Doing Phenomenology

Substantial encouragement for this volume came from the editors and readers of the Studies for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) at Northwestern University Press. But its publi cation has been made possible only by the unqualified and un abridged acceptance of the Editorial Board of Phaenomen%gica, which at the time was still headed by its founder, the late Professor H. L. Van Breda, who welcomed the manuscript most generously. This makes his untimely passing even more grievous to me. The stylistic copy editing and proof reading were handled ef ficiently by Ruth Nichols Jackson, secretary of the Philosophy Department. In the proof reading I also had the able help of my colleague Stanley Paulson. I dedicate this book to the memory of my late brother, Dr. chern. Erwin Spiegelberg, at the time of his death assistant professor at the University of Rio de Janeiro, who preceded me by two years in emigrating from Nazi Germany. When in 1938 he put an end to his life in an apparent depression, he also did so in order not to become a burden to his brothers, who were on the point of following him. Whatever I, more privileged in health and in opportunities in the country of my adoption, have been able to do and achieve since then has been done with a sense of a debt to him and of trying to live and work for him too.

Inhalt
One To The Things (Essays on Phenomenolology).- A. On the Meaning of Phenomenology.- 1. Phenomenology.- 2. Ways into phenomenology: phenomenology and metaphenomenology.- 3. A new way into phenomenology: the workshop approach.- 4. Phenomenology through vicarious experience.- 5. Existential uses of phenomenology.- >B. On the Rights of Phenomenology.- 6. How subjective is phenomenology?.- 7. Phenomenology of direct evidence (self-evidence).- 8. Criteria in phenomenology.- 9. The Phenomenon of reality and reality.- Two At the Things (Essays in Phenomenology).- 10. Toward a phenomenology of experience.- 11. A phenomenological analysis of approval.- 12. We: A linguistic and phenomenological analysis.- 13. The relevance of phenomenological philosophy for psychology.- 14. The idea of a phenomenological anthropology and Alexander Pfänder's psychology of man.- 15. Change of perspectives: constitution of a Husserl image.- Index of names.- Index of subjects.