1st Edition

Phenomenology Critical Concepts in Philosophy

2008 Pages
by Routledge

Phenomenology as a tradition owes its name to Edmund Husserl, in his Logical Investigations (1900-1). It began as a bold new way of doing philosophy, an attempt to bring it back from abstract metaphysical speculation and empty logical calculation in order to come into contact with concrete living experience. As formulated by Husserl, Phenomenology is the investigation of the structures of... Read more
Volume I: Phenomenology: Central Tendencies and Concepts (Intentionality, Evidence, Epoche and Reduction, Constitution, Lifeworld, Horizon)
Volume II: Major Issues in Phenomenology (Perception, Space, and Time; Others; Intersubjectivity; the Body; Emotion; New Areas - technology, Ecology, Ethnicity, Gender)
Volume III: Philosophical Disciplines within Phenomenology (Philosophy of the Sciences, Aesthetics and Value Theory, Ethics, Philosophy of Religion)
Volume IV: Assessments of Phenomenologists by Phenomenologists (Ingarden, Fink, Landgrebe, Merleau-Ponty, Schutz, Gurwitsch, Sartre, Levinas, Derrida, Taminiaux, Dreyfus)

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Edited by Lester Embree and Dermot Moran