Belief and Its Neutralization
Husserl's System of Phenomenology in Ideas I
Publication Year: 2002
Published by: State University of New York Press
Cover
Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
Contents
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pp. ix-xi
Preface
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pp. xiii-xix
Edmund Husserl was not a philosopher, nor was his thought philosophy. He himself makes this quite clear, and repeatedly so. It is not, however, hubris that motivates his rejection of these titles, but rather his understanding of the philosophical tradition on the one hand and his high esteem of the idea of philosophy on the other. In fact it is his experience of the...
Chapter I. Introduction: The Task of Thinking
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pp. 1-32
Time is not of the essence. Essences are nothing in time, although their instantiations occur in time. Essences are idealities, not realities; formal, not material; universal, not individual. An essence or idea regulates the becoming of its corresponding individuals, which is to say, it sets the goal, the telos, of their becoming. The essence binds together every...
Chapter II. Phenomenological Propaedeutics
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pp. 33-102
By seeking to establish pure phenomenology as First Philosophy and, prior to that, as First Science, Husserl intends to make a radical beginning, one that is simultaneously to found and reorient not only the sciences but all human endeavor. However, because it is “remote from natural thinking,” it is “only in our days” that pure phenomenology “presses...
Chapter III. The Disclosure of the System’s Lowermost Limit: Subjectivity
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pp. 103-193
Following the preliminary considerations that make up the first two parts of Ideas I, Husserl stands on the threshold to phenomenology’s proper field of inquiry, pure consciousness. It is in his analyses of this field that the contours of the system of his thought first begin to take on determinacy. He starts with pure subjectivity and moves upwards towards reason...
Chapter IV. Towards the System’s Uppermost Limit: Reason
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pp. 195-218
In the foregoing Husserl showed the scission between noesis and noema to be “a fundamental structure pervading all intentional structures, which consequently must form a dominant leitmotif of phenomenological methodology and determine the course of all inquiries into problems of intentionality” (265). His analyses of this structure culminated in a consideration...
Chapter V. Conclusion: The Phenomenological Movement
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pp. 219-225
What is phenomenology? Is it a style, a trend, a school, or a movement of thought? Can it even be spoken of in the singular? Assuming that it makes sense to speak of “the” phenomenological movement, then the source of this sense is to be found in the movement of phenomenology as it is prescribed by the latter’s task. This task is...
Postscript
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pp. 227-228
If there is to be a last word, then let it be one of thanks. Here I would like to express my gratitude to all those who have accompanied me through the various phases of this book’s composition and have contributed to it in diverse ways, gratitude that will not end with these lines...
Notes
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pp. 229-305
Bibliography
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pp. 307-328
Index of Names
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pp. 329-331
E-ISBN-13: 9780791489307
Print-ISBN-13: 9780791452196
Print-ISBN-10: 0791452190
Page Count: 349
Publication Year: 2002
Series Title: SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
Series Editor Byline: Dennis J. Schmidt
