The Phenomenology Reader

This text is a comprehensive anthology of classic writings from phenomenology´s major seminal thinkers, such as Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre and Derrida, as well as less well known figures such as Stein and Scheler. Each author and their writings is introduced and placed in philosophical context by the editors. Intended for introductory courses in phenomenology and continental philosophy, the book provides a comprehensive introduction to one of the most influential movements in 20th-century philosophy.
Contents: Franz Brentano - intentionality, descriptive psychology; Edmund Husserl - Founder of phenomenology; Husserl´s followers - realist phenomenology; Martin Heidegger - phenomenology and ontology; Husserl and Heidegger; Hans-Georg Gadamer - phenomenology and hermeneutics; Hannah Arendt - phenomenology of the public world; Jean-Paul Sartre - phenomenology of freedom; Maurice Merleau-Ponty - phenomenology of perception; Emmanuel Levinas - primacy of the other; Jacques Derrida - questioning phenomenology; Paul Ricoeur - hermeneutics; Theodor Adorno - critique of the phenomenological outlook.