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Book SynopsisGrounded in Edie's emphasis on Husserl's confrontation with sceptism, this collection of essays provide analysis of Husserlian and neo-Husserlian responses to scepticism and relativism.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: The shipwreck of apodicticity? phenomenology's journey ""beyond"" scepticism, Brice R. Wachterhauser; On confronting species-specific scepticism as we near the end of the twentieth century, James Edie; Thoughts on phenomenology and scepticism, Robert Sokolowski; The epistemological significance of Husserl's theory of intentionality, Harrison Hall; Association in Husserl's phenomenology, Joseph Kockelmans; On Derrida's reading of Husserl, J.N. Mohanty; Husserl's critique of relativism, David detmer; The constitutional problematics of non-relativity or how to dump garbage in nobody's backyard, Lester Embree; To the things themselves: a plea for a ""practical"" response to scepticism, Brice R. Watchterhauster; Meditations of a Russian neo-Husserlian: Gustav Shpet's ""The sceptic and his soul"", George L. Kline; Scepticism and dialectic, Errol E. Harris; The phenomenological tradition and the end of history, William McBride; A crisis of reason? Husserl, Heidegger, and national socialism, Tom Rockmore; Edie's hard-nosed James and the retrieval of the sacred, Bruce Wilshire; Biographical sketch and bibliography of James M. Edie.
