Perhaps, perhaps not-and we’ll return to that idea a bit later. Venkat muses about Sartre’s Nausea seen as a perspective on mindfulness. You may want to read the Wikipedia entry about the book, linked above, for context first. So I asked her to do a guest post highlighting some possible connections worth exploring. suggested a connection between Sartre-nausea and the idea of mindfulness, which further intrigued me. Christina, who did her PhD work on Sartre’s theory of the imagination, posted a comment confirming my suspicion that there was indeed a relationship. In last week’s post I idly wondered about whether the notion of ‘future nausea’ that I talked about had any relationship to the term in the sense of Jean-Paul Sartre’s famous 1938 novel, Nausea. This is a guest post by Christina Waters, who writes about art, wine, and food for the greater Bay Area community at and teaches Critical Theory and wordplay at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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