Ebook: The Philosophy of Husserl

As the founding father of phenomenology, one of the twentieth century's most significant philosophical movements, Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) has been hugely influential in the development of contemporary continental philosophy. This introduction examines chronologically the whole of Husserl's phenomenology as it is presented in the published corpus. The first part explores his early investigations into the formation of mathematical and logical concepts in our cognitive life, which sparked the development of his method of ""descriptive psychology"". In Part 2 Hopkins investigates his Cartesian.;Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Prolegomenon: Husserl's turn to history and pure phenomenology; I. Plato's and Aristotle's theory of eidē; 1. Plato's Socratic theory of eidē: the first pillar of the ancient precedent to pure phenomenology; 2. Plato's arithmological theory of eidē: the second pillar of the ancient precedent to pure phenomenology; 3. Aristotle's criticism of Plato's theory of eidē: the third (and final) pillar of the ancient precedent to pure phenomenology.