Intersubjectivity and Transcendental Idealism

by James R. Mensch

Overview

The threat of solipcism nagged Husserl. The question of the status of others occupied him during the last years of his life and remained a question that seemed to challenge the foundation of his life’s work. This book offers new answers to this persistent philosophical question by defining the question in specifically Husserlian terms and by means of a careful examination of Husserl’s later texts, including the unpublished Nachlass.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781438412825
Publisher:	State University of New York Press
Publication date:	09/30/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
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About the Author

James Richard Mensch holds a Licentiate from the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies and a Doctorate from the University of Toronto. Aside from working as a translator for the Dachau Concentration Camp Museum, he has taught at a number of universities, including Toronto, Dallas, and the University of Washington. He is the author of The Question of Being in Husserl’s Logical Investigations.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter I The Account of the Cartesian Meditations

Chapter II The Grounding of the Thing and the Ego

Chapter III Factivity and Intersubjectivity

Chapter IV A First Solution to the Problem of Intersubjectivity

Chapter V The Temporal Dimension of Subjective Life

Chapter VI A Second Solution to the Problem of Intersubjectivity

Chapter VII Temporality and Teleology

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Editorial Reviews

A textbook for a theory course for upper-division majors. Attempts to deal with the question of the status of others within the context of transcendental idealism. Offers new answers to the philosophical question by defining it in specifically Husserlian terms and by means of an examination of Husserl's later texts, including the unpublished Nachlass. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

The author has availed himself of hitherto unpublished manuscripts at the Husserl archives in Belgium, and has used those texts in an effort to finish Husserl’s own case that phenomenology can meaningfully contribute to the discussion of others, of freedom, and of our fellowship. The resulting treatment of the problem of intersubjectivity is remarkably sympathetic to Husserlian thought and intelligently made.” — Dennis J. Schmidt, State University of New York at Binghamton

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