Full Idea
Sternly envisaged by Husserl as a scientific discipline, phenomenology, on being stripped of the synthetic a priori by the logical positivists, ends up in Sartre as a largely literary undertaking.
Gist of Idea
If phenomenology is deprived of the synthetic a priori, it is reduced to literature
Source
comment on Edmund Husserl (works [1898]) by José A. Benardete - Metaphysics: the logical approach Ch.18
Book Reference
Benardete,José A.: 'Metaphysics: The Logical Approach' [OUP 1989], p.137