For my group presentation, we had a larger group than the others. In this way, it was harder to meet all at once, so we focused on emailing each other. We had a great powerpoint presentation with our individual notes submitted to one of the classmates. I enjoyed our presentation especially because I observed how six different theorists came together, or apart, all at once. It was good to be refreshed with information in a summarized way, and have the experience of teaching a whole class. It was interesting to speak out and hear so many different opinions and conclusions from both these theorists and the class all at once.
Jean-Paul Sartre, the focus of my part in the presentation, was an interesting man to go in depth with. I realized, as did the people that study him, that he does not exactly answer his own question, "why write"? But instead he beats around the bush, lending to his purpose of having meaning end in the reader, not the author. In fact, this might be his subconscious effort to help us understand that we have to make the meaning "exist" by reading even his own open ended theory.
One of the most interesting things I found is a point that Sartre makes about art and how he relates it to writing. He says that "we never receive from it that gaity of love. We put them into it," a subjective discovery. Since the art piece comes from the depths of our heart, we will never find anything but ourselves in it. He then relates it to reading in which "the author does not see the words as the reader does since he knows them before writing them down." He only "projects." This is an interesting statement to ponder.
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