The Problem of Genesis in Husserl's Philosophy

Derrida, Jacques; Hobson, Martin (Transl.)

ISBN 10: 0226143155 / ISBN 13: 9780226143156

Verlag: The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 2003

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First US edition, hardcover, has a slight lean to the binding, light bumps to the spine ends, and a few faint spots of smudging to the cloth. Overall, a solid, Very Good copy in a like, unclipped dust jacket, which has light bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, rubbing with a touch of smudging to the covers, mild creasing to the edges, and sun toning to the spine. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Problem of Genesis in Husserl's Philosophy
• Verlag: The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0226143155
• ISBN-13: 9780226143156
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: First Edition Thus.
• Zustand: Very Good
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Philosophy

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

Derrida's first book-length work, "The Problem of Genesis in Husserl's Philosophy", was originally written for his "diplome d'etudes superieurs" in 1953 and 1954. Surveying Husserl's major works on phenomenology, Derrida reveals what he sees as an internal tension in Husserl's central notion of "genesis" and gives us our first glimpse into the concerns and frustrations that would later lead him to abandon phenomenology and develop his now famous method of deconstruction. For Derrida, the problem of genesis in Husserl's philosophy is that both temporality and meaning must be generated by prior acts of the transcendental subject, but transcendental subjectivity must itself be constituted by an act of genesis. Hence, the notion of genesis in the phenomenological sense underlies both temporality and atemporality, history and philosophy, resulting in a tension that Derrida sees as ultimately unresolvable yet central to the practice of phenomenology. "The Problem of Geneses" complements Husserl's posthumously published "Origin of Geometry" and Derrida's own "Speech and Phenomena", showing the development of Derrida's approach to phenomenology as well as documenting the state of phenomenological thought in France during a particularly fertile period, when Levinas, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Ricoeur and Tran-Duc-Thao, as well as Derrida, were all working through it. But the book is most important in allowing us to follow Derrida's own development as a philosopher by tracing the roots of his later work in deconstruction to these early critical reflections on Husserl's phenomenology.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jacques Derrida is a professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and a visiting professor at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of more than two dozen books, many of which the University of Chicago Press has published in English translation, including most recently The Work of Mourning.

Marian Hobson is a professor of French language and literature at Queen Mary, University of London. She is the author or editor of several books, including Jacques Derrida: Opening Lines and The Object of Art, and has previously translated articles by Derrida as well as works by Jean-François Lyotard and Werner Hamacher.