ABSTRACT
Part of the reason why readers of Being and Nothingness misunderstand this as making a claim about the way we necessarily relate to one another is the tendency to see the book as a series of theories about different aspects of our existence, perhaps with a common theme, rather than as a progressively broadening and deepening investigation of a single theory. It is not that Sartre presents an account of our bad faith about our own existence and then a separate account of the distinct issue of our relations with one another, but rather that the account of bad faith early in the book sets the framework within which the discussion of relations between people is conducted.
