Sartre encountered phenomenology entirely through texts, never meeting Husserl

Evidence

Sartre could have become a late joiner of this gang too. Had he gone to Freiburg, he might have taken up hiking and skiing, and become a lean mountain man instead of the ‘real little Buddha’ which he said he became during his year of Berlin beer and dumplings. Instead, he stayed in the capital’s French Institute reading the phenomenologists’ books, Husserl’s above all, and learning the difficult German terms as he went. … Husserl probably never heard a word about him. Perhaps that was for the best, as he probably would have been unimpressed by the unfamiliar brew the young French existentialist would make of his ideas. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 126

Categorization

• XREF: Contrasts with Levinas’ embodied, classroom conversion to phenomenology in the preceding paragraph. — connects to: Levinas’s book introduced Sartre to Husserl’s phenomenology — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 16