Transhistoricity and the impossibility of aufhebung

Menachem Brinker

pp. 191-198

in: Yirmiahu Yovel (ed), Philosophy of history and action, Berlin, Springer, 1978

Abstract

Some of those who read Sartre's lecture on Kierkegaard "L"universel singulier"¹ were surprised to find there the notion of transhistoricité (transhistoricity). Yet it is this notion and the argument based upon it which offers in my opinion the key to a true understanding of J.-P. Sartre's writings in the late fifties and the sixties, mainly Questions de méthode (QM) and Critique de la raison dialectique (CRD).²

Cited authors

Sartre Jean-Paul

Kierkegaard Søren