Editors:
- Explores the Origins of Central and Eastern European Phenomenology
- Tracks How Phenomenology Resonated in Different Countries
- Details the Work of Important Thinkers who have been Obscured by Political and Historical Circumstances
Part of the book series: Contributions to Phenomenology (CTPH, volume 113)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book presents the origins of Central and Eastern European phenomenology. It features chapters that explore the movement's development, its most important thinkers, and its theoretical and historical context. This collection examines such topics as the realism-idealism controversy, the status of descriptive psychology, the question of the phenomenological method, and the problem of the world.
The chapters span the first decades of the development of phenomenology in Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania, Russia, and Yugoslavia before World War II. The contributors track the Brentanian heritage of the development. They show how this tradition inspired influential thinkers like Celms, Špet, Ingarden, Frank, Twardowski, Patočka, and others. The book also puts forward original investigations. Moreover it elaborates new accounts of the foundations of phenomenology. While the volume begins with the Brentanian heritage, it situates phenomenology in a dialogue with other important schools of thought of that time, including the Prague School and Lvov-Warsaw School of Logic.
This collection highlights thinkers whose writings have had only a limited reception outside their home countries due to political and historical circumstances. It will help readers gain a better understanding of how the phenomenological movement developed beyond its start in Germany. Readers will also come to see how the phenomenological method resonated in different countries and led to new philosophical developments in ontology, epistemology, psychology, philosophy of culture, and philosophy of religion.
Reviews
“The volume is a contribution to historiography, enriching the study of the history of phenomenology thematically and thus contributing to the development of phenomenology itself … . A glimpse into the history of phenomenology thus becomes an exciting exploration of the debates which were at the heart of phenomenology and in which original Central and Eastern European philosophical thinking was born.” (Jaroslava Vydrova,HORIZON, Vol. 10 (1), 2021)
Editors and Affiliations
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Institute of Philosophy, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
Witold Płotka
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Humanities and Languages, University of New Brunswick, Saint John, Canada
Patrick Eldridge
About the editors
Witold Płotka, Dr. habil., is Associate Professor at the Institute of Philosophy at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw. He was a visiting researcher at the Husserl-Archiv of the University of Cologne. His publications include articles on, for instance, the theory of intentionality, theory of knowledge, and the history of the phenomenological movement. He published two books: Studia z fenomenologii poznania. Transcendentalna filozofia Edmunda Husserla a problem wiedzy [Studies in the Phenomenology of Cognition. Transcendental Philosophy of Edmund Husserl and the Problem of Knowledge] (2015) and Fenomenologia jako filozofia mniejsza. Rozważania wokół sporów o metodę Husserla [Phenomenology as a Minor Philosophy. Considering the Controversies over Husserl’s Method] (2019). He edited also two-volumes of Wprowadzenie do fenomenologii [Introduction to Phenomenology] (2014), and co-edited (together with Peter Andras Varga) the Special Issue of the Horizon. Studies inPhenomenology (5(1), 2016) dedicated to phenomenology in Central and Eastern Europe. He is the winner of “The 2011 CARP Directors’ Memorial Prize in Honour of José Huertas-Jourda.” He is member of the Husserl Circle, former Secretary of the Polish Phenomenological Association, and President of the Central and East European Society for Phenomenology (CEESP). Recently he published, for instance, “Reduction and the Question of Beginnings in Husserl, Fink and Patočka” (Human Studies, 41(4), 2018), “From Psychology to Phenomenology (and Back Again): A Controversy over the Method in the School of Twardowski” (Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, Online First, 2019), and “A Controversy over the Existence of Fictional Objects: Husserl and Ingarden on Imagination and Fiction” (Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 51(1), 2020).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Early Phenomenology in Central and Eastern Europe
Book Subtitle: Main Figures, Ideas, and Problems
Editors: Witold Płotka, Patrick Eldridge
Series Title: Contributions to Phenomenology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39623-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-39622-0Published: 06 April 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-39625-1Published: 06 April 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-39623-7Published: 05 April 2020
Series ISSN: 0923-9545
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1915
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 220
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Phenomenology, Intellectual Studies, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary