The Development of Sartre's Realistic Metaphysics

Review of Metaphysics 75 (3):559-586 (2022)
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This article traces the development of Sartre's metaphysics with three interrelated aims in mind. The first is to situate Sartre's metaphysical views in relation to those of his predecessors, his contemporaries, and current continental philosophy. The second is to show that Sartre's project informs some of the key changes he makes to his existentialism during his career. The third is to bring Sartre the metaphysician into dialogue with key thinkers in the current realism/antirealism debate in Continental philosophy by showing that the defense of materialism he offers in his later work preserves many hard-won insights of phenomenology and has significant advantages over many contemporary articulations of realism.

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Mary L. Edwards
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A brief history of continental realism.Lee Braver - 2012 - Continental Philosophy Review 45 (2):261-289.
Selection from Categories. Aristotle - 2004 - In Tim Crane & Katalin Farkas, Metaphysics: a guide and anthology. New York: Oxford University Press.

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