The Oxford Handbook of the History of Phenomenology

This Oxford Handbook offers a broad critical survey of the development of phenomenology, one of the main streams of philosophy since the nineteenth century. It comprises thirty-seven specially written chapters by leading figures in the field, which highlight historical influences, connections and developments, and offer a better comprehension and assessment of the continuity as well as diversity of the phenomenological tradition.

The handbook is divided into three distinct parts. The first part addresses the way phenomenology has been influenced by earlier periods or figures in the history of philosophy. The second part contains chapters targeting prominent phenomenologists: How was their work affected by earlier figures, how did their own views change over time, and what kind of influence did they exert on subsequent thinkers? The contributions in the third part trace various core topics such as subjectivity, intersubjectivity, embodiment, spatiality, imagination etc. in the work of different phenomenologists, in order to explore how the notions were transformed, enriched, and expanded up through the century.

This volume will be a source of insight for philosophers, students of philosophy, and for people working in other disciplines of the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, who are interested in the phenomenological tradition. It is an authoritative guide to how phenomenology started, how it developed, and where it is heading.

Dan Zahavi, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Subjectivity Research at the University of Copenhagen

Dan Zahavi is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Subjectivity Research at the University of Copenhagen. He is author and editor of more than 25 volumes including Husserl's Phenomenology (Stanford 2003), Subjectivity and Selfhood (MIT Press 2005), The Phenomenological Mind together with S. Gallagher (Routledge 2008), Self and Other (OUP 2014), and most recently Husserl's Legacy (OUP 2017). He is co-editor in chief of the journal Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, and he edited the Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Phenomenology (OUP 2012). His work has been translated into more than 30 languages.

Part I: Traditions
Chapter 1 Aristotle in phenomenology by Pavlos Kontos
Chapter 2 Descartes' Notion of the Mind-Body Union and its Phenomenological Expositions by Sara Heinämaa & Timo Kaitaro
Chapter 3 Kant, Neo-Kantianism, and Phenomenology by Sebastian Luft
Chapter 4 Phenomenology and German Idealism by Alexander Schnell
Chapter 5 Phenomenology and Descriptive Psychology: Brentano, Stumpf, Husserl by Denis Fisette
Part II: Figures
Chapter 6 Husserl's Early Period: Juvenilia and the Logical Investigations by Peter Andras Varga
Chapter 7 Husserl's Middle Period and the Development of his Ethics by John Drummond
Chapter 8 Pre-Predicative Experience and Life-World: Two Distinct Projects in Husserl's Late Phenomenology by Andrea Staiti
Chapter 9 Scheler on the Moral and Political Significance of the Emotions by Zachary Davis and Anthony Steinbock
Chapter 10 Edith Stein's Challenge to Sense-Making: The Role of the Lived Body, Psyche and Spirit by Antonio Calcagno
Chapter 11 The Early Heidegger's Phenomenology by Daniel O. Dahlstrom
Chapter 12 The Middle Heidegger's Phenomenological Metaphysics by Steven Crowell
Chapter 13 Phenomenology and Ontology in the Later Heidegger by Tobias Keiling
Chapter 14 Schutz and Gurwitsch on Agency by Michael D. Barber
Chapter 15 Sartre's Transcendental Phenomenology by Jonathan Webber
Chapter 16 The Later Sartre: From Phenomenology to Hermeneutics to Dialectic and Back by Thomas R. Flynn
Chapter 17 Simone de Beauvoir: Philosopher, Author, Feminist by Debra Bergoffen
Chapter 18 Science in Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology: From the Early Work to the Later Philosophy by Komarine Romdenh-Romluc
Chapter 19 Merleau-Ponty from 1945 to 1952: The Ontological Weight of Perception and the Transcendental Force of Description by Donald A. Landes
Chapter 20 Rereading the Later Merleau-Ponty in the Light of his Unpublished Work by Emmanuel de Saint Aubert
Chapter 21 Jan Patocka's Philosophical Legacy by James Dodd
Chapter 22 An Immense Power: The Three Phenomenological Insights supporting Derridean Deconstruction by Leonard Lawlor
Chapter 23 When Alterity becomes Proximity: Levinas's Path by Robert Bernasconi
Chapter 24 Turn to Excess: The Development of Phenomenology in Late Twentieth Century French Thought by Christina Gschwandtner
Part III: Themes
Chapter 25 Phenomenological Methodology by Karl Mertens
Chapter 26 Subjectivity: From Husserl to His Followers (and Back Again) by Rudolf Bernet
Chapter 27 The Inquietude of Time and the Instance of Eternity: Husserl, Heidegger, and Levinas by Nicolas de Warren
Chapter 28 Embodiment and Bodily Becoming by Sara Heinämaa
Chapter 29 From the Origin of Spatiality to a Variety of Spaces by Filip Mattens
Chapter 30 Intentionality: Lived Experience, Bodily Comportment, and the Horizon of the World by Dermot Moran
Chapter 31 Practical Intentionality: From Brentano to the Phenomenology of the Munich and Göttingen Circles by Alessandro Salice
Chapter 32 Ideal Verificationism and Perceptual Faith: Husserl and Merleau-Ponty on Perceptual Knowledge by Walter Hopp
Chapter 33 The World of Experience by Hanne Jacobs
Chapter 34 Imagination De-Naturalized: Phantasy, the Imaginary, and Imaginative Ontology by Julia Jansen
Chapter 35 Value, Freedom, Responsibility: Central Themes in Phenomenological Ethics by Sophie Loidolt
Chapter 36 Historicity and the Hermeneutic Predicament: from Yorck to Derrida by Hans Ruin
Chapter 37 Hans Ruin by Dan Zahavi