Edward S. Casey is Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Donald V. Morano is a lawyer in Chicago and author of numerous essays on existential themes and the philosophy of law.

The Life of the Transcendental Ego presents essays by a number of distinguished writers in the continental tradition of philosophy. The essays include problems in transcendental philosophy, the nature of autobiography, the validity of existentialism, the possibilities of phenomenology, as well as focused discussions of concrete issues in aesthetics and ethics.