Phenomenology and Dialectical Materialism (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (49))

**`**This work of Thao, in an elegant, laconic, and remarkably lucid prose, elaborates the rationale that motivated Husserl's philosophizing... Thao's knowledge of Husserl, as well as of the entire history of philosophy, is most impressive, and he has the ability to elucidate and bring to life some of the most abstruse epistemological writings of Kant, Husserl, and others. ...consider this one of the clearest introductions to phenomenology and would consider it a superb text to use in introducing my students to phenomenology.**'** **Paul Ricoeur** Part One: The Phenomenological Method And Its Actual Real Content -- Chapter One: The Intuition Of Essences -- 1. The Technique Of Variation -- 2. Pure Idealities And Empirical Idealities -- 3. The True Significance Of The Notion Of Essence -- 4. Difficulties With The Objectivism Of Essences. The Return To The Subject -- Chapter Two: The Thematization Of Concrete Consciousiness -- 5. The Return To Lived Experience In The Logische Unter-suchungen -- 6. The Discovery Of The Reduction -- 7. The Exposition Of The Ideen -- 8. The Critique Of The Kantians -- 9. Fink's Reply. The Necessity Of A More Radical Explanation -- 10. The Notion Of Constitution. The Signification Of Transcendental Idealism -- 11. The Constitution Of The World Of The Spirit -- 12. The Notion Of Object. Perception And Judgment -- Chapter Three: The Problems Of Reason 13. Self-evidence (evidence) And Truth -- 14. The Problem Of Error -- 15. [self-] Evidence As Intentional Performance (intentionale Leistung) -- 16. The Possibility Of Error As Contemporaneous With Truth -- 17. A Digression -- The Theory Of Evidence According To Descartes And The Problem Of The Cartesian Circle -- 18. Phenomenological Description As A Critique Of Authenticity: Static And Genetic Constitution -- 19. The Constitution Of The Formal Domain: Logic And Mathematics -- 20. The Genesis Of Judgment -- Chapter Four: The Result Of Phenomenology -- 21. The Genesis Of Antepredicative Experience And Its Real Content -- Part Two: The Dialectic Of Real Movement -- Introduction To Part Two -- 1. Consciousness And Matter -- Chapter One: The Dialectic Of Animal Behavior As The Becoming Of Sense Certainty 2. Phenomenological Givens And Real Givens -- 3. The Movement Of The Internal Sense -- 4. The Movement Of The External Sense -- 5. Remarks On The Preceding Development: The Passage To The Dialectic Of Human Societies -- Chapter Two: The Dialectic Of Human Societies As The Becoming Of Reason -- 6. Use-value And The Movement Of Sacrifice -- 7. The Movement Of Wealth And The Becoming Of The Gods -- 8. Mercantile Economy And The Sacrifice Of The Savior, God -- 9. Monetay Economy, The Transcendence Of The Idea, And The Concept Of Salvation -- 10. Capitalistic Economy, The Power Of Abstraction And The Proletarian Revolution. Trân Duc Thao ; Translated By Daniel J. Herman And Donald V. Morano ; Edited By Robert S. Cohen. Translation Of: Phénoménologie Et Matérialisme Dialectique. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 241-242. Tran Duc Thao, a brilliant student of philosophy at the Ecole Normale Super ieure within the post-1935 decade of political disaster, born in Vietnam shortly after the F ir st World War, recipient of a scholarship in Paris in 1935 37, was early noted for his independent and originaI mind_ While the 1930s twisted down to the defeat of the Spanish Republic, the compromise with German Fascism at Munich, and the start of the Second World War, and while the 1940s began with hypocritical stability at the Western Front fol lowed by the defeat of France, and the occupation of Paris by the German power together with French collaborators, and the n ended with liberation and a search for a new understanding of human situations, the young Thao was deeply immersed in the classical works of European philosophy. He was al so the attentive but critical student of a quite special generation of French metaphysicians and social philosophers: Gaston Berger, Maurice Merleau Ponty, Emile Brehier, Henri Lefebvre, Rene le Senne, Jean-Paul Sartre, perhaps the young Louis Althusser. They, in their several modes of response, had been meditating for more than a decade on the philosophy of Edmund Husserl, which came to France in the thirties as a new metaphysical enlighten ment - phenomenology ` This work of Thao, in an elegant, laconic, and remarkably lucid prose, elaborates the rationale that motivated Husserl's philosophizing... Thao's knowledge of Husserl, as well as of the entire history of philosophy, is most impressive, and he has the ability to elucidate and bring to life some of the most abstruse epistemological writings of Kant, Husserl, and others. ...consider this one of the clearest introductions to phenomenology and would consider it a superb text to use in introducing my students to phenomenology. ' Paul Ricoeur Front Matter....Pages i-xxx Front Matter....Pages 1-2 The Intuition of Essences....Pages 3-11 The Thematization of Concrete Consciousness....Pages 13-68 The Problems of Reason....Pages 69-120 The Result of Phenomenology....Pages 121-130 Front Matter....Pages 131-132 Introduction to Part Two....Pages 133-142 The Dialectic of Animal Behavior as the Becoming of Sense Certainty....Pages 143-178 The Dialectic of Human Societies as the Becoming of Reason....Pages 179-218 Back Matter....Pages 219-244