Interpreting Husserl: Critical and Comparative Studies

✍ Scribed by David Carr (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 303
• Series: Phaenomenologica 106
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Edmund Husserl's importance for the philosophy of our century is immense, but his influence has followed a curious path. Rather than continuous it has been recurrent, ambulatory and somehow irrepressible: no sooner does it wane in one locality than it springs up in another. After playing a major role in Germany during his lifetime, Husserl had been filed away in the history-books of that country when he was discovered by the French during and after World War II. And just as the phenomenological phase of French philosophy was ending in the 1960's, Husserl became important in North America. There his work was first taken seriously by a sizable minority of dissenters from the Anglo-American establish­ ment, the tradition of conceptual and linguistic analysis. More recently, some philosophers within that tradition have drawn on certain of Husserl's central concepts (intentionality, the noema) in addressing problems in the philosophy of mind and the theory of meaning. This is not to say that Husserl's influence in Europe has alto­ gether died out. It may be that he is less frequently discussed there directly, but (as I try to argue in the introductory essay of this volume) his influence lives on in subtler forms, in certain basic attitudes, strategies and problems.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-X
Husserl’s Lengthening Shadow: A Historical Introduction....Pages 1-21
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
Phenomenology and Relativism....Pages 25-44
The ‘Fifth Meditation’ and Husserl’s Cartesianism....Pages 45-69
Husserl’s Crisis and the Problem of History....Pages 71-95
History, Phenomenology and Reflection....Pages 97-114
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
Intentionality: Husserl and the Analytic Approach....Pages 117-136
The Problem of the Non-Empirical Ego: Husserl and Kant....Pages 137-156
Findlay, Husserl and the Epoché : Realism and Idealism....Pages 157-178
Interpretation and Self-Evidence: Husserl and Hermeneutics....Pages 179-196
The Future Perfect: Temporality and Priority in Husserl, Heidegger and Dilthey....Pages 197-211
World, World-View, Lifeworld: Husserl and the Conceptual Relativists....Pages 213-225
The Lifeworld Revisted: Husserl and Some Recent Interpreters....Pages 227-246
Front Matter....Pages 247-247
Time-Consciousness and Historical Consciousness....Pages 249-266
‘Personalities of a Higher Order’....Pages 267-279
Cogitamus Ergo Sumus: The Intentionality of the First-Person Plural....Pages 281-296
Back Matter....Pages 297-303

✦ Subjects

Phenomenology