Belief and Its Neutralization: Husserl's System of Phenomenology in Ideas I

by Brainard, Marcus

• ISBN13: 9780791452202
• ISBN10: 0791452204
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Author Biography

Marcus Brainard is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation in Munich

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
I. Introduction: The Task of Thinking	1	(32)
The Idea of Phenomenology	5	(16)
The Crisis, its Source and Dimensions	6	(2)
Natural Order and Critique	8	(3)
System and Norms	11	(3)
Ethos, Ought, Teleology	14	(7)
The System of Husserlian Phenomenology: Ideas I	21	(12)
Polarities	24	(2)
The Order of Critique	26	(1)
The Whole and its Parts	27	(6)
II. Phenomenological Propaedeutics	33	(70)
Logical Considerations: Fact and Essence	37	(11)
The Realm of the Natural	38	(2)
Individual and Essence, Possibility and Necessity	40	(5)
Factual and Eidetic Sciences	45	(3)
Between Scylla and Charybdis: The Principle of All Principles	48	(9)
Phenomenology and Philosophy	48	(2)
Empiricism, Naturalism, Skepticism	50	(3)
Idealism	53	(1)
The Blindness of Theory	53	(1)
The First Principle	54	(2)
Dogmatism	56	(1)
The Epoche and the Phenomenological Reductions	57	(18)
The Attitudes of Consciousness	59	(1)
The General Thesis	60	(2)
The Instrumentalization of Cartesian Doubt	62	(3)
The Attitudinal Leap	65	(3)
The Family of Reductions	68	(6)
The Primacy of the Universal Epoche	74	(1)
The Field of Phenomenological Research: Pure Consciousness	75	(28)
The Phenomenological Residuum	76	(2)
The Modifiability of Consciousness I: Actionality and Inactionality	78	(2)
The Modifiability of Consciousness II: Intentionality	80	(2)
Immanent and Transcendent Perception	82	(1)
Consciousness and the Natural World	83	(6)
Merely Phenomenal and Absolute Being	89	(4)
The Destruction of Transcendence	93	(3)
The Annihilation of the World	96	(3)
From the Natural to the Phenomenological Sphere	99	(4)
III. The Disclosure of the System's Lowermost Limit: Subjectivity	103	(92)
The Science of Phenomenology	103	(15)
The First Negative Account: Phenomenological Method and its Dissenters	104	(5)
The First Positive Account: The Aim and Method of Phenomenology	109	(5)
The Second Negative and Positive Accounts: Intuition and First Science	114	(4)
First Categories: The Archimedean Point and its Other	118	(15)
Phenomenology as Rigorous Science	118	(8)
The Pure Ego and its Lived Experiences	126	(5)
Intentionality and Constitution	131	(2)
The Noetic-Noematic Correlation: Towards the Basis of Conscious Life	133	(24)
The Functionality of Intentional Reference	134	(2)
The Discovery of the Noema	136	(6)
The Modifiability of Consciousness	142	(9)
Belief-and Being-Characteristics	151	(6)
The Doctrine of the Neutrality Modification	157	(23)
The Epoche and the Neutrality Modification	160	(1)
Neutrality and Reason	161	(1)
Supposing and Neutrality	162	(1)
Fantasy and the Neutrality Modification	163	(1)
Fantasy, Aesthetic Consciousness, and the Neutrality Modification	164	(2)
The Abyss between Positional and Neutral Consciousness	166	(5)
The Levels of Consciousness	171	(4)
Detours and Direct Routes: The Universality of the Neutrality Modification	175	(4)
The Transition to the Logical and its Obstruction	179	(1)
The Realm of Logos	180	(15)
Higher Level Features of Consciousness: Synthetic Consciousness	181	(2)
Positional and Neutral Syntheses	183	(1)
The Expression of Syntheses	184	(2)
The Directions of Synthesis	186	(2)
The Logical Strata	188	(3)
Expression, Judgment, Belief	191	(4)
IV. Towards the System's Uppermost Limit: Reason	195	(24)
The Referentiality of the Noema	195	(7)
The Verdict of Reason	202	(14)
The Nature of Reason	202	(2)
Forms of Rational Consciousness and Evidence	204	(5)
Hierarchies of Belief, Reason, Evidence, and Truth	209	(2)
The Animating Force of the Originary, Immediate, Direct	211	(1)
Being and Thinking	212	(1)
The Prescriptive Function of Essence	213	(1)
Belief and Normativity	214	(2)
Phenomenology and the Acquisition of the World	216	(1)
Towards Absolute Reason	216	(3)
V. Conclusion: The Phenomenological Movement	219	(8)
Postscript	227	(2)
Notes	229	(78)
Bibliography	307	(22)
Index of Names	329