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Sartre’s first major philosophical essay, The Transcendence of the Ego,1 tries to develop a phenomenological theory of consciousness and yet breaks markedly away from a central concept of Husserl’s later philosophy, i.e. the transcendental ego. Since the validity of Sartre’s claims would undermine most of the work which Husserl undertook since 1905 it seems worthwhile to consider them in some detail.
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Sartre, Jean-Paul, “La Transcendance de l’Ego, Esquisse d’une Description Phénoménologique,” Recherches Philosophiques VI (1936), 85, 123.
Sylvie Le Bon has edited this essay anew, adding an introduction and notes of her own: Sartre, Jean Paul, La Transcendance de l’Ego, Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, Paris 1966
The English translation by Forrest Williams and Robert Kirkpatrick has appeared under the title Sartre, Jean-Paul, The Transcendence of the Ego, an Existentialist Theory of Consciousness, Noonday Press, New York 1957; all references will be to this edition.
Husserl, Edmund, Logical Investigations, Translated by J. N. Findlay, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London 1970.
Husserl, Edmund, Logical Investigations, Translated by J. N. Findlay, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London 1970., p. 541.
The best single textual evidence for all three claims can be found in Husserl, Edmund, Ideen zu einer reinen Phänomenologie und phänomenologischen Philosophie II, Husserliana Vol. IV, Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague 1952, p. 99. There is, of course, countless other textual evidence in Husserl’s work.
Husserl, Edmund, Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology, Collier Books, New York 1962, p. 222.
Husserl, Edmund, Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology, Collier Books, New York 1962, p. 222., p. 112.
Husserl, Edmund, Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology, Collier Books, New York 1962, p. 222., pp. 112–113.
Husserl, Edmund, Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology, Collier Books, New York 1962, p. 222., p. 203.
Husserl, Edmund, Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology, Collier Books, New York 1962, p. 222., p. 204.
Strawson, P. F., Individuals, London 1959, chapter III.
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Sukale, M. (1976). Sartre and the Cartesian Ego. In: Comparative Studies in Phenomenology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9999-2_4
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