Synopses & Reviews
Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-267) and index.
Synopsis
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 Cartesian Meditations, the ideas and text of the Cartesian Meditations and the continuing imporance of Husserl's work to Philosophy.
Table of Contents
1.First meditation --Theepochâe and the transcendental reduction --Theconstitution of objects --Transcendental phenomenology and psychology --Evidenz and intuition --'TheCartesian way' --2.Second meditation --Intentionality --Theconcept of horizon --'Sensualism' and the sense-datum theory --Time-consciousness and Hylâe --Intentional analysis --3.(Most of the) fourth meditation --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 --Reality and reason --World --Reality as an 'idea' --Reality and objectivity --Husserl's idealism --AHusserlian proof of idealism --Theoretical science and the life-world --Husserl's metaphysics --5.Fifth meditation --Thesphere of ownness --Thebody --Empathy --Intersubjectivity --Empathy : the wider picture --Thestatus and scope of Husserl's account of empathy.