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Title: Cartesian Meditations by Husserl ISBN: 9-0247006-8-X Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub Pub. Date: 01 June, 1977 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $63.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Too transcendental?
Comment: Don't get me wrong, Husserl's contribution to post-modern philosophy is impossible to ignore. However, his constant beating of the transcendental horse is even more annoying then the Catholic theologian Karl Rahner's! At least with Rahner, you can expect man's transcedence toward God... with Husserl, it is a transcendence toward the self by the epoche - the "bracketting" - of the world and the retreat into the self. While the ideas are immensely important, they are more valuable as a transitional piece from the work of Descartes toward the work of Heidegger, Sartre, and others than they are on their own. An ego-pole? How is a pole, as Sartre would say, not simply a thing of the world? Husserl seems wed to the idea that the mind is constitutive of the world around us, and thankfully post-modern philosophy has not devoted itself entirely to that idea.
Perhaps it is the translation, but the work is hard to read, and you would be better to borrow it from a library then to spend the [price] on a 80 page book.
Still, it gets 3 stars. why? because it is so important. The work of Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and even Rahner would not be possible without this work by Husserl. He is a bridge thinker - now that we've crossed the river maybe occasionally we can look back at his thought for its worth but we don't have to spend any more time on that bridge.
Rating: 5
Summary: An Excellent Introduction To Phenomenology
Comment: This little book is an excellent introduction to Husserl's phenomenology. He outlines his idea of the intentionality of consciousness via the "transcendental ego". If Sartre had paid more attention to this, his outlook wouldn't have been so pessimistic.
Caveat: This book is hard reading -- it's not really for the newcomer to philosophy and Husserl's toxic and dense style will probably put off all but the determined.
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Title: Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Husserl and the Cartesian Meditations (Routledge Philosophy Guidebooks) by A. D. Smith, A.D. Smith ISBN: 0415287588 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology: An Introduction to Phenomenological Philosophy by Edmund Husserl ISBN: 081010458X Publisher: Northwestern University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1970 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: The Essential Husserl: Basic Writings in Transcendental Phenomenology (Studies in Continental Thought) by Edmund Husserl, Donn Welton ISBN: 0253212731 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Being and Time by Martin Heidegger ISBN: 0060638508 Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco Pub. Date: 01 August, 1962 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Phenomenology of Perception (Routledge Classics) by Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Colin Smith ISBN: 0415278414 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 03 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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