Early Phenomenology in Central and Eastern Europe: Main Figures, Ideas, and Problems

This book presents the origins of Central and Eastern European phenomenology. It features chapters that explore the movement's development, its most important thinkers, and its theoretical and historical context. This collection examines such topics as the realism-idealism controversy, the status of descriptive psychology, the question of the phenomenological method, and the problem of the world.

The chapters span the first decades of the development of phenomenology in Czechoslovakia, Pol...