What is suggested here is that a correlate of authenticity can be found in the idea of being true to the inescapable tension at the core of the human self. This would be attained if one clear-sightedly acknowledged the fundamental ambiguity of the human condition.  Authenticity would then be what Sartre calls a “self-recovery of being which was previously corrupted” (1992a [1943]: 116). In a sense, humans can never really be anything in the way brute objects can be things with determinate attributes. In Bell’s words, authenticity would be “the awareness and acceptance of—this basic ambiguity” (1989: 46). This conclusion is supported by Sartre’s later work, Anti-Semite and Jew where he writes,