Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: opening exercises 1. Husserl and the project of pure phenomenology 2. Heidegger and the existential turn 3. Sartre and subjectivity 4. Merleau-Ponty and the phenomenology of embodiment 5. Problems and prospects: phenomenology and its critics Questions for discussion and revision Further reading References Index

About the Author

David R. Cerbone is Associate Professor of Philosophy at West Virginia University.

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