Early Phenomenology: Metaphysics, Ethics, and the Philosophy of Religion

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Taking the term “phenomenologist” in a fairly broad sense, Early Phenomenology focuses on those early exponents of the intellectual discipline, such as Buber, Ortega and Scheler rather than those thinkers that would later eclipse them; indeed the volume precisely means to bring into question what it means to be a phenomenologist, a category that becomes increasingly more fluid the more we distance ourselves from the gravitational pull of philosophical giants Husserl and Heidegger. In focusing on early phenomenology this volume seeks to examine the movement before orthodoxies solidified. More than merely adding to the story of phenomenology by looking closer at thinkers without the same fame as Husserl or Heidegger and the representatives of their legacy, the essays relate to one of the earlier thinkers with figures that are either more contemporary or more widely read, or both. Beyond merely filling in the historical record and reviving names, the chapters of this book will also give contemporary readers reasons to take these figures seriously as phenomenologists, radically reordering of our understanding of the lineage of this major philosophical movement. FC Half title Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy Title Copyright Contents Notes on Contributors Introduction Brian Harding and Michael Kelly Part 1 Phenomenological Occasions 1 Speculations about Bridging the Göttingen-Freiburg “Gap” in Phenomenology Lester Embree 2 A Phenomenology of Foreboding/Foreseeing Adolf Reinach Part 2 Phenomenology of Affect, Emotion, and Volition 3. Person and Love: Dietrich von Hildebrand in Dialogue with John Zizioulas John F. Crosby 4. Envy and Ressentiment, a Difference in Kind: A Critique and Renewal of Scheler’s Phenomenological Account Michael Kelly 5. Reinach’s Phenomenology of Foreboding: Battlefield Notes, 1916–17 Kimberly Baltzer-Jaray 6. Alexander Pfänder’s Phenomenological Psychology: Philosophy Devoted to Description Marta Ubial Part 3 Early Reactions to Phenomenology 7. José Ortega y Gasset’s Anti-idealist Interpretation of Phenomenology Brian Harding 8 Scenes of Disagreement: Nicolai Hartmann between Phenomenological Ontology and Speculative Realism Keith R. Peterson 9 Buber Meets Heidegger Robert Wood Part 4 Early Phenomenology of Religion 10 Edith Stein and the Carmelites Jonna Bornemark 11 The Transcendence of the Person: Bonhoeffer as a Resource for Phenomenology of Religion and Ethics Brian Gregor 12 Rudolf Otto as Postmodern Phenomenologist: In Dialogue with Marion, Derrida, and Kierkegaard Merold Westphal Index