📚 Phenomenology

Books with phenomenology on their catalogue record, first published between 1829 and 2017, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject phenomenology in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 6,402 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	L'être et le néant	Jean-Paul Sartre	1943	86
	Analysis of the phenomena of the human mind	James Mill	1829	57
	The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy	Burt Hopkins	2014	56
	Ideen zu einer reinen Phänomenologie und phänomenologischen Philosophie	Edmund Husserl	1899	31
	Totalité et Infini	Emmanuel Levinas	1899	29
	Histoire et vérité	Paul Ricœur	1955	27
	Phénoménologie de la perception	Maurice Merleau-Ponty	1945	26
	La transcendance de l'ego	Jean-Paul Sartre	1957	24
	Cartesianische Meditationen	Edmund Husserl	1931	21
	La théorie de l'intuition dans la phénoménologie de Husserl	Emmanuel Levinas	1930	14
	Wesen und Formen der Sympathie	Max Scheler	1931	14
	Phenomenology	Jean-François Lyotard	1956	14
	Ways of the hand	David Sudnow	1978	12
	Phenomenology of Perception	Maurice Merleau-Ponty	2002	12
	The phenomenon of life	Hans Jonas	1966	8
	Introduction to Phenomenology	Robert Sokolowski	1999	8
	A hundred years of phenomenology	Robin Small	2001	8
	Husserl	David Woodruff Smith	2010	8
	Genèse et structure de la Phénoménologie de l'esprit de Hegel	Jean Hyppolite	1946	7
	The phenomenological movement	Herbert Spiegelberg	1960	7
	Je m'explique	Pierre Teilhard de Chardin	1966	7
	Delimitations	John Sallis	1986	7
	Paul Ricoeur	Karl Simms	2002	7
	Understanding Phenomenology	David R. Cerbone	2006	7
	In the Name of Phenomenology	Simon Glendinning	2007	7
	Phénoménologie et vérité	Alphonse de Waelhens	1953	6
	Edmund Husserl	Dermot Moran	2005	6
	Violence and Phenomenology	James Dodd	2009	6
	Phenomenology of Practice	Max Van Manen	2014	6
	Phenomenology and Naturalism	Rafael Winkler	2017	6

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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