Husserl and Heidegger on Human Experience

A sophisticated and accessible comparison of Husserls phenomenological philosophy and Heideggers existential phenomenology.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Experience and intentionality; 2. Husserl's methodologically solipsistic perspective; 3. Husserl's theory of time-consciousness; 4. Between Husserl, Kierkegaard and Aristotle; 5. Heidegger's critique of Husserl's methodological solipsism; 6. Heidegger on the nature of significance; 7. Temporality as the source of intelligibility; 8. Heidegger's theory of time; 9. Spatiality and human identity; 10. 'Dasein' and the forensic notion of a person; Select bibliography; Index.

Summary

In this 1999 book Pierre Keller examines the distinctive contributions, and the respective limitations, of Husserl's and Heidegger's approach to fundamental elements of human experience, and shows both how their conceptions are related to each other and how they fit into a wider philosophical context.

Product details

• Authors: Pierre Keller, Keller Pierre
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.11.1999
• EAN: 9780521633420
• ISBN: 978-0-521-63342-0
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 570 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Western philosophy from c 1800, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -, Phenomenology and Existentialism