Contents
Chapter 1: A Brief Introduction to Phenomenology and Existentialism
References and Further Reading
Chapter 2: Husserlian Phenomenology
Phenomenology and Twentieth-Century Thought
Husserl’s “Breakthrough” to Phenomenology: Intentionality and Reflection
Founding, fulfillment, and Evidenz
Philosophical Implications of Phenomenology: Transcendental Idealism
Horizons of Husserlian Phenomenology
References and Further Reading
Chapter 3: Existential Phenomenology
II The Existential-Phenomenological Practice of Description
References and Further Reading
Chapter 4: French Phenomenology
References and Further Reading
Husserl’s Theory of Intentionality
References and Further Reading
References and Further Reading
Chapter 7: The Lifeworld and Lived Experience
References and Further Reading
Chapter 8: Husserl’s Reductions and the Role They Play in His Phenomenology
Some Basic Ideas of Husserl’s Phenomenology
Intentionality. Noema, Noesis, Hyle
References and Further Reading
Chapter 9: Categorial Intuition
References and Further Reading
References and Further Reading
Chapter 11: The Roots of Existentialism
References and Further Reading
Chapter 12: German Existence-Philosophy
References and Further Reading
Chapter 13: Religious Existentialism
Lev Shestov (1866 –1938, Russian)
Martin Buber (1878–1965, Austrian and Israeli)
References and Further Reading
Chapter 14: French Existentialism
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Anticipations of French Existentialism
“Existence Comes Before Essence”
Freedom, Anxiety, and Authenticity
French Existentialism’s Influence
References and Further Reading
Chapter 15: The Concept of Authenticity
References and Further Reading
References and Further Reading
References and Further Reading
Chapter 18: Freedom and Responsibility
References and Further Reading
References and Further Reading
Martin Heidegger on Being-toward-Death
Jean-Paul Sartre’s Critique of Heidegger
References and Further Reading
Part III CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN PHENOMENOLOGY AND EXISTENTIALISM
Chapter 21: Emotions in Phenomenology and Existentialism
References and Further Reading
References and Further Reading
Chapter 23: Phenomenology, Neuroscience, and Intersubjectivity
References and Further Reading
Chapter 24: The Intrinsic Spatial Frame of Reference
References and Further Reading
Chapter 25: Action, the Scientific Worldview, and Being-in-the-World
References and Further Reading
Chapter 26: Phenomenology in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science
References and Further Reading
Chapter 27: Phenomenological Currents in Twentieth-Century Psychology
References and Further Reading
The Phenomenological Concept of Meaning
Illness as Meaninglessness and Alienation
Medicine: Practice, Science, and Technology
Concluding Remarks: Being-with-Nature and Being-with-the-Other
References and Further Reading
Chapter 29: Realism, Science, and the Deworlding of the World
Husserl, World, and the Problem of Metaphysical Realism
Heidegger and the “Worldhood of the World”
Phenomenology and the Nature/World Debate
References and Further Reading
Chapter 30: Environmental Philosophy
Introduction: Uncovering the Conceptual Roots of Environmental Devastation
From Ontological Method to Eco-Phenomenological Ethics
Naturalistic Ethical Realism in Eco-Phenomenology
Transcendental Ethical Realism in Eco-Phenomenology
Levinas, Heidegger, and the Ethical Question of Animality
References and Further Reading
Chapter 31: Ontology, Pragmatism, and Technology
3 Heidegger’s Ambiguity on Pragmatism and Technology
References and Further Reading
Chapter 32: The Lived-Body and the Dignity of Human Beings
3 The Dignity of the Lived-Body
References and Further Reading
Cartesian Legacies: The Sexual Body in Existential Phenomenology
Sexual Being as Becoming: Merleau-Ponty and Sexual Being
Performativity as Existential Practice
Queering Phenomenology from Beauvoir to Butler
References and Further Reading
Two Starting Points: The Living Body and the Sexual Person
Sexual Difference: Phenomenological Analysis and Feminist Questions
References and Further Reading
Chapter 35: A Life Worth Living
References and Further Reading
Phenomenological Existentialism
The Problem of the Political in Existentialism and Phenomenology
References and Further Reading
Chapter 37: History and Historicity
Phenomenology and the Problem of History
Husserl: The “Inner History” of Europe and of Humanity
Heidegger: History as Destruction and Retrieval
Phenomenological and Existentialist Developments after Husserl and Heidegger
References and Further Reading
Chapter 38: Bubbles and Skulls: The Phenomenology of Self-Consciousness in Dutch Still-Life Painting
A Very Brief Primer on Dutch Still-Life Painting
Bubbles and Skulls: Pieter Claesz and the Transformation of a Visual Theme
The Temporality of Self-Consciousness in a Late Painting of David Bailly
A Concluding Word about Two Portraits
References and Further Reading
Connecting Phenomenology and Mathematics
Transcendental Phenomenology as a Foundation of Mathematics
1 Intuitionistic logic (Mancosu 1998; van Atten 2004b)