l / Some Aspects and Developments of Gestalt Psychology1 [I] The Development and Status of the Problem At the basis of the constitution of the physical ...

Aron Gurwitsch est surtout connu du public fancophone par son ouvrage de 1957 : Théorie du champ de la conscience.C’est la “période parisienne” de Gurwitsch que le présent volume documente très précisement : il présente d’abord pour la première fois, les résultats substantiels d’un ouvrage en gestation qui n’aura pas vu le jour du vivant de l’auteur et qui rassemble, sous le titre Esquisse de la phénoménologie constitutive, les matériaux des cours et conférences sur la Gestaltpsychologie, la “psychologie intentionaliste”, la (...) “phénoménologie de l’idéation”, “l’introduction à la phénoménologie”. Le présent volume rassemble aussi, à titre d’Appendice, quelques uns des articles publiés par Aron Gurwitsch lors de cette “période parisienne”.L’ensemble de ces travaux constitue un témoignage inédit sur une des toutes premières introductions à la phénoménologie husserlienne, dans son véritable contexte de problème. (shrink)

The purpose of this book is to provide a phenomenological inquiry into those acts and processes of consciousness that constitute the perceptual world in which we live,—the real world familiar to us in every-day life and to which the physical sciences and their theoretical explanations refer. When using the term “phenomenology”, the author always has in view the body of philosophical theories (and also methods) developed by Edmund Husserl. The overall program of phenomenology may be said to be...

Entitled merely “On the Object of Thought,” Chapter 8 of Gurwitsch’s Studies in Phenomenology and Psychology (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1966) has the following note attached to its title: “Paper read at the meeting of the Phenomenological Society, April 27, 1946, at Hunter College, New York City. It was not possible to include here all the discussion. The original version was published in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research VII (1947).” What seems the integral script read at the International Phenomenological Society (...) meeting has, however, survived in the Nachlass. It is 596 lines long and 291 lines of it, i.e. practically half, correspond closely to the published version. The following, however, was added to the previously published version: and I must also forsake surveying the elaboration of concepts analogous to that of the “object of thought” in several contemporary psychological sciences. I have in view the abandonment of the constancy hypothesis in Gestalt theory, the studies of the late Gelb and Prof. Goldstein on the psychical effects of brain injuries, the late Levy-Bruhl’s account of mental functions in primitive societies, the views of the phonological school in linguistics, Max Weber’s verstehende Soziologie and especially his distinction between objektiver and subjektiver Sinn. (shrink)