About this episode
The episode concludes the discussion on Sartre's 'Being & Nothingness', focusing on consciousness and our relationships with others.
In Part 2, we wrap up our consideration of Jean-Paul Sartre's midcentury magnum opus by exploring how we move from the inaccessible interiority of consciousness to our concrete relations with others. The latter half of Being & Nothingness takes up the question of what aspects of our being are revealed to us in confrontation with the Other. Sartre famously argues here that it is the Other's look, the omnipresent possibility of being seen, judged, and evaluated by another consciousness that...
People in this episode
Hosts: Charles, Devin
Topics covered
- existentialism
- consciousness
- interpersonal relations
- philosophy
- Sartre
Keywords
- Being & Nothingness
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- existentialism
- consciousness
- Other
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