Replacing one essentialist subject with another leaves inverted essentialism intact

Evidence

The knowing subject can neither limit another subject nor cause itself to be limited by another subject. It is isolated by its positive plenitude, and consequently between itself and another equally isolated system there is preserved a spatial separation as the very type of exteriority. Thus it is still space which implicitly separates my consciousness from the Other’s. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 675 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Modern philosophy replaces substance-dualism solipsism with knowledge-based connection to the Other.; Habermas replaced the reconciliation-with-nature ideal with a language-based ideal of emancipation — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2451; Strategic essentialism meant reusing hegemonic universals, not repudiating them. — Elizabeth Grosz, Criticism, Feminism and the…, 120 (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• Abolished theoretical concepts recurrently return in reconfigured forms. #complicates (0.73)
• Idealism’s self-enclosed monads are still separated by space #complicates (0.70) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 675