The attempt to pursue philosophy in the name of phenomenology is one of the most significant and important developments in twentieth century thought. In this bold and innovative book, Simon Glendinning introduces some of its major figures, and demonstrates that its ongoing strength and coherence is to be explained less by what Maurice Merleau-Ponty called the ´unity´ of its ´manner of thinking´ and more by what he called its ´unfinished nature´. Beginning with a discussion of the nature of phenomenology, Glendinning explores the changing landscape of phenomenology in key texts by Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas and Derrida. Focusing on the different ways in which each philosopher has responded to and transformed the legacy of phenomenology, Glendinning shows that the richness of this legacy lies not in the formation of a distinctive movement or school but in a remarkable capacity to make fertile philosophical breakthroughs.Important topics such as the nature of phenomenological arguments, the critique of realism and idealism, ontology, existentialism, perception, ethics and the other are also closely examined.Through a re-evaluation of the development of phenomenology Glendinning traces the ruptures and dislocations of philosophy that, in an age dominated by science, strive constantly to renew our understanding of ourselves and our place in the world. Clearly and engagingly written, "In the Name of Phenomenology" is essential reading for students of phenomenology and contemporary philosophy.
Contents: Acknowledgements Preface: The Movement of Phenomenology Chapter
1: The Inheritance of Phenomenology The Faces of Phenomenology
1. Outlook Inheriting Philosophy Modernism in Philosophy
2. Tradition
3. Theses Thesis One: No ´theses in philosophy´ Thesis Two: ´Description, not explanation or analysis´ Thesis Three: ´Re-look at the world without blinkers´ Thesis Four: No view ´from the sideways perspective´ Thesis Five: ´We must go back to the "things themselves"´
Chapter 2: Edmund Husserl and the Emergence of Phenomenology The Miserable Beginner Phenomenology before Husserl Brentano and the Intentionality Doctrine Detour: Husserl´s analysis of signs Brentano and the Cartesian Starting Point The Beginning of the Cartesian Meditations The Closing of the Cartesian Meditations
Chapter 3: Martin Heidegger and Phenomenology as Fundamental Ontology The New Beginning Again The Essence and End of Philosophy The question that has today been forgotten The Analytic of Dasein The Inaugural Lecture
Chapter 4: Jean-Paul Sartre and Existential Phenomenology The ´Has Been´ 1 The Assault on Idealism The Being of the Subject The Being of Objects Being and Nothingness 2 Existentialism and Ethics The Making of Sartre Freedom Mundig Man
Chapter 5: Maurice Merleau-Ponty and the Phenomenology of Perception What we have been waiting for The Foreswearing of Science The Critique of Objective Thought Towards the Incarnate Subject A Genius for Ambiguity
Chapter 6: Emmanuel Levinas and the Phenomenology of the Other Levinas Arrives Levinas´s Writing Totality and Infinity I: The Gist of It Totality and Infinity II: Metaphysical Desire Totality and Infinity III: The Otherness of Things and of Others Totality and Infinity IV: Levinas Contra Heidegger and Contra Husserl Totally and Finally: Finished
Chapter 7: Jacques Derrida and the Limits of Phenomenology The Excluded Favourite A Preface to What Remains to Come Situating the Linguistic Turn Generalising Writing Deconstructing Logocentrism The Limit of Phenomenology The Other Animal Modernism and Nomadism