Unlike Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and Grimaldi study the radically mediatizing character of being understood as desire, and they theorize about a radical decentring of subjectivity culminating for Merleau-Ponty in a thought of intercorporeity and for Grimaldi in an ethics of self-sacrifice. Both of them thus root the dissociating level of representation–echoed in Being and Nothingness–in a more radical ontological unity.