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The Paper1.General Reading

To gain a general idea of Kant's PhilosophyGeneral books on phenomenology

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Specific AuthorsHusserl

Main TextAdditional TextsSecondary Reading

HeideggerMain TextAdditional TextsSecondary Reading

SartreMain TextAdditional TextsSecondary Reading

Merleau-PontyMain TextAdditional TextsSecondary Reading

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1. The Paper

This paper covers the main philosophers belonging to the school of phenomenology, whichbegan early in the twentieth century with Husserl and was later developed and highly modified

(and given its �existential' form) by Heidegger, Sartre and Merleau-Ponty. As with the

Nineteenth-Century German Philosophy paper, a broad knowledge of Kant's philosophy is aconsiderable advantage. Knowledge of the original languages (German, French) is helpful butnot necessary. In the exam, students are asked to answer three questions, on at least two of theauthors. Most of the questions refer to one philosopher only, but there may be in addition somequestions that are general or comparative (students may be asked, for example, to discuss anaspect of Merleau-Ponty's critique of Sartre). As there is a wide range of questions asked oneach author, it is sufficient for examination purposes to select two philosophers, and to examinetheir doctrines, and the arguments for and against them, in depth and detail. However, in viewof the fact that Heidegger, Sartre and Merleau-Ponty are responding in large part to theirpredecessors, a broad knowledge of all the philosophers on the paper is essential for a fullunderstanding of those you choose to study in detail.

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2. General Reading

The following sections offer suggestions for reading and list some of the central topics studiedfor each philosopher. The most useful books are marked with an asterisk. This is of course notan exhaustive list, and more detailed reading will be required for particular topics.

To gain a general idea of Kant's Philosophy

Gardner, Sebastian. 1999. Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason. London: Routledge.

Scruton, Roger. 1997. Kant. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. Reprinted in GermanPhilosophers: Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

*Wood, Allen. 2005. Kant. Oxford: Blackwell.

Guyer, Paul, ed. 1992. The Cambridge Companion to Kant. Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press.

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General books on phenomenology

Cooper, David. 1991. Existentialism. Oxford: Blackwell. (2 nd edn, 1999.)

*Hammond, J., M. Howarth, and R. Keat. 1991. Understanding Phenomenology. Oxford:Basil Blackwell.

Macann, Christopher. 1993. Four Phenomenological Philosophers: Husserl, Heidegger,Sartre, Merleau-Ponty. London: Routledge.

*Moran, Dermot. 2000. An Introduction to Phenomenology. London: Routledge.

Pivcevic, Edo, ed. 1975. Phenomenology and Philosophical Understanding. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press.

Spiegelberg, Herbert. 1955. The Phenomenological Movement: A Historical Introduction.3 Vols. 3 rd ed. The Hague: Nijhoff, 1982.

Theunissen, Michael. 1984. The Other: Studies in the Social Ontology of Husserl,Heidegger, Sartre, and Buber. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

A selection from the writings of the phenomenologists:

Mooney, Tim, and Dermot Moran, eds. 2002. The Phenomenology Reader. London:Routledge.

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3. Specific Authors


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Husserl (1859 - 1938)

Topics studied include: Husserl's idea of presuppositionless philosophy and relation toDescartes; the phenomenological reduction; Husserl's conception of intentionality and analysisof consciousness; Husserl's theory of time-consciousness; Husserl's theory of the transcendentalego; Husserl's account of other minds.

Main Text

Cartesian Meditations. Translated by Dorion Cairns. The Hague: Nijhoff, 1960.

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The Paris Lectures: An Introduction to Phenomenology. Translated by Dorion Cairns. TheHague: Nijhoff, 1960.

The Idea of Phenomenology. Translated by William P. Alston and George Nakhnikian. TheHague: Nijhoff, 1964.

The Phenomenology of Internal Time-Consciousness. Translated by James S. Churchill.The Hague: Nijhoff, 1964.

Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy. TheHague: Nijhoff, 1980. First Book.

Phenomenology and The Crisis of Philosophy: Philosophy as Rigorous Science; andPhilosophy and the Crisis of European Man. Translated by Quentin Lauer. New York:Harper & Row, 1965.

Husserl: Shorter Works. Edited by P. McCormick and F. A. Elliston. Brighton: HarvesterPress, 1981. Pt. 1, and Ch. 10.

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Secondary Reading

*Bell, David. 1990. Husserl. London: Routledge.

Bernet, R., I. Kern, and E. Marbach. 1993. An Introduction to Husserlian Phenomenology.Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press.

Dreyfus, H. L., ed. 1982. Husserl, Intentionality and Cognitive Science. Cambridge, Mass.:MIT Press.

Elliston, F. A., and P. McCormick, eds. 1977. Husserl: Expositions and Appraisals. NotreDame: University of Notre Dame Press.

Kockelmans, Joseph, ed. 1967. Phenomenology: The Philosophy of Edmund Husserl andIts Interpretation. Garden City, New York: Doubleday.

Levinas, Emmanuel. 1973. The Theory of Intuition in Husserl's Phenomenology. Evanston,Ill.: Northwestern University Press.


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Pivcevic, Edo. 1970. Husserl and Phenomenology. London: Hutchinson.

Ricoeur, Paul. 1967. Husserl: An Analysis of His Phenomenology. Evanston, Ill.:Northwestern University Press.

*Smith, A. D. 2003. Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Husserl and the CartesianMeditations. London: Routledge.

Smith, D. W., and R. McIntyre. 1982. Husserl and Intentionality. A Study of Mind,Meaning and Language. Dordrecht: D. Reidel.

Smith, Barry, and D. Woodruff Smith, eds. 1995. The Cambridge Companion to Husserl.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

*Zahavi, Dan. 2003. Husserl's Phenomenology. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press.

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Heidegger (1889 - 1976)

Topics studied include: Heidegger's question of Being and distinction of Being andbeings/entities; Heidegger's conception of phenomenology and hermeneutics; Heidegger'sanalytic of Dasein; Heidegger's critique of traditional epistemology and metaphysics;Heidegger's conception of authenticity and account of being-towards-death; the laterHeidegger.

Main Text

Being and Time. Translated by John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson. Oxford:Blackwell, 1962.

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The Basic Problems of Phenomenology. Translated by Albert Hofstadter. Bloomington:Indiana University Press, 1981.

History of the Concept of Time: Prolegomena. Translated by Theodore Kisiel.Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985.

An Introduction to Metaphysics. Translated by Ralph Manheim. New Haven, Conn.: YaleUniversity Press, 1959.

Basic Writings from �Being and Time' (1927) to �The Task of Thinking' (1964), edited

by D. F. Krell. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978.

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Secondary Reading

Adorno, Theodor. 1973. The Jargon of Authenticity. Translated by Knut Tarnowski andFrederic Will. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.


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Crowell, Stephen Galt. 2001. Husserl, Heidegger, and Space of Meaning: Paths TowardTranscendental Phenomenology. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press.

*Dreyfus, Hubert. 1991. Being-in-the-World: A Commentary on Heidegger's Being andTime, Division I. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Guignon, Charles. 1983. Heidegger and the Problem of Knowledge. Indianapolis: Hackett.

*Guignon, Charles, ed. 1993. The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press.

Inwood, Michael. 1997. Heidegger. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

*Inwood, Michael. 1999. A Heidegger Dictionary. Oxford: Blackwell.

Macann, Christopher, ed. 1996. Critical Heidegger. London: Routledge.

Murray, Michael, ed. 1978. Heidegger and Modern Philosophy: Critical Essays. NewHaven: Yale University Press.

*Mulhall, Stephen. 1996. Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Heidegger and Being andTime. London: Routledge.

Olafson, Frederick A. 1997. Heidegger and the Philosophy of Mind. New Haven: YaleUniversity Press.

Pattison, George. 2000. Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to the Later Heidegger.London: Routledge.

Polt, Richard. 1998. Heidegger: An Introduction. London: Routledge.

*Richardson, John. 1986. Existential Epistemology: A Heideggerian Critique of theCartesian Project. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Rorty, Richard. 1991. Essays on Heidegger and Others: Philosophical Papers, Vol. 2.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Part I.

Steiner, George. 1992. Heidegger. London: Fontana.

Vogel, Lawrence. 1994. The Fragile "We": Ethical Implications of Heidegger's 'Being andTime'. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press.

Young, Julian. 2001. Heidegger's Later Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge UniversityPress.

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Sartre (1905 - 1980)

Topics studied include: Sartre's early theories of the self, emotion, and imagination; Sartre'stheory of consciousness; Sartre's account of the reality of nothingness; Sartre's theory of badfaith and critique of Freud; Sartre's account of the fundamental project; Sartre's account ofother minds and theory of interpersonal relations; Sartre's anti-determinism and conception offreedom; Sartre's ethics.


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Main Text

Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology. Translated by Hazel E.Barnes. London: Methuen, 1958.

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Additional Texts

'Intentionality: a fundamental idea of Husserl's phenomenology'. Translated by J. P. Fell,Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 1, no 2, 1970, 4-5; also in D. Moran andT. Mooney eds., The Phenomenology Reader, pp. 382-4.

The Transcendence of the Ego: A Sketch for a Phenomenological Description. Translatedby Andrew Brown, introduction by Sarah Richmond. London: Routledge, 2004.

Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions. Translated by Philip Mairet. London: Methuen, 1971.

The Imaginary: A Phenomenological Psychology of the Imagination. Revised by ArletteElkaïm Sartre, translated by Jonathan Webber. London: Routledge, 2003.

Existentialism and Humanism. Translated by Philip Mairet. London: Methuen, 1973.

Notebooks for an Ethics. Translated by David Pellauer. Chicago: University of ChicagoPress, 1992.

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Secondary Reading

Bell, L. 1989. Sartre's Ethics of Authenticity. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.

*Catalano, J. S. 1980. A Commentary on Sartre's �Being and Nothingness'. Chicago:

University of Chicago Press.

Caws, Peter. 1979. Sartre. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

Danto, Arthur C. 1991. Sartre. 2 nd ed. London: Fontana.

le Doeuff, Michèle. 1991. Hipparchia's Choice: Aan Essay Concerning Women,Philosophy, etc. Oxford: Blackwell.

*Hartmann, Klaus. 1966. Sartre's Ontology. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press.

Howells, Christina. 1988. Sartre: The Necessity of Freedom. Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press.

*Howells, Christina, ed. 1992. The Cambridge Companion to Sartre. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press.

King, Magda. 2001. A Guide to Heidegger's Being and Time. Ed. John Llewellyn. Albany,NY: State University of New York Press.

McCulloch, Gregory. 1994. Using Sartre: An Analytical Introduction to Early SartreanThemes. London: Routledge.


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Mészáros, István. 1979. The Work of Sartre. Brighton: Harvester Press.

Morris, P. 1975. Sartre's Concept of a Person: An Analytic Approach. Amherst: Universityof Massachusetts Press.

Murdoch, Iris. 1953. Sartre, Romantic Rationalist. Cambridge: Bowes and Bowes.

Natanson, Maurice. 1972. A Critique of Jean-Paul Sartre's Ontology. New York: HaskellHouse.

*Schilpp, Paul Arthur, ed. 1981. The Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre. La Salle, Ill.: OpenCourt.

Schroeder, William R. 1984. Sartre and His Predecessors: The Self and the Other.London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Silverman, H. J., and F. A. Elliston, eds. 1980. Jean-Paul Sartre: ContemporaryApproaches to His Philosophy. Brighton: Harvester Press.

Whitford, Margaret. 1982. Merleau-Ponty's Critique of Sartre's Philosophy. Lexington,Ken.: French Forum.

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Merleau-Ponty (1908 - 1961)

Topics studied include: Merleau-Ponty's conception of phenomenology; Merleau-Ponty'srelation to empirical psychology; Merleau-Ponty's critique of empiricism and intellectualism (of'objective thought'); Merleau-Ponty's account of perception; Merleau-Ponty's account of

embodiment (�bodily intentionality'); Merleau-Ponty's account of intersubjectivity; Merleau-

Ponty's account of freedom; Merleau-Ponty's critique of Sartre.

Main Text

Phenomenology of Perception. Translated by Colin Smith. Revised edn. London:Routledge, 2002.

[NB Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Basic Writings, ed. Thomas Baldwin (London: Routledge, 2004),contains extensive selections from the Phenomenology of Perception, (excerpts from) earlierand later writings, a helpful Editor's Introduction, and a topic-based guide to Further Reading.]

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Additional Texts

The Structure of Behaviour. Translated by A. Fisher. London: Methuen, 1965.

The Primacy of Perception and Other Essays on Phenomenological Psychology, ThePhilosophy of Art, History and Politics. Translated by James M. Edie. Evanston, Ill.:Northwestern University Press, 1964.

The Visible and The Invisible: Followed by Working Notes. Translated by Alphonso Lingis.Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1968.


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Secondary Reading

*Carman, Taylor, and Mark Hansen, eds. 2004. The Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Gillan, Garth, ed. 1973. The Horizons of the Flesh: Critical Perspectives on the Thought ofMerleau-Ponty. London: Feffer & Simons.

Hoeller, Keith, ed. 1993. Merleau-Ponty and Psychology. Atlantic Highlands, NJ:Humanities Press International.

Johnson, Galen A., ed. 1993. The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader: Philosophy andPainting. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press.

Kaelin, Eugene. 1962. An Existentialist Aesthetic: The Theories of Sartre and Merleau-Ponty. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.

*Langer, Monica M. 1989. Merleau-Ponty's �Phenomenology of Perception': A Guide and

Commentary. Basingstoke: Macmillan.

Madison, Gary. 1981. The Phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty: A Search for the Limits ofConsciousness. Athens: Ohio University Press.

Mallin, Samuel B. 1979. Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Matthews, Eric. 2002. The Philosophy of Merleau-Ponty. Chesham: Acumen.

*Priest, Stephen. 1999. Merleau-Ponty, London: Routledge.

Schmidt, James. 1985. Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Between Phenomenology andStructuralism. Basingstoke: Macmillan.

Stewart, Jon, 1998. The Debate Between Sartre and Merleau-Ponty. Evanston, Ill.:Northwestern University Press.

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