Sartre, Husserl, and Bakewell, If You Don't Mind

Sarah Bakewell, on Sartre reading Husserl, in At the Existentialist Café : "All consciousness is consciousness of something." Sartre pushed it: sealing yourself into a shuttered room doesn't preserve you, it erases you. There's no cozy interior to retreat to. Being out on the road is the thing we are. A bookshelf without books is still a bookshelf. A mind without thought is not a mind. Perhaps we…