An analysis of the concept of nothingness in Sartre's aesthetics: Implications for twentieth century art and music
by Novick, Corey Rene, M.A., AMERICAN UNIVERSITY, 2008, 112 pages; 1459282

Abstract:

The scattering of being-in-itself is a failure of being that being-for-itself brings to being, and has to be, constituting an ekstatic relation to being-in-itself. Ekstatic dispersive being temporalizes being. Temporality is a dimension of nihilation constituting being-for-itself as a rising-into— but an upsurge that is a perpetual failure of being because it has to not be what it is and be what it is-not. Neither able to rid itself of nor fully merge with itself, the for-itself is there as its own opposite. The guiding thought of Sartre's ontology—and precisely the feature that most underscores its implications for aesthetics—is that this op-positing is thus, qua 'positing', a revelation of the world.

In its op-position, stasis—as suspension, incompletion, openness—forms a kind honest portraiture of the original negation of the for-itself continuing itself as not being in absolute indifference of identity.

 
AdviserFarhang Erfani
SchoolAMERICAN UNIVERSITY
SourceMAI/ 47-02, p. , Dec 2008
Source TypeThesis
SubjectsFine arts; Music; Philosophy
Publication Number1459282
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