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Estrangement in the Early Sartre
- Social Research: An International Quarterly
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 85, Number 2, Summer 2018
- pp. 407-423
- 10.1353/sor.2018.0021
- Article
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Abstract:
The article explores estrangement in the early Sartre via an analysis of Roquentin, protagonist of La Nausée (1938). It compares the nature of Roquentin's estrangement with that of Meursault in Camus's L'Etranger. It argues that Roquentin's estrangement can best be understood through a reading of Sartre's early works on emotion, imagination, and the transcendence of the ego.