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James and Husserl: The Foundations of Meaning

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  1. Richard Stevens
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Part of the book series: Phaenomenologica (PHAE, volume 60)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VIII
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  2. Introduction

    • Richard Stevens
    Pages 1-8

  3. The World of Pure Experience

    • Richard Stevens
    Pages 9-23

  4. Sensation, Perception, Conception

    • Richard Stevens
    Pages 24-46

  5. The Genesis of Space and Time

    • Richard Stevens
    Pages 47-66

  6. The Structure of the Self: A Theory of Personal Identity

    • Richard Stevens
    Pages 67-89

  7. Intersubjectivity

    • Richard Stevens
    Pages 90-102

  8. The Thing and its Relations: A Theory of the Constitution of the Physical World

    • Richard Stevens
    Pages 103-128

  9. Attention and Freedom

    • Richard Stevens
    Pages 129-156

  10. The Pragmatic Theory of Truth

    • Richard Stevens
    Pages 157-173

  11. Conclusion Action: The Final Synthesis

    • Richard Stevens
    Pages 174-180

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 181-191
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" ... a universe unfinished, with doors and windows open to possibilities uncontrollable in advance." 1 A possibility which William James would certainly not have envisaged is a phenomenological reading of his philosophy. Given James's personality, one can easily imagine the explosive commen­ tary he would make on any attempt to situate his deliberately unsystematic writings within anyone philosophical mainstream. Yet, in recent years, the most fruitful scholarship on William James has resulted from a confrontation between his philosophy and the phe­ nomenology of Husserl. The very unlikelihood of such a comparison renders all the more fascinating the remarkable convergence of perspectives that comes to light when the fundamental projects of James and HusserI are juxtaposed. At first view, nothing could be more alien to the pragmatic mentality with its constant mistrust of any global system than a philosophy whose basic drive is to discover absolute knowledge and whose goal is to establish itself as a certain and universal science.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: James and Husserl: The Foundations of Meaning

  • Authors: Richard Stevens

  • Series Title: Phaenomenologica

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2058-9

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands 1974

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-247-1631-9Published: 31 August 1974

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-2058-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0079-1350

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0331

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 192

  • Topics: Phenomenology, Modern Philosophy

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