Colores verdaderos. Una panorámica fenomenológica

Abstract

In this paper, the author historically develops with full detail what he calls «phenomenological conceptions of color», situated all during the first decades of the twentieth century. The author traces the general coordinates of the theories of color and the philosophical problems posed by thinkers that were very close to Husserl (Schapp and Reinach), and then gives a detailed review of some representatives of psychological tendencies related to phenomenology (Carl Stumpf, Kurt Koffka, Karl Bühler, Ewald Hering, David Katz, Adhemar Gelb, and others). Finally, the author analyzes two of the most representative positions after Husserl’s legacy: that of Merleau-Ponty and Hermann Schmitz. The author also includes an appendix that explains the theories of Aristotle and Goethe.