Transcendental Phenomenological Psychology
Title | Transcendental Phenomenological Psychology PDF eBook |
Author | Jon L. James |
Publisher | Xlibris Corporation |
Pages | 326 |
Release | 2011-06 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1426968345 |
From the Preface to the Revised Edition: Since its publication in 2007, Transcendental Phenomenological Psychology has been sold on every continent (except Antarctica), and is in the collections of research libraries in North America, Europe, and Asia. Even so, its presentation to the academic community rightly provoked many comments, corrections, suggestions, and criticisms. Such input, while mostly welcome, provided the impetus to publish a revised edition. A phenomenological explanation of human consciousness has long been sought in regions of psychology since the discipline was first carved out of philosophical concepts and theories about the human condition. In its earliest years, Western psychology was faced with two possible directions for this explanation: an empirical naturalistic approach along with physics and biology, or a non-empirical eidetic approach along with logic and mathematics. Edmund Husserl took up the latter. His phenomenological tradition of inquiry successfully spanned nearly forty years until suddenly stopped and largely suppressed during the Second World War. This book recovers Husserl's revolutionary approach toward the human sciences, just as it was developed, and just as it is presented for further study. Here, the author systematically gathers what Husserl calls the "leading clues" in the phenomenological method proper for a psychology of affective inner experience, and then for the first time applies Husserl's own methodology for introducing a phenomenological psychology in the transcendental register of human consciousness. Unlike contemporary phenomenological psychology in the existential register, transcendental phenomenological psychology is presented as an eidetic non-empirical "act psychology" in Husserl's mature genetic phenomenology. This novel approach takes in the full range of solipsistic and transcendental subjectivity in Husserl's theories of human consciousness, and follows Husserl's lead in presenting phenomenological psychology as an "applied geometry" of intentional experience within a step-wise theory of inquiry. This book is unique in human science today, not only in its presentation of the development and applications of Husserl's key concepts for the discipline of psychology, but also for introducing a psychology that could be intuitively grasped as self-evidently valid wherever one's interest might lie.
Phenomenology in Psychology and Psychiatry
Title | Phenomenology in Psychology and Psychiatry PDF eBook |
Author | Herbert Spiegelberg |
Publisher | Northwestern University Press |
Pages | 460 |
Release | 1972-02 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0810106248 |
Phenomenology in Psychology and Psychiatry is a historical introduction to phenomenology in psychology working from the general to the details of the subject.
Husserl's Crisis of the European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology
Title | Husserl's Crisis of the European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology PDF eBook |
Author | Dermot Moran |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 341 |
Release | 2012-08-23 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1139560360 |
The Crisis of the European Sciences is Husserl's last and most influential book, written in Nazi Germany where he was discriminated against as a Jew. It incisively identifies the urgent moral and existential crises of the age and defends the relevance of philosophy at a time of both scientific progress and political barbarism. It is also a response to Heidegger, offering Husserl's own approach to the problems of human finitude, history and culture. The Crisis introduces Husserl's influential notion of the 'life-world' – the pre-given, familiar environment that includes both 'nature' and 'culture' – and offers the best introduction to his phenomenology as both method and philosophy. Dermot Moran's rich and accessible introduction to the Crisis explains its intellectual and political context, its philosophical motivations and the themes that characterize it. His book will be invaluable for students and scholars of Husserl's work and of phenomenology in general.
Phenomenological Research Methods
Title | Phenomenological Research Methods PDF eBook |
Author | Clark Moustakas |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
Pages | 207 |
Release | 1994-07-27 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1483384853 |
In this volume, Clark Moustakas clearly discusses the theoretical underpinnings of phenomenology, based on the work of Husserl and others, and takes the reader step-by-step through the process of conducting a phenomenological study. His concise guide provides numerous examples of successful phenomenological studies from a variety of fields including therapy, health care, victimology, psychology and gender studies. The book also includes form letters and other research tools to use in designing and conducting a study.
Husserl and the Promise of Time
Title | Husserl and the Promise of Time PDF eBook |
Author | Nicolas de Warren |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 323 |
Release | 2009-11-05 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0521876796 |
This book examines Husserl's treatment of time-consciousness and its significance for his conception of subjectivity.
Husserl's Legacy
Title | Husserl's Legacy PDF eBook |
Author | Dan Zahavi |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 247 |
Release | 2017-11-17 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0191507717 |
Dan Zahavi offers an in-depth and up-to-date analysis of central and contested aspects of the philosophy of Edmund Husserl, the founder of phenomenology. What is ultimately at stake in Husserl's phenomenological analyses? Are they primarily to be understood as investigations of consciousness or are they equally about the world? What is distinctive about phenomenological transcendental philosophy, and what kind of metaphysical import, if any, might it have? Husserl's Legacy offers an interpretation of the more overarching aims and ambitions of Husserlian phenomenology and engages with some of the most contested and debated questions in phenomenology. Central to its interpretative efforts is the attempt to understand Husserl's transcendental idealism. Zahavi argues that Husserl was not a sophisticated introspectionist, not a phenomenalist, nor an internalist, not a quietist when it comes to metaphysical issues, and not opposed to all forms of naturalism. Husserl's Legacy argues that Husserl's phenomenology is as much about the world as it is about consciousness, and that a proper grasp of Husserl's transcendental idealism reveals the fundamental importance of facticity and intersubjectivity.
The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology
Title | The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology PDF eBook |
Author | Edmund Husserl |
Publisher | Northwestern University Press |
Pages | 452 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780810104587 |
The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology, Husserl's last great work, is important both for its content and for the influence it has had on other philosophers. In this book, which remained unfinished at his death, Husserl attempts to forge a union between phenomenology and existentialism. Husserl provides not only a history of philosophy but a philosophy of history. As he says in Part I, "The genuine spiritual struggles of European humanity as such take the form of struggles between the philosophies, that is, between the skeptical philosophies--or nonphilosophies, which retain the word but not the task--and the actual and still vital philosophies. But the vitality of the latter consists in the fact that they are struggling for their true and genuine meaning and thus for the meaning of a genuine humanity."