Psychological and Transcendental Phenomenology and the Confrontation with Heidegger (1927-1931): The Encyclopaedia Britannica Article, the Amsterdam Lectures, ... Edmund Husserl Collected Works) (Hardcover)

~ (Author), T. Sheehan (Translator), R.E. Palmer (Translator)

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This volume presents the English translations of texts by Edmund Husserl, and some by Martin Heidegger, that date from 1927 through to 1931. Most notably, the volume contains English translations of (a) all the drafts of -- as well as Heidegger's contributions to -- Husserl's ill-fated article `Phenomenology' -- a garbled version of which was published in the Encyclopaedia Britannica in 1929; (b) Husserl's `Amsterdam Lectures', delivered in 1928; (c) the copious notes that Husserl wrote in the margins of Heidegger's Sein und Zeit and Kant und das Problem der Metaphysik; and (d) Husserl's lecture `Phanomenologie und Anthropologie', delivered in 1931. Ably edited, translated, and introduced by two leading scholars, these texts as a whole document Husserl's thinking as he approached retirement from teaching and also shed light on the philosophical chasm that was widening at the time between Husserl and Heidegger.

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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German

Product Details

• Hardcover: 528 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (October 31, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0792344812
• ISBN-13: 978-0792344810
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.2 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #764,245 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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11 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Phenomenological Confrontations, February 1, 2000

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In the clash with Heidegger, Husserl's phenomenology came into close contact with a devisive bug named "intersubjectivity". After dealing with the differences inherent in their two positions, Husserl decided that the only way to remedy the situation, and therefore phenomenology, was to begin work on the phenomenological analytic of ethics, or how to found the possibility of an ethics (this comes thorugh in the Amsterdam lectures).

To the book's credit, it demonstrates clearly that where Heidegger lived a sum ergo cogito, Husserl rather thought the cogito ergo sum, all the way through to its "liminal" zone, the border. This began the confrontation, and would also soon end it. Thus some of the decisive problems addressed in this Encyclopedia Brittanica book with regards to phenomenology are: history, the subject, time, the other, the possibility of phenomenology with respect to the position on time, etc. Derrida would indeed, as another reviewer has unwittingly pointed out, characterize some of these problems as the break between "the laugh" and the laser-fine gaze of reason. That is, if time is a problem for phenomenology in Husserl's sense, one must laugh at the possibility of phenomenology. If it is rather a problem in Heidegger's sense, then one must phenomenologically laugh (see "An Intro to Husserl's 'Origin of Geometry'")...Well worth the money either way.

2 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a laugh riot, October 22, 1999

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Edmund Husserl was the leading comedic writer of his time... This book is a strong example of his work and sheds new light on the relationship with his moronic sidekick, Martin Heidegger.