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

Informationen zum Autor 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 . Klappentext 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 Subject in Question is the first full-length study of this famous work and its influence on twentieth-century philosophy. It also investigates the relationship between Sartre's ideas and the earlier work of Descartes and Kant. Zusammenfassung The Subject in Question provides a fascinating insight into a debate between two of the most famous contemporary philosophers - Jean-Paul Sartre and Edmund Husserl - over key notions of conscious experience and the self. Inhaltsverzeichnis Husserl and the Transcendental EgoThe I and the MeThe Theory of the Material Presence of the Me^l Conclusions

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Priest, Stephen (Blackfriars Hall Priest, Priest Stephen
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.04.2000
• EAN: 9780415213691
• ISBN: 978-0-415-21369-1
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy; Routledge Studies in Twentieth; Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / General, Philosophy, Phenomenology and Existentialism