Phenomenology: East and West Essays in Honor of J.N. Mohanty

To know the work of Jitendra Nath Mohanty even slightly is to commence to appreciate it immensely. Lucidity and sagacity have been its armor; originality and ingenuity have been its strength. And wearing the former and wielding the latter have become so p

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CONTRIBUTIONS TO PHENOMENOLOGY IN COOPERATION WITH

THE CENTER FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH IN PHENOMENOLOGY Volume 13

Editor: William R. McKenna, Miami University Editorial Board: David Carr, Emory University Lester Embree, Florida Atlantic University J. Claude Evans, Washington University Jose Huertas-Jourda, Wilfrid Laurier University Joseph J. Kockelmans, The Pennsylvania State University Algis Mickunas, Ohio University J. N. Mohanty, Temple University Thomas M. Seebohm, Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat, Mainz Richard M. Zaner, Vanderbilt University

Scope The purpose of this series is to foster the development of phenomenological philosophy through creative research. Contemporary issues in philosophy, other disciplines and in culture generally, offer opportunities for the application of phenomenological methods that call for creative responses. Although the work of several generations of thinkers has provided phenomenology with many results with which to approach these challenges, a truly successful response to them will require building on this work with new analyses and methodological innovations.

PHENOMENOLOGY: EAST AND WEST Essays in Honor of J.N. Mohanty

edited by

FRANK M. KIRKLAND Hunter CoJlege and CUNY Graduate Center, u.S.A. and

D. P. CHATTOPADHYAYA Jadavpur University, India

SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Phenomenology, East and Hest essays ln honor of J.N. Mohanty edited by Frank M. Klrk land and D.P. Chattopadhyaya. p. cm. -- (Contrlbutions to phenomenology ; v. 131 Includes bibllographical references and index. ISBN 978-94-010-4702-9 ISBN 978-94-011-1612-1 (eBook)

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DOI 10.1007/978-94-011-1612-1

1. Phenomenology. 2. Transcendenta 1 i sm. 3. Mohanty, Jitendranath, 19281. Mohanty, Jltendranath. 1928II. Klrkland, Frank M. III. Chattopadhyaya, D. P. Webi Prasadl, 1933IV. Series. B829.5.P464 1993 142' .7--dc20 92-41533

ISBN 978-94-010-4702-9

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

ix

Introduction

xi

Mohanty on Transcendental Philosophy David Carr

1

On Transcendental Philosophy Margaret Chatterjee

13

On the Possibility of Transcendental Philosophy: Some Construction and Questions D.P. Chattopadhyaya

25

The Premature Refutation of Relativism Joseph Margolis

49

Mohanty on the Possibility of Transcendental Philosophy William R. McKenna

65

Transcendental "I" David Woodruff Smith

81

The Concept of the Body Eliot Deutsch

93

Husserl's Theories of Indexicals Karl Schuhmann

111

vi

Possible "Worlds": Remarks About a Controversy Thomas M. Seebohm

129

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