Sartre rejected Hegelian Other-mediation while Beauvoir endorsed it

Evidence

For Beauvoir, self-consciousness on the Hegelian model is mediated via the Other, whereas in Being and Nothingness Sartre cannot accept that the Other can determine me in my being-for-others. On Sartre’s reading of Hegel, my being-for-others is fatefully reduced to my being-as-an-object for the Other. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 253

Categorization

  • XREF: Connects to the broader Beauvoir-Sartre authorship/influence debate and to the contrasting use of the Master-Slave dialectic in The Second Sex versus Being and Nothingness. — connects to: 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; Beauvoir grounds selfhood in the Other’s gaze where Sartre denies such dependency — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 267
  • SEED: An essay angle on how Hegel’s Master-Slave dialectic splits existentialist thought into a social (Beauvoir) and solitary (Sartre) branch — a map of twentieth-century French theory’s fork.

Broader Connections