PLEASE NOTE this is a sample reading list for the academic year precise seminar content may change from year to year. Weeks 1-5: Husserl

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1 PLEASE NOTE this is a sample reading list for the academic year precise seminar content may change from year to year. Weeks 1-5: Husserl Texts and translations Husserl s ideas are scattered across many of his writings. He never produced a comprehensive presentation of them in a main work. However, there is now a fairly good collection of extracts from his writings, which contains much of what he has to say on the issues we shall be concerned with: The Essential Husserl, ed. Donn Welton (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999 f.) I would recommend this as the text you should mostly use for this first part of the module. But since not everything we shall be discussing is contained in the Welton Reader, I shall also give references in the reading list below to Husserl s writings themselves, indicating when the material I shall be referring to is not contained in the Reader. The following texts by Husserl will be referred to: Edmund Husserl: Logical Investigations, trans. J. N. Findlay (London: Routledge, 1973), 2 vols. (Originally published ). Ideas pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy, First Book (= Ideas I), trans. F. Kersten, (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1982). (Originally published 1913) Ideas pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy, Second Book (= Ideas II), trans. R. Rojcewicz and A. Schuwer (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1989). (Written , ; first published 1952) On the Phenomenology of the Consciousness of Internal Time ( ), trans. J. B. Brough (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1990). (Originally published 1928). Experience and Judgement, trans. J. S. Churchill and K. Ameriks, (London: Routledge, 1973). (Originally published 1938). Cartesian Meditations, trans. D. Cairns, (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1977). (Originally published, in French translation, 1931). Lecture/seminar topics: 1. General Introduction. The phenomenological turn in continental European philosophy. Husserl s early development of phenomenology as a theory of intentionality. Thought and expression (1 st LI), senses and objects (1 st LI), essences/properties as ideal objects (2 nd LI), the nature of intentional experiences: act-matter and act-quality (5 th LI). Noema/noesis (Ideas I). Logical Investigation 1 (intentionality and language). LI 2, 1-4 (ideal objects). LI 5, and Ideas I, 87-90, 93-95, 97-98, (structure of intentional experience). 1

2 pp (intentionality and lang.); pp (ideal objects weak); pp (the structure of intentional experience) Intentionality: Consciousness, Sense and Object J. J. Drummond, The Structure of Intentionality, in Donn Welton (ed), The New Husserl (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003) A. D. Smith, Husserl and the Cartesian Meditations (London:Routledge, 2003), esp. pp , (A very good general introduction). Dan Zahavi, Husserl s Phenomenology (Stanford: Stanford UP, 2003), esp. ch.. 1 (Another good general introduction) On intentionality and language: Peter Simons, Meaning and Language, in B. Smith and D. W. Smith (eds), The Cambridge Companion to Husserl (Cambridge, CUP, 1995). Jacques Derrida, Speech and Phenomena (Evanston, Northwestern UP), esp. chapters 1 and 2. Dan Zahavi, Husserl and Transcendental Intersubjectivity (Athens, Ohio UP, 2001), chapter 7. On ideal (universal) objects: Bernet, Kern, Marbach, An Introduction to Husserlian Phenomenology, (Evanston: Northwestern UP, 1993), chapter 2.2. Moreland, J. P., Universals (Chesham, Acumen, 2001). A comprehensive treatment of the problem of universals, with sympathies for Husserl s approach. T.L.S.Sprigge, Facts, Words and Beliefs (London, Routledge, 1970), chapters 2 and 4, (An independent defence of Husserl s concept of ideal objects). 2. Husserl s theory of truth. On method: the phenomenological reduction Authentic and inauthentic thinking: meaning intention and fulfilment (6 th LI), Husserl s concept of truth as fully adequate meaning fulfilment. Epochè and the phenomenological reduction. Two interpretations of the reduction. Phenomenology and its relation to the natural attitude, to science, and to metaphysics. Logical Investigation 6, 4-12 (meaning fulfilment) (truth); Ideas I, and (method). pp , (meaning fulfilment); sections on truth missing; pp and (method) The phenomenological reduction as method Rudolf Bernet, Iso Kern, Eduard Marbach, An Introduction to Husserlian Phenomenology, (Evanston: Northwestern UP, 1993), chapter 2.1 J. J. Drummond, Husserlian Intentionality and Non-Foundational Realism: Noema and Object (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1990), esp. chs. 3 and 6. Peter Poellner, Consciousness in the World: Husserlian Phenomenology and Externalism, in B. Leiter and M. Rosen (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Continental Philosophy (Oxford: OUP, 2007), pp Dan Zahavi, Husserl and Transcendental Intersubjectivity, chapter 1. Truth and meaning fulfilment D. Dahlstrom, Heidegger s Concept of Truth (Cambridge, CUP, 2001), ch A. D. Smith, Husserl and the Cartesian Meditations, pp Pre-predicative experience and the genesis of conceptual thought. The pre-givenness of the world as the ground of all intentional object-constitution ( passive synthesis ). Thematic vs. marginal/background consciousness. The concept of the horizon. The transcendental subject. Experience and Judgement, 7-32; esp (pre-predicative experience & judgement, H.s later understanding of hyle). Ideas I, 27-28, 35-37; Ideas II, (thematic vs pre- 2

3 objective consciousness, the horizon). Ideas I, 92; Ideas II, (transcendental ego). Sections on pre-predicative experience/judgement are missing; pp (the horizon); (horizon and perception); sections on transcendental ego are missing. Selected Secondary Readings: Horizons M. D. Barber, Holism and Horizon: Husserl and McDowell on Non-Conceptual Content, Husserl Studies 24 (2008), pp C. B. Cristensen, Sense, Subject and Horizon, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 53 (1993), pp Geniusas, S., The Origins of the Horizon in Husserl s Phenomenology (Dordrecht, Springer, 2012). Aron Gurwitsch, The Field of Consciousness, (Pittsburgh, Duquesne UP, 1964) Aron Gurwitsch, Marginal Consciousness (Athens, Ohio UP, 1985). D. Welton, World as Horizon, in Donn Welton (ed), The New Husserl (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003) The transcendental subject Dan Zahavi, Self-Awareness and Alterity, chapter 8. Jean-Paul Sartre, The Transcendence of the Ego, (New York: Octagon, 1972). 4. The subject and its time. The temporality of consciousness. The ekstatic nature of original temporality. Absolute vs. objectified subjectivity: why a lived experience is not an object On the Phenomenology of the Consciousness of Internal Time (time consciousness, absolute subjectivity). Ideas I, (lived experiences). pp (time consciousness, absolute subjectivity), pp (lived experiences). Dan Zahavi, Brentano and Husserl on Self-Awareness, in Études Phénoménologiques, 27/28 (1998). ( Chapter 5 of his Self-Awareness and Alterity is a revised version of this essay). For an alternative reading of Husserl on time: J.B.Brough, The Emergence of an Absolute Consciousness in Husserl s Early Writings on Time- Consciousness, in Man and World 5 (1972). Peter Poellner, Nonconceptual content, experience and the self, Journal of Consciousness Studies 10/2, 2003, esp. pp (on absolute subjectivity). Ideas II, 18, (the subject as essentially embodied, the lived body vs. the body-object. Ideas II, 43-47; Cartesian Meditations, 5 th Meditation (alterity and intersubjectivity). pp (the embodied subject; lived body vs. body object), pp (alterity and intersubjectivity). 5. The body and the Other. 3

4 The body E. Behnke, Husserl s Contribution to a Phenomenology of the Body in Ideas II, in T. Nenon & L. Embree (eds) Issues in Husserl s Ideas II (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1996). J. J. Drummond, On Seeing a Material Thing in Space, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 40 ( ), pp Peter Poellner, Consciousness in the World: Husserlian Phenomenology and Externalism, esp. pp Dan Zahavi, Self-Awareness and Alterity, ch. 6. Intersubjectivity: The Other Jan Almäng, Intentionality and Intersubjectivity (Gothenburg: Göteborg University Press, 2007), esp ch. 8 (a development of Husserl s and Merleau-Ponty s accounts). Natalie Depraz, The Husserlian Theory of Intersubjectivity as Alterology, in Journal of Consciousness Studies 8, no 5-7 (2001). (Special issue on intersubjectivity). A. D.Smith, Husserl and the Cartesian Meditation s, ch. 5. Edith Stein, On the Problem of Empathy (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1989). Dan Zahavi, Husserl and Transcendental Intersubjectivity, esp. chapters 1-5. Weeks 6-10: Early Heidegger Texts and translations This part of the module will consist in a detailed study of Heidegger s main work: Being and Time, (BT), trans. John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson (Oxford: Blackwell). In week 6, we shall also look at Heidegger s criticism of Husserl s phenomenology in the 1925 Marburg lectures, published as: History of the Concept of Time, (HCT), trans. Theodore Kisiel, (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992). Lecture/seminar topics: 1. Heidegger s project Critique of classical phenomenology (HCT, 10-13). The question of being (BT, Introduction I). Methodological preliminaries (BT, Introduction II). The task of an analysis of human being (Dasein) and the preliminary sketch of an analysis of Dasein as being-in-the-world). Thematic judgement as a derivative mode of intentionality. (BT, 9-13). Selected Secondary Reading: C. Christensen, What Does the (young) Heidegger Mean by the Seinsfrage?, Inquiry 43 (2000) Hubert Dreyfus, Being-in-the-World: A Commentary on Heidegger s Being and Time (Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1991), chs. 1 and 2. Jean-Luc Marion, Reduction and Givenness (Evanston, Northwestern UP, 1998), esp. ch. 1 and Dasein s average everydayness as absorption in its world Coping with ready-to-hand equipment (BT, 15-18). Being-with others and the Anyone (BT, 25-27). Selected Secondary Reading: On ready-to-hand equipment Dreyfus, Being-in-the-World, chs. 3 and 4. Jean-Luc Marion, Reduction and Givenness (Evanston, Northwestern UP, 1998), esp. ch. 3 ( The Ego and Dasein ). Frederick Olafson, Heidegger a la Wittgenstein or Coping with Professor Dreyfus, Inquiry 37 (1994). Theodore Schatzki Coping with Others with Folk Psychology in M. Wrathall and J. Malpas (eds) Heidegger, Coping and Cognitive Science (Cambridge MA, MIT Press 2000). 4

5 Being-With and das Man Taylor Carman, On Being Social: A Reply to Olafson, Inquiry 37, 1994 Stephen Crowell, Locating the First Person in Being and Time, Inquiry 44 (2001) Dreyfus, Being-in-the-World, ch. 8. Frederick Olafson Heidegger and the Ground of Ethics: A Study of Mitsein (Cambridge, CUP 1998). 3. The structure of being-in as care The three moments of being-in(-the world): Affectivity (thrownness), Understanding (projection), Falling (immersion). (BT, 28-38). Dreyfus, Being-in-the-World, chapters William Blattner, Heidegger s Temporal Idealism (Cambridge: CUP, 1999), ch Authenticity, conscience, and death The privileged attunement of anxiety (BT, 40). Dasein s finitude: death and the call of conscience (BT, 46-60) William Blattner, The Concept of Death in Being and Time in H. Dreyfus and M. Wrathall (eds), Heidegger Reexamined (London: Routledge, 2002), vol. 1. William Bracken, Is there a Puzzle about how Authentic Dasein can Act?, Inquiry 48 (2005). Taylor Carman, Must we be Inauthentic?, in M. Wrathall and J. Malpas, Heidegger, Authenticity and Modernity (Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 2000). (Also other essays in this volume). C. Guignon, Authenticity, Moral Values and Psychotherapy in C. Guignon (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger (Cambridge, CUP, 1993). Beatrice Han-Pile, Freedom and the Choice to Choose Oneself in Being and Time, in Mark Wrathall (ed), The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger s Being and Time (CUP, 2013). Denis McManus (ed), Heidegger, Authenticity and the Self (Routledge, 2015). Ernst Tugendhat, Heidegger on the Relation of Oneself to Oneself: Choosing Oneself in H. Dreyfus and M. Wrathall (eds), Heidegger Reexamined (London: Routledge, 2002), vol Truth and the temporal interpretation of the care structure. On truth (BT, 43-44, 60). The temporality of care (BT, 67-69). Truth Taylor Carman, Heidegger s Analytic: Interpretation, Discourse and Authenticity in Being and Time (Cambridge, CUP 2003), ch. 5. Daniel Dahlstrom, Heidegger s Concept of Truth (Cambridge, CUP 2001), chs. 4 and 5. M. Wrathall, Heidegger and Truth as Correspondence in H. Dreyfus and M. Wrathall (eds), Heidegger Reexamined (London: Routledge, 2002), vol. 2. Time and original temporality William Blattner, Heidegger s Temporal Idealism, chs