Phenomenology: East and West

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Mohanty on Transcendental Philosophy

   • David Carr

   Pages 1-11

3. On Transcendental Philosophy

   • Margaret Chatterjee

   Pages 13-23

4. On the Possibility of Transcendental Philosophy: Some Construction and Questions

   • D. P. Chattopadhyaya

   Pages 25-48

5. The Premature Refutation of Relativism

   • Joseph Margolis

   Pages 49-63

6. Mohanty on the Possibility of Transcendental Philosophy

   • William R. McKenna

   Pages 65-79

7. Transcendental “I”

   • David Woodruff Smith

   Pages 81-91

8. The Concept of the Body

   • Eliot Deutsch

   Pages 93-109

9. Husserl’s Theories of Indexicals

   • Karl Schuhmann

   Pages 111-127

10. Possible “Worlds”: Remarks about a Controversy

    • Thomas M. Seebohm

    Pages 129-143

11. Higher Positivism

    • S. P. Banerjee

    Pages 145-156

12. Husserl vs. Derrida

    • James M. Edie

    Pages 157-176

13. Mind and Memory

    • Edward S. Casey

    Pages 177-194

14. Hermeneutics, “Great” Philosophy, and Jaspers’ Schelling

    • Tom Rockmore

    Pages 195-207

15. Representation and the Historical Sciences

    • Lester Embree

    Pages 209-217

16. Hegel’s Critique of Psychologism

    • Frank M. Kirkland

    Pages 219-244

17. The Influence of Phenomenology on J.N. Mohanty’s Understanding of ‘Consciousness’ in Indian Philosophy

    • Anindita Niyogi Balslev

    Pages 245-253

18. Mohanty on Śabda Pramāna

    • Sibajiban Bhattacharyya

    Pages 255-268

19. Continuing the Conversation

    • J. N. Mohanty

    Pages 269-288

20. Self Presentation

    • Jitendra Nath Mohanty

    Pages 289-293

To know the work of Jitendra Nath Mohanty even slightly is to commence to appreciate it immensely. Lucidity and sagacity have been its armor; originality and ingenuity have been its strength. And wearing the former and wielding the latter have become so persistent a mark of his work as to suggest that their appeal for Mohanty lies altogether more in the refmed reaches of philosophical craftsmanship than on the coarse ground of intellectual partisanship. The multifaceted character of his work in phenomenology and Indian philosophy has never left us palled by its significance and, as a consequence, has always left us conceding its command on our philosophical discourse. It has fulfilled the most welcomed promise of striking the chords of both imagination and reason by exposing Husserlian phenomenology to the concerns of both the so-called "analytical" and "continental" traditions and by exposing the philosophical tradition of Indian thought to the intricacies of Husserl. Although charting and periodizing the body ofMohanty' s work in phenomeno­ logy may be the function of a memory inconspicuous for originality and liveli­ ness, they nonetheless offer a precis conspicuous for the variety of topics that Mohanty has both engaged and enriched. Mohanty's career in phenomenology can be characterized by three phases, each concentrating on different themes, but with the latter two also epitomizing a more incisive and deeper discussion of the issues raised in the first.

• Edmund Husserl
• Tradition
• body
• concept
• hermeneutics
• phenomenology
• philosophy

• Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center, USA

  Frank M. Kirkland

• Jadavpur University, India

  D. P. Chattopadhyaya

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