Phenomenology and the Transcendental (Routledge Research in Phenomenology)

The aim of this volume is to offer an updated account of the transcendental character of phenomenology. The main question concerns the sense and relevance of transcendental philosophy today: What can such philosophy contribute to contemporary inquiries and debates after the many reasoned attacks against its idealistic, aprioristic, absolutist and universalistic tendencies—voiced most vigorously by late 20th century postmodern thinkers—as well as attacks against its apparently circular arguments and suspicious metaphysics launched by many analytic philosophers? Contributors also aim to clarify the relations of transcendental phenomenology to other post-Kantian philosophies, most importantly to pragmatism and Wittgenstein's philosophical investigations. Finally, the volume offers a set of reflections on the meaning of post-transcendental phenomenology. Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 Introduction: Methodological, Historical, and Conceptual Starting Points......Page 8 PART I Transcendental Philosophy......Page 26 1 Transcendental Life......Page 28 2 Categories of Experience and the Transcendental......Page 56 3 The Transcendental Nature of Experience......Page 68 PART II Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity......Page 92 4 Transcendental Subjectivity and the Human Being......Page 94 5 Husserl on the Factical and Historical Grounds of the Transcendental Subject......Page 113 6 The Animal and the Infant: From Embodiment and Empathy to Generativity......Page 136 7 Transcendental Social Ontology......Page 154 PART III Mind and the World......Page 180 8 The Emergence and Transformation of Husserl’s Concept of World......Page 182 9 Phenomenological Sources, Kantian Borders: An Outline of Transcendental Philosophy as Object-Guided Philosophy......Page 197 10 The Bodily Feeling of Existence in Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis......Page 225 11 William James on Consciousness and the Brain: From Psycho-Physical Dualism to Transcendental Philosophy......Page 242 PART IV Beyond Correlation......Page 262 12 What Is a Transcendental Description?......Page 264 13 Transcendental Idealism and Strong Correlationism: Meillassoux and the End of Heideggerian Finitude......Page 283 14 “Die Kehre spielt im Sachverhalt selbst”: Making Sense of the Twists and Turns in Heidegger’s Thought......Page 302 Contributors......Page 322 Index......Page 326