About the Book
The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Phenomenology presents twenty-eight essays by some of the leading figures in the field, and gives an authoritative overview of the type of work and range of topics found and discussed in contemporary phenomenology. The essays aim to articulate and develop original theoretical perspectives. Some of them are concerned with issues and questions typical and distinctive of phenomenological philosophy, while others address
questions familiar to analytic philosophers, but do so with arguments and ideas taken from phenomenology. Some offer detailed analyses of concrete phenomena; others take a more comprehensive perspective and seek to
outline and motivate the future direction of phenomenology. The handbook will be a rich source of insight and stimulation for philosophers, students of philosophy, and for people working in other disciplines of the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, who are interested in the state of phenomenology today. It is the definitive guide to what is currently going on in phenomenology. It includes discussions of such diverse topics as intentionality, embodiment, perception,
naturalism, temporality, self-consciousness, language, knowledge, ethics, politics, art and religion, and will make it clear that phenomenology, far from being a tradition of the past, is alive and in a
position to make valuable contributions to contemporary thought.
Table of Contents:
Dan Zahavi: Introduction
I Subjectivity and Nature
1: David Cerbone: Phenomenological Method: Reflection, Introspection, and Skepticism
2: Steven Crowell: Transcendental Phenomenology and the Seductions of Naturalism: Subjectivity, Consciousness, and Meaning
3: Charles Siewert: Respecting appearances: A phenomenological approach to consciousness
4: Shaun Gallagher: On the possibility of naturalizing phenomenology
5: Renaud Barbaras: The phenomenology of life: desire as the being of the subject
II Intentionality, Perception and Embodiment
6: John Drummond: Intentionality without representationalism
7: D.W. Smith: Perception, context and direct realism
8: Junichi Murata: Colors and sounds: The field of visual and auditory consciousness
9: Donn Welton: Bodily Intentionality, Affectivity and Basic Affects
10: Komarine Romdenh-Romluc: Thought in action
11: Sara Heinämaa: Sex, Gender and Embodiment
12: Ed Casey: At the edge(s) of my body
III Self and Consciousness
13: Laszlo Tengelyi: Action and selfhood: a narrative interpretation
14: Dorothée Legrand: Self-consciousness and world-consciousness
15: Dan Zahavi: Self, consciousness and shame
IV Language, thinking, and knowledge
16: Walter Hopp: The (many) foundations of knowledge
17: Dominique Pradelle: The phenomenological foundations of predicative structure
18: Dieter Lohmar: Language and non-linguistic thinking
19: Hans Bernhard Schmid: Sharing in Truth: Phenomenology of Epistemic Commonality
V Ethics, politics, and sociality
20: Bernhard Waldenfels: Responsive ethics
21: Klaus Held: Towards a Phenomenology of the Political World
22: Søren Overgaard: Other People
VI Time and history
23: David Carr: Experience and history
24: Nicolas de Warren: The forgiveness of time and consciousness
25: Günter Figal: Hermeneutic Phenomenology
VII Art and religion
26: John Brough: Something That Is Nothing but Can Be Anything: the Image and Our Consciousness of It
27: Rudolf Bernet: Phenomenological and aesthetic epochè: Painting the invisible things themselves.
28: Anthony Steinbock: Evidence in the phenomenology of religious experience
About the Author :
Dan Zahavi is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Copenhagen, Director of the Center for Subjectivity Research, and co-editor in chief of the journal Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. He is past president of the Nordic Society for Phenomenology (2001-2007). His publications include Husserl und die transzendentale Intersubjektivität (1996), Self-awareness and Alterity (1999), Husserl's Phenomenology (2003),
Subjectivity and Selfhood (2005), Phänomenologie für Einsteiger (2007), and The Phenomenological Mind (with Shaun Gallagher) (2008).
Review :
`the volume as a whole is ample evidence that phenomenology perdures, being on a philosophical and methodological trajectory that has seen out the 20th century and is alive and kicking in the 21st ... this Handbook justifies some optimism about both what the future holds for phenomenology, and what phenomenology promises to contribute to the future of philosophy.'
Jack Reynolds, Philosophy in Review
`A decisive contribution to the field, this volume likely will become standard reading in phenomenology courses.'
J. A. Simmons, CHOICE
`This volume is the first of its kind to provide such a comprehensive survey of contemporary research in phenomenology. The editor has assembled an impressive cast of authoritative contributors to produce what will undoubtedly become a much used, stimulating, and invaluable reference book in the field of philosophical phenomenology.'
Dennis Seron, Husserl Studies
`Dan Zahavi has done a truly marvelous job. He has amassed essays of outstanding quality, replete with fascinating ideas, imaginative examples, and above all, carefully constructed arguments. There are critical and insightful phenomenological analyses of topics that run the gamut ... a state-of-the art presentation of research conducted in, through, or inspired by, phenomenology. Given the breadth of the issues examined in it, the clarity of presentation,
and the strength of argumentation, the volume is a remarkable achievement.'
Andrea Elpidorou, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
