Task: Text Categorization
Input (English): This philosopher argued for a hybrid approach of historical materialism and psychoanalysis that he termed the "progressive-regressive method." He used the example of a man that fails to meet his friend after walking into a cafe to illustrate the second title concept of one of his works. This man densely analyzed the life of Gustave Flaubert in his book length study The Family Idiot. His short treatise (*) Search for a Method recapitulates themes of another of his books, which calls humanity a "fused group." This author of Critique of Dialectical Reason argued that the object of consciousness exists as "in-itself," but experience exists "for itself" in a book that argues the authentic life is one way to escape the grip of "bad faith." For 10 points, name this existentialist author of Being and Nothingness.
Output (English): Social Science