This book presents the current state of theoretical phenomenology today and highlights new perspectives for the overall field. It presents the historical sources of the new transcendental phenomenology where the focus is on Heidegger, Derrida and Richir and where it becomes clear that various basic coordinates of classical phenomenology are questioned or even completely overturned. Further, fundamental questions of phenomenological research are posed and treated anew especially with regard to truth, phenomenality, the absolute and a phenomenological concept of the divine. This leads to the development of a generative phenomenology in the theoretical sense, for which self-reflective processes of sense-formation are at the center. The main thesis is that the new theoretical phenomenology transcends the sphere of the phenomenally given and thereby discovers pre-phenomenality. The book is aimed at researchers, students, and those interested in contemporary philosophy, particularly in the areas of phenomenology and post-structuralism. Since it pursues a phenomenological-speculative approach that ties in with the transcendental philosophies of Kant and Fichte, it is also of interest to those familiar with classical German philosophy who are seeking a connection to contemporary issues.
Chapter
1. Phenomenal Time and Pre-phenomenal Time in Husserl.
Chapter
2. Temporality and Pre-phenomenality in Fink.
Chapter 3. On Heideggers
Transcendentalism. Contingency, Possibilization, The Most
Thought-Worthy.
Chapter 4. Genesis and Writing in Derrida.
Pre-Phenomenality as Quasi-Transcendentality.
Chapter 5. Richirs New
Grounding of Transcendental Phenomenology. Sense-Formation and
Transcendental Matrix.
Chapter 6. Deleuzes Phenomenology of Surface
Effects. A Debate with Richir.
Chapter 7. The Question of Truth from a
Transcendental-Phenomenological Perspective.
Chapter 8. Transcendentality
and Phenomenality.
Chapter 9. Transcendentality, Phenomenality,
Generativity.
Chapter 10. Affectivity and Reality.
Chapter 11. On the
Absolute in Generative Phenomenology.
Chapter 12. Outlines of a Generative
Theo-Ontology.
Alexander Schnell (b. 1971) was a teacher-researcher at various universities in France (most recently at the Sorbonne) from 1998 to 2016. Since 2016, he has been Professor of Theoretical Philosophy and Phenomenology at the University of Wuppertal. There, he heads the Institute for Transcendental Philosophy and Phenomenology (ITP), to which the Marc Richir Archives, the Eugen Fink Center Wuppertal and the Archives for Phenomenological Research are attached. He is president of the Association Internationale de Phénoménologie, which publishes the online journal Annales de Phénoménologie and the book series Mémoires des Annales de Phénoménologie. He is co-editor of the complete Eugen Fink edition (Alber Verlag) and the Zu den Sachen selbst series (Klostermann-Verlag). Alexander Schnell is the author of numerous monographs on phenomenology, which have been translated into several languages.
