ABSTRACT
The aim of this volume is to offer an updated account of the transcendental character of phenomenology. The main question concerns the sense and relevance of transcendental philosophy today: What can such philosophy contribute to contemporary inquiries and debates after the many reasoned attacks against its idealistic, aprioristic, absolutist and universalistic tendencies—voiced most vigorously by late 20th century postmodern thinkers—as well as attacks against its apparently circular arguments and suspicious metaphysics launched by many analytic philosophers? Contributors also aim to clarify the relations of transcendental phenomenology to other post-Kantian philosophies, most importantly to pragmatism and Wittgenstein’s philosophical investigations. Finally, the volume offers a set of reflections on the meaning of post-transcendental phenomenology.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|66 pages
Transcendental Philosophy
part II|88 pages
Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity
part III|82 pages
Mind and the World
chapter 9|28 pages
Phenomenological Sources, Kantian Borders
chapter 11|20 pages
William James on Consciousness and the Brain
part IV|60 pages
Beyond Correlation