Being and Nothingness treats social groupings only as psychological constructs

Evidence

Moreover, she insisted against Merleau-Ponty that Sartre’s philosophy contained the essential ingredients, so to speak, to construct a theory of social structures. As she asserted, Merleau- Ponty must be the victim of “un étrange délire” to think that Sartre denied the existence of intersubjective realities, or what Merleau-Ponty called “médiations” or “régions médiatrices” (M-P, 2082). Well, the simple fact is that readers of Being and Nothingness, especially if they are unfamiliar with Sartre’s later writings, are constantly impressed by his numerous references to subjectivity, and the comparatively short section of that work in which he attempts to deal with Mitsein (Being-with) and the “we” is to my mind one of the least convincing because of his extreme reluctance there to accord any reality to social groupings other than ones of a purely psychological nature. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 525

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces Merleau-Ponty’s terms ‘médiations’ and ‘régions médiatrices’ as referring to intermediate social realities Sartre allegedly denied.
• XREF: Connects to Sartre’s own later turn toward the social in the Critique de la raison dialectique, a central arc of 20th-century French philosophy. — connects to: Sociology treats psychological processes only as carriers of social forms — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 208; Emotions can belong to groups rather than only to individuals — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 2261

Broader Connections

• Sociology treats psychological processes only as carriers of social forms #responds-to (0.82) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 208
• Emotions can belong to groups rather than only to individuals #contradicts (0.80) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2261