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Sartre, Intentionality and Praxis 101 which develops a reading of Being and Time, not as an existentialist treatise, but as an important statement of an institutional-social theory of mind and language. Conclusion Over the course of Sartre's long and prolific career, we have seen an increasing complexity appear in his treatment of intentionality, Husserl's "fundamental idea". The interplay between human praxis and world becomes inspired by detailed descriptions of historical events and individuals, such as Gustave Flaubert and Jean Genet. Sartre's ontology of praxis becomes overlaid by attempts to do full justice to the particularity of individual freedom and the details of the individual's "exterior" and historical situation. It was Chomsky who wrote that a central goal of the study of language "is to determine the meaning of a word [...] in a 'shared public' language, a notion that remains to be formulated in some coherent terms". 38 It is arguably just such a project Sartre may be said to have undertaken. We are perhaps only beginning to understand the importance of Sartre's contribution to such an endeavour. Perhaps his most important legacy in this regard is the claim that language as public can only be understood within the context of a more encompassing view of human action, history and spontaneity. Although Sartre has reinterpreted Hegel's dictum that true history is the history of freedom in Marxist terms, Sartre's conception of freedom and praxis signals his continuing legacy as a philosopher of freedom. "Possibility", Sartre states, "lies at the very heart of the particular action, (it is) the presence of the future as that which is lacking and that which, by its very absence, reveals reality." 39 But since it is an embedded freedom that is at stake, a freedom embedded within the public world of the practico-inert, perhaps at this point it is Nietzsche who deserves the last word: What does commonness really mean? Words are acoustic signs for concepts; concepts, however, are more or less precise figurative signs for frequently recurring and simultaneous sensations, for groups of sensations. Using the same words is not enough to ensure mutual understanding: we must also use the same words for the same category of inner experiences; ultimately, we must have the same experiences in common [...] when people have lived together for a long time under similar conditions of Noam Chomsky, New Horizons, 148. Sartre, Search for a Method, 94.
102 Chapter Seven climate, soil, danger, necessity, work, then something comes into being as a result, something that "goes without saying" [...]. 40 Works Cited Bourdieu, Pierre. The Logic of Practice (trans. Richard Nice). Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990. Brandom, Robert. Making it Explicit. Boston: Harvard University Press, 1994. Caws, Peter. "Sartrean Structuralism?", in The Cambridge Companion to Sartre (ed. Christina Howells). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992 Chafe, Wallace. Discourse, Consciousness and Time: The Flow and Displacement of Conscious Experience in Speaking and Writing. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1994. Chomsky, Noam. New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Elveton, Roy. "Tolerance, Envoiced Subjectivity and the Lifeworld", in Interpretando la experiencia de la tolerancia / Interpreting the Experience of Tolerance, II (ed. Rosemary Rizo-Patron de Lerner). Lima: Pontifica Universidad Catolica del Peru, 2006. Flynn, Thomas. "Sartre and the Poetics of History", in The Cambridge Companion to Sartre (ed. Christina Howells). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Forster, Michael. Hegel's Idea of a Phenomenology of Spirit. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Hacking, Ian. Historical Ontology. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002. Haugeland, John. "Dasein's Disclosedness", in Heidegger: A Critical Reader (ed. H. L. Dreyfus and H. Hall). Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1992. Hofmannsthal, Hugo von. Selected Prose. New York: Pantheon Books, 1952. Husserl, Edmund. Aufsatze und Vortrage (1922-1937). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1989. —. Ideen zu einer reinen Phanomenologie und phanomenologischen Philosophic. Zweites Buck The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1952. —. Zur Phanomenologie der Intersubjectivitat: Dritter Teil (1929-1935). The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1973. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 163.
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