Abstract
This book provides a comprehensive historical and thematic overview of phenomenological philosophy. The first half, written by Elisabeth Ströker, is devoted to Husserlian phenomenology; the second, by Paul Janssen, addresses the central German and French heirs of the phenomenological tradition: Scheler, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and Lévinas. The main stages in the phenomenological itinerary of each thinker are carefully reconstructed and analyzed, their aporiae considered, and--in the case of the post-Husserlian phenomenologists--their relation to Husserl's own phenomenology laid out in detail. The Ströker portion of the book also contains a useful exposition of the historical and philosophical context in which Husserl's thought emerged, and some discussion of the development of Husserlian phenomenology in America, especially in the work of Gurwitsch and Schütz.