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Title: Introduction to Phenomenology by Dermot Moran ISBN: 0-415-18373-1 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: February, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Tour de Force
Comment: Moran's Introduction to Phenomenology is at once a sweeping history of what some have called the most important philosophical movement of the 20th century, beginning with its fledgling conception in Brentano as the inspiration of Husserl and moving on to French phenomenology, and also an informative guide through the very difficult terrain of the main texts of the aformentioned Brentano and Husserl, in addition to Heidegger, Sartre, Levinas, Arendt, Merleau-Ponty, and Derrida. In clear yet precise prose, Moran explicates the main texts of this movement, and gives the reader a confident grasp of the ideas therein. Special mention should go to Morans's treatment of Husserl, wherein he gives an excellent explication of Husserl's Logical Investigations and Ideas I, that includes constant reference to his influence by, and departure from, Brentano, in addition to the ideas that Heidegger would later use to develop the Heideggarian hermeneutics of Being. It seems that German phenomenology is Moran's specialization, as his treatment of Sartre in particular, but also of Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, and Derrida, are somewhat limited to the early formulations of their thinking. (For example, there is little reference to Sartre's later, but equally important, social/Marxist writings.) Nonetheless, for the beginner--or even the non-beginer for that matter--Moran's presention is more than adequate.
In addition Moran has included a very useful bibliography of untranslated and translated primary sources, as well as secondary sources. Coupled with its expansive index, this book is an equally good reference guide.
Some have made comparisons with Father Robert Sokolowski's equally good "Introduction to Phenomenology." Besides the name and the fact that these books were published around the same time, it is really unfair to compare them; these two excellent scholars of phenomenology have two diffent agendas. Sokolowski simply wants to explain the main thrust of phenomenology in a very clear and useful way, giving his reader an understanding of how to "think" phenomenologically, leading one to do phenomenology, or, at the very least, incorporate basic phenomenological ideas in every-day life. To this extent, it achieves its goal brillianatly. Moran's book is more historical, and perhaps more scholarly and technical. When we compare Sokolowski's book, encompassing around two hundred pages, against Moran's at around five hundred fifty, this should seem evident, but not suggestive of an over-simplification on Sokolowski's part. In fact, I believe that the two books complement one another quite well, and both seem a good start prior to delving into primary material: Moran's for particular tomes, and Sokolowski's for extracting the method of a phenomenologist, or a phenomenology if you will.
Rating: 5
Summary: Informative, yet easy to understand.
Comment: This is the best introductory book to phenomenology because it's somewhat like an encycolpedia of phenomenology and more importantly is that the book is written in colloquial language. Since it's very informative yet easy to understand, it really helps readers in future readings.
The book can also be used as a reference, not only as an introduction.
Rating: 5
Summary: real good
Comment: This is probably the best introduction to the phenomenological movement as a whole in print. For purposes of introduction to the ideas of the major philosophers of the movement, with minimal background information, or just for an overall review of of the movement for the more informed reader this volume is indispensable.. The background of Husserl's ideas is remarkably well treated, and so is the birth of Heidegger's Being and Time out of a critical appraisal of Husserl. There is a slackening of dynamism and integrity after the Heidegger chapter, but with Derrida, Moran is once again able to bring out the gist and richness of phenomenology. The book not only makes you familiar with the basic concepts involved - noema, noemata, Dasein etc.- but helps cultivate a genuine phenomenological interest in the reader, in line with Heidegger's belief that phenomenology is only possible as something to be practiced, and that this is the real importance it carries as a philosophy..
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Title: Introduction to Phenomenology by Robert Sokolowski ISBN: 0521667925 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 28 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Phenomenology of Perception (Routledge Classics) by Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Colin Smith ISBN: 0415278414 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 03 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Phenomenology Reader by Dermot Moran, Timothy Mooney, Tim Mooney ISBN: 0415224225 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Phenomenological Research Methods by Clark Moustakas ISBN: 0803957998 Publisher: Sage Publications Pub. Date: 27 July, 1994 List Price(USD): $46.95 |
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Title: Researching Lived Experience: Human Science for an Action Sensitive Pedagogy (Suny Series in the Philosophy of Education) by Max Van Manen ISBN: 0791404269 Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr Pub. Date: September, 1990 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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