Competing interpretations of Husserl's noema; Gurwitsch versus Smith and McIntyre.

9781433104572

Competing interpretations of Husserl's noema; Gurwitsch versus Smith and McIntyre.

Chukwu, Peter M.

Peter Lang Publishing Inc

2009

207 pages

$72.95

Hardcover

Phenomenology and literature; v.5

B3279

After the German philosopher Edmund Husserl introduced the term noema in order to explicate his theory of intentionality--speaking of it variously as "intended object as intended," "intentional content of an act," "sense," and "meaning"--it soon became the subject of conflicting interpretations. In this work, Chukwu (philosophy, Aquinas College) seeks to uncover Husserl's contribution of intentionality through placing against each other two different interpretations of the meaning and role of noema: the gestalt psychological interpretation as formulated by Aron Gurwitsch and the analytic philosophical interpretation as articulated by the Frege scholars, David Woodruff Smith and Ronald McIntyre.

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