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Animism, adumbration, willing, and wisdom : studies in the phenomenology of Dorion Cairns
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ISBN: 9786068266336 6068266338 Year: 2012 Publisher: Bucureşti: Zeta books,

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The studies in this volume show how he thus creatively continued Husserl’s work. The philosophic ideal is revised, the account of the constitution of Others is corrected, the description of sense-transfer extended, the theory of hyletic data is revised, sensa as well as appearances are shown to be adumbrative, aspects of the body that Husserl seemed to have overlooked are described, and original investigations of appearances and of willing are assembled. A methodological description is appended that may help make the emphasis on description and the near absence of argumentation clearer. That description also helps one understand the focus on individual human mental life and the sensuous perceiving of physical things as where to begin. And if they explain away any seeming naturalistic emphasis, the many references to willing and valuing throughout this book should also reduce suspicions of intellectualism. Furthermore, there are no bases for considering phenomenology solipsistic or about disembodied mental lives to be found here. Cairns was deeply impressed by the Abbau-Aufbau method and held that Husserl came to recognize the importance of the primarily passive or automatic infrastratum of mental life too late completely to adjust his concepts. This adjustment of concepts guided Cairns’s effort to bring the thought published by Husserl in his lifetime up to the level of the Cartesianische Meditationen and the Formale und transzendentale Logik. And he was always endeavoring to develop better terminology for phenomenology in English.

Phenomenology : continuation and criticism : essays in memory of Dorion Cairn
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ISBN: 9024713021 9401023794 9401023778 9789024713028 Year: 1973 Volume: 50 Publisher: The Hague: Nijhoff,

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Under the title of "Phenomenology: Continuation and Crit­ icism," the group of essays in this volume are presented in honor of Dorion Cairns on his 70th birthday. The contributors comprise friends, colleagues and former students of Dorion Cairns who, each in his own way, share the interest of Dorion Cairns in Husserlian phenomenology. That interest itself may be best defined by these words of Edmund Husserl: "Philosophy - wis­dom (sagesse) - is the philosopher's quite personal affair. It must arise as his wisdom, as his self-acquired knowledge tending toward universality, a knowledge for which he can answer from the beginning . . . " 1 It is our belief that only in the light of these words can phenomenology and phenomenological philosophy be continued, but always reflexively, critically. For over forty years Dorion Cairns has, through his teaching and writing, selflessly worked to bring the idea expressed by Husserl's words into self­ conscious exercise. In so doing he has, to the benefit of those who share his interest, confirmed Husserl's judgement of him that he is "among the rare ones who have penetrated into the deepest sense of my phenomenology, . . . who had the energy and persist­ ence not to desist until he had arrived at real understanding.

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