Slidenitity
So as part of my MA studies, I decided to read Sartre’s voluminous tome, Being and Nothingness. It is a dense phenomenological investigation of what it is to be. Did I understand every sentence? Every page? Every chapter? Not bloody likely. On the other hand, there was an immense amount that is very easily understandable. I mean, we all exist. We all experience the world from our unique vantage. We all try and make sense of what being alive is all about. So well worth the read then. One paragraph in particular has stuck in my mind, a couple of months after finishing it:
Sliding realizes a strictly individual relation with matter, an historical relation; the matter reassembles itself and solidifies in order to hold me up, and it falls back exhausted and scattered behind me. Thus by my passage I have realized that which is unique for me …Continue Reading ❭