In the name of phenomenology / Simon Glendinning.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgements -- Introduction : opening words -- 1. What is phenomenology? -- Faces of phenomenology -- pt. 1. Outlook -- Inheriting philosophy -- Modernism in philosophy -- pt. 2. Theses -- Thesis one : No 'theses in philosophy' -- Thesis two : 'Description, not explanation or analysis' -- Thesis three : 'Re-look at the world without blinkers' -- Thesis four : No view 'from the sideways perspective' -- Thesis five : 'We must go back to the "things themselves"' -- Where's the beef? -- Quietism -- 2. The emergence of phenomenology : Brentano and Husserl -- The dream of phenomenology -- pt. 1. The legacy of Brentano -- The subjectivity of the mental -- The intentionality doctrine -- pt. 2. Husserl's analysis of signs -- Indication and expression -- The primacy of expression : Husserl -- The primacy of indication : Heidegger and Derrida -- pt. 3. Husserl's Cartesian meditations -- The Cartesian starting point -- The opening of transcendental phenomenology -- Husserl's master argument and the inward turn --

3. Phenomenology as fundamental ontology : Martin Heidegger -- The new beginning again-- pt. 1. Fundamental ontology -- The question of being -- The inquiry into the meaning of 'being' -- The essence and end of philosophy -- pt. 2. The phenomenology of Dasein -- The forgotten question -- The analytic of Dasein -- pt. 3. Being and the nothing -- Conceding nothing -- Anxiety and the nothing -- Twilight of the idols -- 4. Existential phenomenology : Jean-Paul Sartre -- The 'has been' -- pt. 1. The assault on idealism -- Realism and idealism -- The being of the subject -- The being of the object -- pt. 2. Being and nothingness -- Sartre's négatités -- At home in the world -- pt. 3. Moral phenomenology -- Freedom -- Our moral situation -- Kierkegaardian exemplarism -- Mündig man --

5. Phenomenology of perception : Maurice Merleau-Ponty -- Every-renewed beginnings -- pt. 1. A preface for phenomenology -- What we have been waiting for -- pt. 2. A new phenomenological reduction -- The forswearing of science -- The priority argument -- The true cogito -- The critique of objective thought -- pt. 3. The body prior to science -- Towards the incarnate subject -- Language and gesture -- A genius for ambiguity -- 6. Phenomenology and the other : Emmanuel Levinas -- Levinas arrives -- pt. 1. The Levinasian thicket -- Levinas' writing -- The transcendence of totality -- The unreasonable animal -- The otherness of others and of things -- pt. 2. Levinas contra Heidegger and contra Husserl -- Leaving Heidegger -- Leaving Husserl -- Leaving home -- pt. 3. The rehabilitation of sensation -- The other as sensibly given -- Sensible pleasure -- Reading the other --

7. Interrupting phenomenology : Jacques Derrida -- In the name of phenomenology -- pt. 1. A preface to what remains to come -- The truth of man-- The exergue -- pt. 2. The rehabilitation of writing -- Situating the linguistic turn -- Writing and iterability -- pt. 3. Deconstructing humanism -- The difference between humans and animals -- Beyond the truth of man -- Closing words -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.