Individu, famille et communauté dans la pensée de Jean-Paul Sartre
The individual, family and community in the philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre

Summary/Abstract: Many people think that Sartre’s standpoint concerning intersubjectivity is simply resumed in the widely known aphorism of No Exit : “Hell is other people.” However, in the Critic of Dialectical Reason he was looking for the possibility of the community. In Being and Nothingness every human relation is based on the look, thus we-subject and us-object can be distinguished as different experiences of being-for-others. The condition of an ideal typical community is a common project which (in the Critic of Dialectical Reason) ensures freedom for individuals (as being for itself) in a group-in-fusion. Certainly, every individual has his own project, since his fundamental choice has come to pass within the family. There is a possibility of modifying it, but it is not an easy way. Sartre analysed the vain efforts of both Baudelaire and Genet using his own method of existential psychoanalysis. The importance of lived experience of the child is best developed in The Family Idiot on Flaubert.

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