Phenomenology (Color Illustrations Edition)

Author: Li Guangrong
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Publish Date: 2006-09-01
Features: Husserl is a contemporary master philosopher, a "thinker in the study" with a wide influence. Like Socrates, Descartes, and Kant, he is a pivotal figure in the history of philosophy. Husserl's phenomenology, with its meticulous analysis of intentional activity, particularly perceptual behavior and imaginative behavior, first provided rich nourishment for European continental philosophy, laying the foundation for Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of perception and Sartre's existentialist philosophy. His unique understanding and special focus on symbolic behavior, meaning theory, and judgment theory pointed to new perspectives for Anglo-American analytic philosophy and logical philosophy. His analysis of temporal consciousness is considered one of the most abstract and metaphysical research topics in philosophy. The concept he proposed, the "lifeworld," has a more powerful influence on today's social and political life than Wittgenstein's "life forms" and has become a core component of contemporary philosophical thought. His intentional analysis of the stranger's consciousness has brought phenomenology of consciousness into the field of sociology, benefiting many important contemporary philosophers—Schutz, Levinas, Gurvich, and others. Phenomenology has a broad influence on contemporary Western philosophy, aesthetics, literature, art theory, psychology, legal philosophy, theology, education, logic, and even economics. Therefore, phenomenology is not a philosophical school; it is a "possibility of thinking" that constantly transforms itself and thus endures.