The Other-as-look resists being derived from one’s own consciousness or categories
Evidence
The presence to me of the Other-as-a-look is therefore neither a knowledge nor a projection of my being nor a form of unification nor a category. It is and I can not derive it from me. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 751
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines the Other-as-look negatively as irreducible to knowledge, projection, unification, or category.
- XREF: Sets up the for-itself/for-others structure Beauvoir inherits; connects to the freedom-before-essence claim from Sartre’s own Introduction. — connects to: The Other’s presence resists phenomenological reduction and doubt — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 750; The Other-as-object resists reduction to his underlying subjectivity; Urban meanings resist my choice and present as thing-like as the in-itself (+2 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The Other’s presence resists phenomenological reduction and doubt — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 750; The Other-as-object resists reduction to his underlying subjectivity; Urban meanings resist my choice and present as thing-like as the in-itself (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- The Other-as-object resists reduction to his underlying subjectivity
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