Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Husserl and the Cartesian Meditations

• Main Author: Smith, A. D.
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: London Routledge 2003; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks
• Subjects: 20th Century; Husserl; Husserl, Edmund, 1859-1938, Cartesianische Meditationen; Phenomenology; Transcendental Ego; Husserl's Account; Categorial Intuition; Hallucinating Subject; Empty Intentions; Absolute Consciousness; ego; Cartesian Meditations; life; empty; Absolute Insights; phenomenology; Hyletic Data; Present Meditation; Transcendental Insight; transcendental; Transcendental Subjectivity; Transcendental Intersubjectivity; Apodictic Certainty; subjectivity; Apperceptive Transfer; Int Ii; Noematic Correlate; Transcendental Phenomenology; Constitutional Story; intentions; Idea Ii; Discrete Pips; Sense Datum Theory; Transcendental Reduction; reduction; present; External Material Object; conscious; FTL

Husserl is one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century and his contribution to the phenomenology movement is widely recognised. The Cartesian Meditations is his most famous, and most widely studied work. The book introduces and assesses: Husserl's life and background to the...

Table of Contents:

• Cover -- Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Husserl and the Cartesian Meditations -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Note on Translations and Citations -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction (1-2) -- The 'Idea' of Philosophy -- Husserl and Descartes -- 1 First Meditation ((3-11) -- The Epoché and the Transcendental Reduction -- The Constitution of Objects -- Transcendental Phenomenology and Psychology -- Evidenz and Intuition -- 'The Cartesian Way' -- 2 Second Meditation ((12-22) -- Intentionality -- The Concept of Horizon -- 'Sensualism' and the Sense-Datum Theory -- Time-Consciousness and Hylé -- Intentional Analysis -- 3 (Most of the) Fourth Meditation ((30-39) -- Ego, Person, Monad -- Static and Genetic Phenomenology -- Active and Passive Synthesis -- Eidetic Phenomenology and the Nature of Thought -- Founding -- Transcendental Instincts and 'Drive-Intentionality' -- 4 Third Meditation and Part of the Fourth ((23-29, 40-41) -- Reality and Reason -- World -- Reality as an 'Idea' -- Reality and Objectivity -- Husserl's Idealism -- A Husserlian Proof of Idealism -- Theoretical Science and the Life-World -- Husserl's Metaphysics -- 5 Fifth Meditation ((42-62) -- The Sphere of Ownness -- The Body -- Empathy -- Intersubjectivity -- Empathy: The Wider Picture -- The Status and Scope of Husserl's Account of Empathy -- Conclusion ((63-64) -- Appendix: Original Passages from Husserl's Unpublished Manuscripts -- Bibliography -- Index