Sartre: Tarihin İtici Gücü Olarak “Bunaltı” ya da “Bulantı”

Abstract

If we consider Jean-Paul Sartre's position in the history of philosophy through his own method of reading history, it would not be wrong to identify him as a philosopher of a period of crisis. Sartre reads history by focusing on periods of crisis or crisis in theory and practice, and in doing so he follows the Marxist thesis that every theory is determined by practice. The period of crisis Sartre lived in, however, did not produce the conditions and means for the transcendence of Marxist philosophy, nor did it make it possible to embrace Marxist philosophy as it is. This study will try to show how "nausea" or "depression" can be seen as an important element that can provide a basis for historical and philosophical movements when Sartre's intellectual work is considered in its entirety. Because, although nausea is an individual experience, it points to the common existential crisis of human beings as a species, and social crisis situations feed this feeling. In this respect, it will be argued that the inextricability of the deep crisis and depression that the earth and humanity are in, in our age, is precisely due to the lack of the feeling of "nausea" in humans. Keywords: Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea, History, Western Marxism, Crisis, Existentialism.