Animism, Adumbration, Willing, and Wisdom Studies in the Phenomenology of Dorion Cairns

Présentation

The purpose of this collection is to show the originality of the phenomenology of Dorion Cairns, arguably Edmund Husserl’s closest disciple. The word « studies » (in the plural) occurs in the subtitle because these studies can each stand alone, which entails some repetition of important passages, and because they vary somewhat in their approaches, some being more essays and some more editions than others. While published essays by Cairns are also drawn on, most of the basis of these studies are his famous and still unpublished New School lectures in the 1960s, which are quoted from quite extensively.