ABSTRACT
This chapter offers an overview of the Sartrean theory of emotion, focusing mainly on the account delineated in the Sketch. It focuses on certain texts immediately preceding and following that monograph, so as to provide a more rounded picture of the Sartrean theory. The Sketch is a product of Jean-Paul Sartre’s systematic work on conscious activity in its perceptual, conceptual, imaginative, and affective exemplifications. That work began to acquire its shape around 1934, when Sartre studied in the original Edmund Husserl’s published monographs, including the Logical Investigations, the Lectures on Inner Time Consciousness, the Ideas, and the Cartesian Mediations. Although it used to be taken as the entry point to Sartre’s thought, Nausea does not figure large in contemporary discussions of Sartre’s philosophy. That is to an extent justified by the need to keep separate things which should not be confused, such as prose fiction and rigorous argumentation.
