ABSTRACT
Sartre, then, is a man of words but not a philosopher of language. The professional categories into which his work fits are rather ontology and philosophical anthropology, with excursions into ethics and the philosophy of history. And among these ontology is dominant. The development of his thought can without too much distortion be represented as an ontological ascent from consciousness to history, by way of the self, the other, and the group, and the chapters which follow can best be viewed as tracing that ascent.
