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RECOVERY AND INVENTION: THE PROJECTS OF DESIRE IN HEGEL, KOJEVE, ... BUTLER, JUDITH PAMELA ProQuest Dissertations and Theses; 1984; ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global INFORMATION TO USERS This reproduction was made from a copy of a document sent to us for microfilming. While the most advanced technology has been used to photograph and reproduce this document, the quality of the reproduction is heavily dependent upon the quality of the material submitted. The fo1lowing explanation of techniques is provided to help clarify markings or notations which may appear on this reproduction. I. The sign or "target" for pages apparently lacking from the document photographed is "Missing Page(s)". If it was possible to obtain the missing page(s) or section, they are spliced into the film along with adjacent pages. This may have necessitated cutting through an image and duplicating adjacent pages to assure complete continuity. 2. 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Further reproduction prohibited without permission. l l '•! l ~ 1 J t 1 i l .i I I .i l i I Recovery and Invention: The Projects of Desire in Hegel, Kojeve, Hyppolite, and Sartre A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Yale University in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy by Judith Pamela Butler May 1984 Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. © Copyright by Judith Pamela Butler ALL RIGHTS RESERVED i ·' :i J Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. ABSTRACT RECOVERY AND INVENTION: ' THE PROJECTS OF DESIRE IN HEGEL, KOJEVE HYPPOLITE AND SARTRE Judith Pamela Butler Yale University 1984 This inquiry develops a theory of desire as a tacit effort to overcome ontological difference through a philosophical reconstruction of the treatment of desire in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and se- lected works of Jean-Paul Sartre, paying some attention to the writings of Alexandre Kojeve and Jean Hyppolite. The central concern is to estab- lish an ontology of desire which accounts for the interrelationship of choice, imagination, temporality, and personal and cultural history in the experience of desire. Hegel's discussion of the ontological signi- ' ficance of desire provides the framework by which Kojeve and Hyppolite analyze desire with to its relation to temporality and historical res~ect life generally. Koj~ve, Hyppolite and Sartre accept and extend Hegel's contention that desire must be understood in terms of the problem of negation, and this implies that desire plays a constitutive role tha~ I in all conscious activity. Although Sartre's view of desire presupposes Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. a critical reformulation cf Hegelian ontology, it nevertheless extends the doctrine of negation with clear consequences for concretizing and fur thering the phenomenological understanding of desire. Sartre's reformu lation of desire as negation involves a view of desire as choice (mani festing the lack which is freedom) and as a mode of apprehending the world (the 'nihilating' or discriminatory function of consciousness). Sartre's later biographical studies on Genet and Flaubert provide culturally and personally concrete analyses of this view of desire. Moreover, they reveal that the Hegelian project to achieve ontological unity of substance and subject is an imaginary one, one which, accordingly, can only be achieved in imaginary works. In these biographical studies Sartre also returns to an Hegelian formulation of desire, recasting the relationship between desire and recognition in. terms of early child- hood experiences and the task of literary writing. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS My deepest thank~ be~ong to Professor ~uri.ce Nat~nson whose patience, dedication, and friendship have made my graduate years and the time spent on this project a labour of honesty, struggle, and celebration. He has been a teacher in the Kierkegaardian sense, one who gives his students the condition with which to look to them- selves. I am also deeply grateful to Professor George Schrader who has always prompted me to cast a critical eye on what I write, and to Larry Vogel whose philosophical acuity and connnitment to the truths of experience have aided me throughout the years I have known him. I also thank Stacy Pies for her friendship, her love, her painstaking work on the drafts of this and for being my through proje~t, ~oul-mate out. I also thank Mara Miller, Judy Malamut and Elisabeth Young-Bruehl for their friendship and for their willingness to give of their hearts and minds. I thank Alexandra Chasin who helped me to learn much of what I have written here. And I thank Lois Natanson, my regular friend, and Wendy Owen who gave me the courage to finish and who shared my struggle in the deepest of terms. I I Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Table of Contents Introduction 1 Chapter One Hegel on Self-Certainty: The Ontology of Desire 17 Chapter Two Hegel on Lordship and Bondage: Desire and Recognition 47 Chapter Three Alexandre Koj~ve: Desire and Historical Agency 71 Chapter Four Jean Hyppolite: Desire, Transience, and the Absolute 97 Five Chapte~ Sartre's Early Works: The Imaginary Pursuit of Being 127 Chapter Six The Strategies of Pre-reflective Choice: Existential'Desire in Being and Nothingness 157 Chapter Seven Trouble and Longing in Being and Nothingness: Tlle Circle· of Sexual Desire 181 Chapter Eight The Struggle to Exist: Desire and Recognition in Saint Genet: Actor and Martyr and The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857,I 208 Selected Bibliography 239 l j ] Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission.
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