Bibliography--Philosophy

Agrawal, M.M.
Consciousness and the Integrated Being: Sartre and Krishnamurti (Shimla, India: Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, 1991). Compares the two thinkers on issues like consciousness, self, no-thingness, death, wholeness and freedom. Some references also to Heidegger.

Arendt, Hannah
The Human Condition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958)

Balsev, A.N.
"Analysis of I-Consciousness in the Transcendental Phenomenology and Indian Philosophy" in D.P. Chattopadhyaya, et al (Eds.) Phenomenology and Indian Philosophy, pp. 133-140.

Benner, Patricia
Interpretive Phenomenology: Embodiment, Caring, and Ethics in Health and Illness (London: Sage, 1994)

Berg, Jan Hendrik van den
A Different Existence: Principles of Phenomenological Psychotherapy (Duquesne University Press, 1973)

Boss, Medard
Psychoanalysis and Daseinsanalysis (New York: Basic Books, 1963)

Boutte,Veronica
The Phenomenology of Compassion in the Teachings of Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986) (Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2002)
No explanation for using the term phenomenology in the title.

Butcher, Peter
"The Phenomenological Psychology of J. Krishnamurti" Journal of Transpersonal Psychology 18/1, 1986, 35-50. No explanation for using the term phenomenology in the title.

Carr, David
Time, Narrative, and History (Indiana University Press, 1991)

Chattopadhyaya, D.P.; Embree, Lester; Mohanty, Jitendranath (Eds.)
Phenomenology and Indian Philosophy (Delhi, India: Motilal Banarsidass, 1992).
Anthology of important essays illustrating that "the underlying spirit of phenomenology and hermeneutics has been consciously followed by Indian philosophers and is not peculiar to Western thinkers."

Cox, James
Guide to the Phenomenology of Religion: Key Figures, Formative Influences and Subsequent Debates (London/New York: Continuum, 2006)
Strong on the Husserlian background of such studies.

Crowell, Steven Galt
Husserl, Heidegger, and the Space of Meaning (Northwestern University Press, 2001)
"Crowell ... argues that Heidegger's approach transforms rather than destroys Husserl's basic insights about meaning and intentionality" Review

Dallmayr, Fred
Beyond Dogma and Despair: Toward a Critical Phenomenology of Politics (Notre Dame, IN: Univ of Notre Dame Press, 1981)

Dreyfus, Hubert L.
Being-in-the-World: A Commentary on Heidegger's Being and Time, Division I (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991).
"For the beginner and the expert, he opens Heidegger's questions and claims in distinctive, poignant, simple, accessible ways."

Dreyfus, Hubert
What Computers Still Can't Do: The Limits of Artificial Intelligence (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992)

Dreyfus, Hubert & Stuart Dreyfus
Mind Over Machine: The Power of Human Intuition and Expertise in the Era of the Computer (New York: Free Press, 1986)

Eliade, Mircia
The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987)
Influential study along phenomenological lines.

Embree, Lester (et al, eds.)
Encyclopedia of Phenomenology (Dordrecht/Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997)
Best work of reference for the advanced student.

Farias, Victor
Heidegger and Nazism (Philadelphia: Temple U.P., 1989)
The 'inquisitorial' book that presented 'the Heidegger case' to a wider audience. Review by Thomas Sheehan

Fouéré, René
"Krishnamurti et l'Existentialisme," Appendix 2 in Robert Linssen's Krishnamurti et la Pensée Occidentale (Brussels: Editions "Etre Libre," n.d.), pp. 156-176.

Gallagher, Shaun and Dan Zahavi
The Phenomenological Mind: An Introduction to Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science (London: Routledge, 2007)

Gunturu V.
Jiddu Krishnamurti's Gedanken auser der Phaenomenologischen Perspective Edmund Husserl's [Krishnamurti's Thoughts from the Phenomenological Perspective of Edmund Husserl] (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1998. Ph.D. thesis). Comparisons of the two thinkers on many issues like consciousness and the 'I,' without really engaging the issues phenomenologically.

Gurwitsch, Aron
Studies in Phenomenology and Psychology (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1966)

Halbfass, Wilhelm
India and Europe: An Essay in Understanding (New York: SUNY, 1988).
With appreciative comments on Husserl, Heidegger and Gadamer for their possible role in inter-cultural understanding.

Heidegger, Martin
Being and Time (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1962, trans. by Macquarrie and Robinson)
Heidegger's grand quest for the meaning of Being and finding Time as its necessary horizon of understanding. covers issues like Dasein, world, tools, care, conscience, death, time.
Summary

Martin Heidegger
The Phenomenology of Religious Life (Bloomington, IN: Indiana U.P., 2004)
"Here, Heidegger reveals an impressive display of theological knowledge, protecting Christian life experience from Greek philosophy and defending Paul against Nietzsche." --Indiana U.P.

Heidegger, Martin
History of the Concept of Time: Prolegomena (Bloomington, IN: Indiana U.P., 1992)
"Heidegger's most profound appreciation and criticism of Husserl's founding contribution to phenomenology, " (Kisiel) especially the "decisive discoveries" (Heidegger) of intentionality, categorial intuition and a new sense of the a priori. For the left-out foreword to the book see Theodore Kisiel "On the Way to Being and Time; Introduction to the Translation of Heidegger's Prolegomena zur Geschichte des Zeitbegriffs" in his Heidegger's Way of Thought, pp. 36-63.

Heidegger, Martin
The Basic Problems of Phenomenology (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1975)
"… continues and extends explorations begun in Being and Time." Revised version of Being and Time's 3rd division.

Holden, Lawrence K.
"The Structure of Krishnamurti's Phenomenological Observations and its Psychological Implications" (Ph.D. dissertation, United States International University, 1971).
Categorizes the many subjects Krishnamurti talks about. No explanation given for predicating K's observations as phenomenological.

Husserl, Edmund
Logical Investigations, 2 vols. (New York: Routledge, 2001 [1970]). Phenomenology's founding study published in 1901, refuting psychologism in vol. I and presenting six specific phenomenological investigations in vol. II on the nature of meaning, intentionality, parts and wholes, grammar, and logic. Reviewed by Daniel Dahlstrom

Husserl, Edmund
Cartesian Meditations: An Introduction to Phenomenology (The Hague, Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff, 1960).
One of Husserl's most complete and accessible statements of his mature positions. To be read in conjunction with chapters 4 and 5 of Paul Ricoeur's Husserl: An Analysis of His Phenomenology (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1967)

Husserl, Edmund
Husserl: Shorter Works (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1981). Edited by Peter McCormick and Frederick A. Elliston.
Containing such gems as the Encyclopaedia Britannica article, "Philosophy as Rigorous Science"; "The Origin of Geometry" and the Freiburg inaugural lecture.

Husserl, Edmund
"Phenomenology" in Encyclopaedia Britannica (1927 edition).
Reprinted from Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 2 (1971): 77-90; also in Husserl: Shorter Works, pp.21-35.Condensed presentation of his transcendental phenomenology.

Husserl, Edmund
"Pure Phenomenology, Its Method and Its Field of Investigation"
Inaugural Lecture at Freiburg im Breisgau, 1917. In Husserl: Shorter Works, pp 9-17.

Husserl, Edmund
"Ueber die Reden Gotama Buddhos"
Review of a translation of Buddhist texts in Der Piperbote, spring 1925. Enthusiastic appraisal of Buddhism.

Ihde, Don
Experimental Phenomenology: An Introduction (New York: SUNY, 1986)
"With this short and clearly written text, Ihde describes phenomenology in intelligible terms, and illustrates this approach to understanding and perceiving the world with simple examples taken from visual perception." --Amazon

Jaspers, Karl & Rudolf Bultmann
Myth & Christianity: An Inquiry Into The Possibility Of Religion Without Myth (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2005)

Jonas, Hans
"Gnosticism, Existentialism and Nihilism" Epilogue in The Gnostic Religion: The Message of the Alien God & the Beginnings of Christianity (Boston: Beacon Press, 1963, 2nd ed.), pp. 320-340.
Influential essay on a Gnostic reading of Heidegger and a Heideggerian reading of Gnosticism.

Jung, Hwa Yol (Editor)
Rethinking Political Theory: Essays in Phenomenology and the Study of Politics (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1993)

Kisiel, Theodore
"Diagrammatic Approach to Heidegger's Schematism of Existence," Philosophy Today (Fall 1984), 229-41.
A helpful diagrammatic structuring of Heidegger's main concepts in Being and Time.

Kisiel, Theodore
The Genesis of Heidegger's Being and Time (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1993)
"Nothing less than a mine of factual, historical, methodological, and philosophical materials previously unknown to the English-speaking world. . . . Kisiel's book cannot be praised too highly."--Choice

Kisiel, Theodore
"Heidegger (1907-1927): The Transformation of the Categorial" in his Heidegger's Way of Thought, pp. 84-100.
Covering Heidegger's evolving insights on the 'categorial,' Husserl's categorial intuition and truth.

Kisiel, Theodore
Heidegger's Way of Thought: Critical and Interpretive Signposts (New York: Continuum, 2002)
" … aimed at the specialist audience of Heidegger scholars and not for the faint-hearted. If a deep engagement with Heidegger's work is sought, however, then this collection and The Genesis of Heidegger's Being and Time are essential reading." Iain MacKenzie -- Review by Richard Polt.

Kisiel, Theodore
"On the Way to Being and Time; Introduction to the Translation of Heidegger's Prolegomena zur Geschichte des Zeitbegriffs" in his Heidegger's Way of Thought, pp. 36-63.

Kristensen, W. Brede
The Meaning of Religion: Lectures in the Phenomenology of Religion (The Haugue: Martinus Nijhoff, 1971)

Laing, R. D.
The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness (London: Penguin, 1965)

Linssen, Robert
Krishnamurti et la Pensée Occidentale (Brussels: Editions "Etre Libre," n.d.)

Meijer, W.
"Dr. Schuller and B. de Spinoza". De Navorscher (1897): 605-608. Making the case that Georg Herman Schuller was the doctor present at Spinoza's death.

May, Reinhard
Heidegger's Hidden Sources: East Asian Influences on His Work (New York: Routledge, 1996). Translated, with a complementary essay, by Graham Parkes.

Moran, Dermot
Introduction to Phenomenology (New York: Routledge, 2000) See below.

Moran, Dermot and Mooney, Timothy (eds.)
The Phenomenology Reader (New York: Routledge, 2002)
"… a much needed pair of texts [the Introduction and the Reader] to introduce readers to the world of Husserlian phenomenology." Review by Talia Welsh

Otto, Rudolf
The Idea of the Holy (London: Oxford University Press, 1958)

Parkes, Graham (Ed.)
Heidegger and Asian Thought (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990 [1978])
" … it is understandable that Heidegger would occasionally entertain the notion that intellectual traditions in the East might afford some hint of what awaits us once we step outside the circle of metaphysics and the technological understanding of being." Review by Taylor Carman

Platvoet, J.G.
Comparing Religions: A Limitative Approach (The Hague/Paris/New York: Mouton Publishers, 1982)
A clarifying reflection on subjective factors influencing the study of religion.

Poortman, J.J.
"The World-Teacher and Contradictions" in Philosophy, Theosophy, Parapsychology, pp. 80-88
On apparent and real discrepancies within Krishnamurti's pronouncements and their reconciliation. Written in November 1929 and perceiving K as the expected Teacher.

Poortman, J.J.
"J. Krishnamurti en de Wijsbegeerte" in De Grondparadox en andere Voordrachten en Essays, pp. 93-110.
On the concept of truth in Krishnamurti and philosophy. Some comparisons with Klages, Jaspers, Bergson and the 'spiritual existentialist' Lavelle.

Poortman, J.J.
"The two Sophia's or the Relationship of Theosophy and Philosophy" in Philosophy, Theosophy, Parapsychology, pp. 39-58.
On philosophizing Theosophists and theosophizing philosophers.

Poortman, J.J.
De Grondparadox en andere Voordrachten en Essays (Assen: Van Gorcum & Comp, 1961)
With articles on Theosophy, philosophy and Krishnamurti.

Poortman, J.J.
Philosophy, Theosophy, Parapsychology: Some Essays on Diverse Subjects (Leyden: Sythoff, 1965)
With articles on Kant and parapsychology, theosophy and philosophy, Krishnamurti and philosophy, and a report on an experiment with the feeling of being stared at (mentioned by Sheldrake).

Poortman, J.J.
Vehicles of Consciousness, 4 vols. (Adyar, Madras, India: T.P.H., 1978)
Poortman did study some of Husserl's philosophy and actually dedicated a whole chapter to phenomenology in this study in which he also stated that some of its sections were "entirely phenomenological in their plan and intention." (IV: 16)

Pratt, David
"Rupert Sheldrake: A Theosophical Appraisal" Sunrise June/July & Aug/Sept 1992. Article about Sheldrake's relevance for theosophy.

Ricoeur, Paul
Husserl: An Analysis of His Phenomenology (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1967)
With clarifying chapters on Husserl's Ideas I, Ideas II and Cartesian Meditations.

Ricoeur, Paul
History and Truth (Evanston IL: Northwestern University Press, 2007)

Sanat, Aryel
The Inner Life of Krishnamurti: Private Passion and Perennial Wisdom (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1999)
On page 144 Sanat states that Krishnamurti's "approach was akin to those of existentialism and phenomenology." See also pp. 101 and 246.

Schuhman, Karl
"Husserl and Indian Thought" in Phenomenology and Indian Philosophy, pp. 20-43.

Schuller, Govert
"The Relevance of Phenomenology for Theosophy" Alpheus, April 16, 2005.
Giving six reasons why interaction is important between these two schools of thought.

Sheehan, Thomas
"Heidegger and the Nazis" Review essay of Victor Farias' Heidegger and Nazism in The New York Review of Books 35/10 (June 16, 1988), pp. 38-47.

Sheldrake, Rupert
A New Science of Life: The Hypothesis of Formative Causation (London: Paladin, 1987[1981], 2nd ed.) Breakthrough proposal by a biologist on the problem of morphogenesis by transforming Plato's philosophy of forms into a scientific hypothesis.

Sheldrake, Rupert
The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance and The Habits of Nature (Rochester, VT, Park Street Press, 1988)
Deepening and historically contextualizing his first book.

Sheldrake, Rupert
The Sense of Being Stared At: And Other Aspects of the Extended Mind (New York: Crown, 2003)
Scientific hypothesis about visual (and extrasensory) perception that comes closer to the phenomenological datum that consciousness is really 'out' there.

Sokolowski, Robert
Introduction to Phenomenology (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge U.P., 2000)
Straightforward introduction to Husserl's basic terms and the doing of phenomenology.

Sokolowski, Robert
Husserlian Meditations: How Words Represent Things (Evanston, IL: Northwestern U.P., 1974)
Advanced study of Husserl's philosophy. Valuable exposition on inner-time consciousness.

Spiegelberg, Herbert
Phenomenology in Psychology and Psychiatry: A Historical Introduction (Evanston IL: Northwestern University Press, 1972)

Ströker, Elizabeth
Husserl's Transcendental Phenomenology (Stanford, CA: Stanford U.P., 1993)
Very helpful to get an understanding and overview of the breadth and depth of Husserl's philosophy.

Thompson, Evan
Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2007)

Thompson, Kevin & L. Embree (Editors)
Phenomenology of the Political (Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer, 2000)

Thomson, Iain
Heidegger on Ontotheology: Technology and the Politics of Education (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005)

Tillich, Paul
Dynamics of Faith (New York: Harper and Row, 1957) Classic in existential-phenomenological theology. Summary

Twiss, Sumner and Walter Conser, Jr eds.
Experience of the Sacred: Readings in the Phenomenology of Religion (Hanover/London: University Press of New England, 1992)

Valle, Ronald S. & Mark King (Editors)
Existential-phenomenological Alternatives for Psychology (Oxford University Press, 1979)

van Manen, Max
Researching lived experience. Human science for an action sensitive pedagogy (Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press,1990)

Varela, Francisco, Evan Thompson and Eleanor Rosch
The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience (Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1991)

Varela, Francisco & J. Petitot & B. Pachoud & J-M. Roy, eds.
Naturalizing Phenomenology: Contemporary Issues in Phenomenology and Cognitive Science (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999)

Vedaparayana, G.
"The Philosophy of Jiddu Krishnamurti." Here-Now4U.
Internet article by an Indian philosopher.

Walthers, Gerda
"A Plea for the Introduction of Edmund Husserl's Phenomenological method into Parapsychology" Report no. 44, Proceedings of the International Conference of Parapsychology, Utrecht, 1953.