Phenomenology Explained: From Experience to Insight (Ideas Explained, 9)

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Phenomenology
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Book
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ISBN
9780812697971
Book Title
Phenomenology Explained : from Experience to Insight
Book Series
Ideas Explained Ser.
Publisher
Open Court
Item Length
9 in
Publication Year
2013
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Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.5 in
Author
David Detmer
Genre
Philosophy, Social Science
Topic
General, Movements / Phenomenology
Item Weight
10.9 Oz
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6 in
Number of Pages
256 Pages
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Open Court
ISBN-10
0812697979
ISBN-13
9780812697971
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Book Title
Phenomenology Explained : from Experience to Insight
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2013
Topic
General, Movements / Phenomenology
Genre
Philosophy, Social Science
Author
David Detmer
Book Series
Ideas Explained Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

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0.5 in
Item Weight
10.9 Oz
Item Length
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Detmer's Phenomenology Explained is the essential guidebook to Husserl's phenomenology. This text should be the first read for those wading into the study of phenomenology for the first time and senior scholars will appreciate the subtlety by which Detmer navigates Husserl's most difficult terrain. Phenomenology Explained offers a thoughtful and accessible treatment of the evolution of phenomenology from Husserl's early influences to his 20th century successors while shedding new light on where phenomenology might be headed. Detmer offers an important analysis of the often overlooked and critical influence that Husserl's thought has on the relationship between phenomenology and ethics." —NICHOLAS WERNICKI, Assistant Professor, Peirce College It is rare that a book is required reading for scholars and undergraduates. Phenomenology Explained is such a book. It is accessible, clear, and direct, yet it provides a high level of breadth and detail. David Detmer illuminates the key ideas and current relevance of phenomenology, largely through Husserl's works. Detmer's analyses are balanced, insightful, expertly developed, and extend current Husserl scholarship particularly with respect to previously unpublished Husserl works. This is a marvelous book and an invaluable guide for those interested in phenomenology." —LAWRENCE FERRARA, New York University, author of Philosophy and the Analysis of Music Phenomenology can be notoriously opaque to beginners, but Detmer succeeds at being clear and accessible without shying away from an engagement with the most important and difficult ideas in phenomenology. Detmer's approach transcends traditional divides, making it accessible to both analytically- and continentally-trained philosophers. One of the greatest strengths of this volume is its balance of range and depth. Detmer shows the reader why phenomenology is not a relic of the early 20th century, but rather a vibrant and growing field in philosophy today." —ELIZABETH BUTTERFIELD, Georgia Southern University, author of Sartre and Posthumanist Humanism In Phenomenology Explained , Detmer identifies a central goal of phenomenology as descriptive fidelity," a term that aptly characterizes his own thorough treatment of the subject. With admirable clarity and ease, Detmer has managed to capture the profundity of the contributions of phenomenologists from Husserl to Merleau-Ponty, without watering down the complexity of this vibrant field of inquiry. The book is an invaluable resource for scholars and students alike." —CONSTANCE L. MUI, S. Youree Watson, S.J., Professor of Philosophy, Loyola University New Orleans David Detmer provides a clear, easily readable, and comprehensive overview of Husserlian phenomenology for both the novice and the initiated. Pushing beyond this, he also lays out a persuasive case for the relevance and importance of Husserl's phenomenology within the current philosophical scene. . . ." —BOB SANDMEYER, University of Kentucky, author of Husserl's Constitutive Phenomenology, "Detmer's Phenomenology Explained is the essential guidebook to Husserl's phenomenology. This text should be the first read for those wading into the study of phenomenology for the first time and senior scholars will appreciate the subtlety by which Detmer navigates Husserl's most difficult terrain. Phenomenology Explained offers a thoughtful and accessible treatment of the evolution of phenomenology from Husserl's early influences to his 20th century successors while shedding new light on where phenomenology might be headed. Detmer offers an important analysis of the often overlooked and critical influence that Husserl's thought has on the relationship between phenomenology and ethics." --NICHOLAS WERNICKI, Assistant Professor, Peirce College "It is rare that a book is required reading for scholars and undergraduates. Phenomenology Explained is such a book. It is accessible, clear, and direct, yet it provides a high level of breadth and detail. David Detmer illuminates the key ideas and current relevance of phenomenology, largely through Husserl's works. Detmer's analyses are balanced, insightful, expertly developed, and extend current Husserl scholarship particularly with respect to previously unpublished Husserl works. This is a marvelous book and an invaluable guide for those interested in phenomenology." --LAWRENCE FERRARA, New York University, author of Philosophy and the Analysis of Music "Phenomenology can be notoriously opaque to beginners, but Detmer succeeds at being clear and accessible without shying away from an engagement with the most important and difficult ideas in phenomenology. Detmer's approach transcends traditional divides, making it accessible to both analytically- and continentally-trained philosophers. One of the greatest strengths of this volume is its balance of range and depth. Detmer shows the reader why phenomenology is not a relic of the early 20th century, but rather a vibrant and growing field in philosophy today." --ELIZABETH BUTTERFIELD, Georgia Southern University, author of Sartre and Posthumanist Humanism "In Phenomenology Explained , Detmer identifies a central goal of phenomenology as "descriptive fidelity," a term that aptly characterizes his own thorough treatment of the subject. With admirable clarity and ease, Detmer has managed to capture the profundity of the contributions of phenomenologists from Husserl to Merleau-Ponty, without watering down the complexity of this vibrant field of inquiry. The book is an invaluable resource for scholars and students alike." --CONSTANCE L. MUI, S. Youree Watson, S.J., Professor of Philosophy, Loyola University New Orleans "David Detmer provides a clear, easily readable, and comprehensive overview of Husserlian phenomenology for both the novice and the initiated. Pushing beyond this, he also lays out a persuasive case for the relevance and importance of Husserl's phenomenology within the current philosophical scene. . . ." --BOB SANDMEYER, University of Kentucky, author of Husserl's Constitutive Phenomenology
Series Volume Number
9
Dewey Decimal
142.7
Synopsis
Phenomenology is one of the most important and influential philosophical movements of the last one hundred years. It began in 1900, with the publication of a massive two-volume work, "Logical Investigations," by a Czech-German mathematician, Edmund Husserl. It proceeded immediately to exert a strong influence on both philosophy and the social scien, Phenomenology is one of the most important and influential philosophical movements of the last one hundred years. It began in 1900, with the publication of a massive two-volume work, Logical Investigations , by a Czech-German mathematician, Edmund Husserl. It proceeded immediately to exert a strong influence on both philosophy and the social sciences. For example, phenomenology provided the central inspiration for the existentialist movement, as represented by such figures as Martin Heidegger in Germany and Jean-Paul Sartre in France. Subsequent intellectual currents in Europe, when they have not claimed phenomenology as part of their ancestry, have defined themselves in opposition to phenomenology. Thus, to give just one example, the first two works of Jacques Derrida, the father of deconstruction, were devoted to criticisms of Husserl's phenomenological works. In the English-speaking world, where "analytic philosophy" dominates, phenomenology has recently emerged as a hot topic after decades of neglect. This has resulted from a dramatic upswing in interest in consciousness, the condition that makes all experience possible. Since the special significance of phenomenology is that it investigates consciousness, analytic philosophers have begun to turn to it as an underutilized resource. For the same reason, Husserl's work is now widely studied by cognitive scientists. The current revival of interest in phenomenology also stems from the recognition that not every kind of question can be approached by means of experimental techniques. Not all questions are scientific in that sense. Thus, if there is to be knowledge in logic, mathematics, ethics, political philosophy, aesthetics, epistemology (theory of knowledge), psychology (from the inside), and the study of consciousness, among others, another method is clearly needed. Phenomenology is an attempt to rectify this. Its aim is to focus on the world as given in experience, and to describe it with unprecedented care, rigor, subtlety, and completeness. This applies not only to the objects of sense experience, but to all phenomena: moral, aesthetic, political, mathematical, and so forth. One can avoid the obscure problem of the real, independent existence of the objects of experience in these domains by focusing instead on the objects, as experienced, themselves, along with the acts of consciousness which disclose them. Phenomenology thus opens up an entirely new field of investigation, never previously explored. Rather than assuming, or trying to discern, what exists outside the realm of the mental, and what causal relations pertain to these extra-mental entities, we can study objects strictly as they are given, that is, as they appear to us in experience. This book explains what phenomenology is and why it is important. It focuses primarily on the works and ideas of Husserl, but also discusses important later thinkers, giving special emphasis to those whose contributions are most relevant to contemporary concerns. Finally, while Husserl's greatest contributions were to the philosophical foundations of logic, mathematics, knowledge, and science, this book also addresses extensively the relatively neglected contribution of phenomenology to value theory, especially ethics, political philosophy, and aesthetics.
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B829.5.D45 2013

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