ABSTRACT
A Marxist, Kierkegaardian G. W. F. Hegel, in short, one full of tensions and paradoxes that are never fully resolved in J. P. Sartre’s philosophy. It was also thanks to Wahl that Sartre read M. Heidegger through Kierkegaard and vice versa, something made abundantly clear in Sartre’s treatment of the theme of anxiety in Being and Nothingness. Sartre’s theory of the temporality of consciousness bears the marks of Alexandre Koyre’s analysis of Hegel’s theory of time, which makes use of Heidegger’s theory of temporality to make the Hegelian dialectic into an open-ended one, without the possibility of closure in a “true infinity” that would return the dialectic into itself. Sartre uses Hegel’s discussion of how being, in its indeterminacy, passes into nothingness and nothingness, being devoid of content, is equivalent to being, only in order to develop his own conception of human freedom as a kind of nothingness.
