«Bad faith», «past» and «death». A reading based on Jean-Paul Sartre’s philosophy

The cinematographic work of Akira Kurosawa has been analyzed from certain categories of that vast literary and philosophical movement that has been called «existentialism». The finitude, the anxiety, the absurd, the authenticity, the decision –typical «existentialist» motives–, run through much of h...

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Autor principal: Prestía, Martín
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Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad 2021
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topic Akira Kurosawa
Jean-Paul Sartre
French philosophy
Existentialism
Project
Death
Akira Kurosawa
Jean-Paul Sartre
Filosofía francesa
Existencialismo
Proyecto
Muerte
spellingShingle Akira Kurosawa
Jean-Paul Sartre
French philosophy
Existentialism
Project
Death
Akira Kurosawa
Jean-Paul Sartre
Filosofía francesa
Existencialismo
Proyecto
Muerte
Prestía, Martín
«Bad faith», «past» and «death». A reading based on Jean-Paul Sartre’s philosophy
topic_facet Akira Kurosawa
Jean-Paul Sartre
French philosophy
Existentialism
Project
Death
Akira Kurosawa
Jean-Paul Sartre
Filosofía francesa
Existencialismo
Proyecto
Muerte
author Prestía, Martín
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author_sort Prestía, Martín
title «Bad faith», «past» and «death». A reading based on Jean-Paul Sartre’s philosophy
title_short «Bad faith», «past» and «death». A reading based on Jean-Paul Sartre’s philosophy
title_full «Bad faith», «past» and «death». A reading based on Jean-Paul Sartre’s philosophy
title_fullStr «Bad faith», «past» and «death». A reading based on Jean-Paul Sartre’s philosophy
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title_sort «bad faith», «past» and «death». a reading based on jean-paul sartre’s philosophy
description The cinematographic work of Akira Kurosawa has been analyzed from certain categories of that vast literary and philosophical movement that has been called «existentialism». The finitude, the anxiety, the absurd, the authenticity, the decision –typical «existentialist» motives–, run through much of his filmography. On this regard, the film Ikiru [To Live, 1952] is perhaps one of his most eloquent productions. Inspired by Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilych, Kurosawa’s work is set in the last months of the life of Kanji Watanabe, Head of the Tokyo Citizens’ Section, a minor office of a complex state bureaucracy that the film portrays as inoperative. His life changes at the root when he realizes that he has stomach cancer and has only one year to live. The film will show Watanabe’s various attempts to find meaning to his life. The purpose of this article is to offer an interpretation of the film based on some concepts included in L être et le néant [Being and Nothingness, 1943], Jean-Paul Sartre’s fundamental philosophical work. I wwill focus on the characteristic Sartrean notion of «bad faith», the relationship between the For-Itself and the «past», and the analysis of «death», in controversy with Martin Heidegger.
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