Nov 03, 2011 - Sale 2259

Sale 2259 - Lot 272

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SARTRE, JEAN-PAUL. Autograph Manuscript, unsigned, fragmentary notes, probably from his unpublished 1964 Rome lecture or from his 1965 Cornell University lecture, in French, including a rough outline of the central themes: the "experience of morality," the "ethical paradox," "man [as] his own product," the example of the Algerian Revolution, "history [as] the foundation of morality," and the "alienation of praxis." 7 pages, 4to, written on one side of each sheet, grid ruled paper. Np, [circa 1964]
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". . . The point here is not Rousseauvian: there is no proposed reciprocity without culture. It is within culture and historical circumstances that the fact of free reciprocity is announced. It announces itself, no matter what the culture and epoch, as the will of practical agents that shall not be fully lived except for the triumph of culture over nature . . . .
"What does it mean to be justified? (in the ideal sense) It is a life whose teleological character appears to be fundamental. That is, a life that through its work produces itself as one that has been given only for the realization of that work. Everything takes place as if I were put into this world to produce and the world summoned to produce me . . . by means of a future end. This end had to be the result of praxis; justification and praxis produce me as a subject of interiority in a project that demands to be realized. . . ."
English translation available.