Western philosophy from c 1800

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by Wolfe Mays It is a great pleasure and honour to write this preface.

The intentional analysis devised by phenomenology was first used to explain the meaningfulness of expressions; it aimed at exhibiting the original primary substrates that expressions refer to, and at exhibiting the subjective acts that make signs expressive.

When I first became acquainted with the thought of the American philoso- pher Josiah Royce, two factors particularly intrigued me.

The book is the result of my preoccupation with the phe- nomenological philosophy of Edmund Husserl during my years of post-doctoral studies (approximately since 1960).

Die folgenden Analysen stellen einen Versuch dar, von der Philosophie her Kunst zu verstehen d.

In recommending a book like this, one is tempted to fall back on cliches such as 'brilliant insights', 'original perspectives', etc.

Martin Heidegger's fame and influence are based, for the most part, on his first work, Being and Time.

The philosophy of art, aesthetics, is here understood to be something distinct from both art appreciation and art criticism.

Now how would things be intelligible if they did not proceed from an intelligence?

Early in the first volume of his Ideen zu einer reinen Phiinomeno- logie und phiinomenologischen Philosophie, Edmund Husserl stated concisely the significance and scope of the problem with which this present study is concerned.

At a time when the traditional principles of many fields have lost their power and validity, the task of philosophy may well be to look back at these traditional principles and at their inherent determinations and basic problems, while heeding every indi- cation of a transition to something new, in order to be critically open for all attempts at "e;another beginning.

Some preliminary observations must be made concerning the nature and purpose of this study.

Dialogue and communication have today become central concepts in con- temporary man's effort to analyze and comprehend the major roots of con- flict that threaten our twentieth-century world.

themes among the essays resurface and resonate.

The history of Indian logic is roughly divided into three periods: old Nyaya, Buddhist logic and new Nyaya.

Gabriel Marcel reminds me that I asked him to write for this book.

GENERAL PROBLEMS IN NIETZSCHE INTERPRETATION Every philosopher presents special problems of interpretation.

Man's concern about God is both a question and a quest.