Synopses & Reviews
There is an almost inverse proportion between the influence that Husserl's Ideas II exercised on important philosophical developments in this century and the attention it has received in secondary literature. Ideas II is divided into three sections dealing with the constitution of material nature, the constitution of animal nature, and that of spiritual nature. The essays in this volume deal with various aspects of all three of these sections. The starting point of an essay is often a passage from the Husserlian text, yet each essay goes beyond the text, addressing the issues raised by Husserl's analyses.
Table of Contents
Preface. Introduction.
1. Naturwissenschaftliche Psychologie, Geisteswissenschaft und Metaphysik (1919). Natural Scientific Psychology, Human Sciences, and Metaphysics (1919);
E. Husserl. 2. Nature and Spirit;
U. Melle. 3. Perception and Its Causes;
G. Soffer. 4. Where is the Life-World?
J.C. Evans. 5. `Essences and Experts': Husserl's View of the Foundation of the Sciences;
T. Klein. 6. The Mythical and the Meaningless: Husserl and the Two Faces of Nature;
S.G. Crowell. 7. Agent Intellect and Primal Sensibility;
J.G. Hart. 8. Edmund Husserl's Contribution to Phenomenology of the Body in
Ideas II;
E.A. Behnke. 9. Husserlian Intentionality and Everyday Coping;
K. Arp. 10. Advances Regarding Evaluation and Action in Husserl's
Ideas II;
L. Embree. 11. How is Empathy Related to Understanding?
R.A. Makkreel. 12. Objectivity and Introjection in
Ideas II;
J. Scanlon. 13. Husserl's Theory of the Mental;
T. Nenon. 14. The `Spiritual' World: The Personal, the Social, and the Communal;
J.J. Drummond. Notes on Contributors. Index of Names. Index of Topics.