Relations with the Other form a closed circle, never a progressing dialectic.
Evidence
These two attempts which I am are opposed to one another. Each attempt is the death of the other; that is, the failure of the one motivates the adoption of the other. Thus there is no dialectic for my relations toward the Other but rather a circle—although each attempt is enriched by the failure of the other. Thus we shall study each one in turn. But it should be noted that at the very core of the one the other remains always present, precisely because neither of the two can be held without contradiction. Better yet, each of them is in the other and endangers the death of the other. Thus we can never get outside the circle. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 936
Categorization
- XREF: This circle-structure, opposed to dialectical progress, is core to how Beauvoir and later existentialists analyze failed love and bad faith as inescapable oscillation. — connects to: A non-dialectical contradiction stays unresolved and without solution — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 98; Hegelian dialectic is systematically non-transcendental because it admits no outside — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 274; The knowledge-power relationship is circular, not unidirectional as Said held — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 33 (+1 more)
- DEEPTHINKING: The claim that two opposed attitudes constitute a non-dialectical circle where each contains and dooms the other is a dense structural insight about intersubjectivity.
Broader Connections
- A non-dialectical contradiction stays unresolved and without solution
#corroborates(0.82) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 98 - The knowledge-power relationship is circular, not unidirectional as Said held
#exemplifies(0.78) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 33 - Hegelian dialectic is systematically non-transcendental because it admits no outside
#expands(0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 274 - Not every disagreement requires convincing the other side to achieve value
#qualifies(0.72) — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 39