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This course explores different trends, movements, schools, and debates within Western and/or Eastern philosophy. This course focuses on the tradition of European phenomenology.
Being and Time, first published in 1927, has long been recognized as a landmark work of the twentieth century for its original analyses of the character of philosophic inquiry and the relation of the possibility of such inquiry to the human situation. Being and Time raises questions about the end of philosophy and the possibilities for thinking liberated from the presumptions of metaphysics. This edition of Stambaugh translation includes the marginal notes made by Heidegger in his own copy of Being and Time, and takes account of the many changes that he made in the final German edition of 1976.
In this book, Sartre argues that human consciousness is constantly projecting itself into the outside world and imbuing it with meaning, rather than an internal, passive container for our thoughts and experiences. Combining this with the unsettling view that human existence is characterized by radical freedom and the inescapability of choice. Sartre introduces us to a cast of ideas and characters that are part of philosophical legend: anguish; the "bad faith" of the memorable waiter in the café; sexual desire; and the "look" of the Other, brought to life by Sartre’s famous description of someone looking through a keyhole.
Drawing upon both Husserl's published works and posthumous material, this book incorporates the results of the most recent Husserl research on the development of his phenomenology. It is divided into three parts, roughly following the chronological development of Husserl's thought, from his early analyses of logic and intentionality, through his mature transcendental-philosophical analyses of reduction and constitution, to his late analyses of intersubjectivity and lifeworld. Supposedly, he never abandoned the view that the world and the Other are constituted by a pure transcendental subject, and his thinking in consequence remains Cartesian, idealistic, and solipsistic, but this book shows why this prevailing view is outdated and overly simplistic.
This book provides an introduction to the essential phenomenological concepts that are crucial for understanding great thinkers such as Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty. Part One focuses on the very conception of philosophy found in phenomenology, such as the question of method, the fist-person perspective, the analysis of the lifeworld, and the development of the tradition. Part Two offers detailed examples and models of concrete phenomenological analyses, from phenomenological explorations of spatiality and embodiment to analyses of intersubjectivity and community. Part Three demonstrates how phenomenology has been applied outside of philosophy- its influence in sociology, psychology, and cognitive science.
This book is a systematic reconstruction of Heidegger's account of time and temporality in Being and Time. The author locates Heidegger in a tradition of 'temporal idealism' with its sources in Plotinus, Leibniz, and Kant. For Heidegger, time can only be explained in terms of 'originary temporality', a concept integral to his ontology. Blattner sets out not only the foundations of Heidegger's ontology, but also his phenomenology of the experience of time. This study mainly relies on two texts- Being and Time (1927) and Heidegger’s Summer Semester 1927 lecture series, as well as The Basic Problems of Phenomenology.
This work by Edmund Husserl is his most famous work on phenomenology. It begins with a discussion of logic, followed by Husserl’s struggle to rescue logic from psychology- Husserl rejects to define psychical phenomena in distinction from physical phenomena and his account of immanent objectivity. After the examination from Prolegomena to pure logic, Husserl builds the structure of the six Investigations. The first four clarify issues of linguistics, semantics, formal ontology, and formal grammar, while the last two study the nature of conscious acts and their claim to knowledge and truth.
