Transcendence of the Ego
Author(s): Jean-Paul Sartre
Philosophy | Routledge Classics
‘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 Egois 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 Exithave exerted enormous influence in philosophy, literature, politics and drama.
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