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The Transcendence of the Ego
An Existentialist Theory of Consciousness
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by Jean-Paul Sartre,
Translated by Robert Kirkpatrick and Forrest Williams
Hill and Wang
Due/Published
December 1997, 119 pages,
paper
ISBN
0809015455
The Transcendence of the Ego, first published in France in 1937, may be regarded as a turning point in the philosophical development of Jean-Paul Sartre. Before writing this essay, Sartre had become intimately acquainted with phenomenologists such as Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. In this critically significant essay, Sartre attacked Husserl's notion of a transcendental ego. This disagreement with Husserl was profoundly important for Sartre, and it facilitated his transition from phenomenology to the doctrine of Being and Nothingness. |
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