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The Transcendence of the Ego ( French: La Transcendance de l'ego: Esquisse d'une description phénomenologique) is a philosophical and phenomenological essay written by the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre in 1934 and published in 1936. The essay demonstrates Sartre’s transition from traditional phenomenological thinking and most notably his ...
- Jean Paul Sartre
- 1936
The ego is the unity of states and of actions —optionally, of qualities. It is the unity of tran¬ scendent unities, and itself transcendent. It is a transcendent pole of synthetic unity, like the ob¬ ject-pole of the unreflected attitude, except that this pole appears solely in the world of reflection.
The Transcendence of the Ego is a philosophical essay published by Jean Paul Sartre in 1936. In it, he sets out his view that the self or ego is not itself something that one is aware of. The model of consciousness that Sartre provides in this essay may be outlined as follows.
Apr 30, 2011 · The Transcendence of the Ego: An Existentialist Theory of Consciousness. Jean-Paul Sartre, Forrest Williams (Translator), Robert Kirkpatrick (Translator) 3.79. 1,062 ratings85 reviews. First published in France in 1937, this important essay marked a turning point in Sartre's philosophical development.
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Mar 26, 2022 · 1. Life and Works. 2. Transcendence of the Ego: The Discovery of Intentionality. 3. Imagination, Phenomenology and Literature. 4. Being and Nothingness. 4.1. Negation and freedom. 4.2 Bad faith and the critique of Freudian psychoanalysis. 4.3 The Look, shame and intersubjectivity. 5. Existential Psychoanalysis and the Fundamental Project. 6.
Dec 18, 2019 · English. The transcendence of the ego; an existentialist theory of consciousness. 119 pages 20 cm. New York, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1957. Addeddate. 2019-12-18 23:23:32. Identifier. thetranscendenceoftheego. Identifier-ark. ark:/13960/t05z0gh10. Ocr. ABBYY FineReader 11.0 (Extended OCR) Ppi. 600. Scanner. Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.6.4.
What Sartre calls the transcendent ego is sometimes also called the person's essence; that is, it is the principle of the series of past acts, states, and qualities. Less technically, the transcendent ego is what has often been called character structure or personality (BN, i62z; Fr., 2zoi).
