The Philosophy of Husserl

Winner: Edward Goodwin Ballard Book Prize in Phenomenology, Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology (2011) "The only way to understand the importance of this book is to read it - and it definitely deserves to be read. Hopkins work combines a rare originality with a profound philosophical sensibility and does so in a manner that defies easy summary and synopsis." - Claudio Majolino, Research in Phenomenology "Hopkins skillfully defends Husserls transcendental phenomenology from some of the most forceful and well-known criticisms of it, specifically those leveled by Heidegger and Derrida. Hopkinss book provides, among a vast array of other challenging and original claims and arguments, an exceptionally sophisticated and informed analysis" - Walter Hopp, Husserl Studies " an expert and wideranging account of the thought in question a reader who is not satisfied with the clichs that have for so long dominated discussion of Husserls thought - whether that reader is a beginner or not - can do no better than get to know Hopkinss book." - Steven Crowell, The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy "Overall this is a book well worth studying. ... It sheds much new light on how we are meant to understand the nature and status of ideal objects. ... Hopkins provides an innovative and detailed reading of Plato and Aristotle's notion of eidos and thereby invites us to reassess how we are to understand eidetic seeing and, indeed, the nature and purpose of philosophy. [H]is innovative approach makes room for debate and breathes new life into Husserl's thought." - Lilian Alweiss, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews "A significant contribution to our understanding of Husserl, one that offers an original and challenging approach. A ground-breaking and important book." - Dermot Moran, University College Dublin, Ireland

Burt Hopkins is Professor of Philosophy at Seattle University, USA. He is the author The Origin of the Logic of Symbolic Mathematics: Jacob Klein and Edmund Husserl (2011), and is a founding co-editor of The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, also published by Routledge.

Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Platos Socratic theory of eid? : the first pillar of the ancient precedent to pure phenomenology; Chapter 2 Platos arithmological theory of eid? : the second pillar of the ancient precedent to pure phenomenology; Chapter 3 Aristotles criticism of Platos theory of eid? : the third (and final) pillar of the ancient precedent to pure phenomenology; Chapter 4 Origin of the task of pure phenomenology; Chapter 5 Pure phenomenology and Platonism; Chapter 6 Pure phenomenology as the transcendental-phenomenological investigation of absolute consciousness; Chapter 7 Transcendental phenomenology of absolute consciousness and phenomenological philosophy; Chapter 8 Limits of the transcendental-phenomenological investigation of pure consciousness; Chapter 9 Phenomenological philosophy as transcendental idealism; Chapter 10 The intersubjective foundation of transcendental idealism: the immanent transcendency of the worlds objectivity; Chapter 11 The pure phenomenological motivation of Husserls turn to history; Chapter 12 The essential connection between intentional history and actual history; Chapter 13 The historicity of both the intelligibility of ideal meanings and the possibility of actual history; Chapter 14 Desedimentation and the link between intentional history and the constitution of a historical tradition; Chapter 15 Transcendental phenomenology as the only true explanation of objectivity and all meaningful problems in previous philosophy; Chapter 16 The methodological presupposition of the ontico-ontological critique of intentionality: Platos Socratic seeing of the eid? Chapter 17 The mereological presupposition of fundamental ontology: that Being as a whole has a meaning overall; Chapter 18 The presupposition behind the proto-deconstructive critique of intentional historicity: the conflation of; intra; subjective and; inter; subjective idealities; Chapter 19 The presupposition behind the deconstruction of phenomenology: the subordination of being to speech; Chapter 21 Coda;