The situation is constituted from Others’ meanings rather than from being itself

Evidence

Every situation exists in the world; it is not of the same order as being. It is, in fact, essentially constituted out of Others; its objectivity is conditioned by the meaning that other subjectivities cast on being. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 444

Categorization

• XREF: The intersubjective construction of the situation prefigures later debates about the social constitution of meaning that run through Continental thought. — connects to: In the ‘they’ mode the world reflects one’s unauthentic possibilities back as interchangeable instruments.; Heidegger’s ontological being-with cannot explain concrete relations with particular others — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 703; The Other grounds my objectivity rather than being inferred by analogy from myself — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 756 (+23 more)

Broader Connections

• Humans are constituted by their social relations rather than an intrinsic essence #expands (0.95) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2517
• Others’ consensual definitions can eventually shape a group’s self-definition #exemplifies (0.85)
• Individual identity forms dialogically through a constitutive outside, not autonomously. #expands (0.85) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 363
• Even self-assertion requires others to confer lasting meaning on it #expands (0.85) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 63
• Identity is constituted through relation to what is other and different from itself #expands (0.80) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 378
• Beauvoir holds Others as essential, challenging Sartre’s ontological individualism #expands (0.75) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 184