Western philosophy from c 1800

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.

In this work the author has tried to present a brief exposition of the phenomenology of HusserI.

"e;Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed?

This multilingual glossary is a guide for translating writings by Edmund RusserI into English.

Under the title of "e;Phenomenology: Continuation and Crit- icism,"e; the group of essays in this volume are presented in honor of Dorion Cairns on his 70th birthday.

This translation is concluded in our Readings in Twentieth- Century Philosophy, (N.

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Emmanuel Levinas recounts the main events of his life in a brief essay, "e;Signature,"e; appended to a collection of essays on social, political and religious themes entitled Dillicile Uberti.

"Allerdings, das ist eine grosse Frage, der ich zu sehr ausgewichen bin, die Evidenz des Ich als ein Identisches, das also doch nicht in dem Bündel bestehen kann.

Contrary to popular belief, professional philosophers want and need to be heard.

When Heidegger's influence was at its zenith in Gennany from the early fifties to the early sixties, most serious students of philosophy in that country were deeply steeped in his thought.

Dear Father Richardson: It is with some hesitation that I attempt to answer the two principal questions you posed in your letter of March I, 1962.

Roman Ingarden studied under Husserl before and during the first world war.

THE SEEMING CONTINGENCY OF THE QUESTION CONCERNING THE BODY AND THE NECESSITY FOR AN ONTOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE BODY When we disclose and bring forth, within ontological investigations aimed at making possible the elaboration of a phenomenology of the ego, a prob- lematic concerning the body, we may well seem, with respect to the general direction of our analysis, to elaborate only a contingent and accidental specification of such an analysis and to forget its true goal.

Substantial encouragement for this volume came from the editors and readers of the Studies for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) at Northwestern University Press.

The path Husserl entered upon at the beginning of his philosophical writ- ings turned out to be the beginning of a long, tedious way.