A Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism by Dreyfus, Hubert L. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Copyright List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments 1: A Brief Introduction to Phenomenology and Existentialism

Phenomenology Existentialism The Organization of the Book Notes References and Further Reading

Part I: Phenomenology

2: Husserlian Phenomenology

Phenomenology and Twentieth-Century Thought Husserl’s “Breakthrough” to Phenomenology: Intentionality and Reflection The problem of psychologism Founding, fulfillment, and Evidenz Philosophical Implications of Phenomenology: Transcendental Idealism Horizons of Husserlian Phenomenology References and Further Reading

3: Existential Phenomenology

I Existential Phenomena II The Existential-Phenomenological Practice of Description Acknowledgments Note References and Further Reading

4: French Phenomenology

Notes References and Further Reading

5: Intentionality

Beginnings Husserl’s Theory of Intentionality Merleau-Ponty References and Further Reading

6: Consciousness

Introduction Brentano Husserl Heidegger Sartre Merleau-Ponty References and Further Reading

7: The Lifeworld and Lived Experience

Notes References and Further Reading

8: Husserl’s Reductions and the Role They Play in His Phenomenology

Some Basic Ideas of Husserl’s Phenomenology Intentionality. Noema, Noesis, Hyle Eidos. The Eidetic Reduction The Transcendental Reduction Notes References and Further Reading

9: Categorial Intuition

Notes References and Further Reading

10: Temporality

Heidegger Sartre Merleau-Ponty References and Further Reading

Part II: Existentialism

11: The Roots of Existentialism

Introduction Blaise Pascal Søren Kierkegaard Fyodor Dostoyevsky Nietzsche Notes References and Further Reading

12: German Existence-Philosophy

Notes References and Further Reading

13: Religious Existentialism

Lev Shestov (1866 –1938, Russian) Karl Barth (1886–1968, Swiss) Martin Buber (1878–1965, Austrian and Israeli) References and Further Reading

14: French Existentialism

Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Anticipations of French Existentialism Existentialist Implications of the Nineteenth-Century Emphasis upon Life: Instinct, Individuality, and Absurdity “Existence Comes Before Essence” Concreteness and Absurdity Freedom, Anxiety, and Authenticity Morality French Existentialism’s Influence Notes References and Further Reading

15: The Concept of Authenticity

Kierkegaard Heidegger Sartre References and Further Reading

16: Affectivity

Notes References and Further Reading

17: The Body

Notes References and Further Reading

18: Freedom and Responsibility

References and Further Reading

19: Absurdity

References and Further Reading

20: Death

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

21: Emotions in Phenomenology and Existentialism

Notes References and Further Reading

22: The Egological Structure of Consciousness: Lessons from Sartre for Analytical Philosophy of Mind

Notes References and Further Reading

23: Phenomenology, Neuroscience, and Intersubjectivity

Notes References and Further Reading

24: The Intrinsic Spatial Frame of Reference

Notes References and Further Reading

25: Action, the Scientific Worldview, and Being-in-the-World

Notes References and Further Reading

26: Phenomenology in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science

Note References and Further Reading

27: Phenomenological Currents in Twentieth-Century Psychology

References and Further Reading

28: Medicine

The Phenomenological Concept of Meaning Illness as Meaninglessness and Alienation Body, World, and Time Medicine: Practice, Science, and Technology Concluding Remarks: Being-with-Nature and Being-with-the-Other References and Further Reading

29: Realism, Science, and the Deworlding of the World

Introduction Husserl, World, and the Problem of Metaphysical Realism Heidegger and the “Worldhood of the World” Deworlding the World Phenomenology and the Nature/World Debate Note References and Further Reading

30: Environmental Philosophy

Introduction: Uncovering the Conceptual Roots of Environmental Devastation From Ontological Method to Eco-Phenomenological Ethics The Meaning of the Earth Naturalistic Ethical Realism in Eco-Phenomenology Transcendental Ethical Realism in Eco-Phenomenology Levinas, Heidegger, and the Ethical Question of Animality Notes References and Further Reading

31: Ontology, Pragmatism, and Technology

1 Preliminaries 2 Ontology and Pragmatism 3 Heidegger’s Ambiguity on Pragmatism and Technology 4 Articulating Technology References and Further Reading

32: The Lived-Body and the Dignity of Human Beings

1 Point of Departure 2 Kant’s Concept of Dignity 3 The Dignity of the Lived-Body 4 Bodily Authenticity Notes References and Further Reading

33: Sexuality

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

34: Feminism

Two Starting Points: The Living Body and the Sexual Person Sexual Difference: Phenomenological Analysis and Feminist Questions The Self and Its Other Sexual Hierarchy Later Developments References and Further Reading

35: A Life Worth Living

Notes References and Further Reading

36: The Search for Immediacy and the Problem of Political Life in Existentialism and Phenomenology

Early Existentialism Phenomenology Phenomenological Existentialism French Existentialism The Problem of the Political in Existentialism and Phenomenology References and Further Reading

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

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 Notes References and Further Reading Paintings Cited

39: Mathematics

Connecting Phenomenology and Mathematics Transcendental Phenomenology as a Foundation of Mathematics Examples 1 Intuitionistic logic (Mancosu 1998; van Atten 2004b) References and Further Reading

Index

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