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In this thorough study of Edmund Husserl's phenomenological method, Donn Welton presents a unique interpretation of the development of Husserl's philosophy from both a systematic and a historical perspective.

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Author:   Donn Welton
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.685kg
ISBN:  

9780253215581

ISBN 10:   0253215587
Pages:   520
Publication Date:   31 July 2002
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preliminary Table of Contents: Acknowledgments List of Abbreviated Titles Introduction: Thinking about Husserl Part 1. Contours: The Emergence of Husserl's Systematic Phenomenology 1. The Phenomenological Turn 2. Descriptive Eidetics 3. Categorial Phenomenology and Ontology 4. The Transcendental in Transcendence 5. Cartesian Enclosures 6. Transcendental Disclosures 7. From Categorial to Constitutive Phenomenology 8. The Turn to Genetic Analysis 9. Genetic Phenomenology Part 2. Critique: The Limits of Husserl's Phenomenological Method 10. Transcendental Psychologism 11. Transcendental Phenomenology and the Question of Its Legitimacy 12. Husserl and the Japanese Part 3. Constructions: Toward a Phenomenological Theory of Contexts 13. World as Horizon 14. Horizon and Discourse 15. The Margins of the World Appendix: The Standard Interpretation Notes Bibliography Index

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In this significant work, Edmund Husserl, the founder of 20th-century phenomenology, a highly influential theory of knowledge, receives a thorough and excellent analysis. Welton (SUNY, Stony Brook) surveys Husserl's published and unpublished complex writings in order to develop an alternative interpretation to the standard one promulgated by Husserl's critics and supporters. To accomplish this task, Welton undertakes to evaluate or reconstruct the phenomenological method as a whole. Although primarily very supportive, he also reviews some of the critiques or limits to the method. (Deeper criticisms could have been dealt with, though, especially from the analytic movement.) Husserl's relationship to Heidegger's Being and Time is also explored, and Cartesian and Kantian influences are discussed through Husserl's foundational philosophy. This technical study is an important contribution to phenomenology, to be read by specialists and perhaps by their students. Only those well versed in the field can determine whether Welton succeeds in offering a viable logical alternative to the standard Husserl, or if such a standard exists; this reviewer would have liked more concrete examples. Over 60 pages of notes and lengthy bibliography. Black and white photos. Recommended for Continental philosophy collections.M. P. Maller, Columbia College Chicago, Choice, December 2001 In this significant work, Edmund Husserl, the founder of 20th-century phenomenology, a highly influential theory of knowledge, receives a thorough and excellent analysis...This technical study is an important contribution to phenomenology... -Choice, December 2001

With provocations on every page, this book is a philosophical feast. The specialist will find familiar ingredients assembled here in a perspicuous and compelling way, while the non-specialist will discover a Husserl whose philosophy is made of flesh and blood. -Journal of the History of Philosophy

Author Information

Donn Welton is Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is editor of The Essential Husserl: Basic Writings in Transcendental Phenomenology (Indiana University Press).

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