The Essential Husserl

by Husserl, Edmund

• ISBN13: 9780253212733
• ISBN10: 0253212731
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-04-01
• Publisher: INGRAM

Summary

The Essential Husserl, the first anthology in English of Edmund Husserl's major writings, provides access to the scope of his philosophical studies, including selections from his key works: Logical Investigations, Ideas I and II, Formal and Transcendental Logic, Experience and Judgment, Cartesian Meditations, The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology, and On the Phenomenology of the Consciousness of Internal Time. The collection is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in twentieth-century philosophy.

Author Biography

Donn Welton is Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction: The Development of Husserl's Phenomenology	ix
Donn Welton
List of Abbreviations	xvii
PART ONE: CONTOURS OF A TRANSCENDENTAL PHENOMENOLOGY
Antitheses
The Critique of Psychologism	3	(19)
Normative and Theoretical Disciplines	3	(2)
The Arguments of Psychologism	5	(4)
The Prejudices of Psychologism	9	(13)
The Critique of Historicism	22	(4)
Philosophy as Rigorous Science	22	(4)
Phenomenological Clues
Expression and Meaning	26	(26)
Essential Distinctions	26	(13)
Fluctuation in Meaning and the Ideality of Unites of Meaning	39	(9)
The Phenomenological and Ideal Content of the Experiences of Meaning	48	(4)
Meaning-Intention and Meaning-Fulfillment	52	(8)
Phenomenology as Transcendental Philosophy
The Basic Approach of Phenomenology	60	(26)
The Natural Attitude and Its Exclusion	60	(6)
Consciousness as Transcendental	66	(13)
The Region of Pure Consciousness	79	(7)
The structure of Intentionality
The Noetic and Noematic Structure of Consciousness	86	(27)
Noesis and Noema	86	(10)
The Question of Levels	96	(4)
Expressive Acts	100	(2)
Noema and Object	102	(6)
Horizons	108	(5)
The Question of Evidence
Varieties of Evidence	113	(8)
Sensuous and Categorial Intuition	121	(14)
From Subjectivity to Intersubjectivity
Empathy and the Constitution of the Other	135	(28)
Primordial Abstraction	135	(11)
The Appresentation of the Other	146	(17)
PART TWO: TRANSCENDENTAL PHENOMENOLOGY AND THE PROBLEM OF THE LIFE-WORLD
Transcendental Aesthetics
Perception Spatiality, and the Body	163	(23)
Objective Reality, Spatial Orientation, and the Body	163	(12)
The Self-Constitution of the Body	175	(11)
A Phenomenology of the Consciousness of Internal Time	186	(35)
Analysis of the Consciousness of Time	186	(26)
Levels of Constitution of Time and Temporal Objects	212	(9)
Horizons and the Genesis of Perception	221	(13)
Transcendental Analytics
Formal and Transcendental Logic	234	(38)
The Discipline of Formal Logic	234	(11)
Formal Logic as Apophantic Analysis	245	(14)
The Transcendental Grounds of Logic	259	(13)
Individuals and Sets	272	(10)
Explication of Individuals	272	(7)
Constituting Sets	279	(3)
Universals	282	(18)
The Constitution of Empirical Universals	282	(10)
Eidetic Variation and the Acquisition of Pure Universals	292	(8)
The Genesis of Judgment	300	(7)
Static and Genetic Phenomenology
Time and the Self-Constitution of the Ego	307	(9)
Static and Genetic Phenomenological Method	316	(6)
Transcendental Phenomenology and The Way Through The Science of Phenomenological Psychology
Phenomenological Psychology and Transcendental Phenomenology	322	(15)
``Phenomenology''	322	(15)
Transcendental Phenomenology and The Way Through The Life-World
The Mathematization of Nature	337	(26)
Elements of a Science of the Life-World	363	(16)
Bibliography	379	(4)
Index	383