Starting from some key concepts like “divertissement” or “mauvaise foi” and insisting on the way in which notions like freedom and loneliness are conceived, we shall demonstrate why the novel “Nausea” is considered to be the “Profane Bible” of boredom in the 20th century and to what extent Sartre borrows certain concepts from Pascal, concepts that aid him in defining the paradigms “être en-soi” and “être pour-soi”. At an epistemic level, Sartre replaces Divinity with contingency, which determines the concept of “boredom” to gain more acute valences, designated by the word “nausée”. Summary/Abstract: Starting from the premise that boredom is a multiform historical constant, this article tries to grasp, using a comparative endeavor, the essence of boredom, in Pascal’s sense and in Sartre’s sense of the word. Published by: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti Keywords: Blaise Pascal Jean-Paul Sartre Boredom loneliness contingency Pascalian diversion freedom Une nause discrte et insurmontable rvle perptuellement mon. Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Comparative Study of Literature, French Literature In L'Etre et le Nant Sartre chooses the example of physical pain to illustrate his. What has awakened this adventure and life into him all of a. Pascal’s boredom versus Sartre’s nausea Author(s): Silvia Prafan Nausea -103 - La nause de Jean-Paul Sartre. It is a philosophical novel with existentialist vibes, that delves into the. He considered it as one of his best works. L’ennui pascalien versus la nausée sartrienne Jean Paul Sartre’s first novel, Nausea, gave a name for existential angst.
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