History of Phenomenology: Primary Sources

Edmund Husserl:
The Enclopedia Brittanica article which Husserl himself wrote in 1927.
Available here: http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~achou/EncyBrit-DraftD.pdf (though I cannot comment
on the quality of this translation). This is as good a place to begin as any.
Husserl, Edmund, trans. Michael A. E. Dummett, J N. Findlay, Dermot Moran. The Shorter Logical
Investigations. London: Routledge, 2001. Internet resource.
Available at McGill as an eBook. An abridged version of a crucial early text of Husserl. Attacks
psychologism and develops early versions of phenomenological tenets.
Husserl, Edmund. Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy.
Hague: M. Nijhoff, 1982. Print.
Available at McGill as an eBook. Ideas I represents the transcendental turning point in Husserl's
thought.
Martin Heidegger:
Heidegger, Martin. Being and Time. New York: Harper, 1962. Print.
The (surprisingly adequate) translation of the early Heidegger's opus. Heavily influenced
Gadamer.
Heidegger, Martin. Phenomenological Interpretations of Aristotle: Initiation into Phenomenological
Research. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2001. Print.
Some of the lectures that drew the young Gadamer to Heidegger.
Heidegger, Martin. History of the Concept of Time: Prolegomena. Bloomington: Indiana University
Press, 1985. Print.
Lectures from just before the publication of Being & Time. Similar themes, similar
organization, yet far clearer presentation.
Heidegger, Martin. The Basic Problems of Phenomenology. Bloomington: Indiana University Press,
1981. Print.
Lectures from just after the publication of Being & Time. Similar themes and organization, but
emphasizes the historical concerns and themes from the second division rather than the first.
Also far clearer than B&T itself.
Collected Volumes:
Husserl, Edmund, and Donn Welton. The Essential Husserl: Basic Writings in Transcendental
Phenomenology. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1999. Print.
Good selection of texts (including excerpts from all of the above-mentioned Husserl works).
Occasionally frustrating translations.
Moran, Dermot, and Timothy Mooney. The Phenomenology Reader. London: Routledge, 2002. Print.
Good selection of a host of philosophers influenced by Husserl (including Heidegger and
Gadamer). Of special interest is Sartre's brilliant, if deeply problematic, presentation of
intentionality ('Intentionality: A Fundamental Idea of Husserl's Phenomenology'). This article is
also excerpted here (just scroll down): http://www.stanford.edu/class/ihum40/sartre.pdf

A Short List of Secondary Sources

Moran, Dermot. Introduction to Phenomenology. London: Routledge, 2000. Internet resource.
A very broad historico-philosophical overview. Impressive in its breadth.
King, Magda, and John Llewellyn. A Guide to Heidegger's Being and Time. Albany: State University of
New York Press, 2001. Print.
Most secondary sources on Heidegger, especially in English, are awful. This book isn't. Despite
its age (60s) it holds up well as a basic guide to B&T.
Ricur, Paul; trans. Pol Vandevelde. A Key to Husserl's Ideas I. Milwaukee: Marquette University
Press, 1996. Print.
Ricur translated Ideas into French and provided his own running commentary. This is the
translation of the latter. Quite clear while remaining rigorous.
Marion, Jean-Luc. Reduction and Givenness: Investigations of Husserl, Heidegger, and
Phenomenology. Evanston, Ill: Northwestern University Press, 1998. Print.
Not for beginners, nor for the faint of heart. Still, Marion's analyses are brilliant.
Zahavi, Dan. Subjectivity and Selfhood: Investigating the First-Person Perspective. Cambridge, Mass:
MIT Press, 2005. Internet resource.
Connects 20th century phenomenological analyses with modern philosophical and scientific
positions. Anything by Zahavi will be good.