Phenomenology Lectures 2008-9
Edmund Husserl’s Phenomenology
Reading Suggestions
Primary Texts
(The main text on which these lectures will
focus is [1]. The others may be used to illuminate Husserl’s
thinking on various topics discussed.)
[1] Husserl,
Edmund, Cartesian Meditations,
[2] Husserl, Edmund
(1913), Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological
Psychology. First Book. General
Introduction to a Pure Phenomenology. Trans F. Kersten,
[3] Husserl, Edmund
(1911), ‘Philosophy as Rigorous Science,’ trans. in Q. Lauer (ed.),
(1965) Phenomenology and the Crisis of Philosophy,
Secondary Texts
Articles
Carr, David (1973), ‘The Fifth Meditation and Husserl’s Cartesianism’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research,
vol 34, pp. 14-35
Drummond, John (1975), ‘Husserl
on the Ways to the Performance of the Reduction’, Man and World, 8, pp. 47-69 (Responds to Iso
Kern's paper, below)
Elliston, Frederick, 'Husserl's
Phenomenology of Empathy', in (Eds) Elliston and
McCormick (1977), pp. 213-31
Gurwitsch, Aron, ‘Husserl’s Theory of the Intentionality of Consciousness’,
in (Ed) Dreyfus (1982), pp. 60-71
Kern, Iso ‘The Three Ways to the Transcendental Phenomenological Reduction in the Philosophy of Edmund Husserl’, reprinted in (Eds) Elliston and McCormick (1977), pp. 126-149
D. Zahavi, ‘Husserl’s Noema and the Internalism-Externalism Debate’, Inquiry 47:1 (2004), pp. 42-66
Edited
Collections
(Ed) Dreyfus,
H (1982), Husserl, Intentionality, and Cognitive science,
(
(Eds)
Elliston, F and McCormick, P (1977), Husserl. Expositions
and Appraisals. (
Books
David Bell, (1990), Husserl, (
Smith, A.D (2003), Husserl and the Cartesian Meditations, (
Zahavi, Dan (2003), Husserl’s Phenomenology, (Stanford: Stanford U Press)
Internet resources
There is a helpful overview of the topic of
consciousness and intentionality in general (across ‘Continental and ‘analytic’
traditions) in the Stanford encyclopedia of
philosophy:
Siewert, Charles, “Consciousness and Intentionality”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2004 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), at: http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2004/entries/consciousness-intentionality.
For Husserl’s
relationship to other phenomenologists, the following
are useful:
Moran, Dermot, (2000), Introduction to Phenomenology, (
Sartre, J-P, (2004), The Transcendence of The Ego, trans Andrew
Brown, (
Seeburger, Francis, (1975), ‘Heidegger and the Phenomenological Reduction’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 212-221
Sarah Richmond, UCL, 2008