The Transcendental Field as a Starting Point for a Postmetaphysical Phenomenology: Sartre and Husserl Cover Image

Transcendentalno polje kao polazna tačka za postmetafizičku fenomenologiju: Sartre i Husserl
The Transcendental Field as a Starting Point for a Postmetaphysical Phenomenology: Sartre and Husserl

Author(s): Denis Džanić
Subject(s): Philosophy, Existentialism, Phenomenology
Published by: Akademija Nauka i Umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine
Keywords: phenomenology; the transcendental ego; consciousness; reflection; the transcendental field

Summary/Abstract: Husserl’s phenomenology is generally considered to be an attempt at finishing/closing the tradition of metaphysics through detailed critical analyses of various types of experience. This attempt, however, has usually been deemed unsuccessful given the fact that Husserl himself sometimes resorts to classical prejudicious metaphysical concepts that he is trying to overturn. The most notable of these is the concept of the transcendental ego, which has led most of Husserl’s critics to reject his conception of phenomenology altogether. In this paper I try to show that such a complete rejection of phenomenology is not necessary if we follow the phenomenological analysis offered to us by Sartre in his early paper The Transcendence of the Ego. This analysis culminates in his notion of the transcendental field which replaces the classical notion of a constituting subjectivity.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 01+02
  • Page Range: 67-81
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Bosnian