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“By the mere appearance of the Other, I am put in the position of passing judgement on myself as an object.”
Jean-Paul Sartre · Existentialism · Modern · 1943
What does it mean?
By the mere appearance of the other, I am put in the position of judging myself as an object. Shame is his example: I am ashamed before the other, and the shame reveals an outside I have and do not control. A rival reading thinks this makes other people hell, which is the play's line and not this chapter's whole story. The look alienates and it also reveals. Without the other I would not have that outside. Another reading reduces the chapter to social anxiety. He is describing a structure of being-for-others, not a personality type.
Did Jean-Paul Sartre really say this?
The library’s label is Paraphrase or translation. A paraphrase of the look, in Hazel Barnes's part 3. The Other's appearance organises a world in which I am an object, seen, with an outside I cannot coincide with. The card states the upshot rather than a single sentence of Barnes.
Where it comes from
Being and Nothingness, part 3, the look
Approximate date: 1943.
How to use it
You are doing something trivial in a kitchen in Cardiff and hear a floorboard. The body reorganises before any word is spoken. That reorganisation is the phenomenon he starts from. It is not only embarrassment at a party. A meeting in which you become the object of a report is a drier version. The dryness does not make it a different structure, on his account. It makes it easier to miss.
A mindset reading
Do not jump straight to 'hell is other people'. The look is also how a world gets an outside, how I am more than my own story of myself. Solidarity, in his later work, has to deal with this chapter. It does not delete it.
Understand the philosophy
Part 3 of Being and Nothingness is the other. Hazel Barnes is the English. The paraphrase is labelled so it is not mistaken for a sentence you can hang. The keyhole is the set piece to read if you read only one.
- self
- society
- mind
FAQ
What does it mean?
By the mere appearance of the other, I am put in the position of judging myself as an object. Shame is his example: I am ashamed before the other, and the shame reveals an outside I have and do not control. A rival reading thinks this makes other people hell, which is the play's line and not this chapter's whole story. The look alienates and it also reveals. Without the other I would not have that outside. Another reading reduces the chapter to social anxiety. He is describing a structure of being-for-others, not a personality type.
Did Jean-Paul Sartre really say this?
Paraphrase or translation. A paraphrase of the look, in Hazel Barnes's part 3. The Other's appearance organises a world in which I am an object, seen, with an outside I cannot coincide with. The card states the upshot rather than a single sentence of Barnes.
Which work is it in?
Being and Nothingness, part 3, the look Approximate date: 1943.