Sartre and Magic by Daniel O'Shiel - 9781350230941

Sartre and MagicBeing, Emotion and Philosophy\nAuthor(s): Daniel O'Shiel\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781350230941, 978-1350230941\nSynopsis\nJean-Paul Sartres technical and multifaceted concept of magic is central for understanding crucial elements of his early philosophy [tel], not least his conception of the ego, emotion, the imaginary and value.\n\n Daniel O'Shiel follows the thread of magic throughout Sartres early philosophical work. Firstly, Sartres work on the ego [tel] shows a personal, reflective form of consciousness that is magically hypostasized onto the pre-reflective level. Secondly, emotion [tel] is inherently magical for Sartre because emotive qualities come to inhere in objects and thereby transform a world of pragmatism into one of captivation. Thirdly, analyses of The Imaginary [tel] reveal that anything we imagine is a spontaneous creation of consciousness that has the power to e.