Existentialism, Hermeneutics and Phenomenology

A complete guide to Husserl's thought, from his early work on logic to intentionality, the phenomenological reduction, time, the body and the life-world. Every technical term is explained as it appears, so newcomers can follow the whole argument.

Dermot Moran

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.

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