From: "Dr. Ullrich Michael Haase" <u.haase-AT-mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: MB: RE: LRD
Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 12:42:15 +0100



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I do not quite understand the exteriority of the work to the world; is that to say that the work is considered something metaphysical?
And, you claim that "He says he writes books for others.  But he is lying, for if he really were for others then he would  
not be a writer".    
But that seems to be begging the question, as it presupposes the conclusion of the argument. Why should Sartre be so wrong in giving an account of the engagement of the work to the world?
Yours Ulli

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Subject:	MB: LRD


Let us look at the dialectic, or hyper-dialectic to use Merleau-Ponty's  
expression, of the writer again.  The question is whether the writer  
belong to this world (the world of events, causes, commitments) or not.  
 The writer wants to belong to this world.  He says he writes books for  
others.  But he is lying, for if he really were for others then he would  
be not be a writer.  So the writer just writes then?  Is this what makes  
him authentic.  But there is a twist.  The more the writer throws himself  
into the centre of the work, the more the work turns towards the world.  
 The work and the world are neither the same nor opposed to one another,  
rather they are interlaced.  The writer and the reader cannot be  
separated and opposed to one another rather they are all moments of what  
we might call the work.  This means that neither the writer nor the  
reader can have any precedence over one another.  What we have to avoid  
is the Hegelian temptation (which is philosophy's temptation) of thinking  
that the work, at some higher level, is the unity of the writer and the  
reader.  The movement here is one of constant opposition in which there  
can be no reconciliation.  Thus the writer can never be authentic.
stawla 

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