1st Edition

The Subject in Question Sartre's Critique of Husserl in The Transcendence of the Ego

By Stephen Priest Copyright 2000
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

The Subject in Question provides a fascinating insight into a debate between two of the twentieth century's most famous philosophers - Jean-Paul Sartre and Edmund Husserl - over the key notions of conscious experience and the self. Sartre's The Transcendence of the Ego , published in 1937, is a major text in the phenomenological tradition and sets the course for much of his later work. The... Read more
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Biography

Stephen Priest lectures in the Faculties of Philosophy and Theology in the University of Oxford. He is a fellow of Blackfriars Hall, Oxford and a member of Wolfson College, Oxford. Stephen Priest is the author of The British Empiricists, Theories of the Mind, Merleau-Ponty and The Subject in Question. He is the editor of Hegel's Critique of Kant and Jean-Paul Sartre: Basic Writings and co-editor (with Anthony Flew) of A Dictionary of Philosophy.