The Phenomenology Readeris the first comprehensive anthology of classic writings from phenomenology's major seminal thinkers. The carefully selected readings chart phenomenology's most famous thinkers such as Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre and Derrida as well as less well known figures such as Stein and Scheler. Each author and their writings is introduced and placed in philosophical context by the editors.

Preface

viii

Acknowledgements

ix

Editor's Introduction

1

(26)

Dermot Moran

PART I Franz von Brentano: Intentionality and the Project of Descriptive Psychology

27

(30)

Introduction

29

(3)

Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint: Foreword to the 1874 Edition

32

(3)

The Distinction between Mental and Physical Phenomena

35

(16)

Descriptive Psychology or Descriptive Phenomenology: From the Lectures of 1888--1889

51

(4)

Letter to Anton Marty

55

(2)

PART II Edmund Husserl: Founder of Phenomenology

57

(118)

Introduction

59

(6)

Introduction to the Logical Investigations

65

(13)

Consciousness as Intentional Experience

78

(31)

The Phenomenology of Internal Time Consciousness

109

(15)

Pure Phenomenology, its Method, and its Field of Investigation

124

(10)

Noesis and Noema

134

(17)

The Way into Phenomenological Transcendental Philosophy by Inquiring back from the Pregiven Life-World

151

(24)

PART III Adolf Reinach: The Phenomenology of Social Acts

175

(22)

Introduction

177

(3)

Concerning Phenomenology

180

(17)

PART IV Max Scheler: Phenomenology of the Person

197

(30)

Introduction

199

(4)

The Being of the Person

203

(24)

PART V Edith Stein: Phenomenology and the Interpersonal

227

(16)

Introduction

229

(2)

On the Problem of Empathy

231

(12)

PART VI Martin Heidegger: Hermeneutical Phenomenology and Fundamental Ontology

243

(66)

Introduction

245

(6)

My Way to Phenomenology

251

(6)

The Fundamental Discoveries of Phenomenology, its Principle, and the Clarification of its Name

257

(21)

The Phenomenological Method of Investigation

278

(10)

The Worldhood of the World

288

(21)

PART VII Hans-Georg Gadamer: Phenomenology, Hermeneutics and Tradition

309

(30)

Introduction

311

(3)

Elements of a Theory of Hermeneutic Experience

314

(25)

PART VIII Hannah Arendt: Phenomenology of the Public World

339

(36)

Introduction

341

(4)

What is Existenz Philosophy?

345

(17)

Labor, Work, Action

362

(13)

PART IX Jean-Paul Sartre: Transcendence and Freedom

375

(46)

Introduction

377

(5)

Intentionality: A Fundamental Idea of Husserl's Phenomenology

382

(3)

The Transcendence of the Ego

385

(23)

Bad Faith

408

(13)

PART X Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Embodied Perception

421

(40)

Introduction

423

(4)

The Body as Object and Mechanistic Physiology

427

(9)

The Primacy of Perception and its Philosophical Consequences

436

(25)

PART XI Simone de Beauvoir: Phenomenology and Feminism

461

(48)

Introduction

463

(4)

Destiny

467

(19)

Woman's Situation and Character

486

(23)

PART XII Emmanuel Levinas: The Primacy of the Other

509

(32)

Introduction

511

(4)

Ethics and the Face

515

(14)

Beyond Intentionality

529

(12)

PART XIII Jacques Derrida: Phenomenology and Deconstruction

541

(32)

Introduction

543

(4)

Signs and the Blink of an Eye

547

(8)

Differance

555

(18)

PART XIV Paul Ricoeur: Phenomenology as Interpretation

573

(28)

Introduction

575

(4)

Phenomenology and Hermeneutics

579

(22)

Name Index

601

(3)

Subject Index

604

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