ABSTRACT
M. Jean-Paul Sartre’s most extended treatment of the kind of Bad Faith is to be found not in Being and Nothingness, but in his treatment of the novelist and playwright Jean Genet in a book which forms a bridge between Sartre’s philosophy and his sociology. Sartre finds recognition of this impossibility in some philosophers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They try to find something which is essential to consciousness itself, and which would yet necessarily reveal the existence of other people to the author. Sartre considers Heidegger’s account of human relations. There is a powerful move away from considering mere awareness, or perception, of others. For the basic notion which is used to explain human relations is not Being-for-others, but Being-with-others.
