This Oxford Handbook offers a broad critical survey of the development of phenomenology, one of the main streams of philosophy since the 19th century. Comprising 37 specially written essays by leading figures in the field, it will be the authoritative guide to how phenomenology started, how it developed, and where it is heading.

Dan Zahavi: Introduction Part I: Traditions 1: Pavlos Kontos: Aristotle in phenomenology 2: Sara Heinämaa & Timo Kaitaro: Descartes' Notion of the Mind-Body Union and its Phenomenological Expositions 3: Sebastian Luft: Kant, Neo-Kantianism, and Phenomenology 4: Alexander Schnell: Phenomenology and German Idealism 5: Denis Fisette: Phenomenology and Descriptive Psychology: Brentano, Stumpf, Husserl Part II: Figures 6: Peter Andras Varga: Husserl's Early Period: Juvenilia and the Logical Investigations 7: John Drummond: Husserl's Middle Period and the Development of his Ethics 8: Andrea Staiti: Pre-Predicative Experience and Life-World: Two Distinct Projects in Husserl's Late Phenomenology 9: Zachary Davis and Anthony Steinbock: Scheler on the Moral and Political Significance of the Emotions 10: Antonio Calcagno: Edith Stein's Challenge to Sense-Making: The Role of the Lived Body, Psyche and Spirit 11: Daniel O. Dahlstrom: The Early Heidegger's Phenomenology 12: Steven Crowell: The Middle Heidegger's Phenomenological Metaphysics 13: Tobias Keiling: Phenomenology and Ontology in the Later Heidegger 14: Michael D. Barber: Schutz and Gurwitsch on Agency 15: Jonathan Webber: Sartre's Transcendental Phenomenology 16: Thomas R. Flynn: The Later Sartre: From Phenomenology to Hermeneutics to Dialectic and Back 17: Debra Bergoffen: Simone de Beauvoir: Philosopher, Author, Feminist 18: Komarine Romdenh-Romluc: Science in Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology: From the Early Work to the Later Philosophy 19: Donald A. Landes: Merleau-Ponty from 1945 to 1952: The Ontological Weight of Perception and the Transcendental Force of Description 20: Emmanuel de Saint Aubert: Rereading the Later Merleau-Ponty in the Light of his Unpublished Work 21: James Dodd: Jan Patocka's Philosophical Legacy 22: Leonard Lawlor: An Immense Power: The Three Phenomenological Insights supporting Derridean Deconstruction 23: Robert Bernasconi: When Alterity becomes Proximity: Levinas's Path 24: Christina Gschwandtner: Turn to Excess: The Development of Phenomenology in Late Twentieth Century French Thought Part III: Themes 25: Karl Mertens: Phenomenological Methodology 26: Rudolf Bernet: Subjectivity: From Husserl to His Followers (and Back Again) 27: Nicolas de Warren: The Inquietude of Time and the Instance of Eternity: Husserl, Heidegger, and Levinas 28: Sara Heinämaa: Embodiment and Bodily Becoming 29: Filip Mattens: From the Origin of Spatiality to a Variety of Spaces 30: Dermot Moran: Intentionality: Lived Experience, Bodily Comportment, and the Horizon of the World 31: Alessandro Salice: Practical Intentionality: From Brentano to the Phenomenology of the Munich and Göttingen Circles 32: Walter Hopp: Ideal Verificationism and Perceptual Faith: Husserl and Merleau-Ponty on Perceptual Knowledge 33: Hanne Jacobs: The World of Experience 34: Julia Jansen: Imagination De-Naturalized: Phantasy, the Imaginary, and Imaginative Ontology 35: Sophie Loidolt: Value, Freedom, Responsibility: Central Themes in Phenomenological Ethics 36: Hans Ruin: Historicity and the Hermeneutic Predicament: from Yorck to Derrida 37: Dan Zahavi: Intersubjectivity, Sociality, Community: The Contribution of the Early Phenomenologists

What in light of phenomenology's past does the future hold? The horizon is open, as yet undecided. This text, should it prove successful, will have provided a definitive last word on what phenomenology is-or better, was.

The definitive historical guide to one of the main streams of modern philosophy The three parts focus on historical roots and influences; on individual phenomenologists; and on key themes in phenomenology Discusses Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, Beauvoir, Levinas, and many other great modern thinkers Covers mind, body, self, time, space, action, perception, imagination, ethics, and many other topics An illustrious line-up of authors from North America, Europe, the UK, and Ireland Companion volume to the Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Phenomenology (2012)

Dan Zahavi is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Subjectivity Research at the University of Copenhagen. He is author and editor of more than 25 volumes including Husserl's Phenomenology (Stanford 2003), Subjectivity and Selfhood (MIT Press 2005), The Phenomenological Mind together with S. Gallagher (Routledge 2008), Self and Other (OUP 2014), and most recently Husserl's Legacy (OUP 2017). He is co-editor in chief of the journal Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, and he edited the Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Phenomenology (OUP 2012).

The definitive historical guide to one of the main streams of modern philosophy The three parts focus on historical roots and influences; on individual phenomenologists; and on key themes in phenomenology Discusses Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, Beauvoir, Levinas, and many other great modern thinkers Covers mind, body, self, time, space, action, perception, imagination, ethics, and many other topics An illustrious line-up of authors from North America, Europe, the UK, and Ireland Companion volume to the Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Phenomenology (2012)