Phenomenology : Critical Concepts in Philosophy - Lester Embree

Phenomenology

Critical Concepts in Philosophy

By: Lester Embree (Editor), Dermot Moran (Editor)

30 September 2004 | Edition Number 1

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Phenomenology as a tradition owes its name to Edmund Husserl, in his Logical Investigations (1900-1). It began as a bold new way of doing philosophy, an attempt to bring it back from abstract metaphysical speculation and empty logical calculation in order to come into contact with concrete living experience. As formulated by Husserl, Phenomenology is the investigation of the structures of consciousness that enable consciousness to refer to objects outside itself. It soon broadened into a world-wide and now century-old tradition. Phenomenological description of things just as they are, in the manner in which they are given and posited meant that phenomenologists were free to engage with all areas of experience. So long as one rendered faithfully the experience of matters themselves, there was no limit put on what could be investigated. Phenomenology has thus had a pervasive influence on twentieth-century thought. So-called 'realistic phenomenology' emerged in Germany before World War I, continued in the 1920s, carried to Japan, Poland, and Russia, and is still represented today; so-called 'constitutive phenomenology' emerged with Edmund Husserl's Ideas I of 1913 and was chiefly continued by refugees in the United States but influenced the tradition everywhere else thereafter; so-called 'existential phenomenology' began from the early work of Martin Heidegger but emerged in print first in Japan and flourished in France after as well as before World War II, another wave of influence spreading across the planet; so-called 'hermeneutical phenomenology' emerged in Germany and then France during the 1960s, again spreading elsewhere. Phenomenological versions of theology, sociology, psychology, psychiatry and literary criticism have all been engendered, so that phenomenology remains one of the most important traditions of contemporary philosophy. Phenomenology is currently extending into new areas such as gender, ethnicity, multiculturalism, and ecology. An effort has been made in these four volumes to include representatives of all the major tendencies within phenomenology and to provide documentation of the critical discussion of its central topics. The set will include a general introduction by the editors, as well as individual volume introductions, exploring and contextualising the main themes of the comprehensively covered tradition. This is an essential point of reference for anyone researching the phenomenological tradition.

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