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Being and Nothingness

Disciplines:
existentialism
theology/ontology
phenomenology

Summary

Jean-Paul Sartre's phenomenological ontology distinguishing being-in-itself (the brute facticity of things) from being-for-itself (consciousness, which is nothingness negating itself) and developing radical freedom, bad faith, and the conflict of consciousnesses.

Core Contribution

Consciousness is nothingness — it is always what it is not and is not what it is; this radical negativity is freedom. Bad faith is the denial of one's own freedom. The Other's look objectifies — intersubjectivity is fundamentally conflictual.

Historical Influences

Jean-Paul Sartre

Intellectual Lineage

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Allied Works

Being and Time Phenomenology of Perception The Second Sex

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