Sartre

of the real world by their own transforming power into the sanctuary of our inner life.^29 On to this sorry scene enters Edmund ...

Gone is the principle of “immanence,” the tap-root of idealism, which insists that all knowledge is “immanent” in the knowing su ...

that “the point of view of pure knowledge is contradictory; there is only committed (engage ́e) knowledge” (BN 308 ). Two other ...

our reactions to a piece of sculpted wood” (TE 89 ). In other words, with intentionality, “Husserl has restored the horror and t ...

common-sense awareness. It is the “I” or the “me” of our scientific experiments and our everyday experience – what Husserl calls ...

grasp the self as more than a mere bundle of sense impressions. Admit- ting that we do not know the world as it is “in itself,” ...

Sartre, whom we saw praise “intentionality” for restoring our physical and cultural worlds with their properties and values, now ...

“Reduction” denotes a suspension of belief (in Greek, epochē), a withholding of judgment. It resembles the attitude of the ancie ...

Introduction of a substance into consciousness, Sartre believes, is an invitation either to theorize an “unconscious,” that is, ...

now ascribes the action to an empirical ego: “Imissed that bus!” or “That’s happening tome.” Yet this prereflective awareness is ...

our consciousness, is it made possible by the synthetic unity of our representations or rather is it the Ego that unifies these ...

dimension and “retentions” of its antecedents. Husserl confirms Sartre’s opinion that time consciousness is a “whole” that canno ...

characterizes that reduction as an act offreedom and concludes that the resistance to performing it stems from a “fear” of that ...

4 First triumph: The Imagination S artre is a philosopherof the imaginary. In an interview late in life, he admitted: “I believe ...

Daniel Lagache to follow the lectures of psychologist Georges Dumas at the psychiatric hospital of Sainte-Anne. In fact, his gra ...

These two short works serve as insightful introductions to phenomeno- logical psychology with a characteristically Sartrean twis ...

Eidetic reduction Before continuing, let us pause to describe the process that Husserl called an “eidetic reduction” from fact t ...

phenomenological reduction, even though it is explicitly employed inThe Imaginary( 1940 ). This existential turn was facilitated ...

What Husserl calls the “eidetic” reduction is much closer to what Aristotle called “abstraction,” notwithstanding Husserl’s reje ...

reveal both the “certain” and the “probable” conclusions about the nature of the image that a careful eidetic reduction will war ...