William C. Hackett’s English translation of Jean Wahl’s
Existence humaine et transcendence (1944) brings back to life an
all-but-forgotten book that provocatively explores the
philosophical concept of transcendence. Based on what Emmanuel
Levinas called “Wahl’s famous lecture” from 1937, Existence
humaine et transcendence captured a watershed moment of European
philosophy. Included in the book are Wahl's remarkable original
lecture and the debate that ensued, with significant contributions
by Gabriel Marcel and Nicolai Berdyaev, as well as letters
submitted on the occasion by Heidegger, Levinas, Jaspers, and other
famous figures from that era. Concerned above all with the
ineradicable felt value of human experience by which any
philosophical thesis is measured, Wahl makes a daring clarification
of the concept of transcendence and explores its repercussions
through a masterly appeal to many (often surprising) places within
the entire history of Western thought. Apart from its intrinsic
philosophical significance as a discussion of the concepts of
being, the absolute, and transcendence, Wahl's work is valuable
insofar as it became a focal point for a great many other European
intellectuals. Hackett has provided an annotated introduction to
orient readers to this influential work of twentieth-century French
philosophy and to one of its key figures.
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