Oxford Handbook of the History of Phenomenology

This Oxford Handbook offers a broad critical survey of the development of phenomenology, one of the main streams of philosophy since the nineteenth century. It comprises thirty-seven specially written chapters by leading figures in the field, which highlight historical influences, connections and developments, and offer a better comprehension and assessment of the continuity as well as diversity of the phenomenological tradition.
The handbook is divided into three distinct parts. The first part addresses the way phenomenology has been influenced by earlier periods or figures in the history of philosophy. The second part contains chapters targeting prominent phenomenologists: How was their work affected by earlier figures, how did their own views change over time, and what kind of influence did they exert on subsequent thinkers? The contributions in the third part trace various core topics such as subjectivity, intersubjectivity, embodiment, spatiality, imagination etc. in the work of different phenomenologists, in order to explore how the notions were transformed, enriched, and expanded up through the century.
This volume will be a source of insight for philosophers, students of philosophy, and for people working in other disciplines of the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, who are interested in the phenomenological tradition. It is an authoritative guide to how phenomenology started, how it developed, and where it is heading.

List of contents

• Introduction


• Part I: Traditions


• 1: Pavlos Kontos: Aristotle in phenomenology


• 2: Sara Heinämaa and Timo Kaitaro: Descartes' Notion of the Mind-Body Union and its Phenomenological Expositions


• 3: Sebastian Luft: Kant, Neo-Kantianism, and Phenomenology


• 4: Alexander Schnell: Phenomenology and German Idealism


• 5: Denis Fisette: Phenomenology and Descriptive Psychology: Brentano, Stumpf, Husserl


• Part II: Figures


• 6: Peter Andras Varga: Husserl's Early Period: Juvenilia and the Logical Investigations


• 7: John Drummond: Husserl's Middle Period and the Development of his Ethics


• 8: Andrea Staiti: Pre-Predicative Experience and Life-World: Two Distinct Projects in Husserl's Late Phenomenology


• 9: Zachary Davis and Anthony Steinbock: Scheler on the Moral and Political Significance of the Emotions


• 10: Antonio Calcagno: Edith Stein's Challenge to Sense-Making: The Role of the Lived Body, Psyche and Spirit


• 11: Daniel O. Dahlstrom: The Early Heidegger's Phenomenology


• 12: Steven Crowell: The Middle Heidegger's Phenomenological Metaphysics


• 13: Tobias Keiling: Phenomenology and Ontology in the Later Heidegger


• 14: Michael D. Barber: Schutz and Gurwitsch on Agency


• 15: Jonathan Webber: Sartre's Transcendental Phenomenology


• 16: Thomas R. Flynn: The Later Sartre: From Phenomenology to Hermeneutics to Dialectic and Back


• 17: Debra Bergoffen: Simone de Beauvoir: Philosopher, Author, Feminist


• 18: Komarine Romdenh-Romluc: Science in Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology: From the Early Work to the Later Philosophy


• 19: Donald A. Landes: Merleau-Ponty from 1945 to 1952: The Ontological Weight of Perception and the Transcendental Force of Description


• 20: Emmanuel de Saint Aubert: Rereading the Later Merleau-Ponty in the Light of his Unpublished Work


• 21: James Dodd: Jan Patocka's Philosophical Legacy


• 22: Leonard Lawlor: An Immense Power: The Three Phenomenological Insights supporting Derridean Deconstruction


• 23: Robert Bernasconi: When Alterity becomes Proximity: Levinas's Path


• 24: Christina Gschwandtner: Turn to Excess: The Development of Phenomenology in Late Twentieth Century French Thought


• Part III: Themes


• 25: Karl Mertens: Phenomenological Methodology


• 26: Rudolf Bernet: Subjectivity: From Husserl to His Followers (and Back Again)


• 27: Nicolas de Warren: The Inquietude of Time and the Instance of Eternity: Husserl, Heidegger, and Levinas


• 28: Sara Heinämaa: Embodiment and Bodily Becoming


• 29: Filip Mattens: From the Origin of Spatiality to a Variety of Spaces


• 30: Dermot Moran: Intentionality: Lived Experience, Bodily Comportment, and the Horizon of the World


• 31: Alessandro Salice: Practical Intentionality: From Brentano to the Phenomenology of the Munich and Göttingen Circles


• 32: Walter Hopp: Ideal Verificationism and Perceptual Faith: Husserl and Merleau-Ponty on Perceptual Knowledge


• 33: Hanne Jacobs: The

  About the author

  Dan Zahavi is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Subjectivity Research at the University of Copenhagen. He is author and editor of more than 25 volumes including Husserl's Phenomenology (Stanford 2003), Subjectivity and Selfhood (MIT Press 2005), The Phenomenological Mind together with S. Gallagher (Routledge 2008), Self and Other (OUP 2014), and most recently Husserl's Legacy (OUP 2017). He is co-editor in chief of the journal Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, and he edited the Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Phenomenology (OUP 2012).

  Summary

  This Oxford Handbook offers a broad critical survey of the development of phenomenology, one of the main streams of philosophy since the nineteenth century. It comprises thirty-seven specially written chapters by leading figures in the field, which highlight historical influences, connections and developments, and offer a better comprehension and assessment of the continuity as well as diversity of the phenomenological tradition.
  The handbook is divided into three distinct parts. The first part addresses the way phenomenology has been influenced by earlier periods or figures in the history of philosophy. The second part contains chapters targeting prominent phenomenologists: How was their work affected by earlier figures, how did their own views change over time, and what kind of influence did they exert on subsequent thinkers? The contributions in the third part trace various core topics such as subjectivity, intersubjectivity, embodiment, spatiality, imagination etc. in the work of different phenomenologists, in order to explore how the notions were transformed, enriched, and expanded up through the century.
  This volume will be a source of insight for philosophers, students of philosophy, and for people working in other disciplines of the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, who are interested in the phenomenological tradition. It is an authoritative guide to how phenomenology started, how it developed, and where it is heading.

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  a monumental undertaking . . . the quality of the essays is consistently very high: well-informed about the sources and the predominant issues, clearly written and well-organized with a minimum of jargon and often with helpful examples. . . . The overall result is a very informative and comprehensive overview of the prehistory and the history of phenomenology in Europe during the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first century.

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  What in light of phenomenology's past does the future hold? The horizon is open, as yet undecided. This text, should it prove successful, will have provided a definitive last word on what phenomenology is-or better, was. Steven DeLay, Wake Forest University, Metascience

Product details

• Authors: Dan Zahavi, Dan (Professor of Philosophy and Director Zahavi
• Assisted by: Dan Zahavi (Editor), Zahavi Dan (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.06.2018
• EAN: 9780198755340
• ISBN: 978-0-19-875534-0
• No. of pages: 792
• Series: Oxford Handbooks; Oxford Handbooks
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Western philosophy from c 1800, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism