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Document Details : Title: Sartre and the Legacy of Alain's Dualism Subtitle: Existence, Subjectivity, Value, Action Author(s): TERZI, Pietro Journal: Etudes phénoménologiques - Phenomenological Studies Volume: 9 Date: 2025 Pages: 175-197 DOI: 10.2143/EPH.9.0.3293695 Abstract : This article sets out to examine the influence of Alain, nom de plume of Émile Chartier, on Jean-Paul Sartre’s thought. The thesis is the following: the central categories of the phenomenological ontology articulated in Being and Nothingness recall basic tenets of Alain’s methodological dualism, i.e., the juxtaposition between, on the one hand, the anonymous, unmotivated existence, indifferent to human affairs, and, on the other hand, the subject, which denies this reality through judgment, position of values, and action aimed at the implementation of a project. The goal of the article is to contribute to correcting discontinuist readings of early twentieth-century French philosophy, which insist on the rupture of the 1930s, in order to show how authors such as Sartre took up again, updated and resemanticized ideas and problems of the philosophy of the Third Republic, which they repeatedly declared they wanted to dismiss. |
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