ABSTRACT
That Kant was the founding father of the transcendental tradition is difficult to contest. Perhaps equally difficult is to exaggerate Kant’s significance for Western philosophy starting with the eighteenth century. But how far does the transcendental tradition extend and does it also include Sartre’s philosophy? In what follows, I am going to argue that Sartre is a central representative of this tradition, that his early philosophy shares with the representatives of this tradition some significant aspects, particularly methodological in character, but that an attempt to attribute to him a position even closer to the transcendental tradition fails, although paradoxically it highlights a further feature that he shares with transcendentalism.
