Edmund Husserl : founder of phenomenology / Dermot Moran.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moran, Dermot.

Series:

Key contemporary thinkers (Cambridge, England)

Key contemporary thinkers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Husserl, Edmund, 1859-1938.

Physical Description:

xiii, 297 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2005.

Summary:

Dermot Moran provides a lucid and engaging 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 authoritative 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.

Contents:

1 Edmund Husserl (1859-1938): Life and Writings 15

2 Husserl's Conception of Philosophy 43

3 The Philosophy of Arithmetic (1891) 59

4 Husserl's 'Breakthrough Work': Logical Investigations (1900/1901) 94

5 The Eidetic Phenomenology of Consciousness 130

6 Transcendental Phenomenology: An Infinite Project 174

7 The Ego, Embodiment, Otherness, Intersubjectivity and the 'Community of Monads' 202

Conclusion: Husserl's Contribution to Philosophy 233.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [274]-283) and index.

ISBN:

074562121X

0745621228

OCLC:

49395629