Levinas’s book introduced Sartre to Husserl’s phenomenology

Evidence

Here, at last, was a real philosophy. According to Beauvoir, he rushed to the nearest bookshop and said, in effect, ‘Give me everything you have on phenomenology, now!’ What they produced was a slim volume written by Husserl’s student Emmanuel Levinas, La théorie de l’intuition dans la phénoménologie de Husserl, or The Theory of Intuition in Husserl’s Phenomenology. Books still came with their leaves uncut. Sartre tore the edges of Levinas’ book open without waiting to use a paperknife, and began reading as he walked down the street. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 16

Categorization

• XREF: Names Levinas as the conduit, a connection point for tracking how the movement passed between thinkers. — connects to: Sartre encountered phenomenology entirely through texts, never meeting Husserl — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 126

Broader Connections

• Sartre encountered phenomenology entirely through texts, never meeting Husserl #qualifies (0.80) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 126