All contents also published in *Sartre Studies International*, Vol. *Sartre Today: A Centenary Celebration* (Berghahn Books, 2005). For/in Adrian van den Hoven and Andrew Leak, editors. It has been heralded as the representative fictional work. If important intuitions recommend realism to us, and if Rorty's rejection of realism is not completely convincing, there are good reasons to prefer realism-all-the-way-down. Nausea is a short novel written by Sartre some time before his magnum opus Being and Nothingness. Originally published in 1938, the novel was first translated to English in 1949. Realism-all-the-way-down does not throw out realism along with subjective and objective idealism, whereas contextualism throws out the whole lot. Nausea is a philosophical novel by the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. Although contextualism is compelling and comparable to realism-all-the-way-down, the latter does not throw out the baby the former throws out with the bathwater. The resulting realism-all-the-way-down is developed and compared with Richard Rorty's contextualism. ABSTRACT: In *Transcendence of Ego* and *Nausea*, drawing on Edmund Husserl and probably Friedrich Nietzsche, the young Jean-Paul Sartre rejected subjective and objective idealism.

Editors: Kevin Hermberg and Paul Gyllenhammer.

The argument is re-engaged and taken in the direction of virtue ethics in: 'Descent to the Things Themselves: The Virtue of Dissent' - chapter for _Phenomenology and Virtue Ethics_. The paper is discussed in the work of Mary Edwards: The paper is critically discussed at length in Steven Hendley’s “Realism and Contingency: Elaborating a Viable Sartrean Response to Rorty’s Anti-Realism,” in *New Perspectives on Sartre*, edited by Adrian Mirvish and Adrian van den Hoven (Cambridge Scholars Publishing: September, 2010), pages161-177.

Novel nausea