On Husserl / Victor Velarde-Mayol.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Velarde-Mayol, Victor.

Series:

Wadsworth philosophers series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Husserl, Edmund, 1859-1938.

Husserl, Edmund.

Physical Description:

85 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Belmont, CA : Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, [2000]

Summary:

This brief text assists students in understanding Husserl's philosophy and thinking so that they can more fully engage in useful, intelligent class dialogue and improve their understanding of course content. Part of the "Wadsworth Philosophers Series," (which will eventually consist of approximately 100 titles, each focusing on a single "thinker" from ancient times to the present), ON HUSSERL is written by a philosopher deeply versed in the philosophy of this key thinker. Like other books in the series, this concise book offers sufficient insight into the thinking of a notable philosopher better enabling students to engage in the reading and to discuss the material in class and on paper.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Philosophical Development 2

1. Years of Formation 2

2. Period of Logicism 4

3. Maturation of Phenomenology 6

3.1. The Years at the University of Gottingen 6

3.2. The Years at the University of Freiburg 7

4. The Last Period of Husserl's Philosophy 9

5. The Idea of Phenomenology 11

Chapter 2 Intentional Analysis 15

2. Philosophy of Arithmetic 15

3. Critique of Psychologism and Pure Logic 17

3.1. Antipsychologism 17

3.2. The Idea of a Pure Logic 20

4. Analysis of Intentionality 22

4.1. Phenomenology of Meaning 23

4.2. Analysis of Intentional Acts 28

4.3. Phenomenalism, Intentional Object and Representationalism 33

4.4. The Notion of Truth and Categorial Intuition 34

Chapter 3 The Phenomenological Method 41

1. Radicality of Phenomenology: Freedom of Presuppositions 41

2. Eidetic Reduction 43

2.1. Two Kinds of Intuitions 43

2.2. The Method of Eidetic Reduction 45

3. Phenomenological Reduction 47

3.1. The Method of Phenomenological Reduction 47

3.2. Natural and Phenomenological Attitude 48

3.3. Phenomenological Reductions 50

3.4. The Principle of All Principles 53

3.5. Evidence and Intuition 55

Chapter 4 Transcendental Phenomenology 59

1. Transcendental Reduction 59

2. The Essential Components of Mental Acts: Noesis and Noema 60

3. Immanence and Transcendence in the Structure Noesis and Noema 63

4. The Notion of Phenomenological Constitution of the Object 65

5. Formal and Transcendental Logic 67

5.1. Pure Logic as Phenomenological Logic 67

5.2. Pure Logic and Formal Ontology 68

6. Theory of Ego: Egology 70

6.1. The Pure Ego 70

6.2. The Ego as a Monad 72

7. Solipsism and Intersubjectivity 73

7.1. The Idea of Phenomenological Idealism 73

7.2. The Problem of Solipsism 74

7.3. The Experience of Other Egos 75

7.4. Intersubjectivity 76

7.5. Universe of Monads 78

8. The Life-World 79

1. Major Writings of Husserl 83

2. Selection of Works on Husserl's Philosophy 83.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 83-85).

ISBN:

0534576109

OCLC:

44129064