This book argues that because we exist as part of the past without being able to live in the past, Descartes' cogito should b
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]