Phenomenology and Imagination in Husserl and Heidegger

ISBN-13: 9780415465939 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 196 str.

Brian Elliott

Opis

Phenomenology is one of the most pervasive and influential schools of thought in 20th-century European philosophy. This book provides a systematic and comprehensive analysis of the idea of the imagination in Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger.

Spis treści

Introduction PART I The sense of phenomenology (Edmund Husserl, 1893–1925) 1 Intuition and expression in the early epistemology 2 The extended sense of intuition in the Logical Investigations 3 Time, image, horizon 4 The genesis of experience and phenomenological method PART II The pre-sense of phenomenology (Martin Heidegger, 1920–1936) 5 Historicity and the hermeneutic conversion of phenomenology 6 Heidegger’s appropriation of Kant 7 Human freedom and world-construction 8 The ab-sence of phenomenology and the end of imagination

O autorze

Brian Elliot completed his doctoral research at the University of Freiberg under the supervision of Heidegger's former assistant, Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann. His thesis on Heidegger and Aristotle, Anfang unde Ende in der Philosophy, was published in berlin in 2002. Since 2000 he has taught philosophy at University College Dublin, where he is currently engaged in research on the idea of aesthetic community.