The Ethics of Husserl's Phenomenology

by Siles i Borràs, Joaquim

• ISBN13: 9781441162434
• ISBN10: 1441162437
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-12-22
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

The Ethics of Husserl's Phenomenologyaims to relocate the question of ethics at the very heart of Husserl's phenomenology. This is based on the idea that Husserl's phenomenology is an epistemological inquiry ultimately motivated by an ethical demand that pervades his writing from the publication ofLogical Investigations(1900-1901) up toThe Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology(1935). Joaquim Siles-Borràs traces the ethical concepts apparent throughout Husserl's main body of work and argues that Husserl's phenomenology of consciousness, experience and meaning is ultimately motivated by an ethical demand, by means of which Husserl aims to re-define philosophy and re-found science, with the aim of making philosophy and science capable of dealing with the most pressing questions concerning the meaningfulness of human existence.

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. The Ethical Exercise of Husserl's Phenomenology: Epoché, Reduction and Intentional Explication

2. Intuition or the Ethical Principle of Phenomenology

3. The Ethical Extent of Phenomenology: Static Intentionality and its Genetic Possibility

4. The Ethical Depth of Phenomenology: Inner Time-Consciousness and the Formal Genesis of Experience

5. The Full Ethical Breadth of Husserl's Inquiry: Genetic Phenomenology and the Question of Self-Responsibility

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Index