Binding: Paperback
Description: I should like to show here that the Ego is neither formally or materially in consciousness: it is outside in the world. Jean - Paul Sartre The Transcendence of the Ego is one of Jean - Paul Sartre's earliest philosophical publications and essential for understanding the trajectory of his work as a whole. When it first appeared in France in 1937 Sartre was still largely unknown working as a school teacher in a provincial French town. Attacking prevailing philosophical theories head on Sartre offers a brilliant and radical account of the self as a product of consciousness situated in the world. He introduces many of the themes central to his major work Being and Nothingness: the nature of consciousness the problem of self - knowledge other minds and anguish. This translation includes a thorough and illuminating introduction by Sarah Richmond placing Sartre's essay in its philosophical and historical context. Jean - Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980). The foremost French thinker and writer of the early post - war years. His books which include Being and Nothingness Nausea The Age of Reason and No Exit have exerted enormous influence in philosophy literature politics and drama.
Title: The Transcendence Of The Ego A Sketch For A Phenomenological Description
Author(s): Sartre Jean - Paul
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780415610179
Pages: 104 Pages
Publication Date: 3/30/2011
Series: Routledge Classics
Category: Philosophy: Epistemology & Theory Of Knowledge