Husserl's phenomenology and Sartre's existentialism

pp. 51-61

in: Herbert Spiegelberg, The context of the phenomenological movement, The Hague, Nijhoff, 1982

Abstract

In the public eye even today phenomenology is mostly identified with the name of Edmund Husserl and existentialism with that of Jean-Paul Sartre. It therefore still makes good sense to use their versions as entrance wedges for a first understanding of the relations between the two movements. I propose to do so by first bringing out some historical facts about their actual connections or lack of them and then to discuss their essential relations in a more systematic fashion.