ABSTRACT
Other’s appraisal, both the Jew and Negro experience their Beingfor-Others as a source of anguish and alienation. Could they return the look? Could they possibly discover themselves in the crowd, by interacting with other people, as men in the midst of other men? Could they ever overcome the determinants of facticity without falling into the pitfalls of inauthenticity? Is their consciousness to be apprehended just from the outside? In the first section of this article, my intention is to assess what Albert Memmi calls the ‘philosophy of points of view’ in Anti-Semite and Jew. In the second, my focus will be on Black Orpheus, and on Frantz Fanon’s critical review of Sartrean existential phenomenology.
