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The Transcendence of the Ego: An Existentialist Theory of Consciousness

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The Transcendence of the Ego: An Existentialist Theory of Consciousness - Sartre, Jean-Paul
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First published in France in 1937, this important essay marked a turning point in Sartre's philosophical development. Before writing it, he had been closely allied with phenomenologists such as Husserl and Heidegger. Here, however, Sartre attacked Husserl's notion of a transcendental ego. The break with Husserl, in turn, facilitated Sartre's transition from phenomenology to the existentialist doctrines of his masterwork, Being and Nothingness , which was completed a few years later while the author was a prisoner of war. ...

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The Transcendence of the Ego: An Existentialist Theory of Consciousness 1991, Hill & Wang, New York

ISBN-13: 9780809015450

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