Sartre politicized perceptual ambiguity by aligning it with Hegelian power and desire.

Evidence

With Sartre, this ambiguity of the lived body becomes the stuff of the look. Th e anonymous dynamics of perception are aligned with Hegelian accounts of power and desire. Th e structure may be anonymous; the existential experience is not. I struggle against this loss of subjectively experienced freedom that comes with becoming the object of another’s gaze. I resist the ambiguities of the perceptual situation. In Sartre’s hands, the anonymous dynamics of perception lose their perceptual innocence. Th ey become the ground of political and ethical struggles. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 67

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Sartre’s account of the look and its Hegelian master-slave lineage, which the reader may encounter across the Continental tradition. — connects to: Sartre sees the Other’s gaze as falsifying essence-free being — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 632; Sartre deliberately rejects a resolution to the problem of other minds that Hegel offered — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 260

Broader Connections

• Sartre sees the Other’s gaze as falsifying essence-free being #expands (0.82) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 632
• Sartre deliberately rejects a resolution to the problem of other minds that Hegel offered #complicates (0.75) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 260