A foundational text in this philosophy presents an example of a waiter who exhibits "bad faith" by seeing himself only as a waiter, confusing his being-in-itself with being-for-itself.
One of the first English-language examinations of this philosophy was William Barrett's 1962 book Irrational Man. An important concept in this philosophy is the part of oneself unavailable to his consciousness, called facticity. A foundational text in this philosophy presents an example of a waiter who exhibits "bad faith" by seeing himself only as a waiter, confusing his being-in-itself with being-for-itself. FTP what philosophy was described as "a Humanism" by the author of Being and Nothingness, Jean-Paul Sartre?
One of the first English-language examinations of this philosophy was William Barrett's 1962 book Irrational Man.
existentialism