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Edmund Husserl: Founder of Phenomenology

ISBN: 978-0-745-62122-7

October 2005

Polity

256 pages

Description
Dermot Moran provides a lucid, engaging, and critical introduction to Edmund Husserl's philosophy, with specific emphasis on his development of phenomenology. This book is a comprehensive guide to Husserl's thought from its origins in nineteenth-century concerns with the nature of scientific knowledge and with psychologism, through his breakthrough discovery of phenomenology and his elucidation of the phenomenological method, to the late analyses of culture and the life-world. Husserl's complex ideas are presented in a clear and expert manner. Individual chapters explore Husserl's key texts including Philosophy of Arithmetic, Logical Investigations, Ideas I, Cartesian Meditations and Crisis of the European Sciences. In addition, Moran offers penetrating criticisms and evaluations of Husserl's achievement, including the contribution of his phenomenology to current philosophical debates concerning consciousness and the mind.

Edmund Husserl is an invaluable guide to understanding the thought of one of the seminal thinkers of the twentieth century. It will be helpful to students of contemporary philosophy, and to those interested in scientific, literary and cultural studies on the European continent.

About the Author
Dermot Moran is Professor of Philosophy at University College Dublin and author of Introduction to Phenomenology (2000) among other workds.
Features

  • Written by an authority on Husserl and phenomenology. Dermot Moran’s ‘Introduction to Phenomenology’ published by Routledge has been incredibly successful.
  • This will be the most comprehensive, high quality volume on Husserl available. It is an ‘advanced introduction’, which fits the level at which Husserl and his thought is taught on courses.
  • Individual chapters deal with Husserl’s key works, clarifying the difficult concepts that the philosopher theorised throughout his career.
  • Weaves Husserl's ideas into a biographical narrative to offer valuable insight into the context and development of Husserl's thought.