The For-Itself and the Other's Body

Being and Nothingness

This thread follows how the Other's body shifts from instrument and absence to flesh and an inapprehensible freedom.

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Bearing strength in each event

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Body as Instrument Body as Instrument from "Being and Nothingness". Body as Instrument Other's Facticity The Other's body first appears through tools and arrangements that imply a user.

Body as Instrument from "Being and Nothingness". Body as Instrument Other's Facticity The Other's body first appears through tools and arrangements that imply a user.

Body as Instrument Other's Facticity The Other's body first appears through tools and arrangements that imply a user. It is a center of practical relations in the observer's world. Distance The body is present through its effects and meanings even when the person is absent from the immediate scene.

The Body Appears The Body Appears from "Being and Nothingness". The Body Appears A Concrete This When the Other enters, the body appears as a particular configuration among things.

The Body Appears from "Being and Nothingness". The Body Appears A Concrete This When the Other enters, the body appears as a particular configuration among things.

The Body Appears A Concrete This When the Other enters, the body appears as a particular configuration among things. This does not change the underlying relation but makes facticity explicit. Contingency The body's appearance is one contingent form of a freedom that cannot be reduced to bodily properties.

Flesh Beyond Function Flesh Beyond Function from "Being and Nothingness". Flesh Beyond Function Exposed Presence When gesture and clothing no longer organize the body as practical action, the Other's flesh may become perceptible as…

Flesh Beyond Function from "Being and Nothingness". Flesh Beyond Function Exposed Presence When gesture and clothing no longer organize the body as practical action, the Other's flesh may become perceptible as…

Flesh Beyond Function Exposed Presence When gesture and clothing no longer organize the body as practical action, the Other's flesh may become perceptible as pure contingency. Response The encounter can provoke fascination, unease, or nausea, revealing the observer's own relation to embodiment.

Character in the Body Character in the Body from "Being and Nothingness". Character in the Body Visible Meaning Character is encountered through an organized body in situation, not as a hidden psychic substance behind it.

Character in the Body from "Being and Nothingness". Character in the Body Visible Meaning Character is encountered through an organized body in situation, not as a hidden psychic substance behind it.

Character in the Body Visible Meaning Character is encountered through an organized body in situation, not as a hidden psychic substance behind it. Interpretive Limit The observer may learn more about the person's conduct, but the Other's freedom remains beyond complete knowledge.

The Other's Freedom Escapes The Other's Freedom Escapes from "Being and Nothingness". The Other's Freedom Escapes Body and Subject The Other's body is real as an object, but its meaning depends on a freedom that cannot be grasped in object form.

The Other's Freedom Escapes from "Being and Nothingness". The Other's Freedom Escapes Body and Subject The Other's body is real as an object, but its meaning depends on a freedom that cannot be grasped in object form.

The Other's Freedom Escapes Body and Subject The Other's body is real as an object, but its meaning depends on a freedom that cannot be grasped in object form. Emotional Relation Intimacy does not abolish this distance. The body becomes the place where attraction and inaccessibility coexist.

Part Three, Chapter Two, Section II

Part Three, Chapter Two, Section II, encounter with the Other

Part Three, Chapter Two, Section II, discussion of flesh

Part Three, Chapter Two, Section II, discussion of character

Part Three, Chapter Two, concluding discussion