| Thing and Space: Lectures of 1907 1998 Edition Contributor(s): Husserl, Edmund (Author), Rojcewicz, R. (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0792347498 ISBN-13: 9780792347491 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 1997 Annotation: This is a translation of Husserl's Thing-lectures' (Dingvorlesung) of 1907, published posthumously in 1973. The lectures deal with the constitution of the thing as a res extensa, an extended spatial structure filled with sensuous qualities and not yet with substantial or causal properties. Key to this phenomenological account is the role of the kinaesthetic systems of the body in the constitution of both three-dimensional space and the thing in its identity, its manifold of possible movements, and its position in relation to the ego. The Thing-lectures' form part of the project of a phenomenology and critique of reason' announced in a general introduction to the same lectures and published separately as The Idea of Phenomenology. There for the first time the idea of a transcendental phenomenology based on the principle of the phenomenological reduction was laid out. The lectures presented here thus form a striking example of the application of this idea to a concrete and fundamental field of research. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern - Reference - Philosophy | Movements - Phenomenology |
| Dewey: 193 |
| LCCN: 97034182 |
| Series: Law and Philosophy Library |
| Physical Information: 1.05" H x 6.56" W x 9.66" (1.65 lbs) 350 pages |
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| Publisher Description: This is a translation of Edmund HusserI's lecture course from the Summer semester 1907 at the University of Gottingen. The German original was pub- lished posthumously in 1973 as Volume XVI of Husserliana, Husserl's opera omnia. The translation is complete, including both the main text and the supplementary texts (as Husserliana volumes are usually organized), except for the critical apparatus which provides variant readings. The announced title of the lecture course was "Main parts of the phenome- nology and critique of reason." The course began with five, relatively inde- pendent, introductory lectures. These were published on their own in 1947, bearing the title The idea ojphenomenology.l The "Five Lectures" comprise a general orientation by proposing the method to be employed in the subsequent working out of the actual problems (viz., the method of "phenomenological reduction") and by clarifying, at least provisionally, some technical terms that will be used in the labor the subsequent lectures will carry out. The present volume, then, presents that labor, i.e., the method in action and the results attained. As such, this text dispels the abstract impression which could not help but cling to the first five lectures taken in isolation. Accord- ingly, we are here given genuine "introductory lectures," i.e., an introduction to phenomenology in the genuine phenomenological sense of engaging in the work of phenomenology, going to the "matters at issue themselves," rather than remaining aloof from them in abstract considerations of standpoint and approach. |