Phenomenology, Interpretation, and Community

Lenore Langsdorf is Professor of Communication at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. She is coeditor of Recovering Pargmatism's Voice: The Classical Tradition, Rorty, and the Philosophy of Communication also published by SUNY Press, and editor of the SUNY Press series in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences. Stephen H. Watson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Extensions: Essays on Interpretation, Rationality, and the Closure of Modernism and coeditor (with Arleen B. Dallery and E. Marya Bower) of Transitions in Continental Philosophy, both published by SUNY Press. E. Marya Bower is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Earlham College.

• Introduction I. Origin, Insight, and Explication 1. Presence and Absence in Husserl's Phenomenology of Time-Consciousness JOHN B. BROUGH2. The Role of Life-world in Husserl's Critique of Idealizations DIETER LOHMAR3. The Genesis of Being and Time : The Primal Leap THEODORE KISIEL4. Should a Phenomenologist Be Clever? DOMINIQUE JANICAUDII. The Boundaries of the Individual and the State 5. Homeworld/Alienworld: Toward A Generative Phenomenology of Intersubjectivity ANTHONY J. STEINBOCK6. Constituting the Transcendent Community: Some Phenomenological Implications of Husserl's Social Ontology H. PETER STEEVES7. Circulation Unbound: Hegel, Heidegger, and the State DAVID KOLB8. Some Particular Limitations of Postconventional Universality: Hegel and Habermas SHAUN GALLAGHER9. "We," Representation, and War-Resistance: Some Para-Husserlian Considerations JAMES G. HARTIII. Gadamer's Experience of Truth in Tradition 10.Gadamer's Alleged Conservatism HOLLY L. WILSON11. The Imaging of Truth in Philosophical Hermeneutics JAMES RISSER12. Das Einleuchtende : The Enlightening Aspect of the Subject Matter LAWRENCE K. SCHMIDTIV. The Nature of Justice and Community 13. The Sincerity of Apology: Levinas's Resistance to the Judgment of History JAMES HATLEY14. Lyotard and the Question of Community STEVEN HENDLEY15. Derrida's Political Physics: From the Law of Force in the Book of Nature to the Force of Law in the General Text JOHN PROTEVI16. Ghost-Stories: Critical Remembrance and Justice in Derrida and Habermas MAX PENSKY17. Reification and the Nonidentical: On the Problem of Nature in Lukács and Adorno STEVEN VOGEL18. Nature: A Theme for Finite Philosophical Thinking? UTE GUZZONIIndex