Sartre holds that each consciousness views the world from an exclusive, totalizing perspective.

Evidence

For, as he reiterates throughout his phenomenological descriptions of the profoundly unsettling experience of recognizing one’s being-for-others in Being and Nothingness, each being-for-itself has exclusive access to her own consciousness of the world. Each of us experiences the world, that is, through our consciousness of it, and no matter how close we are to others, we cannot share this experience directly with them. One’s unique perspective on the world of one’s concern is totalizing, moreover, insofar as it encompasses any possible or actual object of one’s awareness. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 641

Categorization

• DEFINE: Precise articulation of Sartre’s ‘totalizing’ perspective and the exclusivity of consciousness underlying his account of the Other.
• XREF: Connects to the hell-as-other-people reading of No Exit and to Levinas’s later counter-posed ethics of the face.