Husserl: an analysis of his Phenomenology

257 Pages·1967·19.281 MB·English

by  Paul Ricoeur

Paul Ricoeur
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Translated by Edward G. Ballard
and Lester E. Embree
Husserl
AN ANALYSIS
OF HIS PHENOMENOLOGY
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Northwestern University
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Phenomenology
STUDIES IN
Existential Philosophy
GENERAL EDITOR
John Wild
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
James M. Edie
CONSULTING EDITORS
Herbert Spiegelberg
William Earle
George A. Schrader
Maurice Natanson
Paul Ricoeur
Aron Gurwitsch
Calvin O. Schrag

Husserl
An Analysis of His Phenomenology
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Contents
Foreword / Xlll
Translators' Preface / xxi
I / INTRODUCTION: HUSSERL (1859-1938) / 3
[I] Husser! and the Phenomenological Movement / 3
[n] The Phenomenology of Signification / 4
[m] The Descriptive Themes / 8
[IV] From Descriptive to Transcendental Phenomenology / 9
[v] From Transcendental Idealism to Genetic
Phenomenology / I I
2 / AN INTRODUCTION TO HUSSERL'S Ideas I / 13
[I] The Development of Reflection within Ideas I / 14
I "Essences and Eidetic Cognition" / 15
2 "Fundamental Phenomenological Considerations" / 16
3 "Methods and Problems of Pure Phenomenology" /
20
4 '<Reason and Actuality" / 23
[II] Difficulties in an Over"all Interpretation of Ideas I / 24
[m] The Birth of Ideas I / 28
3 / HUSSERL'S Ideas II: ANALYSES AND
PROBLEMS / 35
[I] <'The Constitution of Material Nature" / 39
I The "Idea" of Nature in General / 39
2 The "Sense" of the '"Thing" in General / 41
3 The Percept Related to the Perceiving Body / 45
4 The "Intersubjective" Stratum of the Thing and the
Constitution of an "Objective Nature" / 50
fix]
x /
HUSSERL
[n] <CThe Constitution of Animate Nature" / 51
<CReification" of the Ego: From the "Pure-Ego" to the
I
"Human-Ego" / 52
2 The Body and the Psyche / 60
[m] <CThe Constitution of Spirit (Geist)" / 68
I The Opposition between Spirit and Nature / 69
2 Motivation as the Fundamental Law of the "Spirit" / 72
3 The Relation of Nature to Spirit / 75
4 / A STUDY OF HUSSERL'S Cartesian Meditations
I-IV / 82
[I] Husser! and Descartes / 82
[n] The Difficulty of the Radical "Point of Departure"
(First Meditation) / 85
[m] Transcendental Experience and Egology
(Second Meditation) / 90
[IV] Investigation of the "Cogitatio": Intentionality
(Second Meditation, Continued) / 93
[v] Synthesis as the Fundamental Form of Consciousness: Time
(Second Meditation, Conclusion) / 95
[VI] The Situation of Evidence within Phenomenological Idealism
(Third Meditation) / 101
[vn] The Ego of the Cogito, or Phenomenology as Egology
(Fourth Meditation) / 106
5 / HUSSERL'S FIFTH CARTESIAN
MEDITATION / 115
[I] Exposition of the Problem, Beginning with the Solipsistic
Objection / 116
[n] Reduction to the Sphere of Ownness / 118
[In] The "Analogical" Grasping of the Other / 123
[IV] Intersubjective Nature / 130
[v] The Intermonadic Community / 135
6 / HUSSERL AND THE SENSE OF HISTORY / 143
[I] The Opposition of Transcendental Phenomenology to Historical
Considerations / 145
[n] Views of the Teleology of History and Reason / 151
[m] From the Crisis of European Humanity to Transcendental
Phenomenology / 161
[IV] Critical Remarks / 168
Contents / xi
7 / KANT AND HUSSERL / 175
[I] The Critique as Implicit Phenomenology / 176
[II] The Critique as Envisagement of Limits / 186
[ro] The "Constitution of the Other" and "Respect" / 195
8 / EXISTENTIAL PHENOMENOLOGY / 202
[I] The ''Existential'' Tum of "Transcendental"
Phenomenology / 204
[II] The Implicit Phenomenology of the Philosophy of
Existence / 205
[m] Existential Phenomenology / 208
9 / METHODS AND TASKS OF A PHENOMENOLOGY OF
THE WILL / 213
[I] The Level of Descriptive Analysis / 214
[II] The Level of Transcendental Constitution / 220
[m] On the Threshold of Ontology / 228