The other as object is grasped through the tool-world he organizes around himself

Evidence

Therefore what I apprehend as real characteristics of the Other is a being-in-situation. In fact I organize him in the midst of the world in so far as he organizes the world toward himself; I apprehend him as the objective unity of instruments and of obstacles. In Part Two of this work we explained that the totality of instruments is the exact correlate of my possibilities. Since I am my possibilities, the order of instruments in the world is the image of my possibilities projected into the in-itself; that is, the image of what I am. But this mundane image I can never decipher; I adapt myself to it in and through action. The Other inasmuch as he is a subject is found similarly engaged in his image. On the other hand, in so far as I grasp him as object, it is this mundane image which leaps to my eyes. The Other becomes the instrument which is defined by his relation with all other instruments; he is an order of my instruments which is included in the order which I impose on these instruments. To apprehend the Other is to apprehend this enclave-order and to refer it back to a central absence or “interiority;” it is to define this absence as a fixed flow of the objects of my world toward a definite object of my universe. And the meaning of this flow is furnished to me by those objects themselves. The arrangement of the hammer and nails, of the chisel and marble, the arrangement which I surpass without being its foundation defines the meaning of this internal hemorrhage in the world. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 790

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the Other as a ‘being-in-situation’ — an enclave-order of instruments referred back to a central absence or ‘interiority.’
• XREF: The tool-world as image of the self’s possibilities recurs in Heidegger’s ready-to-hand analysis and sets up Beauvoir’s later account of situation. — connects to: Tools and surroundings are grasped through the ends they serve, not in themselves; Encountering another person makes one an object in their world — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 676; The Other’s contingent accessories define him without functioning as signs of inner subjectivity (+6 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Tools and surroundings are grasped through the ends they serve, not in themselves; Encountering another person makes one an object in their world — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 676; The Other’s contingent accessories define him without functioning as signs of inner subjectivity (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Tools and surroundings are grasped through the ends they serve, not in themselves #expands (0.85)
• Making the Other an object transcends and neutralizes his transcendence. #expands (0.85)
• Encountering another person makes one an object in their world #qualifies (0.80) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 676
• The Other’s contingent accessories define him without functioning as signs of inner subjectivity #expands (0.80)
• The Other-as-object resists reduction to his underlying subjectivity #corroborates (0.80)
• One’s own possibilities become instruments for the Other’s aims #exemplifies (0.80)
• Encountering the Other reveals the for-itself having an outside and being embedded in being #qualifies (0.75)
• Housework can be experienced as harmony between hand and object #exemplifies (0.72)
• The Other’s look makes one’s own possibilities into ambivalent instruments #responds-to (0.70) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 733