Overview
- Unique insight into the philosophy of Edmund Husserl
- Required reading for students of phenomenology
- Informed editing by one of Cairns’s own students
Part of the book series: Phaenomenologica (PHAE, volume 207)
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About this book
The present volume containing the dissertation of Dorion Cairns is the first part of a comprehensive edition of the philosophical papers of one of the foremost disseminators and interpreters of Husserlian phenomenology in North-America.
Based on his intimate knowledge of Husserl’s published writings and unpublished manuscripts and on the many conversations and discussions he had with Husserl and Fink during his stay in Freiburg i. Br. in 1931-1932 Cairns’s dissertation is a comprehensive exposition of the methodological foundations and the concrete phenomenological analyses of Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology.The lucidity and precision of Cairns’s presentation is remarkable and demonstrates the secure grasp he had of Husserl’s philosophical intentions and phenomenological distinctions. Starting from the phenomenological reduction and Husserl’s Idea of Philosophy, Cairns proceeds with a detailed analysis of intentionality and the intentional structures of consciousness. In its scope and in the depth and nuance of its understanding, Cairns’s dissertation belongs beside the writings on Husserl by Levinas and Fink from the same period.
Authors, Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Dorion Cairns (1901-1973) studied at Harvard, studied three and a half years with Husserl, and taught 1953-1969 on the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the New School for Social Research.
Lester Embree (1938- )studied with Cairns at the New School and holds an endowed chair at Florida Atlantic University.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Philosophy of Edmund Husserl
Authors: Dorion Cairns
Editors: Lester Embree
Series Title: Phaenomenologica
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5043-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-5042-5Published: 02 October 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9856-4Published: 09 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-5043-2Published: 02 October 2012
Series ISSN: 0079-1350
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0331
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 310
Topics: Phenomenology, Epistemology, Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Religious Studies, general