By Thomas W. Busch
"Displaying a masterful grab of the texts, the writer exhibits how otherness forces itself upon the existentialist Sartre, steadily constraining him to change his knowing of realization as all-powerful. the problem is Sartre’s discovery of the social and its conceptual assimilation into his individualistic, consciousness-oriented philosophy." ―Thomas R. Flynn
"This very profitable and obtainable scholarly book... is concurrently a succinct and transparent assessment of Sartre’s philosophical works.... and a clean attention of Sartre’s physique of work." ―Choice
"Busch’s admirably transparent and compact dialogue is key examining for Sartre students, because it powerfully addresses many concerns dividing them... " ―Ethics
"... an invaluable evaluate of the evolution of Sartre’s thought... " ―Review of Politics
"... a proposal upsetting reassessment of Sartre's philosophical career." ―Man and World
"... succinct, richly documented survey... " ―International stories in Philosophy
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Thus, in some sense, "the reflective is the reflectedon" (BN, 155). It does not detach itself completely from the reflectedon'' (BN, 155). Thus the self remains elusive to itself, can never gain hold of itself completely. " There is a similar parallel when he discusses the motivations for impure reflection and bad faith. Under the desire to be necessary, the human existent can lie to itself about its ambiguous constitution of freedom/facticity, try to consider itself as a fixed, finished being, and avoid responsibility for its continuous selfdefinition.
From where then does Sartre's metaphysical sense of being arise? Sartre's "logic" of pure being and its pure nihilation do not coincide with the concrete phenomenological senses of being and negation that arise out of his description. Some very pointed criticism has been leveled at Being and Nothingness which can be viewed as arising from this strange mix of phenomenology and metaphysics. Granted that Sartre wants to hold that the individual is beinginitself, negated or differented by the foritself, the foritself's negation is only metaphysically an "abstraction" that does not touch the nucleus of being.
It is no longer a recourse against facticity" (BN, 343). The body which I exist for myself becomes cast into the dimension of the initself under the gaze of the Other. a purely established transcendence, a giventranscendence" (BN, 262). But these inauthentic manoeuvers are doomed to fail.