This is an open access book which explores phenomenology as both an exceptionally diverse movement in philosophy as well as an active research method that crosses disciplinary boundaries. The volume brings together lively overviews of major areas and schools of phenomenology, as well as the most recent applications across a range of fields.
The first part reviews the state-of-the-art in various areas of contemporary phenomenology, including several distinct schools of Husserl and Heidegger scholarship, as well as approaches derived from Merleau-Ponty, de Beauvoir, Fanon, and others. An innovative quantitative analysis of citation networks provides rich visualizations of the field as a whole. The second part showcases phenomenology as a living discipline that can advance research in other areas. While some areas of interaction between phenomenology and other disciplines are by now well established (e.g. cognitive science), this volume sheds light on newer areas of application. The goal is to move beyond discussions of philosophical method and highlight scholars who are actually doing phenomenology in a variety of areas, including:
- Embodiment and questions of gender, race, and identity,
- The arts (visual art, literature, architecture), and
- Archaeology and anthropology.
This volume offers a concise introduction to cutting edge phenomenological research and is suitable for both students and specialists.
Chapter
1. Introduction.- Part I: Internal Horizons.
Chapter
2.
Bibliometric Analysis of the Phenomenology Literature.
Chapter
3.
Phenomenology Park: The Landscape of Husserlian Phenomenology.
Chapter
4.
Constitution through Noema and Horizon: Husserls Theory of Intentionality.-
Chapter
5. The Problem of the Unity of a Manifold in the Development of
Husserls Philosophy.
Chapter
6. Heideggerian Phenomenology.
Chapter
7. The
Landscape of Merleau-Pontyan Thought.
Chapter
8. Beyond Dreydegger: The
Future of Anglo-American Existential Phenomenology.
Chapter
9. Grenzprobleme
of Phenomenology: Metaphysics.- Part II: External Horizons: Embodiment and
Identity.
Chapter
10. Phenomenology at the Intersection of Gender and Race.-
Chapter 11.The Phenomenology of Zozobra: Mexican and Latinx Philosophers on
(Not) Being at Home in the World.
Chapter
12. Merleau-Ponty and Standpoint
Theory.- Part III: External Horizons: The Arts.
Chapter
13. Are Artists
Phenomenologists?Perspectives from Edith Landmann-Kalischer and Maurice
Merleau-Ponty.
Chapter
14. The Reading Process: An Intertextual Approach.-
Chapter
15. Phenomenology and Architecture: Examining Embodied Experience and
Graphic Representations of the Built Environment.- Part IV: External
Horizons: Archaeology and Anthropology.
Chapter
16. The Life and Afterlife
of Phenomenology in Archaeological Theory and Practice.
Chapter
17.
Reconstructing Past Phenomenology Using Virtual Reality.
Chapter
18.
Anthropological Phenomenology and the Eventive Ground.
Jeff Yoshimi is an Associate Professor and founding faculty member in the department of Cognitive and Information Sciences at UC Merced. His research areas include phenomenology, philosophy of cognitive science, and visualization of complex processes. He is the author of Husserlian Phenomenology: A Unifying Interpretation (Springer, 2016). He has done interdisciplinary work connecting phenomenology with numerous other disciplines, including cognitive science, dynamical systems theory, education, and Asian American Studies. He is the creator of an online resource for Husserl scholarship.
Philip Walsh is a technology researcher at Gartner. He received his PhD in philosophy from the University of California, Irvine. His philosophical research focuses on phenomenology and philosophy of mind, and has been published in The Journal of the History of Philosophy, European Journal of Philosophy, Phenomenology and Cognitive Science, and Continental Philosophy Review.
Patrick Londen is a Lecturer with the Philosophy Department at UC Riverside, where he completed a dissertation on Martin Heideggers account of human agency in Being and Time. He works on phenomenology and existentialism, focusing on figures like Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Simone de Beauvoir, and their insights into philosophical accounts of action. He teaches these subjects alongside courses in ethics, aesthetics, and academic writing.
