transcendental-ego
The ego as a transcendental structure that is realized through consciousness but is not an object itself, reflecting Sartre's critique and extension of Heidegger and Husserl.
1 chapter across 1 book
Being and Nothingness (1943)Jean-Paul Sartre
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.