Edmund Husserl: Founder of Phenomenology

Hegel's 1807 classic in J. B. Baillie's translation follows consciousness from simple sense certainty through self-consciousness, reason and spirit to absolute knowledge. The work that made the word phenomenology famous in philosophy.

G. W. F. Hegel

Brentano's famous lecture on the foundations of ethics, by the teacher who shaped Husserl's thinking. Its notes include his account of the intentional relation, the idea that every mental act is directed toward an object.

Franz Brentano

A university course book that introduces phenomenology and existentialism side by side: Brentano and Husserl, intentionality and the epoché, then Kierkegaard, Sartre and Heidegger. Clear summaries and review questions make it a good first textbook.

Krishnan T. V.

A complete university course on three connected traditions. The phenomenology module covers Husserl's method, the epoché and intentionality, alongside units on Heidegger, Sartre, Gadamer and philosophical hermeneutics.

Anselm Jimoh

What does it mean to exist historically? Carr explains how phenomenology approaches history and historicity, drawing on Husserl, Dilthey, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Ricoeur.

David Carr