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Edmund Husserl's Phenomenology »

Authors: Joseph J. Kockelmans, Edmund Husserl
ISBN-13: 9781557530509, ISBN-10: 1557530505
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Date Published: August 1994
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Joseph J. Kockelmans

Book Synopsis

In Edmund Husserl's Phenomenology, Joseph J. Kockelmans provides the reader with a biographical sketch and an overview of the salient features of Husserl's thought. Kockelmans focuses on the essay for the Encyclopedia Britannica of 1928, Husserl's most Important effort to articulate the aims of phenomenology for a more general audience. Included are Husserl’s text -- in the original German and in English translation on facing pages -- a synopsis, and an extensive commentary that relates Husserl's work as a whole to the essay for the Encyclopedia.

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A detailed account of what Husserl (1859-1938), the principal architect of phenomenology, meant by the term. The commentary is based on the text of his 1928 article for Encyclopedia Britannica, which is included in both in the original German and in translation. Also includes a biographical sketch and an overview of his thought. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	List of Abbreviations
1	Introduction	1
Ch. 1	Introduction to the Encyclopaedia Article	28
Ch. 2	Pure Science of Nature and Pure Psychology	48
Ch. 3	The Purely Psychical as Given in Experience: Intentionality	74
Ch. 4	The Field of the Purely Psychical, the Phenomenological Reduction, and Genuine Inner Experience	110
Ch. 5	The Eidetic Reduction: Phenomenological Psychology as an Eidetic Science	128
Ch. 6	The Function of Phenomenological Psychology for Empirical Psychology	144
Ch. 7	The Transcendental Problem: Its Origin and Its Quasi-Solution by Psychologism	174
Ch. 8	The Transcendental Reduction	206
Ch. 9	Pure Psychology as Propaedeutic to Transcendental Phenomenology	228
Ch. 10	Transcendental Phenomenology as Ontology: Its Function for the Eidetic and the Empirical Sciences	246
Ch. 11	Phenomenology as the All-embracing Philosophy and the Science of the Ultimate and Highest Problems	300
Ch. 12	The Phenomenological Resolution of All Philosophical Antitheses	318
	Epilogue	347
	Bibliography	349
	Index	357