Macann guides the student through the major texts of the four great thinkers of the phenomenological movement. Each chapter is devoted to one of the four thinkers:
Edmund Husserl, the founder of phenomenology, whose constantly evolving ideas are presented through reviewing the three major periods of his work.
Martin Heidegger, who broke decisively and controversially with his teacher Husserl. In Being and Time he set forth his own phenomenological programme.
Jean-Paul Sartre, who transplanted the tradition from its origins in Germany to the streets of Paris. In Being and Nothingness, he set forth his own version of existential phenomenology.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, a contemporary of Sartre, whose career was cut short by his early death. The Phenomenology of Perception was his best and most representative work.
CHRISTOPHER MACANN is Professor of Philosophy at Regent's College in London.
