Towards a concept of «transcendere» in Husserl, Heidegger and Zambrano

Abstract

The article develops an investigation of the concept of transcendere, around the concepts of transcendence in Husserl, Heidegger and specifically in María Zambrano’s book La Confesión: género literario. The author sug- gests that a concept of transcendere can be constructed on the basis of such fundamental notions as difference, movement and direction. The article goes on to argue that these notions create the conditions for an ontology that cannot be separated from ethics. The concept of transcendere may serve as a bridge between political and ontological thinking; the article suggests that this is the case in the thinking of María Zambrano.