Introduction to Phenomenology

Franz Brentano: descriptive psychology and intentionality; Edmund Husserl: founder of phenomenology; Husserl´s Logical Investigations; Husserl´s discovery of the reduction and transcendental phenomenology; Husserl and the crisis of the European sciences; Martin Heidegger´s transformation of phenomenology; Heidegger´s Being and Time; Hans-Georg Gadamer: philosophical hermeneutics; Hannah Arendt: the phenomenology of the public sphere; Emmanuel Levinas: the phenomenology of alterity; Jean-Paul Sartre: passionate description; Maurice Merleau-Ponty: the phenomenology of perception; Jacques Derrida: from phenomenology to deconstruction