Phenomenological Perspectives : Historical and Systematic Essays in Honor of Herbert Spiegelberg

Professor H. L. Van Breda had hoped to write this preface, but his recent, unexpected and untimely death has left that task in my hands. Although my remarks will not be as eloquent and insightful as his surely would have been, some few words are clearly in order here; for the phenomenological community has not only lost the leadership of Fr. Van Breda these last years, but also the scholarship and leadership of Aron Gurwitsch and Alden Fisher - both contributors to this volume - as well as that of Dorion Cairns and John Wild. Our leaders are fewer now but Herbert Spiegelberg is still very obviously one of them. This volume thus presents the work of some of the past and presently recognized leaders in phenomenology - e. g. Gurwitsch, Straus, and Fisher - but, more important perhaps, it also presents the work of some of those who are sure to be future leaders of our community of phenomenological philosophers, if in fact they have not already achieved this status. Most, if not all, of the contribu­ tors to this volume are in some way or another indebted to Herbert Spiegelberg and his work in phenomenology. Professor H.L. Van Breda had hoped to write this preface, but his recent, unexpected and untimely death has left that task in my hands. Although my remarks will not be as eloquent and insightful as his surely would have been, some few words are clearly in order here; for the phenomenological community has not only lost the leadership of Fr. Van Breda these last years, but also the scholarship and leadership of Aron Gurwitsch and Alden Fisher - both contributors to this volume - as well as that of Dorion Cairns and John Wild. Our leaders are fewer now but Herbert Spiegelberg is still very obviously one of them. This volume thus presents the work of some of the past and presently recognized leaders in phenomenology - e. g. Gurwitsch, Straus, and Fisher - but, more important perhaps, it also presents the work of some of those who are sure to be future leaders of our community of phenomenological philosophers, if in fact they have not already achieved this status. Most, if not all, of the contribuƯ tors to this volume are in some way or another indebted to Herbert Spiegelberg and his work in phenomenology Front Matter....Pages I-X Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Compossibility and Incompossibility in Leibniz....Pages 3-13 Hume and the Discipline of Phenomenology: An Historical Perspective....Pages 14-30 Royce and the Reductions....Pages 31-46 Wittgenstein’s “Phenomenological Reduction”....Pages 47-60 The Occasion and Novelty of Husserl’s Phenomenology of Essence....Pages 61-92 Martin Heidegger as a Phenomenologist....Pages 93-114 Front Matter....Pages 115-115 Marriage, Parenthood, and Life in Community: A Phenomenological View....Pages 117-129 The Monads Have Windows....Pages 130-150 Das Noema Als Reelles Moment....Pages 151-153 Eine Tragödie: Wallensteins Und Unser Aller Böser Geist....Pages 154-167 “Alms for Oblivion”: An Essay on Objective Time and Experienced Time....Pages 168-187 Truth Within Phenomenological Speech....Pages 188-217 The Phenomenology of Speaking....Pages 218-228 Sym-Philosophizing in an Ethics Class....Pages 229-243 Phenomenological Aspects of Probability....Pages 244-263 Front Matter....Pages 265-265 Apologia pro Bibliographia Mea....Pages 267-275 Back Matter....Pages 276-279