The inescapable nature of bad faith seems to leave no room for the possibility of authenticity. This might be why the word translated as “authentic” only appears twice in this vast tome. On one occasion, Sartre attacks Heidegger for introducing the idea of authenticity as a way of providing something foundational in an otherwise totally contingent world. The concept of authenticity “shows all too clearly [Heidegger’s] anxiety to establish an ontological foundation for an Ethics…” (Sartre 1992a [1943]: 128). A second and more obscure appearance of the word comes at the end of the discussion of bad faith early in the book. Here Sartre acknowledges that his account of bad faith seems to have the consequence that there can be no such thing as good faith, so that “it is indifferent whether one is in good faith or in bad faith”, and that in turn seems to imply that “we can never radically escape bad faith”. Nevertheless, he goes on, there may be a “self-recovery of being which has been previously corrupted”, a recovery “we shall call authenticity, the description of which has no place here” (Sartre 1992a [1943]: 116n).