I tried recently to get into Sartre, just like I tried with Nietzche some time ago.
I (sort of) understood where Nietzche was coming from, although there are a lot of ideas of his that rubbed me the wrong way. Imagine my relief when I read in a biography about him that he was basically what I would call an unhappy looser, who couldn't really live up to his own ideas.
This made me especially happy since sometimes, I couldn't understand what he was talking about. Nothing worth understanding anyway, I try to tell myself...
Now I've been trying with Sartre. Its like I'm banging my head against a brick wall. I just finished reading some of his plays. One of his most famous ones is called 'No Exit' and if you're interested in philosophy, I'm pretty shure you've heard of it.
Now the play was quite interesting. I felt pretty certain I had interpreted some of Sartre's symbolism correctly, but when I read the analysis of the play...
Let's just say the problem wasn't just that my interpretation of it didn't match the analysis by some philosophy expert -- I didn't even understand the analysis.
I read an article some time ago. Basically it said that there are only a handful of people left alive in the entire world who understand Sartre. I have no idea if that is really true, but it is a comforting though. I would have liked to link to it here, but I could not find it in the cloud.
Is there anyone here who understands Sartre? If so, please explain his ideas to me as you would to a child...
I (sort of) understood where Nietzche was coming from, although there are a lot of ideas of his that rubbed me the wrong way. Imagine my relief when I read in a biography about him that he was basically what I would call an unhappy looser, who couldn't really live up to his own ideas.
This made me especially happy since sometimes, I couldn't understand what he was talking about. Nothing worth understanding anyway, I try to tell myself...
Now I've been trying with Sartre. Its like I'm banging my head against a brick wall. I just finished reading some of his plays. One of his most famous ones is called 'No Exit' and if you're interested in philosophy, I'm pretty shure you've heard of it.
Now the play was quite interesting. I felt pretty certain I had interpreted some of Sartre's symbolism correctly, but when I read the analysis of the play...
Let's just say the problem wasn't just that my interpretation of it didn't match the analysis by some philosophy expert -- I didn't even understand the analysis.
I read an article some time ago. Basically it said that there are only a handful of people left alive in the entire world who understand Sartre. I have no idea if that is really true, but it is a comforting though. I would have liked to link to it here, but I could not find it in the cloud.
Is there anyone here who understands Sartre? If so, please explain his ideas to me as you would to a child...
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