Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions

1939 book by Jean-Paul Sartre
Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions
AuthorJean-Paul Sartre
Original titleEsquisse d'une théorie des émotions
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
SubjectEmotion
Published1939
Media typePrint

Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions (French: Esquisse d'une théorie des émotions) is a 1939 book by the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. This work contains some of his thoughts about human and emotions. Some of his ideas later appeared in his masterpiece Being and Nothingness.

Summary

Sartre analyses prior ideas, including psychoanalytic theories before presenting his own phenomenological analysis.

Editions

  • The Emotions: Outline of a Theory, translated by Bernard Frechtman, The Philosophical Library, 1948.

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Jean-Paul Sartre
Novels and
short stories
  • Nausea (1938)
  • The Wall (1939) including
  • The Childhood of a Leader
  • The Roads to Freedom
  • The Age of Reason (1945)
  • The Reprieve (1945)
  • Troubled Sleep (1949)
  • In the Mesh (1948)
  • Intimacy (1949)
  • Hurricane over Cuba (1961)
Plays and
screenplays
  • Bariona (1940)
  • The Flies (1943)
  • No Exit (1944)
  • Morts sans sépulture (1945)
  • The Respectful Prostitute (1946)
  • The Chips Are Down (1947)
  • Dirty Hands (1948)
  • The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)
  • Kean (1953)
  • Nekrassov (1955)
  • The Condemned of Altona (1959)
  • The Trojan Woman (1965)
  • The Freud Scenario (1984)
Philosophical
essays and books
Critical essays
Autobiographical
  • Sartre by Himself (1959)
  • The Words (1964)
  • Witness to My Life & Quiet Moments in a War (1983)
  • War Diaries: Notebooks from a Phony War (1984)
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