Phenomenology and the Transcendental

Phenomenology and the Transcendental
Author: Sara Heinämaa
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-07-27
Genre: Phenomenology
ISBN: 9781138210561

The aim of this volume is to offer an updated account of the transcendental character of phenomenology. The main question concerns the sense and relevance of transcendental philosophy today: What can such philosophy contribute to contemporary inquiries and debates after the many reasoned attacks against its idealistic, aprioristic, absolutist and universalistic tendencies--voiced most vigorously by late 20th century postmodern thinkers--as well as attacks against its apparently circular arguments and suspicious metaphysics launched by many analytic philosophers? Contributors also aim to clarify the relations of transcendental phenomenology to other post-Kantian philosophies, most importantly to pragmatism and Wittgenstein's philosophical investigations. Finally, the volume offers a set of reflections on the meaning of post-transcendental phenomenology.

Husserl's Legacy

Husserl's Legacy
Author: Dan Zahavi
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2017-11-17
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0191507717

Dan Zahavi offers an in-depth and up-to-date analysis of central and contested aspects of the philosophy of Edmund Husserl, the founder of phenomenology. What is ultimately at stake in Husserl's phenomenological analyses? Are they primarily to be understood as investigations of consciousness or are they equally about the world? What is distinctive about phenomenological transcendental philosophy, and what kind of metaphysical import, if any, might it have? Husserl's Legacy offers an interpretation of the more overarching aims and ambitions of Husserlian phenomenology and engages with some of the most contested and debated questions in phenomenology. Central to its interpretative efforts is the attempt to understand Husserl's transcendental idealism. Zahavi argues that Husserl was not a sophisticated introspectionist, not a phenomenalist, nor an internalist, not a quietist when it comes to metaphysical issues, and not opposed to all forms of naturalism. Husserl's Legacy argues that Husserl's phenomenology is as much about the world as it is about consciousness, and that a proper grasp of Husserl's transcendental idealism reveals the fundamental importance of facticity and intersubjectivity.

Husserl's Crisis of the European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology

Husserl's Crisis of the European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology
Author: Dermot Moran
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2012-08-23
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1139560360

The Crisis of the European Sciences is Husserl's last and most influential book, written in Nazi Germany where he was discriminated against as a Jew. It incisively identifies the urgent moral and existential crises of the age and defends the relevance of philosophy at a time of both scientific progress and political barbarism. It is also a response to Heidegger, offering Husserl's own approach to the problems of human finitude, history and culture. The Crisis introduces Husserl's influential notion of the 'life-world' – the pre-given, familiar environment that includes both 'nature' and 'culture' – and offers the best introduction to his phenomenology as both method and philosophy. Dermot Moran's rich and accessible introduction to the Crisis explains its intellectual and political context, its philosophical motivations and the themes that characterize it. His book will be invaluable for students and scholars of Husserl's work and of phenomenology in general.

Subjectivity and Lifeworld in Transcendental Phenomenology

Subjectivity and Lifeworld in Transcendental Phenomenology
Author: Sebastian Luft
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2011-10-31
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0810127431

The purpose of the text is threefold: 1] to contribute to the renaissance of Husserl interpretation around a) the continuing publication of Husserl's manuscripts and b) his unpublished manuscripts; 2] to account for the historical origins and influence of the phenomenological project by articulating Husserl's relationship to authors before and after him; 3] to argue for the viability of the phenomenological project as conceived by Husserl in his later years. In regard to the last purpose, Luft's main argument shows that Husserlian phenomenology is not exhausted in the Cartesian (early) perspective, which is indeed its weakest and most vulnerable perspective. Husserlian phenomenology is a robust and philosophically necessary perspective when taken from its hermeneutic (late) perspective. And the ultimate point Luft makes in the text is that Husserl's hermeneutic phenomenology is distinct from other hermeneutic philosophers, namely, Cassirer, Heidegger and Gadamer. Unlike them, Husserl's focus centers on the work the subject must do in order to uncover the prejudices that guide his/her unreflective relationship to the world. In making his argument, Luft also demonstrates that there is a deep consistency within Husserl's own writings-from early to late-around the guiding themes of: 1] the natural attitude; 2] the need and function of the epoché; and 3] the split between egos, where the transcendental self (distinct from the natural self) is seen as the fundamental ability we all have to inquire into the genesis of our tradition-laden attitudes toward the world.

Psychological and Transcendental Phenomenology and the Confrontation with Heidegger (1927–1931)

Psychological and Transcendental Phenomenology and the Confrontation with Heidegger (1927–1931)
Author: Edmund Husserl
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 542
Release: 1997-10-31
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780792344810

Thomas Sheehan and Richard E. Palmer The materials translated in the body of this volume date from 1927 through 1931. The Encyclopaedia Britannica Article and the Amsterdam Lectures were written by Edmund Hussed (with a short contribution by Martin Heideg ger) between September 1927 and April 1928, and Hussed's marginal notes to Sein und Zeit and Kant und das Problem der Metaphysik were made between 1927 and 1929. The appendices to this volume contain texts from both Hussed and Heidegger, and date from 1929 through 1931. As a whole these materials not only document Hussed's thinking as he approached retirement and emeri tus status (March 31, 1928) but also shed light on the philosophical chasm that was widening at that time between Hussed and his then colleague and protege, Martin Heidegger. 1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica Article Between September and early December 1927, Hussed, under contract, composed an introduction to phenomenology that was to be published in the fourteenth edition ofthe Encyclopaedia Britannica (1929). Hussed's text went through four versions (which we call Drafts A, B, C, and D) and two editorial condensations by other hands (which we call Drafts E and F). Throughout this volume those five texts as a whole are referred to as "the EB Article" or simply "the Article. " Hussed's own final version of the Article, Draft D, was never published of it appeared only in 1962.

Husserl and the Promise of Time

Husserl and the Promise of Time
Author: Nicolas de Warren
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2009-11-05
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0521876796

This book examines Husserl's treatment of time-consciousness and its significance for his conception of subjectivity.

The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology

The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology
Author: Edmund Husserl
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 452
Release: 1970
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780810104587

The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology, Husserl's last great work, is important both for its content and for the influence it has had on other philosophers. In this book, which remained unfinished at his death, Husserl attempts to forge a union between phenomenology and existentialism. Husserl provides not only a history of philosophy but a philosophy of history. As he says in Part I, "The genuine spiritual struggles of European humanity as such take the form of struggles between the philosophies, that is, between the skeptical philosophies--or nonphilosophies, which retain the word but not the task--and the actual and still vital philosophies. But the vitality of the latter consists in the fact that they are struggling for their true and genuine meaning and thus for the meaning of a genuine humanity."

Husserl, Heidegger, and the Space of Meaning

Husserl, Heidegger, and the Space of Meaning
Author: Steven Galt Crowell
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2001-04-14
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 081011805X

In this work Crowell proposes that the distinguishing feature of 20th-century philosophy is not so much its emphasis on language as its concern with meaning. He argues that transcendental phenomenology is indispensible to the philosophical explanation of the space of meaning.

Husserl, Kant and Transcendental Phenomenology

Husserl, Kant and Transcendental Phenomenology
Author: Iulian Apostolescu
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 546
Release: 2020-08-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3110564289

The transcendental turn of Husserl’s phenomenology has challenged philosophers and scholars from the beginning. This volume inquires into the profound meaning of this turn by contrasting its Kantian and its phenomenological versions. Examining controversies surrounding subjectivity, idealism, aesthetics, logic, the foundation of sciences, and practical philosophy, the chapters provide a helpful guide for facing current debates.

Husserl's Transcendental Phenomenology

Husserl's Transcendental Phenomenology
Author: Andrea Staiti
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2014-11-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1107066301

This book is the first study of Husserl that connects his phenomenology to the underappreciated work of Neo-Kantians and life-philosophers.