Hedwig Conrad-Martius: The Phenomenological Gateway to Reality

Springer Verlag (2021)
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Abstract

This volume, the first of its kind written in English, interprets the realistic-phenomenological philosophy of Hedwig Conrad-Martius. She was a prominent figure in the Munich-Göttingen Circle, the first generation of phenomenology after Edmund Husserl, and was known as the “first lady of German philosophy”. The articles included in this collection deal with the two main themes constituting her realistic-metaphysical phenomenology: Being and the I. In addition, the collection includes a comprehensive Preface that describes the personal background and the social and philosophical contexts behind Conrad-Martius’s thought, with an emphasis on the mutual influence and fertilization of the group of early phenomenologists in the Munich-Göttingen Circle. The book will be of interest to scholars of philosophy and educated readers.

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Chapters

The Realism of Transcendence: A Critical Analysis of Hedwig Conrad-Martius’ Early Ontology

This chapter focuses on the problem of transcendence in “On the Ontology and Doctrine of Appearance of the Real External World” —the first publication from a vast corpus of writings by Hedwig Conrad-Martius . The principles of the realistic phenomenology that HCM explores in this treatise by studyin... see more

“The Gate of Reality”: Hedwig Conrad-Martius’s Idea of Reality in Realontologie

The question “what is reality?” that opens Realontologie , the establishing book in Hedwig Conrad-Martius’s oeuvre, establishes her realistic metaphysics. In her opinion, the firmly established “blinding insight” in modern philosophy regarding the unfathomable contrast between the ideal and the real... see more

The Vocabulary of Reality

This article seeks to extricate and explicate the unique vocabulary that was consolidated by the realistic phenomenologist Hedwig Conrad-Martius in her establishing book Realontologie . Among the concepts are: “Essence” , “Bearer” , Selfness , Capability , Tangentiality , Corporeality , Internality,... see more

The External World—“Whole” and “Parts”: A Husserlian Hermeneutics of the Early Ontology of Hedwig Conrad-Martius

This paper proposes an analysis of Hedwig Conrad-Martius’s On the Ontology and Doctrine of Appearance of the Real External World from the perspective of Husserl’s theory, of whole and parts in Logical Investigations. The author identifies the “whole ” with “sensory givenness” and “parts ” with “feel... see more

From the “Still Covered” to the “Pure Primordial” Phenomena and Back: The External World in the Phenomenology of Conrad-Martius

This article addresses the two questions HCM poses at the opening of her first great treatise, “On the Ontology and Doctrine of Appearance of the Real External World” : “In which real mode are perceived “essences ” given to us, in more or less big definiteness ? And where do we encounter them in the... see more

The Metaphysical Absolutizing of the Ideal: Hedwig Conrad-Martius’ Criticism of Husserl’s Idealism

This article discusses the main arguments of Hedwig Conrad-Martius against the worldview of idealism in connection to her phenomenological idea of reality. The discussion focuses on her most far-reaching critical argument concerning the damage caused by idealism to the possibility for metaphysics by... see more

Essence, Abyss, and Self: Hedwig Conrad-Martius on the Non-spatial Dimensions of Being

Hedwig Conrad-Martius , one of the outstanding pioneers of the realistic phenomenological school, describes the reality to which her philosophizing is addressed as “totally non-material corporeality”. With this contradictory expression, she seeks to affirm two foundational aspects regarding reality:... see more

In the Midst of Being: The Journey into the Internality of Reality in Hedwig Conrad-Martius’ Metaphysics

This article delineates the main milestones in the trajectory to the internality of Being in HCM’s thinking against Husserl’s transcendentalism. It starts by uncovering the multi-aspect duality that characterizes the real being, continues in encountering the limitations and constraints that are impo... see more

A Philosophical Resonance: Hedwig Conrad-Martius Versus Edith Stein

This article seeks to unearth the philosophical resonance of Hedwig Conrad-Martius’ ideas with Edith Stein’s thinking and thus to add an element of content to the better-known personal relations between the two phenomenologists. Here, resonance has two meanings. The first is phenomenological and app... see more

The Ontological Exclusivity of the I

The pivotal insight that paved Hedwig Conrad-Martius’ way in elucidating the ontological exclusivity of the I, often referred to as “I-being” , is that despite its peculiarity and incomparability to any other mode of being, only by coming to terms with “ontological foundations” can “a true ‘comprehe... see more

The Phenomenal Experience of the I: The Idea of the I in Hedwig Conrad-Martius’ Early Phenomenology

This paper addresses the phenomenal experience of the I that is at the foundation of the realistic phenomenology of Hedwig Conrad-Martius . Focusing on HCM’s early book On the Ontology and Doctrine of Appearance of the Real External from 1916, the discussion strives to interpret the modes of the inv... see more

The Duality of the I: A Commentary on Hedwig Conrad-Martius’s Realist Phenomenology

This article deals with the duality that characterizes the idea of the I in the realist ontology of the phenomenologist Hedwig Conrad-Martius . At the basis of the discussion is the uncovering of two dimensions of duality in HCM’s perception of the I: one, appearing in her early treatise On the Onto... see more

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