Phenomenology and the Transcendental [Paperback]

The aim of this volume is to offer an updated account of the transcendental character of phenomenology. The main question concerns the sense and relevance of transcendental philosophy today: What can such philosophy contribute to contemporary inquiries and debates after the many reasoned attacks against its idealistic, aprioristic, absolutist and universalistic tendenciesvoiced most vigorously by late 20th century postmodern thinkersas well as attacks against its apparently circular arguments and suspicious metaphysics launched by many analytic philosophers? Contributors also aim to clarify the relations of transcendental phenomenology to other post-Kantian philosophies, most importantly to pragmatism and Wittgensteins philosophical investigations. Finally, the volume offers a set of reflections on the meaning of post-transcendental phenomenology.

Introduction: Methodological, Historical and Conceptual Starting Points Sara Hein?maa, Mirja Hartimo and Timo Miettinen  Part 1: Transcendental Philosophy  1.Transcendental Life Steven Crowell  2. Categories of Experience and the Transcendental L?szl? Tengelyi  3. The Transcendental Nature of Experience Bernhard Obsieger  Part 2: Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity  4.Transcendental Subjectivity and the Human Being Hanne Jacobs  5. Husserl on the Factical and Historical Grounds of the Transcendental Subject Simo Pulkkinen  6. The Animal and the Infant: From Embodiment and Empathy to Generativity Sara Hein?maa  7. Transcendental Social Ontology Timo Miettinen  Part 3: Mind and the World  8. The Emergence and Transformation of Husserls Concept of World David Carr  9. Phenomenological Sourcelã}