The Routledge Companion to Phenomenology

733 Pages·2011·3.238 MB·English

by  Sebastian Luft, Soren Overgaard

THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO
PHENOMENOLOGY
Phenomenology was one of the twentieth century’s major philosophical movements
and continues to be a vibrant and widely studied subject today. The Routledge Com-
panion to Phenomenology is an outstanding guide and reference source to the key
philosophers, topics and themes in this exciting subject and essential reading for any
student and scholar of phenomenology.
Comprisingoverfiftychaptersbyateamofinternationalcontributors,theCompanion
is divided into five clear parts:
(cid:1) Main figures in the phenomenological movement, from Brentano to Derrida
(cid:1) Main topics in phenomenology
(cid:1) Phenomenological contributions to philosophy
(cid:1) Phenomenological intersections
(cid:1) Historical postscript
Close attention is paid to the core topics in phenomenology such as intentionality,
perception,subjectivity,theself,thebody,beingandphenomenological method.An
important feature of the Companion is its examination of how phenomenology has
contributed to central disciplines in philosophy such as metaphysics, philosophy of
mind, moral philosophy, aesthetics and philosophy of religion as well as disciplines
beyond philosophy such as cognitive science, psychiatry, literary criticism and psy-
choanalysis.
Sebastian Luft is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Marquette University, USA.
Heis the authorof Subjectivity andLifeworld in TranscendentalPhenomenology(2011)and
the editor of The Neo-Kantian Reader, forthcoming with Routledge.
Søren Overgaard is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Subjectivity
Research, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is the author of Husserl and
Heidegger on Being in the World (2004) and Wittgenstein and Other Minds (2007).
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THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION
TO PHENOMENOLOGY
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CONTENTS
Notes on contributors xiv
Acknowledgements xxiii
Introduction 1
SEBASTIAN LUFT AND SØREN OVERGAARD
PART I
Main figures in the phenomenological movement 15
1 Franz Brentano 17
PETER SIMONS
2 Edmund Husserl 28
DERMOT MORAN
3 Max Scheler 40
EUGENE KELLY
4 Martin Heidegger 50
DANIEL DAHLSTROM
5 Jean-Paul Sartre 62
ROLAND BREEUR
6 Emmanuel Levinas 71
RICHARD A. COHEN
7 Hannah Arendt 82
VERONICA VASTERLING
8 Simone de Beauvoir 92
GAIL WEISS
9 Maurice Merleau-Ponty 103
KOMARINE ROMDENH-ROMLUC
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CONTENTS
10 Jacques Derrida 113
BJÖRN THORSTEINSSON
PART II
Main topics in phenomenology 123
11 Intentionality 125
JOHN J. DRUMMOND
12 Evidence 135
ROBERTO WALTON
13 Perception 146
WALTER HOPP
14 Truth 158
THANE M. NABERHAUS
15 The subject and the self 168
KARL MERTENS
16 Intersubjectivity 180
DAN ZAHAVI
17 Time 190
NICOLAS DE WARREN
18 Space 202
EDWARD S. CASEY
19 The world 211
CARLETON B. CHRISTENSEN
20 The body 222
SARA HEINÄMAA
21 History 233
DAVID CARR
22 Husserl’s method of reduction 243
SEBASTIAN LUFT
23 Eidetics and its methodology 254
ROCHUS SOWA
24 Genetic phenomenology 266
DIETER LOHMAR
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