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This Oxford Handbook offers a broad critical survey of the development of phenomenology, one of the main streams of philosophy since the nineteenth century. It comprises thirty-seven specially written chapters by leading figures in the field, which highlight historical influences, connections and developments, and offer a better comprehension and assessment of the continuity as well as diversity of the phenomenological tradition.The handbook is divided into three distinct parts. The first part addresses the way phenomenology has been influenced by earlier periods or figures in the history of philosophy. The second part contains chapters targeting prominent phenomenologists: How was their work affected by earlier figures, how did their own views change over time, and what kind of influence did they exert on subsequent thinkers? The contributions in the third part trace various core topics such as subjectivity, intersubjectivity, embodiment, spatiality, imagination etc. in the work of different phenomenologists, in order to explore how the notions were transformed, enriched, and expanded up through the century.This volume will be a source of insight for philosophers, students of philosophy, and for people working in other disciplines of the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, who are interested in the phenomenological tradition. It is an authoritative guide to how phenomenology started, how it developed, and where it is heading.

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What in light of phenomenology's past does the future hold? The horizon is open, as yet undecided. This text, should it prove successful, will have provided a definitive last word on what phenomenology is-or better, was. * Steven DeLay, Wake Forest University, Metascience * A monumental undertaking . . . the quality of the essays is consistently very high: well-informed about the sources and the predominant issues, clearly written and well-organized with a minimum of jargon and often with helpful examples. . . . The overall result is a very informative and comprehensive overview of the prehistory and the history of phenomenology in Europe during the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first century. * Thomas J. Nenon, Husserl Studies *

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Dan Zahavi is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Subjectivity Research at the University of Copenhagen. He is author and editor of more than 25 volumes including Husserl's Phenomenology (Stanford 2003), Subjectivity and Selfhood (MIT Press 2005), The Phenomenological Mind together with S. Gallagher (Routledge 2008), Self and Other (OUP 2014), and most recently Husserl's Legacy (OUP 2017). He is co-editor in chief of the journal Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, and he edited the Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Phenomenology (OUP 2012). His work has been translated into more than 30 languages.

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