ABSTRACT
In the last chapters, we have discussed what it means to be a free foritself striving for authenticity. However, except for a few mentions of the freedom of the Other in Chapter 3, we have only examined the for-itself in isolation so far. This was important in order for us to have a solid grasp of how Sartre conceives of the individual. But the individual is not alone in the world: there are Others. In Being and Nothingness, Sartre also introduces the notion of the Other at a late stage, 300 pages into the book. In this important part of the book, he examines the existence of others and how we encounter them in the world-but also how we engage in concrete relations with themwhich, for Sartre, will necessarily lead to conflict. In addition to all this, Sartre explains the body. Indeed, he has not introduced the body in the earlier parts of his book devoted to the for-itself. Why? Simply because he thinks that the body emerges out of my encounter with an Other who objectifies me as an object. The facticity of my body, which we discussed in Chapter 2, is revealed to me via the look of the Other.
