Genre: | Textbook |
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Language : | English |
Published: | April 01, 2013 |
Edition: | 8th |
Paperback | |
ISBN13: | 9780809015450 |
ISBN10: | 0809015455 |
Dimensions: | 5.5 x 8.5 x 0.28 inches |
Weight: | 118 g |
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.
This student-friendly edition of The Transcendence of the Ego also includes an introduction and notes/annotations by the translators.