Introduction to Phenomenology
This is it.
Robert Sokolowski’s recent (2000) book on phenomenology “Introduction to Phenomenology” is what I have been looking for for many, many years. I picked it up by browsing the shelves at Bergen University in Bergen, Norway two days ago.
Why? Because it treats phenomenology as a doing, living philosophy, which is just what it is, and also the way phenomenology will be engaged on this blog. And in the barebones communication project. You will find indications of this understanding of phenomenology by reading some of the already submitted pitstop posts. For instance this quote from Stephan Strasser.
If you, by now, have taken an interest in phenomenology as a prerequisite to communication, just go pick up the book. It is important for its content, but even more for its attitude. It contradicts the notion that phenomenology first and foremost is of historical interest. Something that once was. Old men with strange names and long white beards.
Phenomenology is not that at all. Phenomenology is a present, living philosophy, and Sokolowski tells that story well.
No, I am not on any kind of commission. I’ll even spare you for the obligate picture 
That is how refreshing this book is.
That is how refreshing this book is.When you have finished with Sokolowski’s eminent little introduction you can always turn to Edmund Husserl’s originals. He left some 40.000 plus research pages. They were all smuggled out of Germany in the late thirties. Originals are at the Husserl Archives at Leuven in Belgium. Quite a thriller that one. Bringing his papers out of Germany.
Or you could take a shortcut by Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Hans-Georg Gadamer or Paul Ricoeur. Or Jean-Paul Sartre for that matter. Or any other major figure who link into Husserl’s extensive work. All important elaborators on Husserl’s thought among many others. They even managed to add some to the movement.
By the way the combo Sokolowski and Strasser seems a particularly good starting point for your phenomenological endeavor They both practice phenomenology.
They both practice phenomenology.Go to amazon to get the book. Or anywhere else you can find it.
Thanks. So far.
