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Oxford Handbook offers a broad critical survey of the development of phenomenology, one of the main streams of philosophy since the 19th century. Comprising 37 specially written essays by leading figures in the field, it will be the authoritative guide to how phenomenology started, how it developed, and where it is heading.
List of contents
- Part I: Traditions
- Chapter 1 Aristotle in phenomenology by Pavlos Kontos
- Chapter 2 Descartes' Notion of the Mind-Body Union and its Phenomenological Expositions by Sara Heinämaa and Timo Kaitaro
- Chapter 3 Kant, Neo-Kantianism, and Phenomenology by Sebastian Luft
- Chapter 4 Phenomenology and German Idealism by Alexander Schnell
- Chapter 5 Phenomenology and Descriptive Psychology: Brentano, Stumpf, Husserl by Denis Fisette
- Part II: Figures
- Chapter 6 Husserl's Early Period: Juvenilia and the Logical Investigations by Peter Andras Varga
- Chapter 7 Husserl's Middle Period and the Development of his Ethics by John Drummond
- Chapter 8 Pre-Predicative Experience and Life-World: Two Distinct Projects in Husserl's Late Phenomenology by Andrea Staiti
- Chapter 9 Scheler on the Moral and Political Significance of the Emotions by Zachary Davis and Anthony Steinbock
- Chapter 10 Edith Stein's Challenge to Sense-Making: The Role of the Lived Body, Psyche and Spirit by Antonio Calcagno
- Chapter 11 The Early Heidegger's Phenomenology by Daniel O. Dahlstrom
- Chapter 12 The Middle Heidegger's Phenomenological Metaphysics by Steven Crowell
- Chapter 13 Phenomenology and Ontology in the Later Heidegger by Tobias Keiling
- Chapter 14 Schutz and Gurwitsch on Agency by Michael D. Barber
- Chapter 15 Sartre's Transcendental Phenomenology by Jonathan Webber
- Chapter 16 The Later Sartre: From Phenomenology to Hermeneutics to Dialectic and Back by Thomas R. Flynn
- Chapter 17 Simone de Beauvoir: Philosopher, Author, Feminist by Debra Bergoffen
- Chapter 18 Science in Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology: From the Early Work to the Later Philosophy by Komarine Romdenh-Romluc
- Chapter 19 Merleau-Ponty from 1945 to 1952: The Ontological Weight of Perception and the Transcendental Force of Description by Donald A. Landes
- Chapter 20 Rereading the Later Merleau-Ponty in the Light of his Unpublished Work by Emmanuel de Saint Aubert
- Chapter 21 Jan Patocka's Philosophical Legacy by James Dodd
- Chapter 22 An Immense Power: The Three Phenomenological Insights supporting Derridean Deconstruction by Leonard Lawlor
- Chapter 23 When Alterity becomes Proximity: Levinas's Path by Robert Bernasconi
- Chapter 24 Turn to Excess: The Development of Phenomenology in Late Twentieth Century French Thought by Christina Gschwandtner
- Part III: Themes
- Chapter 25 Phenomenological Methodology by Karl Mertens
- Chapter 26 Subjectivity: From Husserl to His Followers (and Back Again) by Rudolf Bernet
- Chapter 27 The Inquietude of Time and the Instance of Eternity: Husserl, Heidegger, and Levinas by Nicolas de Warren
- Chapter 28 Embodiment and Bodily Becoming by Sara Heinämaa
- Chapter 29 From the Origin of Spatiality to a Variety of Spaces by Filip Mattens
- Chapter 30 Intentionality: Lived Experience, Bodily Comportment, and the Horizon of the World by Dermot Moran
- Chapter 31 Practical Intentionality: From Brentano to the Phenomenology of the Munich and Göttingen Circles by Alessandro Salice
- Chapter 32 Ideal Verificationism and Perceptual Faith: Husserl and Merleau-Ponty on Perceptual Knowledge by Walter Hopp
- Chapter 33 The World of Experience by Hanne Jacobs
- Chapter 34 Imagination De-Naturalized: Phantasy, the Imaginary, and Imaginative Ontology by Julia Jansen
- Chapter 35 Value, Freedom, Responsibility: Central Themes in Phenomenological Ethics by Sophie Loidolt
- Chapter 36 Historicity and the Hermeneutic Predicament: from Yorck to Derrida by Hans Ruin
- Chapter 37 Hans Ruin by Dan Zahavi
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). His work has been translated into more than 30 languages.
Summary
This Oxford Handbook offers a broad critical survey of the development of phenomenology, one of the main streams of philosophy since the 19th century. Comprising 37 specially written essays by leading figures in the field, it will be the 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.
