Intentionality in Husserl and Heidegger: The Problem of the Original Method and Phenomenon of Phenomenology(11 Contributions to Phenomenology)

This book reassesses the phenomenological 'controversy' between Husserl and Heidegger over the proper status of the phenomenon of intentionality. It seeks to determine whether Heidegger's hermeneutical critique of intentionality is sensitive to Husserl's reflective account of its 'Sachen selbst'. Hopkins argues that Heidegger's critique is directed toward the 'cogito' modality of intentionality, and therefore, passes over its 'non-actional', or 'horizonal', dimension in Husserl's phenomenology. As a result of this, he concludes that Heidegger misinterprets Husserl's account of the intentional 'immanence' exhibited by phenomenological reflection. On the basis of these findings, Hopkins suggests that the phenomenological methodology, operative in the so-called hermeneutic critique of transcendental consciousness, itself involves transcendental 'presuppositions' that are most appropriately characterized in terms of intentional, and reflective, phenomena.

Table of Contents:
One Husserl’s Phenomenological Account of Intentionality.- One: Husserl’s Phenomenological Method.- Two: The Intentionality of Logical Significance and Material Ontological Meaning.- Three: The intentionality of Psychologically Pure Consciousness.- Four: The Intentionality of Transcendentally Pure Consciousness.- Two Heidegger’s Phenomenological Account of Intentionality.- Five: Heidegger’s Concept of Phenomenology.- Six: The Phenomenological Inquiry into the Being of Intentionality.- Seven: Being in the World Manifests Dasein’s Original Transcendence.- Eight: The Temporal Meaning of Transcendence.- Three The Confrontation of Husserl’s and Heidegger’s Accounts of Intentionality.- Nine: The Phenomenological Method: Reflective or Hermeneutical?.- Ten: Intentionality: An Original or Derived Phenomenon?.- Four Discussion of the Conclusions.- Eleven: Gadamer’s Assessment of the Controversy between Husserl and Heidegger.- Twelve: Ricoeur’s Attempted Rapprochement Between Phenomenology and Hermeneutics.- Thirteen: Mohanty’s Account of the Complementarity of Descriptive and Interpretive Phenomenology.- Fourteen: Crowell’s Account of Husserl’s and Heidegger’s Divergent Interpretations of Phenomenology’s Transcendental Character.- Fifteen: Landgrebe’s Critique of Husserl’s Theory of Phenomenological Reflection.- Table of Abbreviations.- Notes.- Selected Bibliography.