Edmund Husserl
Founder of Phenomenology
Key Contemporary Thinkers
1. Edition July 2005
256 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Dermot Moran provides a lucid, engaging, and critical introduction
to Edmund Husserl's philosophy, with specific emphasis on his
development of phenomenology. This book is a comprehensive guide to
Husserl's thought from its origins in nineteenth-century
concerns with the nature of scientific knowledge and with
psychologism, through his breakthrough discovery of phenomenology
and his elucidation of the phenomenological method, to the late
analyses of culture and the life-world. Husserl's complex ideas are
presented in a clear and expert manner. Individual chapters explore
Husserl's key texts including Philosophy of Arithmetic,
Logical Investigations, Ideas I, Cartesian
Meditations and Crisis of the European Sciences. In
addition, Moran offers penetrating criticisms and evaluations of
Husserl's achievement, including the contribution of his
phenomenology to current philosophical debates concerning
consciousness and the mind.
Edmund Husserl is an invaluable guide to understanding
the thought of one of the seminal thinkers of the twentieth
century. It will be helpful to students of contemporary philosophy,
and to those interested in scientific, literary and cultural
studies on the European continent.
Abbreviations.
Introduction.
Chapter One: Edmund Husserl (1859-1938): Life and Writings.
Chapter Two: Husserl's Conception of Philosophy.
Chapter Three: The Philosophy of Arithmetic (1891).
Chapter Four: Husserl's 'Breakthrough Work': Logical
Investigations (1900/1901).
Chapter Five: The Eidetic Phenomenology of Consciousness.
Chapter Six: Husserl's Transcendental.
Phenomenology: An Infinite Project.
Chapter Seven: The Ego, Embodiment, Otherness,
Intersubjectivity, and the 'Community of Monads'.
Chapter Eight: Conclusion: Husserl's Contribution to
Philosophy.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index
the basic themes and key developmental phases of Husserl's thought,
giving a clear picture of its intellectual roots in Cartesian and
(most importantly) Kantian philosophy.'
Stephen Mulhall, Times Higher Education
Supplement
'Executed with scholarly brio and elegance ... Moran has put
together a comprehensive - but not tiresome - presentation of
Husserl, boasting a vast and updated array of sources deftly
employed in exploring the thought and the person behind
Phenomenology ... Moran commands Husserl's oeuvre
convincingly, using archival material, published Nachlass,
and epistolary sources for the sake of making the reader well
acquainted with this "man of infinite tasks". One will not find
here a languid repetition of famous passages and formulas, but
rather an intelligent, systematic recast of Husserl's thought,
exhibiting many a precious jewel not found in the more popular,
translated works. Moran also does the reader a favor by presenting
Husserl in relation to his contemporaries and his followers, as
well as in dialogue with our contemporaries, for whom Husserlian
Phenomenology still has much to offer.'
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