The Transcendence of the World: Phenomenological Studies

Holmes, Richard

ISBN 10: 0889202419 / ISBN 13: 9780889202412

Published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1995

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Original cloth hardcovers. A clean, tight and unmarked book. Very bright. Bibliography, index. x,110p. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 41613br

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Transcendence of the World: ...

Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Publication Date: 1995

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Edition: 1st Edition.

Book Type: Book

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Synopsis:

In The Transcendence of the World , Richard Holmes brings together some of the major figures in the phenomenological movement to help explain our experience of the worldathe world meant as independent of any particular awareness of it. Focussing on the writings of Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, and Jean-Paul Sartre, Holmes delivers an accessible and coherent account of both the method and results of phenomenological analysis. He offers a critical appraisal of the works of these great thinkers and presents his own radical analyses in order to make sense of our experience of the world, and also the theory of quantum mechanics that purports to describe this world. This book will be an important resource for students and scholars of philosophy and for all those interested in twentieth-century continental ideas.

Review:

``Because of Holmes's novel and revelatory analogies, and because he clarifies so well the centrality of the issue of world-constitution in Husserl, Heidegger, and Sartre, I believe that this slim volume would make a very useful text in upper-level course in phenomenology, where it would best be used in concert with primary source materials by those philosophers.'' -- Teaching Philosophy