This book explores the problem of time and immanence for phenomenology in the work of Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Jacques Derrida. Detailed readings of immanence in light of the more familiar problems of time-consciousness and temporality provide the framework for evaluating both Husserl’s efforts to break free of modern philosophy’s notions of immanence, and the influence Heidegger’s criticism of Husserl exercised over Merleau-Ponty’s and Derrida’s alternatives to Husserl’s phenomenology. Ultimately exploring various notions of intentionality, these in-depth analyses of immanence and temporality suggest a new perspective on themes central to phenomenology’s development as a movement and raise for debate the question of where phenomenology begins and ends.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface.- Introduction: New Beginnings.- Part I: Phenomenology and the Problem of Time.- 1. Time, Intentionality, and Immanence in Modern Subject Idealism.- 2. The Imperfection of Immanence in Husserl’s Phenomenology.- 3. The Living-Present: Absolute time-consciousness and Genuine Phenomenological Immanence.- Part II: The Problem of Time and Phenomenology. – 4. Transcendence: Heidegger and The Turn, the open, ‘The finitude of being … first spoken of in the book on Kant’.- 5. The Truly Transcendental: Merleau-Ponty,un Écart, ‘The Acceptance of the Truth of the Transcendental Analysis‘.- Conclusion: The Ultratranscendental: Derrida and Phenomenology ‘Tormented, if not contested, from within’.