Layers in Husserl's Phenomenology situates Husserl firmly within the trajectory of later Continental thought and contributes to the recent reconsideration of Husserl as a legitimate precursor to the thought of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jacques Derrida.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter One: What It Means To Experience An Alien Other
I. The Natural Attitude and the Problem of Reflection
II.The Possibility That Alien Other Persons Are Among Us
III.An Actual Alien Other—There in the Flesh!

Chapter Two: Intersubjectivity—Syntheses and Product of Encounters With Alien Others
Introduction
Initial Definition
I. The Syntheses at Work in Encounters With Alien Others
II.Intersubjectivity as the Basis for Intuiting Essences

Chapter Three: How Others Demonstrate (and Call Upon) Our Embodiment
I.One's Own Sensation Shows the Structure of Relations With Others
II.The Ego as Synthesis of Overlaying and Analogue
III.Transcendental Ego's Body is the Life of the Life-World

Chapter Four: Conditions of Overlaying—Time-Consciousness and Logic
I. Time-Consciousness
II.Transcendental Phenomenology as Problem of Wholes and Parts

Concluding Chapter: On to 'Other' Things--Continental Philosophy Ethics
I. Overlaying-at-a-distance
II. Merleau-Ponty and Recouvrement
III. Levinas, Coincidence, and Ethics

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Peter R. Costello is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at Providence College.