L'isteresi come dimensione temporale dell'inerte

The essay focuses on the different ways in which Sartre uses the notion of hysteresis within his reflection on temporality and historical time. The analysis of precise textual occurrences will bring out the importance that this notion plays in the Sartrean attempt to conceive a "multiple-dimensional space-time". My hypothesis is the following: in an apparently paradoxical way, hysteresis, a notion mostly associated by Sartre to inertia (to the effect of freinage and delay that the material sedimentations of the past produce on the planning push of praxis), is the Archimedean point for a historical time theory oriented to a transformative action.