
- Sartre, L'Idiot de la famille (Paris: Gallimard, Vols. I and II, 1971, Vol. III, 1972). All translations from this work are my own. I have discussed most of this material more fully, though in a different context, in my book Sartre and Flaubert, published by the University of Chicago Press (1981).
- Even more specifically Sartre accused Flaubert of trying to hide from himself his real complicity with the government of the Second Empire, which overtly he criticized adversely. L'Idiot de la famille, Vol. Ill, p. 487.
- Sartre, Being and Nothingness, trans, by Hazel E. Barnes (New York: Philosophical Library, 1956), p. 21. I do not mean to say that Sartre is unique in this respect. One thinks immediately of Nietzsche's proclamation, “God is dead,” which is perhaps comparable in its harmonics to Sartre's “Man is a useless passion.” Sartre has reproached himself for this last, saying that one should not introduce literary language into philosophical writing. I disagree in this particular instance, feeling that much of Sartre's meaning would be lost without this summary sentence. Cf. Sartre, “Autoportrait à soixante-dix ans,” interview with Michel Contat, Situations, X (Paris: Gallimard, 1976), p. 139.
- Sartre, L'Idiot de la famille, Vol. I, pp. 308–311.
- Sartre, The Emotions, pp. 64–68, L'Idiot de la famille, Vol III, pp. 500–502.
- Sartre cites and comments on Flaubert's remarks in Vol. III, p. 471 and pp. 495–496.
- The quoted words are actually from L'Idiot de la famille in the context of the passage I cite (Note 13).
- Sartre, L'Idiot de la famille, Vol. I, pp. 783–784.
- Sartre, L'Idiot de la famille, Vol. I, p. 57.
- Sartre, L'Idiot de la famille, Vol. I, pp. 136–143.
- These were originally published under the title, “L'Espoir maintenant…” in three parts in Le Nouvel Observateur, March 10, 17, and 24, 1980. In English, “Today's Hope: Conversations with Sartre,” by Benny Lévy, the three parts translated respectively by Lillian Hernandez, George Waterston, and Claire Hubert, Telos (Summer, 1980), pp. 155–181. I have used this English translation with very slight modifications. The relevant passage is in Part II, pp. 169–173.
- Hazel E. Barnes, An Existentialist Ethics (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967), p. 321 and pp. 333–335.
- Sartre, in an interview, “Itinerary of a Thought,” New Left Review (November-December, 1969), p. 50.