In the name of phenomenology / Simon Glendinning.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glendinning, Simon, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Phenomenology.

Physical Description:

xi, 268 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.

Summary:

Phenomenology is one of the most significant developments in twentieth century thought. In this bold and innovative book, Simon Glendinning provides a new way of thinking about its ongoing strength and coherence, arguing that it is to be explained less by what Merleau-Ponty called the 'unity' of its 'manner of thinking' and more by what he called its 'unfinished nature'.

Beginning with a discussion of the nature of phenomenology, Glendinning explores the changing landscape of phenomenology in key texts by Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas and Derrida. Focusing on the different ways in which each philosopher has responded to and transformed the legacy of phenomenology, Glendinning shows that the richness of this legacy lies not in the formation of a distinctive movement or school, but in a remarkable capacity to make fertile philosophical breakthroughs through self-interruption and deviance. Important topics such as the nature of phenomenological arguments, the critique of realism and idealism, ontology, existentialism, perception, ethics and the Other are also closely examined. Clearly and engagingly written, In the Name of Phenomenology is essential reading for students of phenomenology and contemporary philosophy.

Contents:

Introduction: opening words 1

1 What is phenomenology? 5

Faces of phenomenology

Part I Outlook

Inheriting philosophy 10

Modernism in philosophy 11

Part II Theses

Thesis 1 No 'theses in philosophy' 14

Thesis 2 'Description, not explanation or analysis' 16

Thesis 3 'Re-look at the world without blinkers' 17

Thesis 4 No view 'from the sideways perspective' 17

Thesis 5 'We must go back to the "things themselves" 20

Where's the beef? 20

Quietism 24

2 The emergence of phenomenology: Brentano and Husserl 29

The dream of phenomenology

Part I The legacy of Brentano

The subjectivity of the mental 35

The intentionality doctrine 37

Part II Husserl's analysis of signs

Indication and expression 40

The primacy of expression: Husserl 42

The primacy of indication: Heidegger and Derrida 45

Part III Husserl's Cartesian Meditations

The Cartesian starting point 48

The opening of transcendental phenomenology 49

Husserl's master argument and the inward turn 54

3 Phenomenology as fundamental ontology: Martin Heidegger 59

The new beginning again

Part I Fundamental ontology

The question of Being 60

The inquiry into the meaning of 'Being' 62

The essence and end of philosophy 66

Part II The phenomenology of Dasein

The forgotten question 72

The analytic of Dasein 76

Part III Being and the Nothing

Conceding nothing 82

Anxiety and the Nothing 87

Twilight of the idols 90

4 Existential phenomenology: Jean-Paul Sartre 92

The 'has been'

Part I The assault on idealism

Realism and idealism 93

The Being of the subject 95

The Being of the object 96

Part II Being and nothingness

Sartre's negatites 100

At home in the world 103

Part III Moral phenomenology

Freedom 105

Our moral situation 108

Kierkegaardian exemplarism 111

Mundig man 116

5 Phenomenology of perception: Maurice Merleau-Ponty 119

Ever-renewed beginnings

Part I A preface for phenomenology

What we have been waiting for 120

Part II A new phenomenological reduction

The forswearing of science 124

The priority argument 126

The true cogito 129

The critique of objective thought 131

Part III The body prior to science

Towards the incarnate subject 154

Language and gesture 136

A genius for ambiguity 141

6 Phenomenology and the Other: Emmanuel Levinas 145

Levinas arrives

Part I The Levinasian thicket

Levinas' writing 150

The transcendence of totality 153

The unreasonable animal 155

The otherness of Others and of things 157

Part II Levinas contra Heidegger and contra Husserl

Leaving Heidegger 160

Leaving Husserl 163

Leaving home 165

Part III The rehabilitation of sensation

The Other as sensibly given 167

Sensible pleasure 168

Reading the Other 173

7 Interrupting phenomenology: Jacques Derrida 178

In the name of phenomenology

Part I A preface to what remains to come

The truth of man 180

The exergue 186

Part II The rehabilitation of writing

Situating the linguistic turn 190

Writing and iterability 197

Part III Deconstructing humanism

The difference between humans and animals 202

Beyond the truth of man 207.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-260) and index.

ISBN:

9780415223379

0415223377

9780415223386

0415223385

9780203946701

0203946707

OCLC:

147986580