PHENOMENOLOGY / EXISTENTIALISM / HERMENEUTICS READING LIST

Edmund Husserl (1859 - 1938):

• "Philosophy and the Crisis of European Man" (1935)

• Cartesian Meditations (1929)

• "Phenomenology" (1927)

• "Philosophy as a Rigorous Science" (1911)

Roman Ingarden (1893 - 1970):

• The Literary Work of Art: an Investigation on the Borderlines of Ontology, Logic, and the Theory of Literature (1931)

Alfred Schutz (1899 - 1959):

• The Structures of the Lifeworld (1953)

Aron Gurwitsch (1901 - 1973):

• Field of Consciousness (1957)

Georges Poulet (1902 - 1991):

• "Criticism and the Experience of Interiority" (1966 / 1970) ["The Phenomenology of Reading"]

Wolfgang Iser (1926 - ):

• "Interaction Between Text and Reader" (1980)

• "The Reading Process: a Phenomenological Approach" (1972)

• "Indeterminacy and the Reader's Response in Prose Fiction" (1970)

Existential Phenomenology / Existentialism

Martin Buber (1878 - 1965):

• I and Thou (1923)

Ludwig Binswanger (1881 - 1966):

• The Foundations and Cognition of Human Existence (1943)

José Ortega y Gasset (1883 - 1955):

• "The Dehumanisation of Art" (1925)

• "Notes on the Novel" (1925)

Martin Heidegger (1889 - 1976):

• "The Way to Language" (1959)

• "On the Way Back into the Ground of Being" (1949)

• "Letter on Humanism" (1947)

• "The Origin of the Work of Art" (1935)

• An Introduction to Metaphysics (1935)

• "On the Essence of Truth" (1931-1932)

• "What is Metaphysics?" (1929)

• Being and Time (1927)

Medard Boss (1903 - 1990):

• Psychoanalysis and Daseinsanalysis ()

Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980):

• Search for a Method (1957)

• "Black Orpheus" (1948)

• "What is Literature?" (1947)

• Existentialism and Humanism (1946)

• Being and Nothingness: an Essay on Phenomenological Ontology (1943)

Hannah Arendt (1906 - 1975):

• The Human Condition (1958)

Emmanuel Levinas (1906 - 1995):

• Otherwise Than Being: Or Beyond Essence (1974)

• Totality and Infinity: an Essay on Exteriority (1961)

Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908 - 1961):

• Phenomenology of Perception (1962)

Rollo May (1909 - 1994):

• "The Origins and Significance of the Existential Movement in Psychology" (1958)

R. D. Laing (1929 - 1989):

• The Divided Self: a Study of Sanity and Madness (1960)

Phenomenological Hermeneutics

Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900 - 2002):

• "Rhetoric and Hermeneutics" (1997)

• "Hermeneutics and Social Science" (1975)

• "On the Scope and Function of Hermeneutical Reflection" (1967) [sometimes trans. as "Rhetoric Hermeneutics, and the Critique of Ideology: Metacritical Comments on Truth and Method."]

• "The Universality of the Hermeneutical Problem" (1966)

• "The Problem of Historical Consciousness" (1963)

• Truth and Method (1960)

Paul Ricoeur (1913 - 2005):

• "The Metaphorical Process as Cognition, Imagination, and Feeling" (1978)

• "Phenomenology and Hermeneutics" (1975)

• "Metaphor and the Central Problem of Hermeneutics" (1974)

• "Hermeneutics and the Critique of Ideology" (1973)

• “The Task of Hermeneutics” (1973)

• "The Model of the Text: Meaningful Action Considered as a Text" (1971)

• Freud and Philosophy: an Essay on Interpretation (1970): Book I: "Problematic: the Placing of Freud"

• "What is a Text?  Explanation and Interpretation" (1970)

Hans-Robert Jauss (1921 - 1997):

• "Literary History as a Challenge to Literary Theory" (1967)

Richard J. Bernstein (1932 - ):

• Beyond Objectivism and Relativism (1983)

Gianni Vattimo (1936 - ):

• Beyond Interpretation: the Meaning of Hermeneutics for Philosophy (1994)

• The End of Modernity: Nihilism and Hermeneutics in Postmodern Culture (1988)

• The Adventure of Difference: Philosophy after Nietzsche and Heidegger (1980)

See also:

• Deconstruction