The Phenomenology Reader is the first comprehensive anthology of classic writings from phenomenology's major seminal thinkers. The carefully selected readings chart phenomenology's most famous thinkers such as Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre and Derrida as well as less well known figures such as Stein and Scheler. Each author and their writings is introduced and placed in philosophical context by the editors. Contents Preface Acknowledgements Editor's Introduction: "What is Phenomenology?", Dermot Moran 1. Franz Brentano: Intentionality and the Project of Descriptive Psychology 2. Edmund Husserl: Founder of Phenomenology 3. Adolf Reinach: The Phenomenology of Social Acts 4. Max Scheler: Phenomenology of the Person 5. Edith Stein: Phenomenology and the Interpersonal 6. Martin Heidegger: Hermeneutical Phenomenology and Fundamental Ontology 7. Hans-Georg Gadamer: Phenomenology, Hermeneutics and Tradition 8. Hannah Arendt: Phenomenology of the Public World 9. Jean-Paul Sartre: Transendence and Freedom 10. Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Embodied Perception 11. Simone de Beauvoir: Phenomenology and Feminism 12. Emmanuel Levinas: The Primacy of the Other 13. Jacques Derrida: Phenomenology and Deconstruction 14. Paul Ricoeur: Phenomenology as Interpretation