The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Phenomenology

Jack Reynolds, Philosophy in Review the volume as a whole is ample evidence that phenomenology perdures, being on a philosophical and methodological trajectory that has seen out the 20th century and is alive and kicking in the 21st... this Handbook justifies some optimism about both what the future holds for phenomenology, and what phenomenology promises to contribute to the future of philosophy

J. A. Simmons, CHOICE A decisive contribution to the field, this volume likely will become standard reading in phenomenology courses.

Dennis Seron, Husserl Studies This volume is the first of its kind to provide such a comprehensive survey of contemporary research in phenomenology. The editor has assembled an impressive cast of authoritative contributors to produce what will undoubtedly become a much used, stimulating, and invaluable reference book in the field of philosophical phenomenology. . . . This volume not only brings the reader into contact with a range of debates about major issues within contemporary phenomenology; it also demonstrates the relevance of the phenomenological approach to many areas of contemporary philosophy,

Andrea Elpidorou, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Dan Zahavi has done a truly marvelous job. He has amassed essays of outstanding quality, replete with fascinating ideas, imaginative examples, and above all, carefully constructed arguments. There are critical and insightful phenomenological analyses of topics that run the gamut . . . a state-of-the art presentation of research conducted in, through, or inspired by, phenomenology. Given the breadth of the issues examined in it, the clarity of presentation, and the strength of argumentation, the volume is a remarkable achievement.

<br>Dan Zahavi is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Copenhagen, Director of the Center for Subjectivity Research, and co-editor in chief of the journal Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. He is past president of the Nordic Society for Phenomenology (2001-2007). His publications include Husserl und die transzendentale Intersubjektivitat (1996), Self-awareness and Alterity (1999), Husserl's Phenomenology (2003), Subjectivity and Selfhood (2005), Phanomenologie fur Einsteiger (2007), and The Phenomenological Mind (with Shaun Gallagher) (2008).<br>

Introduction; I SUBJECTIVITY AND NATURE; 1. Phenomenological Method: Reflection, Introspection, and Skepticism; 2. Transcendental Phenomenology and the Seductions of Naturalism: Subjectivity, Consciousness, and Meaning; 3. Respecting appearances: A phenomenological approach to consciousness; 4. On the possibility of naturalizing phenomenology; 5. The phenomenology of life: desire as the being of the subject; II INTENTIONALITY, PERCEPTION AND EMBODIMENT; 6. Intentionality without representationalism; 7. Perception, context and direct realism; 8. Colors and sounds: The field of visual and auditory consciousness; 9. Bodily Intentionality, Affectivity and Basic Affects; 10. Thought in action; 11. Sex, Gender and Embodiment; 12. At the edge(s) of my body; III SELF AND CONSCIOUSNESS; 13. Action and selfhood: a narrative interpretation; 14. Self-consciousness and world-consciousness; 15. Self, consciousness and shame; IV LANGUAGE, THINKING, AND KNOWLEDGE; 16. The (many) foundations of knowledge; 17. The phenomenological foundations of predicative structure; 18. Language and non-linguistic thinking; 19. Sharing in Truth: Phenomenology of Epistemic Commonality; V ETHICS, POLITICS, AND SOCIALITY; 20. Responsive ethics; 21. Towards a Phenomenology of the Political World; 22. Other People; VI TIME AND HISTORY; 23. Experience and history; 24. The forgiveness of time and consciousness; 25. Hermeneutic Phenomenology; VII ART AND RELIGION; 26. Something That Is Nothing but Can Be Anything: the Image and Our Consciousness of It; 27. Phenomenological and aesthetic epoche: Painting the invisible things themselves; 28. Evidence in the phenomenology of religious experience