Introduction / 1. Phenomenological Method I / 2. The Perceptual World / 3. Moving Up: Origins of Ideality / 4. Moving Down: Origins of Perception / 5. Phenomenological Method II: From Stasis to Genesis / 6. Motivating the Turn toward History / 7. Origins of (Inter-)Subjectivity / 8. Phenomenological Method III: Historical Phenomenology / 9. Phenomenology of History: Possibilities and Problems/ 10. Cultural Worlds, or the Good and the Beautiful / Postscript: Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty / Bibliography / Index
Tanja Staehler is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Sussex. She is the author of Die Unruhe des Anfangs. Hegel und Husserl auf dem Weg in die ‘Phänomenologie’ (2003), Plato and Levinas: The Ambiguous Out-Side of Ethics (2010), and (with Michael Lewis) Phenomenology: An Introduction (2010), as well as articles on method, dance and childbirth.
Hegel, Husserl and the Phenomenology of Historical Worlds is a
profound treatment of the genesis of life-worlds in their cultural
and historical dimensions. Starting with a highly perceptive
comparison of Hegel and Husserl as contrasting phenomenologists,
Tanja Staehler shows brilliantly how the two thinkers, despite
certain affinities, diverge on matters of time and history, the
nature of knowledge and the place of others. Derrida and Irigaray
emerge as contemporary figures who offer essential correctives to
their two German predecessors. The book ends with pellucid
reflections on such basic issues as morality, death, and mood. This
is a beautifully written text that opens up genuinely new
directions of thought for understanding today’s troubled world.
*Edward S. Casey, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, SUNY at
Stony Brook; author of The Fate of Place and The World at a
Glance.*
This is an important study of Hegel’s philosophy and Husserl’s
phenomenology in relation to each other. Staehler convincingly
demonstrates how both Hegel and Husserl approach philosophy through
historical and cultural worlds and how their methodologies
ultimately relate to Heidegger’s concept of Being-in-the-world.
While Staehler explains the parallels between Hegel and Husserl,
she is also sensitive to their differences. The book is
well-written, clear and displays a critical sensitivity to
methodology.
*Ferit Güven, Professor of Philosophy, Earlham College*
Staehler’s book is important for bringing bring German Idealism and
Phenomenology into dialogue in a way that is illuminating for both
traditions. Even more important, however, is the book’s central
question regarding the possibility of philosophical reflection and
the centrality of historical embeddedness for its emergence. Her
exploration of the issue is lucid and thought-provoking and invites
the reader - in the way that philosophy at its best can do - to
revisit those aspects of our experience which are fundamental yet
mostly unthematized.
*James McGuirk, Professor of Philosophy, Nord University*
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