The Collected Works of Aron Gurwitsch (1901–1973): Volume II: Studies in Phenomenology and Psychology

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The second of a planned six volume of Gurwitsch’s writings, this volume is a corrected version of a collection he published in 1966. It was intended to complement the English edition of The Field of Consciousness (1964), which is the third volume of these Works in English. It contains his own introduction addressing his motivation as a phenomenologist and the situation at the time of publication. Included are English translations of his doctoral thesis, Phenomenology of Thematics and the Pure Ego (1929) and the substantial study based on his first Sorbonne lecture course, "Some Aspects and Developments of Gestalt Psychology" (1936), which made his name in Paris when he fled there from Germany after the rise of National Socialism. Other studies draw on the work in psychiatry of Kurt Goldstein and relate phenomenology to René Descartes, William James, Immanuel Kant, and tendencies in modern thought, thus complementing the historical perspectives resorted of in Vol. I. Thematic problematics addressed include the noema, the ego, eideation, and logic. Front Matter....Pages I-XXVI Some Aspects and Developments of Gestalt Psychology....Pages 1-61 The Place of Psychology in the System of Sciences....Pages 63-76 Goldstein’s Conception of Biological Science....Pages 77-98 The Phenomenological and the Psychological Approach to Consciousness....Pages 99-118 Critical Study of Husserl’s Nachwort ....Pages 119-127 The Problem of Existence in Constitutive Phenomenology....Pages 129-137 On the Intentionality of Consciousness....Pages 139-156 On the Object of Thought....Pages 157-163 The Kantian and Husserlian Conceptions of Consciousness....Pages 165-192 Phenomenology of Thematics and of the Pure Ego: Studies of the Relation Between Gestalt Theory and Phenomenology....Pages 193-317 A Non-Egological Conception of Consciousness....Pages 319-334 William James’s Theory of the “Transitive Parts” of the Stream of Consciousness....Pages 335-369 Contribution to the Phenomenological Theory of Perception....Pages 371-391 Philosophical Presuppositions of Logic....Pages 393-402 Gelb–Goldstein’s Concept of “Concrete” and “Categorial” Attitude and the Phenomenology of Ideation....Pages 403-431 On a Perceptual Root of Abstraction....Pages 433-438 On the Conceptual Consciousness....Pages 439-445 The Last Work of Edmund Husserl....Pages 447-502 Back Matter....Pages 503-521