Essays in Phenomenology

1. Front Matter

   Pages N1-IX

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2. Introduction

   • Maurice Natanson

   Pages 1-22

3. Some Leading Concepts of Phenomenology

   • Alfred Schutz

   Pages 23-39

4. The Phenomenological and the Psychological Approach to Consciousness

   • Aron Gurwitsch

   Pages 40-57

5. The Cartesianism of Phenomenology

   • James Street Fulton

   Pages 58-78

6. Realism and Phenomenology

   • Harmon M. Chapman

   Pages 79-115

7. The Pre-Objective World

   • Michael Kullman, Charles Taylor

   Pages 116-136

8. How Subjective is Phenomenology?

   • Herbert Spiegelberg

   Pages 137-143

9. Art and Phenomenology

   • Fritz Kaufmann

   Pages 144-156

10. FACES, preceded by OFFICIAL PORTRAITS

    • Jean-Paul Sartre

    Pages 157-163

11. The Upright Posture

    • Erwin W. Straus

    Pages 164-192

12. The Experience of Death

    • Paul-Louis Landsberg

    Pages 193-231

13. Back Matter

    Pages 233-240

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Fifteen years ago, Dorion Cairns concluded an article on phenome­ nology with a cautious appraisal of its influence in America. "Thus far," he wrote, "it continues to be an exotic. " The situation today has changed: translations of the writings of Husserl, Heidegger, Marcel, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty have appeared, and commentaries on these and related thinkers are not uncommon. Moreover, discussion of phenomenological problems is increasingly becoming part of the American (if not the British) philosophical scene. Phenomenology is in danger of domestication! Signs of its accommodation include a willingness to pay tribute to HusserI's Logical Investigations by those who find relatively little to interest them in his later work, a location of what are taken to be common themes and underlying convergences of emphasis in Continental phenomenology and Anglo-American philosophy of the more nearly Wittgensteinian and Austinian varieties, and a growing impatience (shared by some phenomenologists) with expositions, explications, and interpretations of Husserl's work at the expense of original applications of phenomenology. Most bluntly put, the attitude is: Don't talk about it; do it! It would seem that we have arrived at a point where introductions to phenomenology are of doubt­ ful value, if not superfluous. The present collection of essays is based on different assumptions and points to an alternative conception of the role of both methodology and originality in phenomenological work.

• Cartesian
• Cartesianism
• concept
• consciousness
• experience
• phenomenology
• realism
• subject

• University of California, Santa Cruz, USA

  Maurice Natanson

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