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Title: L'imaginaire et sa dynamisme d'inversion
Subtitle: Spinoza et Sartre
Author(s): BREEUR, Roland
Journal: Etudes phénoménologiques - Phenomenological Studies
Volume: 9    Date: 2025   
Pages: 125-145
DOI: 10.2143/EPH.9.0.3293693

Abstract :
Like many modern thinkers, such as Descartes and Spinoza, Sartre insists on the idea that our everyday thinking tends to invert the order of things. Our experience of effects leads us to form an image of their cause. It is with the help of a somewhat unusual and little studied rapprochement between Spinoza and Sartre that we aim to elucidate this point by relating it to the very dynamics of the imaginary.

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