Körper, Leib, Gemüt, Seele, Geist

conceptions of the self in early phenomenology

Christina Gschwandtner

pp. 85-99

in: Antonio Calcagno (ed), Gerda Walther's phenomenology of sociality, psychology, and religion, Berlin, Springer, 2018

Abstract

This chapter considers conceptions of the self in three early phenomenological thinkers: Hedwig Conrad-Martius, Edith Stein, and Gerda Walther. Although colleagues or students of Husserl and influenced by his phenomenology, they developed their own phenomenology of the human person in explicit opposition to Husserl’s more “idealist” turn. They remain, however, virtually unknown today in philosophical circles. This chapter seeks to retrieve their philosophies of the human being and suggests that their particular phenomenological approach still has much to teach us, especially in the context of the conversation about the “self after the subject” and the question of inter-subjectivity.

Cited authors

Husserl Edmund

Conrad-Martius Hedwig

Stein Edith

Walther Gerda