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Book Description Condition: Very Good. Washington, DC: Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology / University Press of America, 1983 [c. 1984]. Octavo; publisher's olive green leatherette, gilt-lettered spine; xxii,562pp.; woodcut portrait frontispiece. Brief soil to top textblock edge, lacking both free endpapers (?), contemporary ownership signature to front flyleaf, else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed "Lester" on front pastedown. Contents of this tribute volume conclude with Gurwitsch's essay "On Contemporary Nihilism.". Seller Inventory # 25706
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First of this edition. 562 pages. Scarce. Published by the Center for Research in Phenomenology Festscriften for the pioneering phenomenologist. Gurwitsch wrote on the relations between phenomenology and Gestalt psychology, and in the problems of the organization of consciousness. In particular, he distinguished between the theme, the thematic context and the margin. This is the core of his theory of the Field of Consciousness. He taught at Brandeis University in the mid-1950s. He taught at The New School For Social Research's Graduate Faculty of Social and Political Science from 1959 to 1973.Gurwitsch srote on the relations between phenomenology and Gestalt psychology, and in the problems of the organization of consciousness. In particular, he distinguished between the theme, the thematic context and the margin. This is the core of his theory of the Field of Consciousness. He taught at Brandeis University in the mid-1950s. He taught at The New School For Social Research's Graduate Faculty of Social and Political Science from 1959 to 1973. Seller Inventory # 12808