A Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism is a complete guide to two of the dominant movements of philosophy in the twentieth century.Written by a team of leading scholars, including Dagfinn Føllesdal, J. N. Mohanty, Robert Solomon, Jean-Luc MarionHighlights the area of overlap between the two movementsFeatures longer essays discussing each of the main schools of thought, shorter essays introducing prominent themes, and problem-oriented chaptersOrganised topically, around concepts such as temporality, intentionality, death and nihilismFeatures essays on unusual subjects, such as medicine, the emotions, artificial intelligence, and environmental philosophy

Hubert L. Dreyfus is Professor of Philosophy in the Graduate School at the University of California at Berkeley. His publications includeOn the Internet (2001),What Computers (Still) Cant Do (Third Edition, 1992),Being-in-the-World: A Commentary on Division I of Heideggers Being and Time (1991), andMind over Machine: The Power of Human Intuition and Expertise in the Era of the Computer (with Stuart Dreyfus, 1987).

Mark A. Wrathall is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Brigham Young University. He is the editor ofReligion after Metaphysics (2003),Heidegger Re-examined (with Hubert L. Dreyfus, 2002),Heidegger, Authenticity, and Modernity (with Jeff Malpas, 2000),Heidegger, Coping, and Cognitive Science (with Jeff Malpas, 2000), andAppropriating Heidegger (with James Falconer, 2000). Hubert L. Dreyfus and Mark A. Wrathall are also the joint editors ofA Companion to Heidegger (Blackwell, 2005).

List of Illustrations viii

Notes on Contributors ix

Acknowledgments xiv

1 A Brief Introduction to Phenomenology and Existentialism 1Mark A. Wrathall and Hubert L. Dreyfus

PART I PHENOMENOLOGY 7

MAIN MOVEMENTS 8

2 Husserlian Phenomenology 9Steven Crowell

3 Existential Phenomenology 31Mark A. Wrathall

4 French Phenomenology 48François-David Sebbah

CENTRAL CONCEPTS 68

5 Intentionality 69J. N. Mohanty

6 Consciousness 78Charles Siewert

7 The Lifeworld and Lived Experience 91Martin Jay

8 Husserls Reductions and the Role They Play in His Phenomenology 105Dagfinn Føllesdal

9 Categorial Intuition 115Dieter Lohmar

10 Temporality 127John B. Brough and William Blattner

PART II EXISTENTIALISM 135

MAIN MOVEMENTS 136

11 The Roots of Existentialism 137Hubert L. Dreyfus

12 German Existence-Philosophy 162Udo Tietz

13 Religious Existentialism 188Clancy Martin

14 French Existentialism 206Robert Wicks

CENTRAL CONCEPTS 228

15 The Concept of Authenticity 229Taylor Carman

16 Affectivity 240Béatrice Han-Pile

17 The Body 253Piotr Hoffman

18 Freedom and Responsibility 263Frederick A. Olafson

19 Absurdity 271David Sherman

20 Death 280David Couzens Hoy

PART III CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN PHENOMENOLOGY AND EXISTENTIALISM 289

21 Emotions in Phenomenology and Existentialism 291Robert C. Solomon

22 The Egological Structure of Consciousness: Lessons from Sartre for Analytical Philosophy of Mind 310Manuel Bremer

23 Phenomenology, Neuroscience, and Intersubjectivity 329Matthew Ratcliffe

24 The Intrinsic Spatial Frame of Reference 346Shaun Gallagher

25 Action, the Scientific Worldview, and Being-in-the-World 356Craig DeLancey

26 Phenomenology in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science 377Daniel Andler

27 Phenomenological Currents in Twentieth-Century Psychology 394Frederick J. Wertz

28 Medicine 412Fredrik Svenaeus

29 Realism, Science, and the Deworlding of the World 425Peter Eli Gordon

30 Environmental Philosophy 445Iain Thomson

31 Ontology, Pragmatism, and Technology 464Shunsuke Kadowaki

32 The Lived-Body and the Dignity of Human Beings 478Andreas Brenner

33 Sexuality 489Ann V. Murphy

34 Feminism 502Sara Heinämaa

35 A Life Worth Living 516Julian Young

36 The Search for Immediacy and the Problem of Political Life in Existentialism and Phenomenology 531Michael Allen Gillespie

37 History and Historicity 545Charles Guignon

38 Bubbles and Skulls: The Phenomenology of Self-Consciousness in Dutch Still-Life Painting 559Wayne M. Martin

39 Mathematics 585Mark van Atten

Index 600