The Phenomenology Reader

"The Phenomenology Reader" is the first comprehensive anthology of classic writings from phenomenology's major seminal thinkers. The carefully selected readings chart phenomenology's most famous 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.

The Phenomenology Reader is the first comprehensive anthology of seminal writings in phenomenology. Carefully selected readings chart phenomenology's most famous thinkers, such as Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre and Derrida, as well as less well known figures such as Stein and Scheler. Ideal for introductory courses in phenomenology and continental philosophy, The Phenomenology Reader provides a comprehensive introduction to one of the most influential movements in twentieth-century philosophy.

1. Franz Brentano: Intentionality and the Project of Descriptive Psychology 2. Edmund Husserl: Founder of Phenomenology 3. Adolf Reinach: The Phenomenology of Social Acts 4. Max Scheler: Phenomenology of the Person 5. Edith Stein: Phenomenology and the Interpersonal 6. Martin Heidegger: Hermeneutical Phenomenology and Fundamental Ontology 7. Hans-Georg Gadamer: Phenomenology, Hermeneutics and Tradition 8. Hannah Arendt: Phenomenology of the Public World 9. Jean-Paul Sartre: Transendence and Freedom 10. Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Embodied Perception 11. Simone de Beauvoir: Phenomenology and Feminism 12. Emmanuel Levinas: The Primacy of the Other 13. Jacques Derrida: Phenomenology and Deconstruction 14. Paul Ricoeur: Phenomenology as Interpretation

Dermot Moran is Professor of Philosophy at University College Dublin and Editor of the International Journal of Philosophical Studies. He is author of Introduction to Phenomenology (Routledge 2000) and editor of Edmund Husserl, Logical Investigations, trans J.N. Findlay (Routledge 2001) and E. Husserl, The Shprter Logical Investigations (Routledge, 2001).Timothy Mooney is Lecturer in Philosophy at University College Dublin.