Leopold Blaustein, Studies on Edmund Husserl’s Phenomenology

Supplemented with Letters to Kazimierz Twardowski

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Witold Płotka
Translator:
Rafał Lewandowski
The book is a unique collection of the English translations of texts and letters of the underrepresented Polish scholar, Blaustein, who was educated by the leading philosophers of his time, including Husserl, Twardowski, and Stumpf. This book tracks how the phenomenological method resonated in the vibrant intellectual environment of the Lvov–Warsaw School, and fills the gap in contemporary scholarship on early phenomenology. The collection provides helpful source materials in regard to the issue of how the theory of intentionality was developed in the first decades of the twentieth century.
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Witold Płotka is Professor of Philosophy at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw. He has published on phenomenology, the history of philosophy and imagination. Recently he published The Philosophy of Leopold Blaustein: Descriptive Psychology, Phenomenology, and Aesthetics (Springer, 2024).
Preface
List of Diagrams

On Blaustein’s Life and Work
 Witold Płotka

Part 1: Studies on Husserl and Phenomenology


Husserl’s Theory of Act, Content and Object of Presentation
 Introduction
 Part 1: the Problem of Act, Content and Object of Presentation before Husserl
 Part 2: the Problem of Act, Content and Object of Presentation in Husserl
 Chapter 1: the Concept of the Act of Presentation and its Object
 Chapter 2: the Concepts of the Content of Presentation
 Part 3: an Attempt to Assess Husserl’s Theory of Act, Content, and Object of Presentation
 Chapter 1: the Theory of Act and Object of Presentation
 Chapter 2: the Theory of Presentation Content
 Remark

An Attempt at a Critical Assessment of Phenomenology (1928/29)

Edmund Husserl and His Phenomenology (1930)

Part 2: Blaustein’s Letters to Twardowski


Letters to Twardowski (1927/37)
 1 A Letter Dated December 11, 1927 (Berlin)
 2 A Letter Dated December 19, 1927 (Berlin)
 3 A Letter Dated December 30, 1927 (Berlin)
 4 A Letter Dated January 2, 1928 (Berlin)
 5 A Letter Dated January 6, 1928 (Berlin)
 6 A Letter Dated January 11, 1928 (Berlin)
 7 A Postcard of January 11, 1928 (Berlin)
 8 A Letter Dated January 26, 1928 (No Place of Dispatch)
 9 A Letter Dated February 13, 1928 (Berlin)
 10 A Letter Dated February 18, 1928 (Berlin)
 11 A Letter Dated April 18, 1928 (Lvov)
 12 A Letter Dated September 5, 1928 (No Place of Dispatch)
 13 A Letter Dated August 19, 1929 (Lvov)
 14 A Letter Dated March 5, 1930 (No Place of Dispatch)
 15 A Letter Dated July 5, 1930 (Oliwa)
 16 A Letter Dated September 1, 1930 (Lvov)
 17 A Letter Dated July 17, 1932 (Muszyna)
 18 A Letter Dated April 27, 1933 (Lvov)
 19 A Letter Dated July 14, 1933 (Kuty)
 20 A Letter Dated July 23, 1934 (Skole)
 21 A Letter Dated August 13, 1936 (Korostów)
 22 A Letter Dated April 22, 1937 (Lvov)
References
Index
The book can be of intertests for both scholars with established positions (historians of philosophy, phenomenologists, analytic philosophers) and for early-career scholars, including PhD students who can use it in their research.
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