Pragmatic Perspectives in Phenomenology

Ondřej Švec is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. His publications include a book about phenomenology of emotions and various articles on lifeworld, historical conditions of objectivity, overcoming subjectivism in phenomenology and French historical epistemology.Jakub Čapek is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. His areas of specialization cover twentieth-century German and French philosophy, especially phenomenology and hermeneutics, philosophy of action, philosophy of perception and questions of personal identity.

• Introduction: Localizing the Pragmatic Turn in Phenomenology Ondřej Švec and Jakub ČapekPart I: Contemporary Pragmatic Readings of Phenomenology1. On Layer Cakes: Heidegger’s Normative Pragmatism Revisited Mark Okrent2. Heidegger’s Pragmatist Readers Thomas Nenon3. Primordiality and the Pragmata. A Critical Assessment of Rorty’s Challenge to Heideggerian Nostalgia Andreas Beinsteiner4. Two Forms of Practical Knowledge in Being and Time Tucker McKinney5. Discursive Intentionality as Embodied Coping. A Pragmatist Critique of Existential Phenomenology Carl B. SachsPart II: Pragmatic Readings Challenged by the History of the Phenomenology6. The Limits of Dreyfus’ View of Husserl: Intentionality, Openness, and praxis Witold Płotka7. On Dreyfus’ Naturalization of Phenomenological Pragmatism: Misleading Dichotomies, and the Counter-Concept of Intentionality Sophie Loidolt8. Perceptual Faith beyond Practical Involvement: Merleau-Ponty and His Pragmatist Readers Jakub Čapek9. Max Scheler and Pragmatism Zachary Davis10. From Circumspection to Insight Eddo EvinkPart III: Opening up Perspectives11. Freedom and The Theoretical Attitude James Mensch12. The Primacy of Practice and the Pervasiveness of Discourse Ondřej Švec13. Making Sense of Human Existence (Heidegger on the Limits of Practical Familiarity) Mark Wrathall14. Exemplary Necessity: Heidegger, Pragmatism, and Reason Steven Crowell

"There are some excellent papers here that not only articulate the pragmatic turn in the history of phenomenology, but offer much-needed insight into the problems associated with long-standing pragmatic interpretations of the works of Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Husserl." – Phenomenological Reviews"The debate over the pragmatic turn in phenomenology is of the utmost significance since it will determine the future of the movement, and in this volume prominent philosophers examine the key positions and arguments that have been developing over at least a decade." – Michael D. Barber, St. Louis University, USA