The Collected Works of Aron Gurwitsch (1901-1973)

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XXVI

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2. Some Aspects and Developments of Gestalt Psychology

   • Aron Gurwitsch

   Pages 1-61

3. The Place of Psychology in the System of Sciences

   • Aron Gurwitsch

   Pages 63-76

4. Goldstein’s Conception of Biological Science

   • Aron Gurwitsch

   Pages 77-98

5. The Phenomenological and the Psychological Approach to Consciousness

   • Aron Gurwitsch

   Pages 99-118

6. Critical Study of Husserl’s Nachwort

   • Aron Gurwitsch

   Pages 119-127

7. The Problem of Existence in Constitutive Phenomenology

   • Aron Gurwitsch

   Pages 129-137

8. On the Intentionality of Consciousness

   • Aron Gurwitsch

   Pages 139-156

9. On the Object of Thought

   • Aron Gurwitsch

   Pages 157-163

10. The Kantian and Husserlian Conceptions of Consciousness

    • Aron Gurwitsch

    Pages 165-192

11. Phenomenology of Thematics and of the Pure Ego: Studies of the Relation Between Gestalt Theory and Phenomenology

    • Aron Gurwitsch

    Pages 193-317

12. A Non-Egological Conception of Consciousness

    • Aron Gurwitsch

    Pages 319-334

13. William James’s Theory of the “Transitive Parts” of the Stream of Consciousness

    • Aron Gurwitsch

    Pages 335-369

14. Contribution to the Phenomenological Theory of Perception

    • Aron Gurwitsch

    Pages 371-391

15. Philosophical Presuppositions of Logic

    • Aron Gurwitsch

    Pages 393-402

16. Gelb–Goldstein’s Concept of “Concrete” and “Categorial” Attitude and the Phenomenology of Ideation

    • Aron Gurwitsch

    Pages 403-431

17. On a Perceptual Root of Abstraction

    • Aron Gurwitsch

    Pages 433-438

18. On the Conceptual Consciousness

    • Aron Gurwitsch

    Pages 439-445

19. The Last Work of Edmund Husserl

    • Aron Gurwitsch

    Pages 447-502

20. Back Matter

    Pages 503-521

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The articles collected in the present volume were written during a period of more than 30 years, the ?rst having been published in 1929, the last in 1961. They are arranged here in a systematic, not a chronological, order, starting from a few articles mainly concerned with psychological m- ters and then passing on to phenomenology in the proper sense. Within the latter group, the sequence is from articles dealing with more g- eral questions of principle to those in which rather special questions are discussed. The articles are reprinted or translated unchanged except for “phenomenology of Thematics and of the Pure Ego,” in which a certain number of pages have been omitted because the author has long since come to consider them erroneous. Almost all of the articles are in the service of Husserlian phenomen- ogy, which they are intended to advance and to develop further rather than merely expound. When the author made his ?rst acquaintance with Husserl’s philosophy about 40 years ago, he was overwhelmed by the spirit of uncompromising integrity and radical philosophical respon- bility, by the total devotedness which made the man disappear behind his work. Soon the young beginner came to realize the fruitfulness both of what Husserl had actually accomplished and of what he had initiated, the promise of further fruitful work.

• Aron Gurwitsch
• Edmund Husserl
• concept
• intention
• logic
• phenomenology
• psychology

• De Pere, USA

  F. Kersten

• Springer Dordrecht Humanities Editorial, Dordrecht, Netherlands

  Aron Gurwitsch

Kersten wrote his dissertation under Gurwitsch as well as Dorion Cairns, translated Husserl’s Ideen I, and contributed to phenomenology for decades.

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