SARTRE - METHOD

<BODY> <CENTER><FONT SIZE=5><B><FONT SIZE=6>SARTRE</FONT><BR> THE EXISTENTIALIST</B></FONT></CENTER><P> <FONT SIZE=4><B>Method</B></FONT><P> <FONT SIZE=4><B>PHENOMENOLOGY</B></FONT><P> <TABLE ALIGN=Left BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=2 CELLPADDING=1> <TR> <TD><IMG ALIGN=Left SRC="2306a.jpg" WIDTH="150" HEIGHT="201" ALT="ODILON REDON"></TD> </TR> </TABLE> Sartre is quoted as saying that anyone who wished, as he did, to arrange the world in a personal pattern "must do something more than observe and react; he must grasp the meaning of phenomena, and pin them down in words." He was fascinated by the phenomenological movement and its determination to describe human consciousness as it exploded into the world, intentionally relating to the everyday things around it and dynamically projecting new meanings for its future.<P> Sartre himself records that when he first read <A HREF="../t03/g038.html" TARGET="_top">phenomenology</A>: "I was filled with hope ... Our generation no longer had anything to do with the culture which created us, a hackneyed <A HREF="../t03/g039.html" TARGET="_top">positivism</A> which was tired of itself... This discipline brought us everything."<P> (Sartre, Memorial essay on Merleau-Ponty, 1961) <BR clear=left><BR> <HR width=100%> <A HREF="http://www.creatorix.com.au"><IMG SRC="../creatorix.gif" WIDTH="85" HEIGHT="40" BORDER="0" ALT="Creatorix" align=right></A> </BODY>