To Work at the Foundations

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

   PDF

2. Aron Gurwitsch the Philosopher

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

      PDF

   2. The Philosophy of Aron Gurwitsch

      • Fred Kersten

      Pages 21-30

   3. Keynote Address

      1. Concerning Aron Gurwitsch

         • Maurice Natanson

         Pages 3-20

3. Critical Studies of the Philosophy of Aron Gurwitsch

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31

      PDF

   2. Gurwitsch’s Interpretation of Kant: Reflections of a Former Student

      • Henry E. Allison

      Pages 33-53

   3. Phenomenalism, Idealism and Gurwitsch’s Account of the Sensory Noema

      • Robert Welsh Jordan

      Pages 55-64

   4. Conditional Identity and Irregular Parts: Aron Gurwitsch’s Gestalt-Theoretic Revision of the Stumpf-Husserl Conception of Independence

      • Gilbert T. Null

      Pages 65-128

4. Gurwitschean Themes in Philosophy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129

      PDF

   2. Relevance and Aesthetic Perception

      • P. Sven Arvidson

      Pages 131-140

   3. A Gurwitschean Model for Explaining Culture or How to Use an Atlatl

      • Lester Embree

      Pages 141-171

5. Philosophy in the Spirit of Aron Gurwitsch

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 173-173

      PDF

   2. On the Difference Between Transcendental and Empirical Subjectivity

      • David Carr

      Pages 175-191

   3. On Confronting Species-Specific Skepticism as We Near the End of the Twentieth Century

      • James M. Edie

      Pages 193-227

   4. To Whom it May Concern:The Question of the Philosophic Interlocutor

      • José Huertas-Jourda

      Pages 229-240

   5. Beyond Foundationalism and Functionalism: Phenomenology in Exchange with the Human and Social Sciences

      • Bernhard Waldenfels

      Pages 241-260

6. A Bibliography for Gurwitsch Studies

   1. A Bibliography for Gurwitsch Studies

      • Robert S. Stufflebeam

      Pages 261-273

7. Back Matter

   Pages 275-278

   PDF

Aron Gurwitsch (1900-73) was one of the most important figures in the phenomenological movement between the 1920s and the 1970s. Through his introduction of Gestalt theoretical concepts into phenomenology, he exerted a powerful influence on Maurice Merleau-Ponty and others. The contributions to this memorial volume, most written by friends and students of Gurwitsch, contain critical studies of the work of Aron Gurwitsch and attempts to extend his philosophical analyses to new problems and fields. Ranging from formal ontology through the philosophy of the social sciences to the interpretation of Kant, the essays assembled here are both a tribute to and a continuation of the philosophical legacy of Aron Gurwitsch. The contributions will be of interest to advanced undergraduates and graduate students, and to specialists in a wide range of areas.

• Aron Gurwitsch
• Edmund Husserl
• Kant
• Maurice Merleau-Ponty
• concept
• phenomenology

• Washington University, St. Louis, USA

  J. Claude Evans, Robert S. Stufflebeam

Policies and ethics