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“How can the same person fully embrace their initial choices—joining anti-fascist struggles as early as 1935, joining the French Communist Party in the midst of war—when the present state of the world now forces them to reject a large part of their own past that was, nonetheless, the future of their choices?” Desanti wrote. The phenomenological investigation conducted in Un Destin philosophique (“A Philosophical Destiny”) by Desanti himself requires a new investigation, away from autobiographical anecdotes and historical causal explanations which cannot fully account for the involvement of a subject in a belief. Far from the common concepts of adherence and denial, Desanti paves a personal path made of belief, ethical bias, and political commitment that includes his readers.