This philosopher sought to answer the question "What, at this point, can we know about a man?" in his study of Gustave Flaubert's The Family Idiot.
This philosopher sought to answer the question "What, at this point, can we know about a man?" in his study of Gustave Flaubert's The Family Idiot. This philosopher was the first to describe fields founded by struggle that fail to respond to their founding groups' needs as "practico-inert." This author of Critique of Dialectical Reason described social categorization of a person's formal identity as "bad faith" in a book that distinguishes being-in-itself from being-for-itself.  For 10 points, name this French existentialist author of Being and Nothingness.
This philosopher sought to answer the question "What, at this point, can we know about a man?" in his study of Gustave Flaubert's The Family Idiot.
Jean-Paul Sartre