Abstract

A translation of selected parts from the first volume of the Polish phenomenologist's two volume work, The Controversy Over the Existence of the Real World. While its major theme is the relationship between consciousness and the real world, the specific aim of the chapters gathered here is to determine systematically what kind of existence belongs to the real world—if any. Ingarden undertakes an eidetic analysis of various concepts of existence and deals with such problems as causality and the differences between processes, events and objects.—A. B. D.