An Introduction to Husserl's Phenomenology

by Jan Patocka, James Dodd (Editor), Erazim Kohak (Translator)

Overview

Patocka's celebrated Introduction is here made available in English for the first time. In addition to introducing Husserl's ideas, this book is also an important work of original philosophy. Patocka ranges over the whole of Husserl's output, from The Philosophy of Arithmetic to The Crisis of the European Sciences, and traces the evolution of all the central issues of Husserlian phenomenology—intentionality, categorial intuition, temporality, the subject-body; the concrete a priori, and transcendental subjectivity. But rather than attempting to give a tour of Husserl's workshop, Patocka is himself hard at work on Husserl's problems.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780812699807
Publisher:	Open Court Publishing Company
Publication date:	05/03/2018
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	218
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Jan Patocka is now considered to have been one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. He was a student of both Husserl and Heidegger. He lived most of his adult life in Communist Czechoslovakia, where he was at times banned from publishing his work and from holding academic positions. Having written his Heretical Essays, Patocka defied the Communist regime as one of the spokespersons associated with Charta 77. He died in 1977, following two months of police interrogation.

James Dodd is Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. He is the author of Violence and Phenomenology (Routledge, 2009).

Erazim Kohak is a Czech philosopher who has been Professor of Philosophy at Boston Universityand then at Charles Universityin Prague. He is also a senior research fellow at the Centre of Global Studies at the Institute of Philosophy at the Czech Academy of Science in Prague. He is the author of many books, including Idea and Experience: Husserl's Project of Phenomenology, The Embers and the Stars: Philosophical Inquiry into the Moral Sense of Nature. Jan Patocka: His Thought and Writings, and The Green Halo: A Bird's-Eye View of Ecological Ethics,

Table of Contents

• Editor's Preface
• Editor's Introduction
• Chapter 1: Phenomenology as a Philosophy and Its Relation to Traditional Metaphysical Approaches
• Chapter 2: The Philosophy of Arithmetic
• Chapter 3: Pure Logic: The Logical Investigations
• Chapter 4: The Concept of Phenomenon
• Chapter 5: Pure Logic and the Problem of the Grounding of Experience
• Chapter 6: The First Explanation of the Phenomenological Reduction
• Chapter 7: Analysis of Internal Time Consciousness
• Chapter 8: Incarnate Being
• Translator's Postscript to the English Edition of Jan Patocka's Introduction to Husserl's Phenomenology
• Bibliography
• Name Index
• Analytic Table of Contents

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Jan Patocka, the great Czech philosopher and mentor of Vaclav Havel, was almost alone among Husserl's later students in having devoted himself to active research on Husserl's own problems. The results of his work are encapsulated here, in lectures originally published in mimeographed form by Patocka's students in Prague and now made available in English for the first time. They convey a precise and scholarly introduction to Husserl's philosophy, but are at the same time a powerful document of their time—a time of struggle, against communism, and on behalf of philosophical truth." —Barry Smith, Professor of Philosophy, SUNY Buffalo, author of Austrian Philosophy: The Legacy of Franz Brentano