Synopses & Reviews
This comprehensive interpretation of one of the 20th century's greatest and most influential philosophers is the result of Dorion Cairns's remarkable association with Husserl, informed by a close personal relationship with the thinker spanning more than three years. Cairns spent two long trips studying with Husserl, presenting a synthesis of what he had learned as a dissertation at Harvard University in 1933. This volume, edited by a world authority on phenomenology who himself studied with Cairns, brings that celebrated dissertation to a new readership of academics and graduate philosophy students, Its publication launches six posthumous volumes of the Philosophical Papers of Dorion Cairns that, in sum, will provide a cogent analysis of the work and beliefs of Husserl. The edition incorporates subsequent refinements of Cairns's position, including his revision of the doctrine of Hylē and Morphē. These represent key developments of the synthesis initially expressed in the dissertation. Cairns suffered from early obscurity owing to the depression of the 1930s, the Second World War, and his own health problems. This edition, and those that follow it, justly celebrate Cairns's later influence at the New School for Social Research in New York, where he was viewed by Husserl himself as 'the future of phenomenology in the New World'.
Synopsis
This comprehensive appraisal of one of the greatest and most influential philosophers of the 20th century results from Dorion Cairns's remarkable association with Husserl, informed by a close personal relationship with the thinker that spanned some three years.
Synopsis
The present volume containing the dissertation of Dorion Cairns is the first part of a comprehensive edition of the philosophical papers of one of the foremost disseminators and interpreters of Husserlian phenomenology in North-America. Based on his intimate knowledge
About the Author
Dorion Cairns (1901-1973) studied at Harvard, studied three and a half years with Husserl, and taught 1953-1969 on the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the New School for Social Research. Lester Embree (1938- )studied with Cairns at the New School and holds an endowed chair at Florida Atlantic University.
Table of Contents
1. The Transcendental Phenomenological Reduction: Husserl's concept of the Idea of Philosophy.- a. Appendix to Chapter 1.- 2. General Nature of Intentionality.- 3. General Structure of the Act-Correlate.- 4. Thetic Quality.- 5. Act-Horizon.- 6. Founded Structures.- 7. Direct and Indirect, Impressional and Reproductive, Consciousness.- 8. Evidence.- 9. Fulfilment.- 10. Pure Possibility.- 11. Recapitulation and Program. 12. The Egological Reduction.- 13. Primordial Sense-Perception.-