Contributions to Phenomenology
2026
Daniele Nuccilli
Abstract In the Beiträge zur Phänomenologie der Wahrnehmung , Wilhelm Schapp develops a phenomenology of perception centered on how the world manifests itself to the senses. Building on and extending Husserl’s account, the analysis shows how the thing of everyday experience appears as a unified object whose “character of reality” emerges through the interplay of the senses. This expansion...
Contributions to Phenomenology
2023
Robin M. Muller
Abstract Merleau-Ponty wrote prolifically throughout his life on psychology, aesthetics, and politics, on pedagogy, physics, and painting. Between his appointment to the Université de Lyon in 1945 and his sudden death in Paris in 1961—a copy of Descartes’Dioptriqueon the desk in front of him—the survey of courses he taught is dizzying in scope. For all its promise, however, the...
Contributions to Phenomenology
2023
Steven Crowell
AbstractWith the publication of theHusserlianaseries and Heidegger’sGesamtausgabeboth nearing completion, a strikingly different picture of their work than was available to earlier generations is emerging. It has become quite clear that phenomenological philosophy is not a fixed “system” but an ongoing philosophical practice that has much to contribute to debates in contemporary philosophy...
Contributions to Phenomenology
2023
Céline Leboeuf
Abstract: Research on the experience of gendered embodiment, on the one hand, and racialized embodiment, on the other hand, has emerged as an important tradition in phenomenology thanks to the works of Simone de Beauvoir inThe Second Sex(1949) and Frantz Fanon inBlack Skin, White Masks(1952) respectively. Beauvoir’s work has been prolonged by pioneering feminist phenomenologists, such as Iris...
Contributions to Phenomenology
2023
Hakhamanesh Zangeneh
AbstractWas Heidegger a phenomenologist? Can his work be considered phenomenological? Can he be affiliated with phenomenology in some way beyond biographical contingencies? The answer to these questions is neither obvious nor uncontroversial. In the following, I propose to address these questions by starting from a typology of the literature on Heidegger. My hope is that with such an overview...
Contributions to Phenomenology
2023
Patrick Londen
Abstract: Although there are many philosophers responsible for introducing phenomenology to philosophy departments in the United States and United Kingdom (e.g. Charles Taylor and Richard Rorty), arguably none has been as broadly influential as Hubert Dreyfus (1929–2017). It may not be too much of an exaggeration to claim (as some have; see Kelly, 2005), that the reading of Heidegger taught in...
Contributions to Phenomenology
2023
Pablo Contreras Kallens, Jeff Yoshimi
Abstract: More has been written about phenomenology than could possibly be read in a single person’s lifetime, or even in several lifetimes. Despite its unwieldy size, this vast “horizon” of literary output has a tractable structure. We leverage the tools of bibliometrics to study the structure of the phenomenology literature, and test several hypotheses about it. We create an author-wise...
Contributions to Phenomenology
2023
Holley Moyes
Abstract: In 1994, Christopher Tilley published his treatise, A Phenomenology of Landscape: Places, Paths and Monuments, that stimulated what has been referred to as the phenomenological “moment” in archaeology. Invoking Heideggerian phenomenology and following Merleau-Ponty, Tilley’s methods met with harsh criticism among many in the archaeological community. To some, Tilley’s...
Contributions to Phenomenology
2023
John J. Drummond
AbstractPerplexed was I when invited to contribute a paper addressing the “landscape of Husserlian phenomenology.” I had no idea of the intended import of the landscape-metaphor. The issue was further complicated by the fact that the paper was to be part of a collection titled “Horizons of Phenomenology.” “Horizons” I get; it’s a technical term for Husserl, who distinguishes between inner and...
Contributions to Phenomenology
2023
Christopher Stephan, C. Jason Throop
Abstract: This chapter theorizes the phenomenological potential of anthropology through an examination of what we will call the “eventive ground” of ethnographic knowledge. Though anthropologists and phenomenologists have reacted to one another’s work, including the now famous early correspondence between Husserl and Levy Bruhl (see Sato, 2014; Throop, 2018), it has only been over the past few...