Dermot Moran provides a lucid, engaging, and critical introductionto Edmund Husserl's philosophy, with specific emphasis on hisdevelopment of phenomenology. This book is a comprehensive guide toHusserl's thought from its origins in nineteenth-centuryconcerns with the nature of scientific knowledge and withpsychologism, through his breakthrough discovery of phenomenologyand his elucidation of the phenomenological method, to the lateanalyses of culture and the life-world. Husserl's complex ideas arepresented in a clear and expert manner. Individual chapters exploreHusserl's key texts including Philosophy of Arithmetic,Logical Investigations, Ideas I, CartesianMeditations and Crisis of the European Sciences. Inaddition, Moran offers penetrating criticisms and evaluations ofHusserl's achievement, including the contribution of hisphenomenology to current philosophical debates concerningconsciousness and the mind.Edmund Husserl is an invaluable guide to understandingthe thought of one of the seminal thinkers of the twentiethcentury. It will be helpful to students of contemporary philosophy,and to those interested in scientific, literary and culturalstudies on the European continent.
