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The Sense of Things

Toward a Phenomenological Realism

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Authors:
  1. Angela Ales Bello

    1. Lateran University, Vatican City, Italy

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  • Proposes a rereading from the phenomenological perspective and of Edmund Husserl
  • Is now available in English, making it available to a wide readership
  • Showcases the results of the studies of a renowned scholar

Part of the book series: Analecta Husserliana (ANHU, volume 118)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Epoché, Decision and Motivation

    • Angela Ales Bello
    Pages 1-10

  3. Why the Transcendental?

    • Angela Ales Bello
    Pages 11-25

  4. The Sense of Things—From Logic to Ontology

    • Angela Ales Bello
    Pages 27-43

  5. The Genesis of Knowledge and the Foundation of the Sciences

    • Angela Ales Bello
    Pages 45-56

  6. The Sense of Things—Hyletics, Anthropology, Metaphysics

    • Angela Ales Bello
    Pages 57-76

  7. Transcendental Idealism Revisited

    • Angela Ales Bello
    Pages 77-96

  8. Phenomenology as Transcendental Realism

    • Angela Ales Bello
    Pages 97-106

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 107-118
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About this book

This book proposes a new interpretative key for reading and overcoming the binary of idealism and realism. It takes as its central issue for exploration the way in which human consciousness unfolds, i.e., through the relationship between the I and the world—a field of phenomenological investigation that cannot and must not remain closed within the limits of its own disciplinary borders. The book focuses on the question of realism in contemporary debates, ultimately dismantling prejudices and automatisms that one finds therein. It shows that at the root of the controversy between realism and idealism there often lie equivocations of a semantic nature and by going back to the origins of modern phenomenology it puts into play a discussion of the Husserlian concept of transcendental idealism. Following this path and neutralizing the extreme positions of a critical idealism and a naïve realism, the book proposes a “transcendental realism”: the horizon of a dynamic unity that embraces the process of cognition and that grounds the relation, and not the subordination, of subject and object. The investigation of this reciprocity allows the surpassing of the limits of the domain of knowing, leading to fundamental questions surrounding the ultimate sense of things and their origin.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Lateran University, Vatican City, Italy

    Angela Ales Bello

About the author

Angela Ales Bello is Professor Emeritus of History of Contemporary Philosophy at Lateran University in Rome and past Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy. She is the President of the Italian Center of Phenomenological Researches (Rome) affiliated to the World Phenomenological Institute, Hanover, U.S.A. and Director of the Research Area dedicated to “Edith Stein and Contemporary Philosophy” at the Lateran University. Her research is directed towards the German Phenomenology in relationship to other contemporary philosophical currents according to a historical and theoretical approach.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Sense of Things

  • Book Subtitle: Toward a Phenomenological Realism

  • Authors: Angela Ales Bello

  • Series Title: Analecta Husserliana

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15395-7

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-15394-0Published: 18 May 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38452-8Published: 17 October 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-15395-7Published: 05 May 2015

  • Series ISSN: 0167-7276

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8330

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 118

  • Additional Information: Original Italian Edition published by Castelvecchi, Roma, 2013

  • Topics: Phenomenology, Epistemology, History of Philosophy

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