ABSTRACT
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980) wrote one of the first philosophical treatises of the 20th century to bear the word ‘emotion’ on its title. Published in 1939, the Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions culminates in an extended “Outline for a Phenomenological Theory”, whose aim is to do justice to the signification of the emotion, by revealing which aspects of reality are signified, in what way, and to what purpose, when one is emotionally engaged with the world.
