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G. Santayana (Scepticism and Animal Faith, 1923) and E. Husserl (Cartesianische Meditationen, 1929), Readers of R. Descartes
Moreno shows that Santayana believed he had found an ally regarding his doctrine of essence in the philosophy of Husserl. He then reveals the...
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Perspective and the Invention of the Self
This chapter links the discovery of linear perspective in the Renaissance with the development of our understanding of the individual self. The early...
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Laying Siege to the Truth: Santayana’s Discourse on Method
Examining Scepticism and Animal Faith (SAF) together with the work of Descartes—first, in terms of structure, style, and substance; and second, in...
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The Last Sceptic: Santayana, Descartes, and the External World
McDermid clarifies the nature of Santayana’s scepticism by examining his response to the traditional sceptical problem of the external world. The...
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Of Historicity: The Theme of Deconstruction (1962–1967)
This chapter traces how Derrida’s philosophical practice—deconstruction—emerges in his earliest writings on phenomenology as a name for a new form of...
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„It’s the economy, stupid!“
Mit dem inzwischen historischen Ausspruch, „It’s the economy, stupid!“, hat James Carville, der ehemalige Berater des US-Präsidenten Bill Clinton,...
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Knowledge as a Leap of Faith
Wahman argues that Santayana’s account of knowledge as a leap of faith is a unique, important, and underappreciated contribution to epistemology. She...
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Daydreaming and Self-Awareness
The central questions that guide phenomenological investigations of daydreaming can be formulated as follows: What must consciousness be if it is to...
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Why Physics Does Not Inform the Human Condition, But Its Boundaries Do
The science of physics has been extremely successful over the last four centuries, mainly for one reason: It does everything it can to disregard...
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The Pre-reflective Dimension of Self-Awareness and the Bipolar Structure of Existence: Merleau-Ponty’s Way from Body Schema to Sexual Schema
This paper presents Merleau-Ponty’s conception of the bipolar structure of human existence as the movement of transcendence on the basis of...
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Zwischenfazit
Ich habe diesen Teil der Arbeit mit einer Untersuchung von Marions Verhältnis zur metaphysischen Tradition begonnen, um daraus die Grundrichtungen...
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Die phänomenologische Reduktion als die für die Phänomenologie konstitutive Methode und ihre Bedeutung für die Erkenntnistheorie
All diese empirischen und eidetischen Realitätswissenschaften setzen wir beiseite, wenn wir zur Phänomenologie übergehen.
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Forms-of-Life and the Reform(s) of Philosophy
The chapter proposes a new interpretation of Husserl’s relation to Descartes and his Meditationes de prima philosophia, hence, of the opening pages...
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Rehearsing the Unexpected: Poetry and Rhythm in the (New) Age of the Poets
This essay explores the recent debates taking place among Continental philosophers to do with the significance for philosophy of poetry, the poetic...
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Mathematics embodied: Merleau-Ponty on geometry and algebra as fields of motor enaction
This paper aims to clarify Merleau-Ponty’s contribution to an embodied-enactive account of mathematical cognition. I first identify the main points...
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Hegel and Husserl on Phenomenology, Logic, and the System of Sciences: A Reappraisal
Husserl envisages transcendental phenomenology as a radically founding science that lays bare the higher-order experiences whereby logic and a theory...
