Anguish reveals the double nihilation that suspends the world in nothingness

Evidence

It is in nothingness alone that being can be surpassed. At the same time it is from the point of view of beyond the world that being is organized into the world, which means on the one hand that human reality rises up as an emergence of being in non-being and on the other hand that the world is “suspended” in nothingness. Anguish is the discovery of this double, perpetual nihilation. It is in terms of this surpassing of the world that Dasein manages to realize the contingency of the world; that is, to raise the question, “How does it happen that there is something rather than nothing?” — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 213

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines anguish as the discovery of perpetual double nihilation — a core concept Sartre will critically engage.
• XREF: Sets up the backdrop against which Sartre will pose his own question about nothingness, the direct systematic prelude to Beauvoir’s ethics. — connects to: Anguish arises when consciousness sees itself cut from its essence by nothingness — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 246; Anguish reveals that man is separated by nothingness from his essence. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 244; Anguish is fear of oneself while fear targets beings in the world — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 236 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Anguish arises when consciousness sees itself cut from its essence by nothingness #corroborates (0.90) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 246
• Anguish reveals that man is separated by nothingness from his essence. #corroborates (0.90) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 244
• Anguish before freedom and anguish before nothingness describe the same phenomenon. #corroborates (0.82)
• Anguish is fear of oneself while fear targets beings in the world #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 236
• Anguish is consciousness of being one’s own future in the mode of not-being #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 239
• Distraction is consciousness fleeing anguish by disowning its own possibilities #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1473
• Fear and anguish cannot coexist because one is reflective and the other unreflective #expands (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 236