Realism and the Background of Phenomenology

viii, 308 pp. "...presents several of the classical papers of the Continental and Anglo-Saxon realists. It contains Meinong's influential paper The Theory of Objects... the entire text of the manifesto of the American New Realists, G.E. Moore's Defense of Common Sense, Bertrand Russell's The Ultimate Constituents of Matter, Samuel Alexander's British Academy Lecture The Basis of Realism, and Arthur Lovejoy's Temporalistic Realism. It also contains important papers by Husserl and Brentano in their first English translation. ...a detailed introduction tracing the development of realism in America, England, and the European continent and explaining the relations between realism and the phenomenology of Husserl. The final section of the book is a full bibliography of the works of the major and minor realists as well as a selected bibliography of writings by and about Husserl."--jacket