ABSTRACT

Franz Brentano is recognised as one of the most important philosophers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This work, first published in English in 1988, besides being an important contribution to metaphysics in its own right, has considerable historical importance through its influence on Husserl’s views on internal time consciousness. The work is preceded by a long introduction by Stephan Körner in collaboration with Brentano’s literary executor.

chapter I|30 pages

Part One: The Continuum

chapter II|3 pages

On the measure of what is continuous

chapter I|16 pages

Part Two: Time and Time-Consciousness

chapter II|5 pages

On memory

part IV|2 pages

Shortcomings of the assumption of a single preterite mode