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Being and Nothingness Side B

Why Theory

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I Didn't Ask to Be Born - I Don't Want to Be in This Situation

He has this idea that like, he wants to be really clear that what he's saying about existential philosophy and phenomenology like is not, and the nothing. He said that you actually make yourself live. You actually, like in a sense, like theoretically, you give birth to yourself with that statement. That seems to in here a kind of gap in the social, in the self, in existence as such that I find really provocative and helpful to think through. And which is not coincidentally at the center of my own work.

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