An Exploration of Sartre's Look Through the Lens of My Lived Experience of Squint
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https://doi.org/10.65828/ha57zh09Keywords:
Sartre, Look, shame, squint, vision, eye, metaphor, Merleau-PontyAbstract
Sartre asserts that when we feel seen by another, we feel shame. I explore my contention - that his experience of being seen by others, and hence his understanding of the other's Look, was profoundly impacted by his lived experience of squint - through a selection of sources and through reflections on living with a squint myself.
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