Husserl and Heidegger on Reduction, Primordiality, and the Categorial

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxvi

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction

      • Panos Theodorou

      Pages 3-14

3. Method and Possibilities of Phenomenology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. The Phenomenological Reductions in Husserl’s Phenomenology

      • Panos Theodorou

      Pages 17-66

   3. Heidegger and the Phenomenological Reductions in Husserl

      • Panos Theodorou

      Pages 67-102

4. Key Husserlian Teachings and Heidegger’s View

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103

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   2. Perception and ‘Action’: On the Praxial Structure of Intentional Consciousness

      • Panos Theodorou

      Pages 105-137

   3. Perceptual and Scientific Thing: On Husserl’s Analysis of “Nature-Thing” in Ideas II

      • Panos Theodorou

      Pages 139-161

   4. Primordial Givenness in Husserl and Heidegger

      • Panos Theodorou

      Pages 163-202

   5. The Question of ‘Categoriality’ in Husserl’s Analysis of Perception and Heidegger’s View of It

      • Panos Theodorou

      Pages 203-241

5. Heidegger’s Advancement and Course

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 243-243

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   2. Husserl’s Doctrine of “Categorial Intuition” and Heidegger’s Seinsfrage

      • Panos Theodorou

      Pages 245-294

   3. The Phenomenology of Anxiety and of Nothing: Ontology and Logic in Heidegger

      • Panos Theodorou

      Pages 295-330

6. Phenomenology at Its Limits

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 331-331

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   2. Hence and Thence Phenomenology’s Borderline

      • Panos Theodorou

      Pages 333-367

7. Back Matter

   Pages 369-381

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This book deals with foundational issues in Phenomenology as they arise in the smoldering but tense dispute between Husserl and Heidegger, which culminates in the late 1920s. The work focuses on three key issues around which a constellation of other important problems revolves. More specifically, it elucidates the phenomenological method of the reductions, the identity and content of primordial givenness, and the meaning and character of categorial intuition. The text interrogates how Husserl and Heidegger understand these points, and clarifies the precise nature of their disagreements. The book thus sheds light on the meaning of intentionality and of its foundation on pre-objective time, on the sense of the phenomenological a priori, on intentional constitution, on the relatedness between intentionality and world, and on Heidegger’s debt to Husserl’s categorial intuition in formulating the question regarding Being/Nothing.

The author revisits these fundamental issues in order to suggest a general intra-phenomenological settlement, and to do justice to the corresponding contributions of these two central figures in phenomenological philosophy. He also indicates a way of reconciling and interweaving some of their views in order to free Phenomenology from its inner divisions and limitations, enabling it to move forward. Phenomenology can re-examine itself, its obligations, and its possibilities, and this can be of benefit to contemporary philosophy, especially with regard to problems concerning consciousness, intentionality, experience, and human existence and praxis within a historical world in crisis.

This book is ideally suited to students and scholars of Husserl and Heidegger, to philosophers of mind, consciousness and cognition, and to anyone with a serious interest in Phenomenology.

• Categorial Experience
• Heidegger on Nothing
• Heidegger’s Critique of Husserl
• Husserl’s Understanding of Heidegger
• Nature-thing in Husserl’s Phenomenology
• Nothing and Logic
• Perception and Action
• Phenomenological Conception of Truth
• Phenomenological Psychology
• Phenomenological Reduction
• Phenomenology of Anxiety
• Phenomenology of Perception
• Primordial Givenness
• Transcendnetal Phenomenology

• Dept. of Philosophy & Social Studies, University of Crete, Rethymno, Greece

  Panos Theodorou

Panos Theodorou is now assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Crete, Greece. He is the author of the book "Perception and Theory as Practices: Phenomenological Exercises on the Constitution of Objectivities" (2006) (in Greek) and has published internationally articles on Phenomenology, philosophy of science, and philosophy of emotions and values. He has also translated into Greek and commented the corpus of texts written by Husserl and Heidegger for the “Britannica Artikel” project (2005) and "Husserl’s Crisis of the European Sciences" (2011).

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