History and ontology on Jean-Paul Sartres work

Author(s)

Igor Silva Alves

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2017-05-10

Examining board members

Franklin Leopoldo e Silva; Renato dos Santos Belo; Silene Torres Marques; Alex de Campos Moura; André Constantino Yazbek

• Advisor: Franklin Leopoldo e Silva

Abstract

This research aims to analyze some aspects of the link between two moments of Jean-Paul Sartre\'s philosophy regarding the relation between ontology and history. The first moment, marked by the phenomenological ontology of Being and Nothingness, would present structures characterized by a-historicity; the second moment, marked by an approach of Marxism and by a great weight being ascribed to history, is found mainly in Question of method and in Critique of dialectical reason. Contrary to the interpretations that sustain the existence of an incompatibility between these two moments of Sartre\'s thought, this work argues that the structures of phenomenological ontology, if they do not present a formulation about history, they nonetheless hold an opening towards it, since they describe a process through which the subject carries out a totalization of herself that throws her into a totalization of totalizations which, in turn, is the historical process itself. (AU)