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Breakdown in Communication Hardback - 2001 - 1st Edition

by Robert Denoon Cumming

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Philosophers are committed to objective understanding, but the
history of philosophy demonstrates how frequently one philosopher
misunderstands another. The most notorious such breakdown in
communication in twentieth-century philosophy was between Husserl and
Heidegger. In the third volume of his history of the phenomenological
movement, Robert Denoon Cumming argues that their differences involve
differences in method; whereas Husserl follows a "method of
clarification," with which he eliminates ambiguities by relying on an
intentional analysis that isolates its objects, Heidegger rejects the
criterion of "clarity" and embraces ambiguities as exhibiting
overlapping relations.

Cumming also explores the differences between how
deconstruction--Heidegger's procedure for dealing with other
philosophers--is carried out when Heidegger interprets Husserl versus
when Derrida interprets Husserl. The comparison enables Cumming to
show how deconstruction is associated with Heidegger's arrival at the
end of philosophy, paving the way for the deconstructionist movement.

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I am sorting out certain ways in which a philosopher may proceed from another philosophy (or philosophies) to arrive at his own philosophy.

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The most notorious breakdown in communication in twentieth-century philosophy was between Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. Husserl had earlier been fond of saying to Heidegger, "You and I are phenomenology," but their break came with the publication of Heidegger's Being and Time, which Cumming argues cannot be understood itself simply as a deconstruction of the philosophical tradition at large, which is how it is presented by Heidegger (and usually by his interpreters). Rather, at crucial junctures, it is specifically the deconstruction of Husserl's phenomenology.

Cumming not only brings out the differences between Husserl's and Heidegger's conceptions of phenomenological method, he also clarifies his own interpretative procedure by comparing it with Derrida's deconstruction of Husserl.

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  • Title Breakdown in Communication
  • Author Robert Denoon Cumming
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 280
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press
  • Publication date July 1, 2001
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780226123707 / 0226123707
  • Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.23 x 7.23 x 1.1 in (23.44 x 18.36 x 2.79 cm)
  • Themes
    • Theometrics: Academic
  • Category Philosophy
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 91012696
  • Dewey Decimal Code 142.709

About the author

Robert Denoon Cumming is the Frederick J. Woodbridge Professor Emeritus of philosophy at Columbia University. He is the author of Human Nature and History, Starting Point: An Introduction to the Dialectic of Existence, and Phenomenology and Deconstruction, Volumes One and Two, all published by the University of Chicago Press.
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