TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction
1. Franz Brentano: descriptive psychology and intentionality
2. Edmund Husserl: founder of phenomenology
3. Husserl's Logical Investigations (1900-1901)
4. Husserl's discovery of the reduction and transcendental phenomenology
5. Husserl and the crisis of the European sciences
6. Martin Heidegger's transformation of phenomenology
7. Heidegger's Being and Time
8. Hans-Georg Gadamer: philosophical hermeneutics
9. Hannah Arendt: the phenomenology of the public sphere
10. Emmanuel Levinas: the phenomenology of alterity
11. Jean-Paul Sartre: passionate description
12. Maurice Merleau-Ponty: the phenomenology of perception
13. Jacques Derrida: from phenomenology to deconstruction