To the Nothingnesses Themselves

Husserl’s Influence on Sartre’s Notion of Nothingness

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ID8410703
AuthorsSimon Gusman (0000-0002-3575-5687, Radboud University Nijmegen, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume49
Issue1
Pages55-70
Publication date2018-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0007-1773 • E-ISSN: 2332-0486
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00071773.2017.1387687
OpenAlexW2766146562
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited19

In this article I argue that Sartre’s notions of nothingness and “negatity” are not, as he presents it, primarily reactions to Hegel and Heidegger. Instead, they are a reaction to an ongoing struggle with Husserl’s notion of intentionality and related notions. I do this by comparing the criticism aimed at Husserl in Sartre’s Being and Nothingness to that presented in his earlier work, The Imagination, where he discusses Husserl more elaborately. Furthermore, I compare his criticism to Husserl’s own criticism of the “doctrine of immanent objects”, in order to show that Sartre’s notion of nothingness is a continuation of Husserl’s criticism, and that he turns Husserl’s own arguments against himself

Criticism · Epistemology · Hegelianism · Intentionality · Literature · Nothing · Phenomenology (philosophy) · French Literature and Criticism · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism

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