Glendinning, Simon, 1964-

In the name of phenomenology / Simon Glendinning. - xi, 268 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgements -- Introduction : opening words -- What is phenomenology? -- Faces of phenomenology -- Outlook -- Inheriting philosophy -- Modernism in philosophy -- 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 -- emergence of phenomenology : Brentano and Husserl -- dream of phenomenology -- legacy of Brentano -- subjectivity of the mental -- intentionality doctrine -- Husserl's analysis of signs -- Indication and expression -- primacy of expression : Husserl -- primacy of indication : Heidegger and Derrida -- Husserl's Cartesian meditations -- Cartesian starting point -- opening of transcendental phenomenology -- Husserl's master argument and the inward turn -- 1. pt. 1. pt. 2. 2. The The pt. 1. The The The pt. 2. The The pt. 3. The The Phenomenology as fundamental ontology : Martin Heidegger -- new beginning again-- Fundamental ontology -- question of being -- inquiry into the meaning of 'being' -- essence and end of philosophy -- phenomenology of Dasein -- forgotten question -- analytic of Dasein -- Being and the nothing -- Conceding nothing -- Anxiety and the nothing -- Twilight of the idols -- Existential phenomenology : Jean-Paul Sartre -- 'has been' -- assault on idealism -- Realism and idealism -- being of the subject -- being of the object -- Being and nothingness -- Sartre's négatités -- At home in the world -- Moral phenomenology -- Freedom -- Our moral situation -- Kierkegaardian exemplarism -- Mündig man -- 3. The pt. 1. The The The pt. 2. The The The pt. 3. 4. The pt. 1. The The The pt. 2. pt. 3. Phenomenology of perception : Maurice Merleau-Ponty -- Every-renewed beginnings -- preface for phenomenology -- What we have been waiting for -- new phenomenological reduction -- forswearing of science -- priority argument -- true cogito -- critique of objective thought -- body prior to science -- Towards the incarnate subject -- Language and gesture -- genius for ambiguity -- Phenomenology and the other : Emmanuel Levinas -- Levinas arrives -- Levinasian thicket -- Levinas' writing -- transcendence of totality -- unreasonable animal -- otherness of others and of things -- Levinas contra Heidegger and contra Husserl -- Leaving Heidegger -- Leaving Husserl -- Leaving home -- rehabilitation of sensation -- other as sensibly given -- Sensible pleasure -- Reading the other -- 5. pt. 1. A pt. 2. A The The The The pt. 3. The A 6. pt. 1. The The The The pt. 2. pt. 3. The The Interrupting phenomenology : Jacques Derrida -- In the name of phenomenology -- preface to what remains to come -- truth of man-- exergue -- rehabilitation of writing -- Situating the linguistic turn -- Writing and iterability -- Deconstructing humanism -- difference between humans and animals -- Beyond the truth of man -- Closing words -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 7. pt. 1. A The The pt. 2. The pt. 3. The

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