Comments | eros_in_uranium: candidacy for being

eros_in_uranium

candidacy for being

Mar 08, 2006 17:10

Or - we now approach one of the most subtle and urgent suggestions of The Real Life of Sebastian Knight - what is real is the life we lead when we lose ourselves, when we abandon or are driven from the rational fiction of our identity; when we fall in love, for example, and especially when we fall deeply, hopelessly, brutally, stupidly in love. ( Read more... )

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wartimeheroine March 11 2006, 02:29:26 UTC

i wish i understood sartre a bit more. i mean, i've read several of his short essays and while reading them i felt as though i knew exactly what he meant. but sometimes, when i really think about his philosophies in retrospect, i'm not so sure... i can understand it on an intellectual level of course, but the core of my being still doesn't understand all that i feel he's trying to say.

at any rate - lovely music as usual.
*you really should look into the CDs put out by Hôtel Costes.
i think you'd like them; perfect spring-time parisian lounge music :]

eros_in_uranium March 14 2006, 23:13:09 UTC

Sorry about the delay ( ... )

eros_in_uranium March 14 2006, 23:30:35 UTC

The way Sartre lived, you can even say the way he orchestrated his life, everything was consciously and intentionally done, nothing coincidental in the choices he made. When we talk about his appeal, it's difficult to separate the man from his life, the ideas from the practices. Existence precedes essence; man can invent himself every minute; I make my choice and therefore I am, the kind of Sartrean declarations have ingrained themselves in our consciousness without us even noticing them. Perhaps that's the best contribution he could have made. It could almost sound like a cliche to say how we live our lives are more worth investigating than what kind of lives we have, but if we really come down to it, few of us can ever say we don't care about the end results or the approval from others and ourselves. The sense of well-being is almost always structural, knowing where we are in life and in society, which location and floor and room we reside in. It comes from the security of self-knowledge, like the structural integrity of ( ... )