- The Oxford Handbook of the History of Phenomenology
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Aristotle <i>in</i> Phenomenology
- Descartes’ Notion of the Mind–Body Union and its Phenomenological Expositions
- Kant, Neo-Kantianism, and Phenomenology
- Phenomenology and German Idealism
- Phenomenology and Descriptive Psychology: Brentano, Stumpf, Husserl
- Husserl’s Early Period: Juvenilia and the <i>Logical Investigations</i>
- Husserl’s Middle Period and the Development of his Ethics
- Pre-Predicative Experience and Life-World: Two Distinct Projects in Husserl’s Late Phenomenology
- Scheler on the Moral and Political Significance of the Emotions
- Edith Stein’s Challenge to Sense-Making: The Role of the Lived Body, Psyche, and Spirit
- The Early Heidegger’s Phenomenology
- The Middle Heidegger’s Phenomenological Metaphysics
- Phenomenology and Ontology in the Later Heidegger
- Schutz and Gurwitsch on Agency
- Sartre’s Transcendental Phenomenology
- The Later Sartre: From Phenomenology to Hermeneutics to Dialectic and Back
- Simone de Beauvoir: Philosopher, Author, Feminist
- Science in Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology: From the Early Work to the Later Philosophy
- Merleau-Ponty from 1945 to 1952: The Ontological Weight of Perception and the Transcendental Force of Description
- Rereading the Later Merleau-Ponty in the Light of his Unpublished Work
- Jan Patočka’s Philosophical Legacy
- An Immense Power: The Three Phenomenological Insights Supporting Derridean Deconstruction
- When Alterity Becomes Proximity: Levinas’s Path
- Turn to Excess: The Development of Phenomenology in Late Twentieth-Century French Thought
- Phenomenological Methodology
- Subjectivity: From Husserl to his Followers (and Back Again)
- The Inquietude of Time and the Instance of Eternity: Husserl, Heidegger, and Levinas
- Embodiment and Bodily Becoming
- From the Origin of Spatiality to a Variety of Spaces
- Intentionality: Lived Experience, Bodily Comportment, and the Horizon of the World
- Practical Intentionality: From Brentano to the Phenomenology of the Munich and Göttingen Circles
- Ideal Verificationism and Perceptual Faith: Husserl and Merleau-Ponty on Perceptual Knowledge
- Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty on the World of Experience
- Imagination De-Naturalized: Phantasy, the Imaginary, and Imaginative Ontology
- Value, Freedom, Responsibility: Central Themes in Phenomenological Ethics
- Historicity and the Hermeneutic Predicament: From Yorck to Derrida
- Intersubjectivity, Sociality, Community: The Contribution of the Early Phenomenologists
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
This chapter discusses how the methodological self-understanding outlined in Husserl’s early writings changes in later stages of the Phenomenological Movement. The discussion is guided by Merleau-Ponty’s short remarks in the preface of his Phenomenology of Perception about the ambiguity of the phenomenological method. Against this background, it is shown that the critical examination of the possibility of phenomenological reflection and the explanation of the idea of intentionality lead to relevant modifications and revisions of the initial assumptions concerning the phenomenological method. Particularly, the phenomenological concepts of the a priori, transcendental subjectivity, constitution, and descriptive analysis should be modified by considering the relevance of opposing aspects binding the phenomenological reflection also to facticity, the natural attitude, our life-world, and constructive moments. In addition, it is argued that the phenomenological task of offering an investigation of originary experience as a pre-linguistic and subjective experience should also be revised.
Keywords: intentionality, the a priori, transcendental subjectivity, life-world, constitution, description, construction, reflection
Karl Mertens is professor of philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Würzburg. He is author of a monograph about Husserl’s theory of knowledge (Zwischen Letztbegründung und Skepsis. Kritische Untersuchungen zum Selbstverständnis der transzendentalen Phänomenologie Edmund Husserls, 1996). He has published several articles on theory of action, social philosophy, theory of knowledge, philosophy of mind, and phenomenology. Since 2005 he has been co-editor of the journal Phenomenological Studies (Phänomenologische Forschungen).
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- The Oxford Handbook of the History of Phenomenology
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Aristotle <i>in</i> Phenomenology
- Descartes’ Notion of the Mind–Body Union and its Phenomenological Expositions
- Kant, Neo-Kantianism, and Phenomenology
- Phenomenology and German Idealism
- Phenomenology and Descriptive Psychology: Brentano, Stumpf, Husserl
- Husserl’s Early Period: Juvenilia and the <i>Logical Investigations</i>
- Husserl’s Middle Period and the Development of his Ethics
- Pre-Predicative Experience and Life-World: Two Distinct Projects in Husserl’s Late Phenomenology
- Scheler on the Moral and Political Significance of the Emotions
- Edith Stein’s Challenge to Sense-Making: The Role of the Lived Body, Psyche, and Spirit
- The Early Heidegger’s Phenomenology
- The Middle Heidegger’s Phenomenological Metaphysics
- Phenomenology and Ontology in the Later Heidegger
- Schutz and Gurwitsch on Agency
- Sartre’s Transcendental Phenomenology
- The Later Sartre: From Phenomenology to Hermeneutics to Dialectic and Back
- Simone de Beauvoir: Philosopher, Author, Feminist
- Science in Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology: From the Early Work to the Later Philosophy
- Merleau-Ponty from 1945 to 1952: The Ontological Weight of Perception and the Transcendental Force of Description
- Rereading the Later Merleau-Ponty in the Light of his Unpublished Work
- Jan Patočka’s Philosophical Legacy
- An Immense Power: The Three Phenomenological Insights Supporting Derridean Deconstruction
- When Alterity Becomes Proximity: Levinas’s Path
- Turn to Excess: The Development of Phenomenology in Late Twentieth-Century French Thought
- Phenomenological Methodology
- Subjectivity: From Husserl to his Followers (and Back Again)
- The Inquietude of Time and the Instance of Eternity: Husserl, Heidegger, and Levinas
- Embodiment and Bodily Becoming
- From the Origin of Spatiality to a Variety of Spaces
- Intentionality: Lived Experience, Bodily Comportment, and the Horizon of the World
- Practical Intentionality: From Brentano to the Phenomenology of the Munich and Göttingen Circles
- Ideal Verificationism and Perceptual Faith: Husserl and Merleau-Ponty on Perceptual Knowledge
- Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty on the World of Experience
- Imagination De-Naturalized: Phantasy, the Imaginary, and Imaginative Ontology
- Value, Freedom, Responsibility: Central Themes in Phenomenological Ethics
- Historicity and the Hermeneutic Predicament: From Yorck to Derrida
- Intersubjectivity, Sociality, Community: The Contribution of the Early Phenomenologists
- Index
