The Collected Works of Aron Gurwitsch (1901-1973): Volume I: Constitutive Phenomenology in Historical Perspective

ISBN-13: 9789400730687 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 521 str.

Gurwitsch, Aron

Opis

1 The present volume is rich in essential phenomenological descriptions 2 and insightful historico-critical analyses, some of which cannot be fully appreciated, however, except by close examination on the part of the reader. Accordingly, such a task ought to be left to the consideration and judgment of the latter, save where such discussions are directly relevant to the topics I will be dwelling upon. I prefer, then, to approach the matters and questions contained here otherwise, namely, archeologically. In this I 3 follow Jose Huertas-Jourda, the editor of the corresponding French vol- 4 ume, in his felicitous terminological choice, although I adopt it here for my purposes in an etymological sense, i. e., as signifying a return to prin- 5 ciples or origins. This, after all, is consistent not only with the spirit and practice of phenomenology, as acknowledged by Aron Gurwitsch often enough, but as well with what he has actually said, to wit: it is a qu- tion of 1 Cf., e. g., infra, in An Outline of Constitutive Phenomenology, Chapter 4, pp. 185 ff. (Henceforth I shall refer to this book as Outline. ) This essay will be devoted to the study of selected parts of the contents of this volume, although, when necessary, use will be made here of other works by various authors, including Gurwitsch. 2 Cf., e. g., ibid., Chapter 3, pp. 107 ff.

Spis treści

An Outline of Constitutive Phenomenology. List of Abbreviations. Editor’s and Translator’s Introduction. Author’s Introduction. 1. The Problem of the Philosophy of Consciousness. 2. The Natural Attitude and the Phenomenological Reduction. 3. The Conception of Consciousness. 4. The Structure of the Perceptual Noema. Some Fundamental Problems of Constitutive Phenomenology. I. The Equivalent of Consciousness. II. The Object as Transcendental Clue. III. The General Structures of Evidence. IV. Objects and Consciousness. V. The Phenomenological Reduction. Conclusion. Theme and Attitude. Husserl’s Theory of the Intentionality of Consciousness in Historical Perspective. I. Historical Roots of Husserl’s Problems. II. Outlines of the Theory of Intentionality. Conclusion. Towards a Theory of Intentionality. The Phenomenology of Perception: Perceptual Implications. The Perceptual World and the Rationalized Universe. Critical Reviews. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

O autorze

Jorge Garia-Gomez wrote his dissertation under Gurwitsch and is a specialist in Spanish phenomenology, above all Ortega y Gasset.

Blurb

The first of a planned six volumes of Gurwitsch’s writings, this volume contains, above all, the English translation of his Esquisse de phénoménologie constitutive, the text based on his four lecture courses at Institute d’Histoire des Sciences et des Techniques at the Sorbonne during the 1930s. These lectures were regularly attended by Maurice Merleau-Ponty. The book relates Husserlian or constitutive phenomenology to modern first philosophy and the philosophy of the human as well as the natural sciences and was nearly finished when Gurwitsch had to flee to the United States before Germany conquered France. In addition, this volume contains what is in effect Gurwitsch’s autobiographical sketch, critical reviews of works by Gaston Berger, Jean Hering, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Maurice Pradines, and Ives Simone, members of the French intellectual milieu of the 1930s when French phenomenology initially developed, and also two originally unpublished essays from that period. Finally, there are three essays and two reviews from Gurwitsch’s American period in which phenomenological philosophy and especially his revised account of the noema is also placed in historical perspective.