Minimal Self and Existential Phenomenology : Sartre vs. Zahavi
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2143/EPH.9.0.3293694" target="_blank" >10.2143/EPH.9.0.3293694</a>
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angličtina
Original language name
Minimal Self and Existential Phenomenology : Sartre vs. Zahavi
Original language description
The article explicates the methodological background of Zahavi's notion of minimal self and defends a more balanced approach that would account better for the interaction between minimal and more enriched versions of self. While Zahavi's account relies on a particular interpretation of the phenomenological method, which searches for the "invariant structures" of lived experience and holds a strict distinction between fact and essence, the paper focuses on the reconsideration of this opposition by existential phenomenology (expressed most obviously by Merleau-Ponty). To illustrate the significance of this difference, I will contrast Zahavi's formalistic account of self with Sartre's analysis of pre-reflective consciousness. Sartre's emphasis on pre-reflective consciousness may have a lot in common with Zahavi's criticism of the narrative approaches to the self; however, Sartre's investigation of the constitutive negativity of consciousness culminates in his theory of fundamental act of choosing oneself, which organizes and unifies consciousness. The unity of pre-reflective consciousness is not seen here as a "structure" of experience but as a basic movement of consciousness, which cannot be seen as indifferent to particular events of its being and for which consciousness remains responsible. Something like awareness here becomes possible only along with acquiring some fundamental project and some content of one's own life.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>ost</sub> - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
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Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Etudes phénoménologiques
ISSN
0773-7912
e-ISSN
2033-656X
Volume of the periodical
2025
Issue of the periodical within the volume
9
Country of publishing house
BE - BELGIUM
Number of pages
27
Pages from-to
147-173
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