ABSTRACT
The view that ‘hell is other people’ is often ascribed to Sartre. This chapter explores the more nuanced position of Sartre where the other is both integral to the self and in opposition. The chapter then briefly turns to phenomenology and the existentialist otherness philosophies of Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir that also tend towards the negative. This gives the context for a more detailed analysis of the turn in philosophy to the other through personalism, and an in depth exploration of first an approach to the other based on ethics and relationship and then in the subsequent chapters a rehabilitation of the approach based on ontology and being.
