Intentionality displaces the subject by merging it with the world

Evidence

In this quote, we can see the beginnings of a materialist program unburdened of any determinist dimensions while being animated by the desire for freedom that has always resided at the heart of the materialist project. Th e Subject, existing in the World, could not possibly be determined by an exteriority acting mysteriously on its own interiority. Th rough its merger with conscious intentionality, the subject is dislodged from its central and important position— intentionality materializes as the relationship between the Subject and the Object. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 408

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Sartre’s intentionality essay and the broader Continental reversal of the subject-object split; also echoes Heidegger’s In-der-Welt-sein. — connects to: Objectifying thought severs us from the world it claims to survey. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 856; Heidegger held that modern technology erodes intentionality itself, dissolving subject-object distinction — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 583; Intentionality means consciousness is always directed toward something beyond itself. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 1186 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Directed attention does not weaken world-consciousness but relegates the world to ground #expands (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 881
• The end of the subject-object gap reveals a more originary mode of becoming #expands (0.82) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1081