The Secret Smiles of Things: Sartre’s Realism Reconsidered

Abstract In this article, I argue against a widespread misconception concerning the nature of things in Sartre’s philosophy. conception concerns idea that outside consciousness single undifferentiated mass brute being exists which is divided into definitive by consciousness. propose different reading realism. Such based primarily on Nausea, Being and Nothingness Consciousness Self Knowledge states that, contra common conception, there no consciousness, but rather, vast multitude things.