Herbert Spiegelberg "The Phenomenological Movement". PDF archive.org/details/…

This is a return to Metaphysics and the ideal object. "When every existential position is eliminated by means of Epoche, we get a Phenomenology of consciousness." Consciousness is always of an object, but this is an ideal object, a species not an individual. In other words, consciousness equals being because we are always conscious of some ideal object.

"Phenomenological intuition leads to the contemplation of essences; essences are something absolutely given, but as essential being (Wesenssein), never existence (Dasein)." All quotes from Julian Marias, History of Philosophy. If you live near a Barnes & Nobel, this book may be on the shelf and you will never get a better introduction to Husserl imo. The chapter on him is worth the price of the book. No examples are given I don't think.

Now when you get to Max Scheler, and Paul Riceour, we are outside mathematics, well things seem very subjective indeed. I just have to take their word that that are doing "phenomenology". G.Lukacs puts it in a broader context here marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/1949/existentialism.htm

In Spiegelberg's book you may need volume two, page 655. Ie As far as examples, exact method. See table of contents. However, Spiegelberg seems to take liberties in this section, I would like to hear Husserl's opinion on this if he were alive!

@Gordon, why really not issue an answer based on your comments?

Thank you but it's really because anything I know comes from G. Lukacs and Julian Marias. :). I read Spiegelberg some years ago. And it would be impossible to capture Marias' excellent introduction to Husserl, excellent in my opinion anyway. But if no one provides an answer I may convert it into an answer.

Please do so, it would be more composed and valuable to read it this way. Thanks!

@bodhihammer. Is there any way you can get the book by Julian Marias? "History of Philosophy"? There were updates to the book. It has had many reprintings, and it is not expensive new. Marias himself is now deceased. There should also be many used copies. I have not read Zavhi, maybe someone else here has. Also, there is a member here who I think knows Max Scheler's work well, and at least one person, not me, who knows Phenomenology well. Maybe they will answer. My writing is never composed because I'm older and my health is not at 100%!

@bodhihammer Here is Volume 2 of Spiegelberg's book. The whole thing may interest you but if if you want something like the steps try going to p653 and read from there. archive.org/details/…

@Gordon Marias's History of Philosophy can be downloaded from epdf.pub, and Zahavi's Husserl's Phenomenology from [mesosyn.com](@Gordon Marias's History of Philosophy can be downloaded from epdf.pub, and Zahavi's Phenomenological Mind from mesosyn.com. I also think it'd be nice if you wrote an answer if you could.

@Gordon Marias's History of Philosophy can be downloaded from epdf.pub, and Zahavi's Husserl's Phenomenology from mesosyn.com/phenom-DanZahavi.pdf (paste into Google). I also think it'd be nice if you wrote an answer if you could.

Thanks @Conifold. Every time I attempt to organize an answer I realize I still have some questions myself, plus it's exhausting to me. I think I would also have trouble answering the OP's question, and I'd stray from the question. So please go first, then maybe myself or others can provide answers/impressions reflecting their interests/focus.

I would also like to hear further comments and/or answer from @ttnphns because I think Sartre was one of the few major philosophers who really tried to "do Husserl". At least for a period of time. I know Husserl influenced Heidegger, but I still say this about Sartre.

Plus I am clueless on the specific logical/mathematical interests Husserl may have had, to the extent it needs to go into the answer at all. Frankly, I may be making the question too big in my mid.

One point about Marias, he continued to revise the book up to a certain point, but I don't know when he finished his revisions, or if he touched the chapter on Husserl. Also Bretano is important in the same book. But I have never read an original work of Husserl's.

bodhihammer, Phenomenology as a method is not a strict algorithm. Rather an art, and everybody interested to try it does it somewhat differently, I expect. I'm far not an expert on Husserl (to my pity) and even Sartre - I know him bad. Sartre did not trust Husserlian reflection as a tool much and instead was trying to refine it (calling thus his version of reduction "clear or uninvolved reflection"), and he seems to have kept the "technique" secret, for I couldn't find its description anywhere.

@ttnphns As you probably know, Sartre wrote "The Transcendence of the Ego". (1934). See Sartre makes a break here with Husserl, but he is studying Husserl. Taking him seriously. Did anyone else write such an essay?! I don't know. Also, as far as the transition, Thomas R. Flynn from Emory may help. He is not an exciting writer. There was/is a PDF of his "Sartre a Philosophical Biography". Sometimes these PDF disappear and appear again. Finally, you may know T.I. Oizerman! "The Main Trends in Philosophy" he writes some very interesting things in this book. A bit on Husserl, Aquinas.

@Gordon, yes if course I'm familiar with the Tr. o t Ego well. Thank you much for other sources as well.

(I don't know Sartre's "technique" either). I hope you can find Flynn's book. I can't find it, but it could reappear. You have probably read Oizerman. I can learn a lot from him.

@Gordon I read Husserl (LI, Ideas I, FTL), but this question calls for a kind of personal engagement with phenomenology that I can not provide, I am afraid. It should also be said that existentialist phenomenologists (Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre) moved away from the phenomenological reduction as Husserl understood it. To them, bracketing life in an attempt to reach pure essences was throwing the baby with the bathwater. To some extent, this change was already precipitated in late Husserl.

As far as examples of phenomenological analyses, I think Ideas I,II are probably good places to look for implementing the original methodology, Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception is a classic of the existentialist version.