The Phenomenological Movement

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XXXVI

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Herbert Spiegelberg

      Pages 1-23

3. The Preparatory Phase

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25

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   2. Franz Brentano (1838–1917): Forerunner of the Phenomenological Movement

      • Herbert Spiegelberg

      Pages 27-52

   3. Carl Stumpf (1848–1936): Founder of Experimental Phenomenology

      • Herbert Spiegelberg

      Pages 53-69

4. The German Phase of the Movement

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71

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   2. The Pure Phenomenology of Edmund Husserl (1859–1938)

      • Herbert Spiegelberg

      Pages 73-167

   3. The Older Phenomenological Movement

      • Herbert Spiegelberg

      Pages 168-227

   4. The Phenomenology of Essences: Max Scheler (1874–1928)

      • Herbert Spiegelberg

      Pages 228-270

   5. Martin Heidegger (1889- ) as a Phenomenologist

      • Herbert Spiegelberg

      Pages 271-357

   6. Phenomenology in the Critical Ontology of Nicolai Hartmann (1882–1950)

      • Herbert Spiegelberg

      Pages 358-391

The present attempt to introduce the general philosophical reader to the Phenomenological Movement by way of its history has itself a history which is pertinent to its objective. It may suitably be opened by the following excerpts from a review which Herbert W. Schneider of Columbia University, the Head of the Division for Internc. . tional Cultural Cooperation, Department of Cultural Activities of Unesco from 1953 to 56, wrote in 1950 from France: The influence of Husser! has revolutionized continental philosophies, not because his philosophy has become dominant, but because any philosophy now seeks to accommodate itself to, and express itself in, phenomenological method. It is the sine qua non of critical respectability. In America, on the contrary, phenomenology is in its infancy. The aver­ age American student of philosophy, when he picks up a recent volume of philosophy published on the continent of Europe, must first learn the "tricks" of the phenomenological trade and then translate as best he can the real import of what is said into the kind of analysis with which he is familiar. . . . . . . No doubt, American education will gradually take account of the spread of phenomenological method and terminology, but until it does, American readers of European philosophy have a severe handicap; and this applies not only to existentialism but to almost all current philosophicalliterature.

• Edmund Husserl
• Martin Heidegger
• Max Scheler
• phenomenology

• Washington University, St. Louis, USA

  Herbert Spiegelberg

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