Phenomenology, according to Husserl, is meant to be philosophy as rigorous science. It was Franz Brentano who inspired him to pursue the ideal of scientific philosophy. Though Husserl began his philosophical career as an orthodox disciple of Brentano, he eventually began to have doubts about this orientation. The Logische Unterschungen is the result of such doubts. Especially after the publication of that work, he became increasingly convinced that, in the interests of scientific philosophy, he had to go in a direction which diverged from Brentano and other members of this school...

The act of thought-thought as an act-would precede the thought thinking or becoming conscious of an act. The notion of act involves a violence essentially: the violence of transitivity, lacking in the transcendence of thought. . . Totality and Infinity The work of Emmanuel Levinas revolves around two preoccupations. First, his philosophical project can be described as the construction of a formal ethics, grounded upon the transcendence of the other human being and a subject's spontaneous responsibility toward that other. Second, Levinas has written extensively on, and as a member of, the...

Dass Edmund Husserl am Problem der Intersubjektivitat gescheitert ist, gilt als ausgemacht - und ebenso, welche Konsequenzen daraus zu ziehen sind. Entgegen dem allenthalben pauschal erklarten Abschied vom Subjekt' spricht aber vieles dafur, dass es in der gegenwartigen Sozialtheorie eher um eine Reformulierung transzendentaler Subjektivitat geht. Diese Interpretationsthese wirft ein neues Licht auf den sozialtheoretischen Diskurs, der im deutschen Sprachraum in den vergangenen dreissig Jahren vom Gegensatz von Jurgen Habermas' und Niklas Luhmanns Theorien bestimmt war: Diskurs' und System'...

1. VORSTELLUNG 10 1. 1 Das Problem der Intentionalitat 10 1. 2 Die fruhe Theorie Brentanos als eine reine Objekt-Theorie 13 1. 3 Die Platonische Mediator-Theorie 26 1. 4 Die Theorie Brentanos als eine Objekt-Theorie mit zwei Objekten 33 1. 5 Die Theorie Brentanos als eine Deskriptionstheorie 37 1. 6 Die Position des immanenten Objekts 39 1. 7 Die Theorie Brentanos als eine Objekt-Theorie mit nicht-existierenden Objekten 41 1. 8 Das Schema der Theorie der Logik-Vorlesung 42 1. 9 Die ontologische Struktur des immanenten Objekts 46 2. URTEIL UND WAHRHEIT 50 2. 1 Urteil 51 2. 2 Die...

Edmund Husserl occupied himself with the analysis of time-consciousness throughout his life. In this book, the three stages that may be distinguished in Husserl's occupation with this theme are discussed in their interrelationship. The first stage consists of a lecture manuscript from 1905; the second stage consists of the so-called Bernau manuscripts, research manuscripts that were written in 1917 and 1918; and the final stage consists of the so-called C-manuscripts, research manuscripts that were written in the late 1920s and the early 1930s.
Central themes in the discussion of...

"Wahr" oder "unwahr" scheinen Pradikate, die nur einer Aussage zukommen konnen. Die Frage, auf die eine Aussage antwortet, das Thema, worauf sie sich einlasst, der Gegenstand, uber den sie sich ausspricht, scheinen nicht "wahr" oder "verkehrt," sondern allenfalls "interessant" oder "uninteressant" sein zu konnen. Die Frage der Topik, wie sie hier gestellt und erortert wird, ist dahingegen die, ob sich nicht auch fur eine Frage, ein Thema, einen Gegenstand, verbunden mit der Frage des Interesses, eine Frage der Wahrheit (die Frage einer "topischen Wahrheit") stellt, da sonst die Frage nach der...

To understand the role of time within the scope of 20th century ontology, after the fundamental works of E. Husserl, M. Heidegger, P. Ricoeur, and E. Levinas, means to develop simultaneously the ontology of time. My aim is to demonstrate that in a definite sense the postmodern onto-logy is chrono-logy. The argument proceeds (and this constitutes its essential novelty) within the multidimensional space' involving not only the synchronic stratum of current conceptuality in its internal logical relationships, but also the diachronic axis of conceptual genesis. I apply different strategies of...

Husserl himself considered Logical Investigations (1900-1901) to constitute his breakthrough' to phenomenology, and it stands out not only as one of Husserl's most important works, but as a key text in twentieth century philosophy. By predating the split between analytical philosophy' and continental philosophy', Logical Investigations remains of particular interest to those concerned with the possibility of a rapprochement between the two traditions. The work had a tremendous influence on the subsequent development of phenomenology, and it also left its mark on such diverse disciplines as...

In comparison to Husserl and Heidegger, Max Scheler's philosophy of time as first presented here, is considerably wider in scope. Using posthumous manuscripts, Frings shows that Scheler conceived the origin of time in the self-activating center of individual and universal life as threefold "absolute" time of a four-dimensional expanse. This serves as a basis for establishing the phenomenon of objective time in multiple steps of constitutionality, including the physical field theory and theory of relativity.
For Scheler, objective time, even though anchored in absolute time, deserves...

It is a study of the phenomenological philosophies of Husserl and Heidegger.
Through a critical discussion including practically all previously published English and German literature on the subject, the aim is to present a thorough and evenhanded account of the relation between the two. The book provides a detailed presentation of their respective projects and methods, and examines several of their key phenomenological analyses, centering on the phenomenon of being-in-the-world. It offers new perspectives on Husserlian and Heideggerian phenomenology, e.g. concerning the importance of...