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The Imaginary: A Phenomenological Psychology of the Imagination (Routledge Classics)
Sartre’s 1940 study argues that consciousness can intend objects as absent or non-existent. That account of imagination is a key stepping-stone toward the freedom and nothingness of Being and Nothingness.
This is the specialist deep cut, best for readers with some philosophy background. Choose the affordable 2010 Routledge Classics paperback rather than the pricey 2015 reissue.
- Author
- Jean-Paul Sartre · translated by Jonathan Webber
- Edition
- Routledge Classics, 2010 paperback · approximately 240 pages
- ASIN
- 041556784X
- Level
- Specialist · primary source
- Kindle
- Routledge Classics e-book edition
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The book asks what consciousness is doing when its object is not present. Its answer supplies an important bridge from phenomenological psychology to Sartre’s later ontology.
Why it belongs at step 4
This is the specialist deep cut, best for readers with some philosophy background. Choose the affordable 2010 Routledge Classics paperback rather than the pricey 2015 reissue.
Edition and buying notes
Routledge Classics, 2010 paperback · approximately 240 pages. The recommended purchase is the 2010 Routledge Classics paperback, not the expensive 2015 reissue.