This book argues that because we exist as part of the past without being able to live in the past, Descartes' cogito should be re-worded as "I think, therefore I was." This book gives the example of confusing a mannequin for a real person as an example of a phenomenon that it argues is the origin of sexual desire. This book argues that emotional alienation results when one avoids experiencing one's own subjectivity by identifying with (*) "the look" of the other and introduces a term for adopting false values and disowning one's own authenticity. A consciousness conceived as a lack of being is described in this book as being-for-itself, which is contrasted with being-in-itself. For 10 points, name this book that introduced the concept of "bad faith," an existential
This book argues that because we exist as part of the past without being able to live in the past, Descartes' cogito should be re-worded as "I think, therefore I was." This book gives the example of confusing a mannequin for a real person as an example of a phenomenon that it argues is the origin of sexual desire. This book argues that emotional alienation results when one avoids experiencing one's own subjectivity by identifying with (*) "the look" of the other and introduces a term for adopting false values and disowning one's own authenticity. A consciousness conceived as a lack of being is described in this book as being-for-itself, which is contrasted with being-in-itself. For 10 points, name this book that introduced the concept of "bad faith," an existentialist tome by Jean-Paul Sartre.
This book argues that because we exist as part of the past without being able to live in the past, Descartes' cogito should be re-worded as "I think, therefore I was.
Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology [or L'Être et le néant: Essai d'ontologie phénoménologique]