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Phenomenology

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosophical movement phenomenology.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss phenomenology, a style of philosophy developed by the German thinker Edmund Husserl in the first decades of the 20th century. Husserl's initial insights underwent a radical transformation in the work of his student Martin Heidegger, and played a key role in the development of French philosophy at the hands of writers like Emmanuel Levinas, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Maurice Merleau-Ponty.

Phenomenology has been a remarkably adaptable approach to philosophy. It has given its proponents a platform to expose and critique the basic assumptions of past philosophy, and to talk about everything from the foundations of geometry to the difference between fear and anxiety. It has also been instrumental in getting philosophy out of the seminar room and making it relevant to the lives people actually lead.

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Simon Glendinning, Professor of European Philosophy in the European Institute at the London School of Economics

Joanna Hodge, Professor of Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University

Stephen Mulhall, Professor of Philosophy and Tutor at New College at the University of Oxford

Producer: Luke Mulhall.

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Thu 22 Jan 2015 21:30
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LINKS AND FURTHER READING

Reading List:

Jacques Derrida (trans. Marian Hobson), The Problem of Genesis in Husserl's Phenomenology (University of Chicago Press, 2003; first published 1954)Β 

Penelope Deutscher, A Politics of Impossible Difference: The Later Work of Luce Irigaray (Cornell University Press, 2002)

Rosalyn Diprose, The Bodies of Women: Ethics, Embodiment and Sexual Difference (Routledge, 1994)

Sebastian Gardner, Sartre’s Being and Nothingness: A Reader’s Guide (Continuum, 2009)

Simon Glendinning, In the Name of Phenomenology (Routledge, 2007)

Sara Heinamaa, Toward a Phenomenology of Sexual Difference: Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Beauvoir (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003)

Edmund Husserl (trans. L. Hardy), The Idea of Phenomenology (Springer, 1999; first published 1907)

Gregory McCulloch, Using Sartre: An Analytical Introduction to Early Sartrean Themes (Routledge, 1994)

Dermot Moran, Introduction to Phenomenology (Routledge, 1999)

Dermot Moran, Edmund Husserl: Founder of Phenomenology (Polity Press, 2005)

Michael L. Morgan, Discovering Levinas (Cambridge University Press, 2008)

Katherine Morris, Starting with Merleau-Ponty (Continuum, 2012)

Stephen Mulhall, Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Heidegger and Being and Time (Routledge, 2005)

Daniel Thomas Primozic, On Merleau-Ponty (Cengage Learning, 2000)

A.D. Smith, Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Husserl and the Cartesian Meditations (Routledge, 2003)

Donn Welton, The Other Husserl: The Horizons of Transcendental Phenomenology (Indiana University Press, 2002)

Dan Zahavi, Husserl’s Phenomenology (Stanford University Press, 2003)

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Credits

Presenter Melvyn Bragg
Interviewed Guest Simon Glendinning
Interviewed Guest Joanna Hodge
Interviewed Guest Stephen Mulhall
Producer Luke Mulhall

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  • Thu 22 Jan 2015 09:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
  • Thu 22 Jan 2015 21:30
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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