Some Aspects and Developments of Gestalt Psychology -- The Place of Psychology in the System of Sciences -- Goldstein’s Conception of Biological Science -- The Phenomenological and the Psychological Approach to Consciousness -- Critical Study of Husserl’s Nachwort -- The Problem of Existence in Constitutive Phenomenology -- On the Intentionality of Consciousness -- On the Object of Thought -- The Kantian and Husserlian Conceptions of Consciousness -- Phenomenology of Thematics and of the Pure Ego: Studies of the Relation Between Gestalt Theory and Phenomenology -- A Non-Egological Conception of Consciousness -- William James’s Theory of the “Transitive Parts” of the Stream of Consciousness -- Contribution to the Phenomenological Theory of Perception -- Philosophical Presuppositions of Logic -- Gelb–Goldstein’s Concept of “Concrete” and “Categorial” Attitude and the Phenomenology of Ideation -- On a Perceptual Root of Abstraction -- On the Conceptual Consciousness -- The Last Work of Edmund Husserl.

The second of a planned six volume of Gurwitsch’s writings, this volume is a corrected version of a collection he published in 1966. It was intended to complement the English edition of The Field of Consciousness (1964), which is the third volume of these Works in English. It contains his own introduction addressing his motivation as a phenomenologist and the situation at the time of publication. Included are English translations of his doctoral thesis, Phenomenology of Thematics and the Pure Ego (1929) and the substantial study based on his first Sorbonne lecture course, "Some Aspects and Developments of Gestalt Psychology" (1936), which made his name in Paris when he fled there from Germany after the rise of National Socialism. Other studies draw on the work in psychiatry of Kurt Goldstein and relate phenomenology to René Descartes, William James, Immanuel Kant, and tendencies in modern thought, thus complementing the historical perspectives resorted of in Vol. I. Thematic problematics addressed include the noema, the ego, eideation, and logic.