A Hundred Years of Phenomenology

Perspectives on a Philosophical Tradition

Robin Small

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9781138296275
• eBook ISBN:
  9781351585095
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Philosophy History & Theory

This title was first published in 2001. This collection of new essays on phenomenological themes reviews aspects of the philosophical movement which began with the publication in 1900-01 of Edmund Husserl's path-breaking Logical Investigations. A broad survey of phenomenology is particularly timely given that this philosophical movement is reaching a hundred years of its existence. The thirteen contributions represent a wide range of approaches and interests within the phenomenological framework. Some present approaches to Husserl, while others explore aspects of the fundamental texts of phenomenology and provide critical discussions of later thinkers such as Heidegger, Sartre, and Derrida whose relation to Husserl receives particular attention. The final section relates phenomenology to other disciplines and to broader issues in social thought and cultural studies. This book will enable students and professional philosophers alike to explore the various strands of this widely influential school of thought.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Robin Small
• Part I Approaching the Sources
• 1 Husserl’s Transcendental Subjectivity
• 2 Reply to Max Deutscher
• 3 Phenomenological Relativism and Objective Rationality
• 4 Reality in Husserl and in Heidegger
• 5 Ryle and Husserl
• Part II Following the Tradition
• 6 Heidegger: Truth as Aletheia
• 7 Heidegger and the Japanese Connection
• 8 Sartre’s Story of Consciousness
• 9 Sartrean Transcendence: Winning and Losing
• 10 Originary Temporalization: Origin of Derridean Différance
• Part III Making Connections
• 11 Data, Facts and Appresentation – The Phenomenological Approach and the Concept of Fact in the Social Sciences
• 12 Literature: The Noetic Dimension – A Critique of Husserl’s Noematic Meaning
• 13 Phenomenology and Cultural Crises: An Attempt to Situate ‘Critical Self-reflection’ in Australian Culture
• Index