How is Lying to Oneself Possible? The Dialetheism Reading of Sartre's Bad Faith

One of the most important debates in Sartre scholarship today comes from the question, how is it possible to be in bad faith? In other words, how is self-deception possible, given that, in lying to ourselves, we are both the liar and the lied to at the same time? On the face of it, this sounds paradoxical, if not downright contradictory. This article aims to address this question (1) by analyzing secondary literature on Sartre that tries to prove that bad faith is not a contradictory concept and (2) by defending the "dialetheism reading" of bad faith, that is, the reading that views bad faith to be evidence for the true existence of contradictions.