Being, Relation, and the Re-worlding of Intentionality

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction

   • Jim Ruddy

   Pages 1-30

3. Convergent Phenomenology and Adesse Objectivity

   • Jim Ruddy

   Pages 31-93

4. Convergent Phenomenology and Real Relations

   • Jim Ruddy

   Pages 95-149

5. Convergent Phenomenology and Asymmetrically Real Relations

   • Jim Ruddy

   Pages 151-163

6. Pure Consciousness as Transcendental Proto-Constitution of Adesse Objectivity

   • Jim Ruddy

   Pages 165-174

7. The Re-worlding of Intentionality

   • Jim Ruddy

   Pages 175-194

8. The Transcendental Ego as Adesse

   • Jim Ruddy

   Pages 195-213

9. Back Matter

   Pages 215-223

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In this book, Jim Ruddy has proceeded deep into the hub-center of Husserl’s transcendental subjectivity and unearthed an utterly new phenomenological method. A vast, originative a priori science emerges for the reader. Ruddy presents a unique and powerful eidetic science wherein the object consciousness of Husserl is suddenly shown to point beyond itself to the ultimate theme of the pure subject consciousness of God as He is in Himself. Thus, the book opens up an endlessly new, unrestricted realm of objective material for phenomenology to exfoliate and describe. This is an important work for both general phenomenologists and for scholars of Husserl, Aquinas, and Edith Stein. 

• Convergent phenomenology
• Edmund Husserl
• Phenomenology
• Aristotle
• Merleau-Ponty
• Aquinas
• Edith Stein
• Material ontology
• Ontology

“Jim Ruddy’s relentless exploration of the illusive notion of relation and its place in Being is itself a reminder of the sort of radical insights that phenomenology inspires.” (Donn Welton, Professor Emeritus, Stony Brook University, USA)

• Philosophy Department, Merrimack College, Mansfield, USA

  Jim Ruddy

Jim Ruddy is Adjunct Professor at Rhode Island College, Merrimack College, USA and the University of Massachusetts, USA. He received his doctorate at the University of Madras in Chennai, India, and taught Husserlian, Thomist, and Asian Philosophy for many years at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, USA. He is an ex-Dominican priest. 

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