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Jean-Paul Sartre, a Profound Revision of Husserlian Phenomenology

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Jean-Paul Sartre is undoubtedly the one who, along with Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Emmanuel Levinas, contributed the most to the spread of phenomenology in France. While developing a phenomenology of existence or living experience, he carried out a profound revision of Husserlian thought. That revision involved three distinct dimensions, which presuppose one another and overlap, and at the same time constitute the principal stages of his philosophical evolution:

  • the phenomenology of consciousness (1933–39)

  • ontological phenomenology (1939–48)

  • phenomenology of freedom based on moral and political commitment (1950–80)

Here I am going to try to provide a broad, general outline of them because it is impossible to go into detail here.

Life taught me ‘the force of circumstance’.

—J.-P. Sartre

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Raynova, Y.B. (2002). Jean-Paul Sartre, a Profound Revision of Husserlian Phenomenology. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) Phenomenology World-Wide. Analecta Husserliana, vol 80. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0473-2_34

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