The Sense of Things (eBook)

Angela Ales Bello is Professor Emeritus of History of Contemporary Philosophy at Lateran University in Rome and past Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy. She is the President of the Italian Center of Phenomenological Researches (Rome) affiliated to the World Phenomenological Institute, Hanover, U.S.A. and Director of the Research Area dedicated to “Edith Stein and Contemporary Philosophy” at the Lateran University. Her research is directed towards the German Phenomenology in relationship to other contemporary philosophical currents according to a historical and theoretical approach.

Introduction: On the Controversy Between Idealism and Realism.-  Part 1: Epoché, Decision, Motivation.- Chapter 1: Method and Decision.- Chapter 2. Decision and Motivation.- Part 2: Why the Transcendental? Chapter 3. Knowledge of Things.- Chapter 4. The Human Being as Subject and Object of Knowledge. The Human Being as Subject and Object of Knowledge.- Chapter 5. The Co-Relation of the I and World.- Part 3: The Sense of Things: From Logic to Ontology.- Chapter 6: The Path to Ontology.- Chapter 7: From Ontology to Phenomenology and Vice Versa.- Chapter 8: Ontology From Formal Logic and Transcendental Logic.- Chapter 9: Formal-General Ontology of the Life-World.- Chapter 10: Ontology Spoken in Many Ways.- Part 4: The Genesis of Knowledge and the Foundation of the Sciences.- Chapter 11. The A Priori of the Life World.- Chapter 12. Science and Life.- Chapter 13. The Foundation of the Sciences.- Chapter 14. Toward a New “Transcendental Aesthetic”.- Part 5: The Sense of Things: Hyletics, Anthropology, Metaphysics.- Chapter 15: What is Hyletics?.- Chapter 16: From Hyletics to Anthropology.- Chapter 17:  From Hyletics to Metaphysics.- Part 6: Transcendental Idealism Revisited.- Chapter 18:  Contrasting Reasons.- Chapter 19: An Examination of the Excursus on Transcendental Idealism.- Chapter 20: Animating Apprehension in Kant, Husserl and Stein.- Chapter 21: The Formation of the Spatial Object Chapter 22: The Question of Existence.- Chapter 23: What is Transcendental Idealism?.- Part 7:  Phenomenology as Transcendental Realism.- Chapter 24: Genesis of the Notion “Transcendental Idealism”.- Chapter 25: Transcendental Idealism as Transcendental Realism.- Concluding Synthesis.- Notes.- Bibliography.