1. Introduction Till Grohmann
Part 1: Essences and Ideas in the Early Phenomenological Movement
2. Reinach’s Negative States of Affairs and the Role of Essence Kimberly Baltzer-Jaray
3. Jean Hering, Husserl and the Essence of Caesar Daniele De Santis
4. Heidegger’s Essentialism Daniel O. Dahlstrom
5. Husserl’s Essentialist Reform of Brentano’s Axiology Genki Uemura
Part 2: Husserl’s Phenomenological Eidetics
6. Ideation and Eidetic Variation: A Reconsideration Based on Husserl’s Texts Rochus Sowa
7. Cultural Elements in Types and Eidos: The Intersubjective Constitution of Types and its effect on the Eidos in Husserl’s Phenomenology Dieter Lohmar
8. On ‘Logical’ and ‘Relational’ Essences in Husserl’s Phenomenology Till Grohmann
Part 3: Essences in Logic, Mathematics and Philosophy of Language
9. Husserlian Essences and Analytic Philosophy Paul M. Livingston
10. Phenomenological Essences in Historical Perspective: An Essay on the Transcendental-Phenomenological Project of De-Sedimentation Burt C. Hopkins
11. Metalanguage and Metaconsciousness: How Formal Logic Proceeds Towards True Being Kyle Banick
12. The Ideality of Logic: Reassessing Husserl’s Anti-psychologism in the Logical Investigations Denis Seron
13. The Essence of Phenomenology in the Mirror of the Phenomenology of Mathematical Essences Dominique Pradelle
Part 4: Beyond Husserl’s Essentialism
14. Merleau-Ponty’s Later Phenomenology of In-visible Essences Diego D’Angelo
15. Deconstructing Essences: Derrida’s Two Criticisms of Essentialism Emanuela Carta
16. Ideality and Essence in Marc Richir Alexander Schnell
Biography
Till Grohmann is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Husserl Archives of the KU Leuven Institute of Philosophy. His research focuses on phenomenology, philosophy of language, the philosophy of psychiatry and psychopathology, and poststructuralism. Among his publications is Corps et monde dans l’autisme et la schizophrénie: Approches ontologiques en psychopathologie (2019).
"An important book that elucidates one of the pillars of phenomenological thinking not seldom forgotten today: the question of ‘essence’ and its challenging complexity."
Philipp Schmidt, University of Würzburg, Germany
"This volume explores the nuances and subtleties of phenomenological re-interpretations of classical notions of essences in a way that can engage contemporary criticisms of a broad range of essentialisms. Essences are more complicated than they might first appear. Grohmann brings together leading and emerging scholars to investigate the philosophical relevance of phenomenological notions of essences and to engage contemporary criticisms of this persistent classical term."
Adam Konopka, Xavier University, USA
