The Phenomenology of Essences

This volume explores the phenomenological notion of essence and related concepts. It discusses the role of essences in epistemology, philosophy of language, sociology, philosophical anthropology, transcendental phenomenology, phenomenological realism and idealism, imagination, metaphysics, and mathematics.

Autorentext

Till Grohmann is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Husserl Archives of the KU Leuven Institute of Philosophy. His research focuses on phenomenology, philosophy of language, the philosophy of psychiatry and psychopathology, and poststructuralism. Among his publications is Corps et monde dans l'autisme et la schizophrénie: Approches ontologiques en psychopathologie (2019).

Inhalt

1. Introduction Till Grohmann Part 1: Essences and Ideas in the Early Phenomenological Movement 2. Reinach's Negative States of Affairs and the Role of Essence Kimberly Baltzer-Jaray 3. Jean Hering, Husserl and the Essence of Caesar Daniele De Santis 4. Heidegger's Essentialism Daniel O. Dahlstrom 5. Husserl's Essentialist Reform of Brentano's Axiology Genki Uemura Part 2: Husserl's Phenomenological Eidetics 6. Ideation and Eidetic Variation: A Reconsideration Based on Husserl's Texts Rochus Sowa 7. Cultural Elements in Types and Eidos: The Intersubjective Constitution of Types and Its Effect on the Eidos in Husserl's Phenomenology Dieter Lohmar 8. On 'Logical' and 'Relational' Essences in Husserl's Phenomenology Till Grohmann Part 3: Essences in Logic, Mathematics and Philosophy of Language 9. Husserlian Essences and Analytic Philosophy Paul M. Livingston 10. Phenomenological Essences in Historical Perspective: An Essay on the Transcendental-Phenomenological Project of De-Sedimentation Burt C. Hopkins 11. Metalanguage and Metaconsciousness: How Formal Logic Proceeds Toward True Being Kyle Banick 12. The Ideality of Logic: Reassessing Husserl's Anti-psychologism in the Logical Investigations Denis Seron 13. The Essence of Phenomenology in the Mirror of the Phenomenology of Mathematical Essences Dominique Pradelle Part 4: Beyond Husserl's Essentialism 14. Merleau-Ponty's Later Phenomenology of In-visible Essences Diego D'Angelo 15. Deconstructing Essences: Derrida's Two Criticisms of Essentialism Emanuela Carta 16. Ideality and Essence in Marc Richir Alexander Schnell