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John J. Drummond is the Robert Southwell S.J. Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and the Humanities at Fordham University in the city of New York. He has written extensively on Husserl, phenomenology, the emotions, and ethics.Comprising four sections—chronology, introduction, the dictionary itself, and a bibliography, all reviewed and updated for this second edition (first edition, CH, Jul'08, 45-5903)—Historical Dictionary of Husserl's Philosophy provides a useful reference guide for newcomers to Edmund Husserl (1859–1938) as well as for more advanced scholars. The chronology provides information about Husserl’s education and personal life, along with interesting notes about his encounters with other intellectuals of his time and dates of his seminars and publications. The entries are concise, and reflect the complexities surrounding scholarly disagreement about concepts. The updated, extensive bibliography is organized by category, making connections between secondary sources evident. Entries are cross-referenced. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.
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Edmund Husserl is generally regarded as the founding figure of the philosophical movement of “phenomenology,” by which he understands a descriptive science of the essential structures of experiences and of their objects precisely as these are experienced. Phenomenology has had a decisive influence on philosophy in the 20th century, especially in Europe. The movement known as “continental philosophy,” whether practiced in Europe or elsewhere, has its roots in phenomenology and in the post-Hegelian philosophies of Søren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Karl Marx.
Historical Dictionary of Husserl's Philosophy, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 600 cross-referenced entries on his key concepts and major writings as well as entries on his most important predecessors, contemporaries, and successors. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Edmund Husserl.
Historical Dictionary of Husserl's Philosophy, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 600 cross-referenced entries on his key concepts and major writings as well as entries on his most important predecessors, contemporaries, and successors.
Editor’s Foreword Jon Woronoff
Preface
Chronology
Introduction
THE DICTIONARY
Bibliography
About the Author
There is a lot to like about Scarecrow's various Historical Dictionaries series. -Booklist The scope of this series-as its title hints-is truly vast and the number of volumes continues rising to above seventy at present. The works on religion are the most numerous, ranging from world religions like Catholicism or Islam to smaller or more local ones like the Shakers and the Friends (Quakers), from the major Western denominations including Lutheranism or the Baptists to Eastern faiths like Buddhism and Shinto, with a smattering of less strictly defined contingents such as Shamanism and New Age Movements, to say nothing of the marginal but still interesting Witchcraft. The philosophies stretch from Ancient Greek Philosophy, to Medieval Philosophy, to the philosophies of Leibniz, Nietzsche, Hegel and others, and specific categories include Epistemology and Ethics. The movements are many and varied: Civil Rights, Environmentalism, Feminism, and Zionism, just to mention a few. Like all the other series these volumes are written by highly qualified authors with an impressive knowledge of their subject, and who are themselves well known in their field. They apply the now standard format for historical dictionaries. This includes a list of acronyms, chronology and introduction up front and appendixes and bibliography in the back but the the core of the book is the -dictionary+ with literally hundreds of entries on important persons, places and events, concepts and institutions, holy books for the religions, philosophical treatises for the philosophies, and declarations or platforms for the movements, organizations, institutions, activities, and issues.
Series Editor: Jon Woronoff