Epoché as a Guideline to (Inter)Subjectivity: On the Extent of Husserl’s Methodological Influence on Levinas and Sartre

Offers a comparative study of Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Paul Sartre through the lens of their engagement with Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology. 

Focusing on the notions of epoché, phenomenological reduction, intentionality, and the cogito, Josef Matoušek traces how both Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Paul Sartre appropriate and transform Husserl’s methodological framework in developing their respective accounts of subjectivity, transcendence, and the encounter with the Other. Building on and critically extending Kris Sealey’s influential comparison of both thinkers, Epoché as a Guideline to (Inter)Subjectivity argues that despite their significant philosophical differences, both remain deeply indebted to Husserl’s project and that their mature accounts of le visage and le regard can be better understood through this shared phenomenological background.