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Cover -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- TRANSLATOR AND EDITOR8217;S INTRODUCTION -- I. The Empiricist Conception of Consciousness -- II. Consciousness and Identity -- III. The Phenomenological Reduction -- IV. The Sequential Order of the Perceptual Constitution of Objects -- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF ARON GURWITSCH -- I. Studies in Germany -- II. Career in France -- III. Half of Life in U.S.A. -- IV. Final Assessment -- AN OUTLINE OF CONSTITUTIVE PHENOMENOLOGY -- AUTHOR8217;S INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER I. THE PROBLEM OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF CONSCIOUSNESS -- CHAPTER II. THE NATURAL ATTITUDE AND THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL REDUCTION -- CHAPTER III. THE CONCEPTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS -- CHAPTER IV. THE STRUCTURE OF THE PERCEPTUAL NOEMA -- ESSAYS -- ESSAY I. SOME FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF CONSTITUTIVE PHENOMENOLOGY -- I. The Equivalent of Consciousness -- II. The Object as Transcendental Clue -- III. The General Structures of Evidence -- IV. Objects and Consciousness -- V. The Phenomenological Reduction -- VI. Conclusion -- ESSAY II. THEME AND ATTITUDE -- ESSAY III. HUSSERL8217;S THEORY OF THE INTENTIONALITY OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE -- I. Historical Roots of Husserl8217;s Problems -- II. Outlines of the Theory of Intentionality -- III. Conclusion -- ESSAY IV. TOWARDS A THEORY OF INTENTIONALITY -- ESSAY V. THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF PERCEPTION: PERCEPTUAL IMPLICATIONS -- I. The Classical Theory -- II. Some Gestalt Structures -- III. Sedimentation and Genetic Phenomenology -- ESSAY VI. THE PERCEPTUAL WORLD AND THE RATIONALIZED UNIVERSE -- CRITICAL REVIEWS -- REVIEW I. GASTON BERGER, LE COGITO DANS LA PHILOSOPHIE DE HUSSERL (PARIS: AUBIER/ 201;DITIONS MONTAIGNE, 1941), 159 pp. -- REVIEW II. GASTON BERGER, 8220;HUSSERL ET HUME,8221; REVUE INTERNATIONALE DE PHILOSOPHIE, VOL. I (1939), pp. 3428211;353. -- REVIEW III. GASTON BERGER, RECHERCHES SUR LES CONDITIONS DE LA CONNAISSANCE. ESSAI D8217;UNE TH201;ORETIQUE PURE (PARIS: PRESSES UNIVERSITAIRES DE FRANCE, 1941), 193 pp. -- REVIEW IV. MARVIN FARBER, THE FOUNDATION OF PHENOMENOLOGY: EDMUND HUSSERL AND THE QUEST FOR A RIGOROUS SCIENCE OF PHILOSOPHY (CAMBRIDGE, MASS. -- REVIEW V. JAMES STREET FULTON, 8220;THE CARTESIANISM OF PHENOMENOLOGY,8221; THE PHILOSOPHICAL REVIEW, VOL. XLIX (1940), pp. 2858211;308. -- REVIEW VI. JEAN HERING, 8220;LA PH201;NOM201;NOLOGIE D' EDMUND HUSSERL IL Y A TRENTE ANS. SOUVENIRS ET R201;FLEXIONS D'UN 201;TUDIANT DE 1909.8221; REVUE INTERNATIONALE DE PHILOSOPHIE, VOL. I, NO. 2 (1939), pp. 3668211;373. -- REVIEW VII. ''PREFACE" TO QUENTIN LAUES, THE TRIUMPH OF SUBLECTIVITY (NEW YORK: FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1958), pp. V-VIII. -- REVIEW VIII. MAURICE MERLEAN-PONTY, PHENOMENOLOGIE DE LA PERCEPTION (PARIS: LIBRAIRIE GALLIMARD, 1945), XVI AND 531 pp. -- REVIEW IX. MAURICE MERLEAU-PONTY, PHENOMENOLOGY OF PERCEPTION, TRANS. C. SMITH (NEW YORK: THE HUMANITIES PRESS, 1962), pp. XXII AND 466. -- REVIEW X. MAURICE PRADINES, PHILOSOPHIE DE LA SENSATION. II. LA SENSIBILIT201; 201;L201;MENTAIRE. LES SENS DE LA D201;FENSE. PUBLICATIONS DE LA FACUT201; DES LETTRES DE L'UNIVERSIT201; DE STRASBOURG, FASCICULE 66 (PARIS: LES BELLES LETTRES,1934), 381 pp. -- REVIEW XI. YVES SIMON, 201;TUDES SUR 317;ID201;E DE N201;CESSIT201; DANS LA PENS201;E SCIENTIFIQUE ET EN PHILOSOPHIE (MONTR201;AL: 201;DITIONS DE 317; ARBRE, 1944). -- WORKS CITED IN THIS VOLUME -- INDEX OF NAMES -- INDEX OF TOPICS.;This volume of the Collected Works edition contains Gurwitsch's magnum opus, which emphasizes how items in the thematic field are relevant to the theme. It is introduced by his student Richard Zaner. This volume also includes the posthumous text, 'Marginal Consciousness', the contents of which were merely summarized in The Field of Consciousness. It presents his positions on the body and on ego-less consciousness in detail. Gurwitsch's student, Lester Embree, introduces it.