Comparative Studies in Phenomenology

The essays which are collected in this book were written at various intervals during the last seven years. The essay "Heidegger and Dewey," which is the last one to be printed in the book, was actually the first one I wrote. It was written as a seminar pa

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COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN PHENOMENOLOGY by MICHAEL SUKALE



MARTINUS NI]HOFF - THE HAGUE - 1976

© I976 by Martinus Nijhotf, The Hague, Netherlands Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st Edition 1976

All rights reserved, including the right to translate or to reproduce this book or parts thereof in any form ISBN-13: 978-90-247-1789-7 DOl: 10.1007/978-94-009-9999-2

e-ISBN-13: 978-94-009-9999-2

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface I. INTRODUCTIO~ II. THE PROBLEM OF PSYCHOLOGISM

VII I

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III. HUSSERL'SPHILOSOPHY OF ARITHMETIC: ARE-EvALUATION 50 IV. SARTRE AND THE CARTESIAN EGO

68

V. THE EGO AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN RIVAL PERSPECTIVES: SARTRE AND HUSSERL VI. WORLD AND EpOCHE IN HUSSERL AND HEIDEGGER

80 101

VII. HEIDEGGER AND DEWEY

121

Bibliography

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PREFACE

The essays which are collected in this book were written at various intervals during the last seven years. The essay "Heidegger and Dewey," which is the last one to be printed in the book, was actually the first one I wrote. It was written as a seminar paper for John D. Goheen's course on Dewey in the Spring of 1968 at Stanford University where I was a second-year graduate student. The paper went unchanged into my thesis "Four Studies in Phenomenology and Pragmatism," which I eventually submitted in 1971, and it is here reprinted with no alteration except for the title. A first version of the two essays on Sartre was written in the Spring of 1969 during my first year of teaching at Princeton University. Eventually I decided to break the essay into two parts. A shortened version of "Sartre and the Cartesian Ego" was read at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association in December 1973. John Donnelly from Fordham University was my commentator. A Hebrew version of "The Ego and Consciousness in Rival Perspectives: Sartre and HusserI" appeared in Volume 22, Number 4 of the Hebrew Philosophical Quarterly !YYUN. My friend and translator Yirmiahu Yovel who, together with Hava Shorr, is responsible for the Hebrew text has also criticised the earlier English version and thus contributed to the present version by relentlessly substituting better arguments in some places for the earIier ones of his penitent author. I shall not forget the atmosphere permeated with a delightful mixture of cigar smoke, typewriter noises, and more abstract objects like time pressure and arguments, which prevailed in his apartment as the three of us worked our way into the nights. The essays "HusserI's Philosophy of Arithmetic" and "World and Epoche in HusserI and Heidegger" originated during weekly seminars on phenomenology during the summer and fall of 1969 at Stanford where John Lad, Ron McIntyre, David Smith and I presented our

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philosophical beginnings in this field to the sympathetic ears of Dagfinn F011esdal and John D. Goheen. These seminars were an intellectual delight and I will always gratefully remember them. The essay "The Problem of Psychologism" is the outcome of a paper which I read at the Hebrew University in Je