Phenomenology

Acknowledgements
 
List of Figures
 
Introduction
 
1 Kant: Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Background
 
1.1 Kant's critical philosophy
 
1.2 Intuitions and concepts
1.3 The transcendental deduction
 
1.4 Kantian themes in phenomenology
 
2 The Rise of Experimental Psychology
 
2.1 Wilhelm Wundt and the rise of scientific psychology
 
2.2 William James and functionalism
 
2.3 The structuralism-functionalism debate
 
3 Edmund Husserl and Transcendental Phenomenology
 
3.1 Transcendental phenomenology
 
3.2 Brentano
 
3.3 Between logic and psychology
 
3.4 Ideas
 
3.5 The body
 
3.6 Phenomenology of time consciousness
 
4 Martin Heidegger and Existential Phenomenology
 
4.1 The intelligibility of the everyday world
 
4.2 Descartes and occurrentness
 
4.3 Being-in-the-world
 
4.4 Being-with others and the anyone
 
4.5 The existential conception of the self
 
4.6 Death, guilt, and authenticity
 
5 Gestalt Psychology
 
5.1 Gestalt criticisms of atomistic psychology
 
5.2 Perception and the environment
 
5.3 Influence of Gestalt psychology
 
6 Aron Gurwitsch: Merging Gestalt Psychology and Phenomenology
 
6.1 Phenomenology of Thematics and of the Pure Ego
 
6.2 Others and the Social World
 
7 Jean-Paul Sartre: Phenomenological Existentialism
 
7.1 Transcendence of the Ego
 
7.2 The Imagination and The Imaginary
 
7.3 Being and Nothingness
 
8 Maurice Merleau-Ponty: The Body and Perception
 
8.1 Phenomenology of Perception
 
8.2 Phenomenology, psychology, and the phenomenal field
 
8.3 The lived body
 
8.4 Perceptual constancy and natural objects
 
9 Critical Phenomenology
 
9.1 The path not taken
 
9.2 Phenomenology and Gender
 
9.3 Phenomenology and Race
 
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Stephan Käufer is John Williamson Nevin Memorial Professor of Philosophy at Franklin and Marshall College.
 
Anthony Chemero is Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Cincinnati.

"Käufer and Chemero have written a superb introduction to phenomenology, not merely as a chapter in intellectual history or as a gallery of great thinkers, but as a living tradition in philosophy, psychology, and cognitive science."
Taylor Carman, Professor of Philosophy, Barnard College, Columbia University
 
"A sparklingly clear and widely insightful introduction to phenomenology for beginners - which, if we are phenomenologists, includes all of us. Highly recommended."
Gayle Salamon, Professor of English, Princeton University
 
Praise for the first edition:
"A remarkably thorough and comprehensible account of the history of phenomenology that offers illuminating commentary on the work of Kant, Wundt, Husserl, Heidegger, Gestalt psychologists, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, and Gibson."
Hubert Dreyfus, Former Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley