Phenomenology in Perspective

1. Front Matter

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2. The Future of Phenomenology

   • Thomas Langan

   Pages 1-15

3. On Some Human Uses of Phenomenology

   • Herbert Spiegelberg

   Pages 16-31

4. Max Scheler: Focusing on Rarely Seen Complexities of Phenomenology

   • Manfred S. Frings

   Pages 32-53

5. “Oυσíα and Γραµµή”: A Note to a Footnote in Being and Time

   • Jacques Derrida

   Pages 54-93

6. Language, Meaning, and Ek-Sistence

   • J. J. Kockelmans

   Pages 94-121

7. Being and Subjectivity: Heidegger and Husserl

   • F. J. Smith

   Pages 122-156

8. “You should Have Known Better!” A Phenomenological Inquiry into the Mechanics of Ethical Education

   • José Huertas-Jourda

   Pages 157-170

9. Awakening: Towards a Phenomenology of the Self

   • Richard M. Zaner

   Pages 171-186

10. The Visual Perception of Distance

    • Edward G. Ballard

    Pages 187-201

11. Auditory Imagination

    • Don Ihde

    Pages 202-215

12. Cosmopathy and Interpersonal Relations

    • Waltraut J. Stein

    Pages 216-231

Phenomenology, as one of many ways of philosophizing, can be seen from many perspectives. And, as a body of thought, it can be placed in perspective. The essays in this book clearly show that there is no one way of "doing phenomenology," any more than there is any one way to philosophize. Phenomenology reveals itself as many-faceted, and there is work in this field for many talents. The fact that there are such varied aspects to the study of phenomenology is what puts it in perspective as a rich source of philosophical thought. In the sharing of their various perspectives the authors of these essays discuss the present and future of phenomenology as a philosophical discipline, the important subjects of language, of interpersonal relations, of self­ awakening, of visual and auditory perception and imagination, of ethical education. The names of Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau­ Ponty 100m large in these essays, but Max Scheler's name is also placed in perspective as one of the major phenomenological thinkers, thus far not as weH known in America as he might be. No one claims that the thought of Martin Heidegger is easy to comprehend, especiaHy if immediate "results" are demanded. The difficult essays on Heidegger reflect some of the innate complexities of his thought.

• Edmund Husserl
• Martin Heidegger
• Max Scheler
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• phenomenology

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