Sartre rejects Husserl’s epoché because he examines consciousness in-the-world

Evidence

Husserl did share Heidegger’s scale of ambition, but he had relocated everything in his idealist cavern. For Heidegger, that was a fatal mistake: Husserl had bracketed out the wrong thing. He had bracketed out Being, the one thing that is indispensable. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 220 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Husserl had long ago considered the possibility that the whole intentional dance could just as easily be understood as occurring inside a person’s inner realm. Since the epoché suspended questions about whether things were real, nothing stood in the way of this interpretation. Real, not real; inside, outside; what difference did it make? Reflecting on this, Husserl began turning his phenomenology into a branch of ‘idealism’ — the philosophical tradition which denied external reality and defined everything as a kind of private hallucination. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 162 (#expands, via linked claim)

Sartre’s gift for shocking metaphor makes his ‘Intentionality’ essay the most readable introduction to phenomenology ever written, and one of the shortest. It is certainly a better read than anything Husserl wrote. Yet Sartre was by then already aware that Husserl had later moved away from this outward-bound interpretation of intentionality. He had come to look at it a different way, as an operation that pulled everything back into the mind after all. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 161 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Husserl later pulled intentionality back inward into the mind, diverging from Sartre’s outward reading — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 161; The epoché’s suspension of reality questions made Husserl’s phenomenology veer toward idealism — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 162; Embodiment is the necessary contingent condition anchoring consciousness in the world for Sartre — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 97 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• The epoché’s suspension of reality questions made Husserl’s phenomenology veer toward idealism #expands (0.85) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 162
• Heidegger’s break with Husserl hinged on what each bracketed out #corroborates (0.85) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 220
• Husserl later pulled intentionality back inward into the mind, diverging from Sartre’s outward reading #corroborates (0.80) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 161
• Embodiment is the necessary contingent condition anchoring consciousness in the world for Sartre #complicates (0.75) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 97
• Adorno and Horkheimer criticized Husserl’s phenomenology for denying mediation #corroborates (0.75) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 263