Sartre on Authentic and Inauthentic Love

Abstract

This paper shows that while Sartre’s account of love relations in Being and Nothingness is famously conflictual, his Notebooks for an Ethics offers a far more positive account. It pays particular attention to the role that each lover’s pre-reflective fundamental project plays in shaping the content of their love relationship. Key words Sartre, love, conversion, social relations, the Other