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space-as-nothingness

Space is conceived as a form of nothingness or null-relation, foundational to the way beings are situated and related in the world.

1 chapter across 1 book

Being and Nothingness (1943)Jean-Paul Sartre

Chapter 3: Transcendence

Chapter 3: Transcendence in Sartre's Being and Nothingness explores the notion of transcendence primarily through Sartre's engagement with Heideggerian phenomenology, German Idealism, and Husserlian intentionality. The chapter critically examines the self's relation to the not-self, the role of temporality and space as forms of nothingness, and the foundational structures of consciousness as inherently transcendent. Sartre also revisits and revises Heidegger's concepts, emphasizing the ego's transcendental structure and the interplay between being and nothingness in constituting experience.