Husserl and Heidegger on Human Experience

In this book Pierre Keller examines the distinctive contributions, and the respective limitations, of Husserl’s and Heidegger’s approach to fundamental elements of human experience. He shows how their accounts of time, meaning, and personal identity are embedded in important alternative conceptions of how experience may be significant for us, and discusses both how these conceptions are related to each other and how they fit into a wider philosophical context. His sophisticated and accessible account of the phenomenological philosophy of Husserl and the existential phenomenology of Heidegger will be of wide interest to students and specialists in these areas, while analytic philosophers of mind will be interested by the detailed parallels which he draws with a number of concerns of the analytic philosophical tradition.

• Nothing offers anything like the even-handedness of this comparative approach • Will also serve as an excellent and clear introduction to the main tenets of both thinkers’ philosophy • Husserl and especially Heidegger are hot topics in the study of philosophy

Introduction; 1. Experience and intentionality; 2. Husserl’s methodologically solipsistic perspective; 3. Husserl’s theory of time-consciousness; 4. Between Husserl, Kierkegaard and Aristotle; 5. Heidegger’s critique of Husserl’s methodological solipsism; 6. Heidegger on the nature of significance; 7. Temporality as the source of intelligibility; 8. Heidegger’s theory of time; 9. Spatiality and human identity; 10. ‘Dasein’ and the forensic notion of a person; Select bibliography; Index.