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- The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought
- The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought
- The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Sociology and the Heroism of Modern Life
- 2 Psychoanalysis: Freud and Beyond
- 3 Modern Physics: From Crisis to Crisis
- 4 Varieties of Phenomenology
- 5 Existentialism and the Meanings of Transcendence
- 6 Philosophies of Life
- 7 The Many Faces of Analytic Philosophy
- 8 American Ideas in the European Imagination
- 9 Revolution from the Right: Against Equality
- 10 Western Marxism: Revolutions in Theory
- 11 Anti-imperialism and Interregnum
- 12 Late Modern Feminist Subversions: Sex, Subjectivity, and Embodiment
- 13 Modernist Theologies: The Many Paths between God and World
- 14 Modern Economic Thought and the “Good Society”
- 15 Conservatism and Its Discontents
- 16 Modernity and the Specter of Totalitarianism
- 17 Decolonization Terminable and Interminable
- 18 Structuralism and the Return of the Symbolic
- 19 Post-structuralism: From Deconstruction to the Genealogy of Power
- 20 Contesting the Public Sphere: Within and against Critical Theory
- 21 Restructuring Democracy and the Idea of Europe
- Index
4 - Varieties of Phenomenology
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 August 2019
- The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought
- The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought
- The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Sociology and the Heroism of Modern Life
- 2 Psychoanalysis: Freud and Beyond
- 3 Modern Physics: From Crisis to Crisis
- 4 Varieties of Phenomenology
- 5 Existentialism and the Meanings of Transcendence
- 6 Philosophies of Life
- 7 The Many Faces of Analytic Philosophy
- 8 American Ideas in the European Imagination
- 9 Revolution from the Right: Against Equality
- 10 Western Marxism: Revolutions in Theory
- 11 Anti-imperialism and Interregnum
- 12 Late Modern Feminist Subversions: Sex, Subjectivity, and Embodiment
- 13 Modernist Theologies: The Many Paths between God and World
- 14 Modern Economic Thought and the “Good Society”
- 15 Conservatism and Its Discontents
- 16 Modernity and the Specter of Totalitarianism
- 17 Decolonization Terminable and Interminable
- 18 Structuralism and the Return of the Symbolic
- 19 Post-structuralism: From Deconstruction to the Genealogy of Power
- 20 Contesting the Public Sphere: Within and against Critical Theory
- 21 Restructuring Democracy and the Idea of Europe
- Index
Summary
Phenomenology counts as one of the most influential philosophical movements in twentieth-century philosophy. Edmund Husserl (1859–1938) was its founder, but other influential proponents were Max Scheler (1874–1928), Martin Heidegger (1889–1976), Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–1961), and Emmanuel Lévinas (1906–1995). Over the years, phenomenology has made major contributions to many areas of philosophy, including transcendental philosophy, philosophy of mind, social philosophy, philosophical anthropology, aesthetics, ethics, philosophy of science, epistemology, theory of meaning, and formal ontology. It has offered important analyses of topics such as intentionality, embodiment, self-consciousness, intersubjectivity, temporality, historicity, truth, evidence, perception, and value theory. It has delivered a targeted criticism of reductionism, objectivism, and scientism, and argued at length for a rehabilitation of the lifeworld.
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