The Other’s prenumerical presence is lost in both concrete enumeration and abstract unification

Evidence

By contrast, as soon as I look at those who are looking at me, the other consciousnesses are isolated in multiplicity. On the other hand if I turn away from the look as the occasion of concrete proof and seek to think emptily of the infinite indistinction of the human presence and to unify it under the concept of the infinite subject which is never an object, then I obtain a purely formal notion which refers to an infinite series of mystic experiences of the presence of the Other, the notion of God as the omnipresent, infinite subject for whom I exist. But these two objectivations, the concrete, enumerating objectivation and the unifying, abstract objectivation, both lack proved reality—that is, the prenumerical presence of the Other. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 770

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes the concrete enumerating objectivation, the abstract unifying objectivation, and the prenumerical presence of the Other as a third term that neither captures.
• XREF: connects to: Abstracted elements must never fully separate from what they were abstracted from — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 681; Genuine reason unites a priori and a posteriori, identity and difference — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1186
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Abstracted elements must never fully separate from what they were abstracted from — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 681; Genuine reason unites a priori and a posteriori, identity and difference — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1186