Metaphysical Conversations and Phenomenological Essays / / Hedwig Conrad-Martius; ed. by Christina M. Gschwandtner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2024 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Conrad-Martius, Hedwig,
• MitwirkendeR: Gschwandtner, Christina M.,
• HerausgeberIn: Gschwandtner, Christina M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2023]; Verlag Max Niemeyer, , [2024]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2023; 2024
• Language: English
• Series: Women Philosophers Heritage Collection : Introduction, Translation and Original Text , 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (V, 300 p.)

This is the first translation into English of early phenomenologist Hedwig Conrad-Martius’ Metaphysical Conversations, originally published in 1921. Conrad-Martius was one of Husserl’s first students, an important part of the Göttingen Phenomenology Circle and mentor to Edith Stein, Jean Héring, and other early phenomenologists. The present volume provides the full German and English texts of the conversations, a phenomenological discussion of the nature of the human, examining the nature of body, soul, and spirit, and drawing distinctions between plants, animals, humans, and various other beings. The volume also includes two important essays on phenomenology, in which Conrad-Martius distinguishes between the phenomenological approaches of Husserl, Heidegger, and the more ontological approach of the Göttingen school of phenomenology. She is critical of Husserl’s "transcendental" and Heidegger’s "existential" approach. The conversations illustrate her use of the phenomenological method for fundamental investigations into the nature (or Wesen) of things.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Translator’s Notes -- Phenomenology and Speculation -- Transcendental and Ontological Phenomenology -- Metaphysical Conversations -- German Original Texts -- Phänomenologie und Spekulation -- Die transzendentale und die ontologische Phänomenologie -- Metaphysische Gespräche -- Index