Phenomenology and Existentialism Books

Book SynopsisMagnus Englander is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Work at Malmö University, Sweden and Faculty Member in the Department of Humanistic and Clinical Psychology, Saybrook University, USA. He also serves as the Book Review Editor for the Journal of Phenomenological Psychology. Trade ReviewContributors include clinicians and scholars from the US and northern Europe; their varied perspectives provide a multifaceted view of the contributions phenomenological approaches can make to psychological research … Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, and faculty. * CHOICE *This is a scholarly and thought provoking book, written by philosophically sophisticated contributors, that provides an appealing vision of psychiatry that takes seriously the social dimension of human existence. It includes several chapters that have direct clinical relevance. I believe that it would interest a broad range of readers and scholars, especially in psychology and philosophy. -- Steen Halling, Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, Seattle University, USATable of ContentsIntroduction: Magnus Englander Towards a Phenomenological Social Psychiatry Chapter 1: Larry Davidson Transcendental Intersubjectivity as the Foundation for a Phenomenological Social Psychiatry Chapter 2: Mads Gram Henriksen Schizophrenia, Psychosis, and Empathy Chapter 3: Magnus Englander Empathy in a Social Psychiatry Chapter 4: Scott D. Churchill On the Empathic Mode of Intuition: A Phenomenological Foundation for Social Psychiatry Chapter 5: Frederick J. Wertz, Miraj U. Desai, Emily Maynard, Justin R. Misurell, Mary Beth Morrissey, Batya Rotter, Nicoletta C. Skoufalos Research Methods for Person-Centered Health Science: Fordham Studies of Suffering and Transcendence Chapter 6: Idun Røseth & Rob Bongaardt A Phenomenological Understanding of Postpartum Depression and its Treatment Chapter 7: Samuel Thoma & Thomas Fuchs A Phenomenology of Sensus Communis: Outline of a Phenomenological Approach to Social Psychiatry Chapter 8: Susi Ferrarello Husserl's Ethics and Psychiatry Chapter 9: Marc Applebaum The I and the We: Psychological Reflections on Husserl’s Egology Index

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Book SynopsisIf in its simplest form, hermeneutics is a quest for understanding, then part of that quest will always include striving to understand being and the meaning of being. This open access book takes that ambition seriously, arguing that hermeneutics and metaphysics, so central to philosophical thought but so rarely put in tandem, are two complementary fundamentals of human existence.Metaphysical Hermeneutics puts forward the argument for a hermeneutical metaphysics in service of philosophy's basic aim: to make sense of our experience. Jean Grondin builds his argument for this combined discipline around the idea of sense' a theme that is both hermeneutical and metaphysical. What we seek to glimpse is not just a figment of the mind but always the meaning of something. Grondin calls on one of the founding figures of contemporary hermeneutics Hans-Georg Gadamer to test his theories, singling out the metaphysical dimension of Gadamer's ideas and questioni

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Book SynopsisJay Goulding's Daoist Phenomenology represents a lifelong project of interpolating the works of Martin Heidegger with the interweavings of Daoism and Zen. Illustrating styles of reading complex texts from Europe and East Asia, Goulding moves away from horizontal reading of simple comparisons on a single plain to vertical reading as a deep dive of ideas into ancient worlds. Vertical Reading is hermeneutic strategy that captures the depth of connection between phenomenology and Daoism, especially Heidegger and classical Daoists Laozi and Zhuangzi. His method reveals Daoist implications of Dogen's Zen and draws on writing and ideas from popular culture including Jules Verne, H. P. Lovecraft, Philip K. Dick, George Lucas' Star Wars universe and martial artist Bruce Lee. Original and wide-ranging, Goulding's interconnected approach to phenomenology and Daoism enhances and promotes further intercultural dialogues between two great traditions in world philosophies.

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Book SynopsisI. Teil Sinn der Urteilstheorien.- Reine Logik und Urteilstheorie.- Reine Grammatik und Urteilstheorie.- Erkenntnistheorie und Logik.- Erkenntnistheorie und Psychologie.- Phänomenologie als Wesenslehre des Bewusstseins.- II. Teil Grundlegung zu einer allgemeinen phänomenologie des urteils.- Ausdruck und Bedeutung.- Bedeutung und bedeutungverleihende Akte.- Bedeutungsintention und Bedeutungserfüllung.- Aktqualität und Aktmaterie.- Brentanos Satz von der Vorstellungsgrundlage.- Bloße Vorstellung und Urteil.- Der Begriff der Urteilsmaterie.- Vorstellungsinhalt und Urteilsinhalt.- Prädikative Urteile.- Nominale und propositionale Repräsentationen.- Impression und Idee.- Urteil und Wahrnehmung.- Zur Lehre von den Urteilsformen.- Nachweis der Originalseiten.- Namenregister.Table of ContentsEinleitung der Herausgeberin. Urteilstheorie: Vorlesung 1905. I. Teil: Sinn der Urteilstheorien. Reine Logik und Urteilstheorie. Reine Grammatik und Urteilstheorie. Erkenntnistheorie und Logik. Erkenntnistheorie und Psychologie. Phänomenologie als Wesenslehre des Bewusstseins. II. Teil: Grundlegung zu einer allgemeinen Phänomenologie des Urteils. Ausdruck und Bedeutung. Bedeutung und bedeutungverleihende Akte. Bedeutungsintention und Bedeutungserfüllung. Aktqualität und Aktmaterie. Brentanos Satz von der Vorstellungsgrundlage. Bloße Vorstellung und Urteil. Der Begriff der Urteilsmaterie. Vorstellungsinhalt und Urteilsinhalt. Prädikative Urteile. Nominale und propositionale Repräsentationen. Impression und Idee. Urteil und Wahrnehmung. Zur Lehre von den Urteilsformen. Nachweis der Originalseiten. Namenregister.

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Book SynopsisIn this addition to the Collège de France Lecture Series Michel Foucault explores the birth of psychiatry, examining Western society's division of 'mad' and 'sane' and how medicine and law influenced these attitudes. This seminal new work by a leading thinker of the modern age opens new vistas within historical and philosophical study.Table of ContentsForeword Introduction Translator's Note 7 November 1973 14 November 1973 21 November 1973 28 November 1973 5 December 1973 12 December 1973 19 December 1973 9 January 1974 16 January 1974 23 January 1974 30 January 1974 6 February 1974 Course Summary Course Context Index of Notions Index of Names Index of Places

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Book SynopsisD.Trade ReviewThis is a serious and important book... it is certainly one that researchers, scholars and anyone involved in trying to explain the nature of psychiatric disorders to a skeptical audience ought to read. British Journal of Psychiatry This book asks the right questions, and sends us in the right direction. -- S. Nassir Ghaemi, M.D., M.A., M.P.H. Metapsychology A good collection of papers... Will be of most interest to specialists in the area of philosophy of psychiatry (and to philosophers of mind and psychology) -- Rachel Cooper Metapsychology Kendler and Parnas undertake this exploration in a readable, cogent manner in Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry... The authors go to great lengths to ensure that the book is accessible for those with a limited background in philosophy. -- Geoffrey Neimark, M.D. American Journal of PsychiatryTable of ContentsList of ContributorsPrefaceIntroduction. Why Does Psychiatry Need Philosophy?Part I: Explanation Chapter 1.Explaining Complex BehaviorChapter 2. Etiological Models in Psychiatry: Reductive and Nonreductive ApproachesChapter 3. Levels of Explanation in PsychiatryChapter 4. Cause and Explanation in Psychiatry: An Interventionist PerspectiveChapter 5. Causation in PsychiatryPart II: PhenomenologyChapter 6. Varieties of "Phenomenology": On Description, Understanding, and Explanation in PsychiatryChapter 7. Self-agency and Mental CausalityPart III: NosologyChapter 8. Real Kinds but No True Taxonomy: An Essay in Psychiatric SystematicsChapter 9. The Incredible Insecurity of Psychiatric NosologyEpilogueIndex

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Book SynopsisJules Simon is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Science, Technology, Ethics, and Policy at the University of Texas at El Paso, USA. He is the co-editor of The Double Binds of Ethics after the Holocaust: Salvaging the Fragments (Palgrave MacMillan Press, 2009). Professor Simon is on the editorial board and works as book editor for the Rosenzweig Jahrbuch/Yearbook.Trade Review"Art and Responsibility is a sophisticated exploration of the ethical implications of the aesthetic and the aesthetic implications of the ethical. Simon explores this topic through a phenomenological investigation of the thought of Heidegger and Rosenzweig. Instead of producing an intellectual history of these thinkers, the author seeks to elicit the ethical repercussions of their philosophies of art through careful philological-textual analysis of their dense writings. The juxtaposition of these two seminal German thinkers has engendered a fascinating study that undoubtedly will provoke lively discussion and debate in the years to come." --Elliot R. Wolfson, Abraham Lieberman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University, USATable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Mask of Mephistopheles 2. Renewing Narrations or Chaos in Creation 3. Rosenzweig's Midrash as Philosophy of Language 4. The Messianic Aesthetic 5. Heidegger's Hammer: from the Workshop to the Work of Art 6. Turning through Phenomenology to Art and Ethos 7. Philosophy, Poetry, and the Absent God: Final Words Bibliography

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Book SynopsisDonald A. Landes is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Concordia University, Montréal, Quèbec, Canada. He is translator of Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception (2012) and author of Merleau-Ponty and the Paradoxes of Expression (2013).Trade ReviewOne of our best Merleau-Ponty scholars, Don Landes has written an invaluable book. The Merleau-Ponty Dictionary provides concise definitions and insightful elaborations of virtually all of Merleau-Ponty’s thematic and operative terms. It also provides useful summaries of Merleau-Ponty’s most important books and articles. The Merleau-Ponty Dictionary is essential reading for anyone working on Merleau-Ponty today. -- Leonard Lawlor, Sparks Professor of Philosophy, Penn State UniversityFrom the bright undergraduate first-time reader of Merleau-Ponty to the seasoned graduate student and senior scholar, all will find valuable discoveries in this clear, concise, and comprehensive dictionary. Landes has given us a lucid biography, bibliography, and A-Z account of Merleau-Ponty’s philosophical and psychological vocabulary and the vocabulary of phenomenology itself, as well as insightful analyses of Merleau-Ponty's key texts. This handbook will find its place in my Merleau-Ponty seminars. -- Galen Johnson, General Secretary of the International Merleau-Ponty Circle and Professor and Chair of Philosophy, University of Rhode Island, USAA richly enabling resource. The Merleau-Ponty Dictionary offers a chronology of Merleau-Ponty’s life and works, synopses of his texts, and entries on key concepts, technical terms and historical influences. Pithy, insightful and nuanced, the entries in the dictionary provide an intelligent orientation to Merleau-Ponty’s work, and diverse resources for thinking one’s way further into the issues at play. -- Kym Maclaren, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Ryerson University, CanadaTable of ContentsAbbreviations of Primary Works by Merleau-Ponty Cited in this Dictionary Introduction: Maurice Merleau-Ponty Acknowledgments Chronology: Merleau-Ponty's Life and Works Merleau-Ponty, A-Z Suggested Books and Edited Volumes in English Endnotes Index

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Book SynopsisPresents an introduction to the phenomenology of religion. This book describes the historical background to phenomenology by tracing its roots to developments in philosophy and the social sciences in the early twentieth century.Trade Review"James Cox's Introduction to the Phenomenology of Religion offers a rich and important introduction to the theory and practice of the academic study of religion. Its discussion of definitions of religion and the relationship between believing and doing religion should be read by everyone interested in religion." - Graham Harvey, The Open University, UK"This is a clearly written, newly updated and extended introduction to how phenomenology of religion can be located within the history of the study of religions from some of the foundational thinkers to the contemporary cognitive science of religion. Cox is not just a theorist but shows how good method can be put into practice and ends his chapters with focused questions for discussion which are stimulating for student and tutor alike. What is unique about the volume is its careful exploration of how to engage in the practice of phenomenology. This attention to practical application of a method, which is explained in stages, is then also illustrated with precise case studies from African religious traditions drawn from the investigations of students with whom Cox worked at the University of Zimbabwe. It deserves to be on the book list of every undergraduate course on the study of religions." - Peggy Morgan, University of Oxford, UK"This book provides a lively and authoritative introduction to phenomenological methods for studying religion, written in a clear and lucid style by a leading exponent. Both theoretically alert and practical to use, it is enhanced by the author's extensive experience of teaching and research across three continents." - Steven Sutcliffe, University of Edinburgh, UK"Expressing the Sacred: An Introduction to the Phenomenology of Religion was published in 1992 by the University of Zimbabwe Publications in Harare, and in a second edition in 1996. Here Cox has thoroughly revised and updated the information, retaining the informal style that beginners appreciated. The textbook introduces students to the academic study of religious communities from the perspective of phenomenology, which he believes maintains an essential place in the discipline despite the attacks on it over the past two or three decades. Among his topics are defining religion, stages in the phenomenological method, myths and rituals, religious practitioners and art, and the special case of belief." -Eithne O'Leyne, BOOK NEWS, Inc.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part I: The Phenomenology of Religion; 1. Religion and phenomenology; 2. The phenomenology of religion; 3. Why did the phenomenology of religion develop; 4. The phenomenological method illustrated; Part II: The Phenomena; 5. Myths and rituals; 6. Sacred practitioners and art; 7. Scripture and morality; 8. The special case of belief; Part III: Towards the Meaning of Religion; 9. The sacred and the unrestricted value; 10. The eidetic intuition: seeing into the meaning of religion; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisBrings St Thomas Aquinas and Martin Heidegger into dialogue and argues for the necessity of Christian philosophy. Through the confrontation of Heideggerian and Thomist thought, this title offers an original and comprehensive rethinking of the nature of temporality and the origins of metaphysical inquiry.Trade Review"I am unaware of any previous successful attempt to confront Heidegger's massive critique of metaphysics at such depth and range. Dr Smith-Gilson's conception of the four-fold intentional presupposition at the heart of metaphysics is an original conception of great merit and her work will be of immense interest to scholars of Heidegger, St Thomas, and well as to epistemologists and metaphysicians across a wide spectrum." (Prof. Juan Andres Mercado, Associate Professor of Modern Philosophy, The Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome, Italy.) "This work gives a needed voice to the still-true and still misunderstood pre-modern understanding of man, world, being, and God. Where the earlier Thomistic revivals confronted modernity by employing scholastic terminology to restate its vision, Dr. Smith-Gilson's work of retrieval confronts, at the highest intellectual level, modernity and especially its phenomenological presentation, with the words of philosophy simpliciter. This work is an apologia for the Thomistic vision of man, God, and being which is not itself apologetic or defensive. This is a profound and difficult work, but one that richly rewards the reader who gives himself to its mediation." (Herb E. Hartmann, Professor of Philosophy, Southern Catholic College, GA, USA) "The confrontation between Classical and Heideggerian understanding of Being shows Smith Gilson's superb capacity to get into the mind of philosophers of different schools of thinking and mastering their philosophical language. With great balance, this book neither merges the two in some facile reconciliation, nor makes Heidegger a straw man with which to beat modernity in favor of a 13th century theology, but highlights the similarities and differences of their conceptual frameworks, without getting stuck in terminological equivocalness. The reader will find in these rich and dense pages a sound and substantial dialog between Heidegger's philosophical standpoint and medieval metaphysics." (Prof. Francisco Fernandez Labastida, Pontificia Universita della Santa Croce, Italy)"Table of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter I Parmenides, Plato & Aristotle - An Ontological Tracing Of Intentional Being-In-The-World; Tracing I How The Deity Entered Philosophy; Tracing II Plato's Parmenides; Tracing III Aristotle's De Anima; Chapter II St. Thomas Aquinas & Classical Intentionality; A. Introduction; B. Aristotle's Critique Of Earlier First Principles; C. An Account Of The Ananke Stenai; D. Concluding Remarks: An Overview Of Aristotle's Intentional Ground And Its Onto-Epistemological Method; Chapter III The Four-Fold Reversals: The Displacement Of Being-In-The-World; A. A Brief Discursus On Heidegger's Husserlian Influence; B. Heidegger's Commentary On The Critique Of Pure Reason; C. Finitude: Nullity Or No-Thing?; D. St. Thomas' Prima Via- A Brief Discursus On The Ananke Stenai; Chapter IV The Four-Fold Intensities; A. The Necessity Of The Causal Structure; B. The Wait And Christian Philosophy; C. Intentional Presence Qua Finitude; D. Summation Of Finitude: Revisiting The Wait; E. The Aeviternal Structure Of The Intentional Presence; F. Conclusion: The Plenitude Of The Ananke Stenai; Chapter V Tragedy In The Christian Philosophic Vision; Brief Conclusive Remarks; Bibliography - Primary Sources; Bibliography - Secondary Sources.

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Book SynopsisThe Bloomsbury Companion to Existentialism is the definitive guide to this key area of modern European philosophy. Now available in paperback, the book covers the fundamental questions asked by existentialism, providing valuable guidance for students and researchers to some of the many important and enduring contributions of existentialist thinkers. Chapters from an international team of experts explore existentialism''s relationship to philosophical method; ontology; politics; psychoanalysis; ethics; religion; literature; emotion; feminism and sexuality; emotions; authenticity and the self; its significance in Latin American culture; and its contribution to the development of post-structuralism and cognitive science. In addition, five short chapters summarize the status of canonical figures Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre and de Beauvoir, delineating the historical approach to their work, while pointing to new directions contemporary research is now taking. FeaturingTrade ReviewAn exceptionally fruitful addition to the Continuum Companions, this volume on Existentialism gathers together an impressive range of scholars on a wide variety of research areas ranging through the philosophical, the psychoanalytic, the historical, the religious, and the literary to contemporary cognitive science and politics. Highly recommended for students and academics alike. -- Christina Howells, Professor of French, University of Oxford, UK ...this book is a clear achievement and stands out as a key reference and guide for all with an interest in existentialism as a whole or in individual existentialist thinkers. Its depth is encyclopaedic and impressive and its perspective is all at once retrospective, current and forward-looking. -- Sartre Studies InternationalThis is a welcome addition to the set of philosophy "companion" books dominated by Oxford, Cambridge, and Wiley-Blackwell. Besides the main section by contemporary scholars on current research and issues in existentialism, the editors provide sections on new directions in existentialism and recent developments in scholarship on Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, and Simone de Beauvoir. Also included are a glossary of terms; a chronology of key events in the history of existentialism; research resources including websites, institutions, journals and societies; and an annotated guide to further readings for each of the main existential philosophers. These features add scope and depth that set this book apart from others written for novices. Readers get a comprehensive introduction to existentialism. * CHOICE Magazine *This volume is an important addition to research on existentialism and it provides a comprehensive overview of its history, its impact, and the likely areas for its continuing influence. It is a very useful collection for researchers in existentialism, as well as for undergraduate students. -- Simon Lumsden, University of New South Wales, Australia * Australasian Journal of Philosophy *The spirit of this Companion is that of advocate, teacher and muse, to those drawn to existentialism but unable to fully formulate the continuing relevance and importance of this school of thought. Pierre Hadot's What is Ancient Philosophy? strove to make ancient philosophy a wise and fruitful field around which to build a career and life; so, too, this Companion makes the case for the wisdom of existentialism. -- Notre Dame Philosophical ReviewsTable of ContentsContributors 1. Introduction Felicity Joseph, Jack Reynolds and Ashley Woodward (University of Melbourne, La Trobe University and Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy, Australia) 2. Existentialism, Phenomenology and Philosophical Method Felicity Joseph and Jack Reynolds (University of Melbourne and La Trobe University, Australia) Part I: Current Research and Issues 3. Existentialism, Metaphysics and Ontology Christian Onof (Birkbeck College, University of London, UK) 4. Existentialism and Politics David Sherman (University of Montana, USA) 5. Existentialism, Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Douglas Kirsner (Deakin University, Australia) 6. Existentialism and Ethics Debra Bergoffen (George Mason University, USA) 7. Existentialism and Religion George Pattison (University of Oxford, UK) 8. Existentialism and Literature Colin Davis (Royal Holloway College, University of London, UK) 9. Existentialism, Feminism and Sexuality Marguerite La Caze (University of Queensland, Australia) 10. Existentialism and the Emotions Suzanne L. Cataldi (Southern Illinois University, USA) 11. Existentialism, Authenticity and the Self Christopher Macann 12. Existentialism and Latin America Roberto Domingo Toledo (Stony Brook University, USA) Part II: New Directions 13. Existentialism and Cognitive Science Michael Wheeler and Ezequiel Di Paolo (University of Stirling, UK and University of the Basque Country, Spain) 14. Existentialism and Poststructuralism: Some Unfashionable Observations Jack Reynolds and Ashley Woodward (La Trobe University and Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy, Australia) 15. Recent Developments in Scholarship on Key Existentialists I. Kierkegaard William McDonald (University of New England, USA) II. Nietzsche Keith Ansell-Pearson (University of Warwick, UK) III. Heidegger Andrew J. Mitchell (Emory University, USA) IV. Sartre Peter Gratton (University of San Diego, USA) V. De Beauvoir Laura Hengehold (Case Western Reserve University, USA) Part III: Resources 16. A–Z Glossary 17. A Chronology of Key Events, Texts and Thinkers 18. Research Resources in Existentialism 19. Annotated Guide to Further Reading Index

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Book SynopsisMaurice Friedman's masterly anthology still stands apart decades after its original publication. It has become established as a classic - the most comprehensive collection of existentialist writing ever assembled. This edition includes a special preface by Professor Friedman surveying the developments in the field since this monumental work was first published and commenting on its relevance for present intellectual trends. The short selections from important existentialist writers and their forerunners elucidate the critical issues that exist among existentialists. The topics include phenomenology and ontology, the existential subject, intersubjectivity, religion, and psychotherapy.

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Book SynopsisPhilosophy and Truth offers the first English translation of six unpublished theoretical studies (sometimes referred to as Nietzsche's "Philosopher's Book") written just after the publication of The Birth of Tragedy and simultaneously with Untimely Meditations. In addition to the texts themselves, which probe epistemological problems on philosophy's relation to art and culture, this book contains a lengthy introduction that provides the biographical and philological information necessary for understanding these often fragmentary texts. The introduction also includes a helpful discussion of Nietzsche's early views concerning culture, knowledge, philosophy, and the Greeks.Trade Review"... the most significant contribution to English-language studies of Nietzsche since the publication of Walter Kaufmann's translation of The Gay Science." -- Philosophical Books

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Book SynopsisThis is the first English translation of Sartre's unfinished fourth volume of "Roads to Freedom", exploring the interrelations of politics, responsibility; friendship and freedom - themes central to Sartrean existentialism. "Last Chance" brings to an English-speaking audience for the first time the unfinished fourth volume of Jean-Paul Sartre's hugely important "Roads to Freedom cycle". "Sartre's Roads to Freedom" is generally read and regarded as a trilogy, made up of "Age of Reason", "The Reprieve" and "Troubled Sleep". In fact, Sartre began a fourth volume and, although he never finished the work, two chapters, "Strange Friendship" and "Last Chance", were published in French by Gallimard after his death. Set in a German prisoner of war camp, these chapters continue the story of Roads to Freedom, exploring the interrelations of politics, responsibility, friendship and freedom - themes central to Sartrean existentialism. The Pleiade edition published by Gallimard included a previously unpublished interview with Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir's account of his plans for the unfinished fourth volume, and an introduction to the unfinished fragments by the editor, Michel Contat. All this material is translated and published here in this, the first English-language edition of a work that makes an enormous contribution to our understanding of Sartre's hugely influential "Roads to Freedom" cycle.Trade ReviewRecommended by New Statesman.'With explanatory notes and generous critical padding ... As a continuation of Roads of Freedom, Craig Vasey's gritty translation will be of most interest to students of Sartre; it offers only hints at the directions a fourth volume may have taken in story and style, but those familiar with the earlier instalments will find a few surprises among its reassembled shards.' - James Purdon, The Observer'The quality of Sartre's writing, accomanied here by engaging essays and interviews, has never been more evident than in this excellent translation ... fresh, organic, and decidedly human.' - The Guardian'The Last Chance is of huge importance to Sartre scholars for the moral, political and philosophical ideas it contains and for what it reveals about Sartre's post-war intellectual dilemmas ... Readers of the first three volumes will be thoroughly entertained by this incomplete but nonetheless revealing and powerful fourth installment.' - The Philosophers' Magazine "Vasey presents the first English translation of the two parts of volume four of French philosopher Sartre's (1905-80) trilogy Roads of Freedom, and that is only the beginning of the confusion. The title Les Chemins de la liberte applies to the series of novels as a whole, he explains, but each of the five novels has its own title. These two final ones, Strange Friendship and The Last Chance, were published in 1981 by Editions Gallimard, Paris. Introductory material includes a 1945 interview, and comments Sartre made on the novels. The text is followed by critical essays on the two novels and the series." -Eithne O'Leyne, BOOK NEWS, Inc.[Vasey's] reading is a bold one, one that asks questions and stirs debate. In this respect, be they roads to or of freedom, this volume allows contemporary Anglophone readers to continue to engage with Sartre's writing critically and, as far as possible, freely. -- The European Legacy, Volume 16, Number 5"The publication of the fourth volume of Sartre's Roads of Freedom is a key contribution to the field of Sartre studies. English-speaking readers will here have access for the first time to the sequel to what they thought was a trilogy. It is an important sequel, as translator Craig Vasey so aptly shows. In these pages, the roads of freedom take an interesting turn, unveiling Sartre's own trajectory with regards to the concepts of freedom and commitment. Vasey's translation makes these texts available with a concern for accuracy and respect for Sartre's words. Further, this book complements Sartre's manuscripts with a scholarly apparatus that makes it more than a mere translation. This is a scholarly edition of the fourth volume that will shed a new light on Sartre's notion of freedom and how it ought to be pursued. A key reading for anyone interested in Sartre as a writer and/or philosopher." - Professor Christine Daigle, Brock University, Canada"The English speaking world has had to wait nearly thirty years before obtaining access to Jean-Paul Sartre's The Last Chance: Roads of Freedom IV. Therefore, Craig Vasey's faithful translation represents an important contribution to a better and more complete understanding of Sartre's fictional world. It will also help English speakers to situate more clearly his literary production in the context of his complete writings and illuminate the directions in which Sartre attempted to find solutions for his tortured protagonists to the vexing problems of freedom, friendship and fate in a bewildering universe dominated by vicious and hostile ideologies." - Adrian van den Hoven, University of Windsor, CanadaTable of ContentsPart I: Introductory Material; 1. Introduction, Craig Vasey (University of Mary Washington, USA); 2. Interview at Cafe Flore: 1945, Jean-Paul Sartre and Christian Grisoli; 3. Please Insert 1: 1945, Jean-Paul Sartre; 4. Please Insert 2: 1945, Jean-Paul Sartre; Part II: The Last Chance; 5. Strange Friendship; 6. Last Chance; Scholarship and Analysis; 7. General Introduction to Roads of Freedom, Michel Contat (editor, Pleiade edition); 8. Critical Note for Strange Friendship, Michel Contat (editor, Pleiade edition); 9. Critical Note for The Last Chance, Michel Contat (editor, Pleiade edition) and George H. Bauer (Sartre scholar); 10. Bad Faith and Roads of Freedom; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book is a significant novelty in the scientific and editorial landscape. Morphology is both an ancient and a new discipline that rests on Goethe's heritage and re-forms it in the present through the concepts of form and image. The latter are to be understood as structural elements of a new cultural grammar able to make the late modern world intelligible. In particular, compared to the original Goethean project, but also to C.P. Snow's idea of unifying the “two cultures”, the fields of morphological culture that are the object of this glossary have profoundly changed. The ever-increasing importance of the image as a polysemic form has made the two concepts absolutely transitive, so to speak. This is concomitant with the emergence of a culture that revolves around the image, attracting the verbal logos into its orbit. Incidentally, even the hermeneutic relationship between past and present relies more and more on the image, causing deep changes in cultural environments. Form and image are not just bridging concepts, as in the field of ancient morphology, but real transitive concepts that define the state of a culture. From the Internet to smartphones, television, advertising, etc., we are witnessing – as Horst Bredekamp observes – an immense mass of images that fill our time and affect the most diverse areas of our culture. The ancient connection between science and art recalled by Goethe emerges with unusual evidence thanks to intersecting patterns and expressive forms that are sometimes shared by different forms of knowledge. Creating a glossary and a culture of these intersections is the task of morphology, which thus enters into the boundaries between aesthetics, art, design, advertising, and sciences (from mathematics to computer science, to physics, and to biology), in order to provide the founding elements of a grammar and a syntax of the image. The latter, in its formal quality, both expressive and symbolic, is a fundamental element in the unification of the various kinds of knowledge, which in turn come to be configured, in this regard, also as styles of vision. The glossary is subdivided into contiguous sections, within a complex framework of cross-references. In addition to the two curators, the book features the collaboration of a team of scholars from the individual disciplines appearing in the glossary. Table of ContentsAesthetics.- Analogy.- Artefact.- Artifex.- Artistic Morphology.- Atmosphere.- Attractors/Basin of Attraction.- Biopolitics.- Body.- Character/State.- Chreod.- Classics.- Code (Biological).- Code (Juridical).- Colour.- Complexity.- Contour/Outline/Silhouette.- Dance.- Degeneration.- Demography.- Development/Evolution.- Device.- Diagrams.- Diaphane.- Drawing.- Dynamic System.- Eidetics.- Emergence.- Enactivism.- Epidemiology.- Epigenesis / Preformation(ism).- Epigenetic Landscape.- Epigenetics.- Ethics of image.- Evidence/Intuibility.- Extension.- Figuration/Figure/Form.- Folktale, Morphology.- Food.- Form Constancy.- Formation.- Formula

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the concepts of subjectivity and selfhood developed in the oeuvre of Jean-Paul Sartre. Although Sartre is a prominent philosopher, the reception of his work is shrouded in misguided ideas concerning his alleged subjectivism. This book accurately positions Sartre in debates concerning the two themes which form a guiding thread throughout his work and remain immensely relevant in the philosophical landscape of today. Gusman expertly tracks and uncovers the nuances of the evolving notions of subjectivity and selfhood, paying particular attention to his claim that the Self is a ‘thing among things’ and to his views on narrative identity.Using as a framework the critical reception from thinkers in Sartre’s own tradition, the book also draws from the recent popularity of his thought in analytic philosophy of mind. Illuminating and impactful, this book provides an invaluable resource to scholars looking for a contemporary and up-to-date critical study of Sartre’s work.Table of Contents1. Introduction2. Subjectivity without Self3. The Project of Freedom4. The Force of Things5. Conclusion

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Book Synopsis1 On Exploring the Intertwining: Engaging with the Thoughts and Writings of James Mensch.- Part I Reconfiguring Subjectivity.- 2 Another Beginning: On Birth, Childhood, and the Existential State of Being Human.- 3 Jan Patocka and James Mensch on World and Movement.- 4 The Path of Phenomenology: James Mensch and Jan Patocka on Subjectivity.- Part II Unthinking Embodiment and its Implications.- 5 Self-Identity from the Perspective of the Body.- 6 Paradigm Changes in Times of Pandemics, Embodied Vulnerability, and Responsibility.- 7 Merleau-Ponty's Parallel Between Art and Philosophy: The Case of Poetry from Baudelaire and Akhmatova.- Part III Unfolding the Phenomenology of Time.- 8  Ego Splitting and Intuitive Presentifications.- 9 Intersubjective Constitution of Time in the C-Manuscripts.- 10 In the Flow of Experience: Genetic Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis Toward a New Subjectivity Model.- Part IV Probing the Foundations of the Ethico-Political.- 11 Empathy and Trust as Different Foundations of Ethics.- 12 Living In: A Sketch for an Oikology.- 13 Pandemic Times and James Mensch's Political Philosophy.- Part V On Violence and the Wager of Dialogue.- 14 Shame: Experiencing, Enduring and Resisting the Violence of Vulnerability.- 15 Jan Patocka on War: From Hysterical Men to the Solidarity of the Shaken.- 16 The Affective Ambiguity of Violence: A Study in the Phenomenology of Spectacular Violence.- 17 Epilogue.

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Book SynopsisIntroduction.- Section I The Husserlian legacy and the initial motivations of Merleau Ponty's thought: crisis of rationality, oneiric world, and risk of madness.- Introduction: crisis and imaginary.- The modern crisis.- Husserl's greatest discovery according to Merleau Ponty: the Heraclitean flow, between reason and unreason.- The problem of authenticity in Merleau Ponty: humanity and world dissolved by the imaginary?.- Section II Imagination, nothingness, and inauthenticity in Sartre.- Introduction.- Consciousness is nothingness.- Image, imagination, and imaginary in Sartre.- Existence and the world: a froth of nothingness at the surface of Being.- The theatrics of existence.- The overcoming of the dualism of Being and Nothingness is prefigured in Sartrean philosophy.- Section III The Merleau Pontian definition of the imaginary as a particular register of phenomena alongside the real .- Introduction: thematization of the imaginary and definition of a broadened reality.- Merleau Ponty's invocations of the Sartrean definition of the imaginary are inseparable from his critique of the opposition between Being and Nothingness.- Merleau Ponty's critique of the Sartrean conception of the imaginary.- The genuine and even enhanced presence of the real in the imaginary.- The proximity between the Merleau Pontian redefinition of the imaginary and Bachelard's philosophy.- Section IV The conquest of authenticity.- Introduction: authenticity and poetic depth.- Imaginary love: a necessary and fruitful failure General definition of the imaginary as institution.- Institutions and creative acts of taking up in an authentic deep and poetic existence.- Authenticity, imaginary, and reality.- Section V The imaginary is the true Stiftung of Being.- The imaginary as introduction to ontology and then as fundamental ontological model.- An ungraspable Urstiftung: Being as dehiscence.- Depth loves masks: Being as a play of images.- Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThe Founding Role of Anna Teresa Tymieniecka in the History of Phenomenology in North America.- The Ontopoietic Phenomenology of Life and the Renewal of the Environmental Philosophy Reflectio.- A Philosophical Portrait of Anna Teresa Tymieniecka Logos and Life.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1. Philosophy of Nature.- Chapter 2. Phenomenology of Religion.- Chapter 3. Phenomenology of the Self.- Chapter 4. Faith and Reason.- Chapter 5. Schelling.- Chapter 6. Phenomenology of World.- Chapter 7. Self and Other.- Chapter 8. Practical Reason.- Chapter 9. Philosophical Theology.- Chapter 10. Philosophy and Poetry.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1. Ontology of the Extant.- Chapter 2. Time: The Aporia between Subjectivism and Impersonalism.- Chapter 3. The Horizonal Interpretation of Time.- Chapter 4. Intrinsic and Generalized Finitude.- Chapter 5. In the Same Wave.- Chapter 6. Resurrection of Subjectivity.- Chapter 7. Flimsy Plurality.- Chapter 8. Reversal of the Turn.- Chapter 9. Waiting for Meaning and the Meaning of Waiting.

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Book SynopsisSeit einem Paradigmenwechsel in Griechenland um 400 v. Chr. wird der Mensch als Produkt der Zusammensetzung von Körper und Seele verstanden. Zwischen ihnen wurde der ohne Beistand von Sehen und Tasten spürbare Leib vergessen, zu dem Schreck, Angst, Schmerz, Hunger, Durst, Wollust, Entzücken, Müdigkeit, affektives Betroffensein von Gefühlen, gespürte Bewegung und Richtungen (wie der Blick) gehören. Das damals Vergessene wird hier ans Licht gezogen und mit neuen Begriffen durchleuchtet. Das betrifft die Eigenart der Ausdehnung und Dynamik des Leibes. Die leibliche Dynamik erweitert sich zur leiblichen Kommunikation, der Grundform der Wahrnehmung und sozialer Kontakte. Anschließend wird die Bedeutung des Leibes in vielen Bezügen erörtert: als Grundlage des Personseins, als Resonanzstätte für Gefühle als ergreifende Atmosphären, als prägende Kraft in Kunst und Geschichte, als Faktor der Strukturen von Raum und Zeit, ferner mit Bezug auf die Seelenvorstellung und den Körper. Eine Skizze der Stationen des Denkens über den Leib als Thema von Homer bis zur Gegenwart schließt das Buch.

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Book SynopsisHusserl's Ideas for a Pure Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy (1913) is one of the key texts of twentieth century philosophy. It is the first of Husserl's published works to present his distinctive version of transcendental philosophy and to put forward the ambitious claim that phenomenology is the fundamental science of philosophy. In Ideas, Husserl introduces for the first time the conceptual arsenal of his mature phenomenology: the principle of all principles, the phenomenological epoché and reduction, pure consciousness, and the noema. All these difficult notions have been influential and controversial in subsequent philosophy, both analytic and Continental. In this commentary, thirteen leading scholars of Husserlian phenomenology set out to clarify and defend Husserl's views, connecting them to the vast corpus of his published and unpublished writings, and discussing the main available interpretations in the existing scholarship. The result is a detailed and comprehensive account of the most original form of transcendental philosophy since Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.

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Book SynopsisThis collection establishes Nietzsche's importance as a political philosopher. It includes a substantial introduction and eighteen chapters by some of the most renowned Nietzsche scholars. The book examines Nietzsche's connections with political thought since Plato, major influences on him, his methodology, and his influence on subsequent thought. The book includes extensive coverage of the debate between radical aristocratic readings of Nietzsche, and more liberal or democratic readings. Close readings of Nietzsche's texts are combined with a contextualising approach to build up a complete picture of his place in political philosophy. Topics include the relevance of Bonapartism and classical liberalism, Nietzsche on Christianity, the cultural history of Germany, the Übermensch, ethics and politics in Nietzsche, and the controversial question of his political preferences and affinities. Nietzsche's political thought is compared with that of Humboldt, Weber and Foucault. The book is essential reading for anyone concerned with Nietzsche's thought, political philosophy, and the history of political ideas.

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Book SynopsisThe concept of sin permeates Søren Kierkegaard’s writing. This study looks at the entirety of his works in order to systematize his doctrine of sin. It demonstrates four key aspects: sin as misrelation, sin as untruth, sin as an existence state, and sin as redoubling in the crowd. Upon categorizing Kierkegaard’s doctrine of sin, his writings are examined to determine if his hamartiology is consistent across his numerous pseudonyms. To conclude, the study places Kierkegaard’s doctrine of sin within the broader theological discussion.

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Book SynopsisThis is the first translation into English of early phenomenologist Hedwig Conrad-Martius’ Metaphysical Conversations, originally published in 1921. Conrad-Martius was one of Husserl’s first students, an important part of the Göttingen Phenomenology Circle and mentor to Edith Stein, Jean Héring, and other early phenomenologists. The present volume provides the full German and English texts of the conversations, a phenomenological discussion of the nature of the human, examining the nature of body, soul, and spirit, and drawing distinctions between plants, animals, humans, and various other beings. The volume also includes two important essays on phenomenology, in which Conrad-Martius distinguishes between the phenomenological approaches of Husserl, Heidegger, and the more ontological approach of the Göttingen school of phenomenology. She is critical of Husserl’s "transcendental" and Heidegger’s "existential" approach. The conversations illustrate her use of the phenomenological method for fundamental investigations into the nature (or Wesen) of things.

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Book SynopsisThe volume begins with what is in common to contemporary phenomenological historians and historiographers. That is the understandings that temporality is the core of human judgment conditioning in its forms how we consciously attend and judge phenomena. For every phenomenological historian or historiographer, all history is an event, a span of time. This time span is not external to the individual, rather forms the content and structure of every judgment of the person. It is the logic used by the individual to structure the phenomenon attended. Rather than the phenomenon being seen as something solely external, it is understood by phenomenologists as also of our immediate awareness and thought. Thus, the phenomenological method discerns all judgment as based upon one’s span of attention of inner or outer phenomena.. There is an intentionality to attention. One intends one’s own foci. Attention is the temporal duration of that intending. The volume offers a text that enables contemporary historians, graduate students, and even undergraduates who are well taught, to understand both the history of phenomenology as a method of inquiry, and the contemporary practice of phenomenological historical and historiographical thought.

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Book SynopsisDeathworlds are places on planet earth that can no longer sustain life. These are increasing rapidly. We experience remnants of Deathworlds within our Lifeworlds (for example traumatic echoes of war, genocide, oppression). Many practices and policies, directly or indirectly, are "Deathworld-Making." They undermine Lifeworlds contributing to community decline, illnesses, climate change, and species extinction. This book highlights the ways in which writing about and sharing meaningful experiences may lead to social and environmental justice practices, decreasing Deathworld-Making. Phenomenology is a method which reveals the connection between personal suffering and the suffering of the planet earth and all its creatures. Sharing can lead to collaborative relationships among strangers for social and environmental justice across barriers of culture, politics, and language. "Deathworlds into Lifeworlds　wakes people up to how current economic and social forces are destroying life and communities on our planet, as I　have mapped in my work.　The chapters by scholars around the world in this　powerful book testify to the pervasive　consequences of the proliferation of Deathworld-making and ways that collaboration across cultures can help move us forward." —Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and a Member of its Committee on Global Thought. "Recognizing the inseparability of experience, consciousness, environment and problematics in rebalancing life systems, this book offers solutions from around the world." —Four Arrows, aka Don Trent Jacobs, author of Sitting Bull's Words for A World in Crises, et al. "This unique book brings together 78 participants from 11 countries to reveal the ways in which phenomenology –　the study of consciousness and phenomena — can lead to profound personal and social transformation.　 Such transformation is especially powerful when "Deathworlds" – physical or cultural places that no longer sustain life – are transformed into "lifeworlds" through collaborative sharing, even when (or, perhaps, especially when) the sharing is among strangers across different cultures. The contributors share a truly wide range of human experiences, from the death of a child to ecological destruction, in offering ways to affirm life in the face of what may seem to be hopeless death-affirming challenges." —Richard P. Appelbaum, Ph.D., is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus and former MacArthur Foundation Chair in Global and International Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is also a founding Professor at Fielding Graduate University, where he heads the doctoral concentration in Sustainability Leadership. "Deathworlds is a love letter for the planet—our home. By documenting places that no longer sustain life, the authors collectively pull back the curtain on these places, rendering them meaningful by connecting what ails us with what ails the world." —Katrina S. Rogers, Ph.D., conservation activist and author "Deathworlds to Lifeworlds represents collaboration among Fielding Graduate University, the University of Łodź (Poland), and the University of the Virgin Islands. Students and faculty from these universities participated in seminars on transformative phenomenology and developed rich phenomenologically based narratives of their experiences or others’. These phenomenological protocol narratives creatively modify and integrate with everyday experience the conceptual frameworks of Husserl, Schutz, Heidegger, Habermas, and others. The diverse protocol authors demonstrate how phenomenological reflection is transformative first by revealing how Deathworlds, which lead to physical, mental, social, or ecological decline, imperil invaluable lifeworlds. Deathworlds appear on lifeworld fringes, such as extra-urban trash landfills, where unnoticed impoverished workers labor to the destruction of their own health. Poignant protocol-narratives highlight the plight and noble struggle of homeless people, the mother of a dying 19-year-old son, persons inclined to suicide, overwhelmed first responders, alcoholics who through inspiration achieve sobriety, unravelled We-Relationships, those suffering from and overcoming addiction or misogynist stereotypes or excessive pressures, veterans distraught after combat, a military mother, those in liminal situations, and oppressed indigenous peoples who still make available their liberating spirituality. Transformative phenomenology exemplifies that generous responsiveness to the ethical summons to solidarity to which Levinas’s Other invites us." —Michael Barber, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy, St. Louis University. He has authored seven books and more than 80 articles in the general area of phenomenology and the social world. He is editor of　Schützian Research, an annual interdisciplinary journal. "This book helps us notice the Deathworlds that surround us and advocates for their de-naturalization. Its central claim is that the ten virtues of the transformative phenomenologist allow us to do so by changing ourselves and the worlds we live in. In this light, the book is an outstanding presentation of the international movement known as "transformative phenomenology." It makes groundbreaking contributions to a tradition in which some of the authors are considered the main referents. Also, it offers an innovative understanding of Alfred Schutz’s philosophy of the Lifeworld and a fruitful application of Van Manen’s method of written protocols." —Carlos Belvedere, Ph.D., Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Buenos Aires" "Moving beyond the social phenomenology carved out by Alfred Schütz, this impressive volume of action-based experiential research displays the efficacy of applying phenomenological protocols to explore Deathworlds, the tacit side of the foundational conception of Lifeworlds. Over twenty-one chapters, plus an epilogue, readers are transported by the train of Transformative Phenomenology, created during what’s been called the Silver Age of Phenomenology (1996 – present) at the Fielding Graduate University. An international amalgam of students and faculty from universities in Poland, the United States, the Virigin Islands, Canada, and socio-cultural locations throughout the world harnessed their collective energy to advance the practical call of phenomenology as a pathway to meaning-making through rich descriptions of lived experience. Topics include dwelling with strangers, dealing with trash, walking with the homeless, death of a young person, overcoming colonialism, precognition, environmental destruction, and so much more. The research collection enhances what counts as phenomenological inquiry, while remaining respectful of Edmund Husserl’s philosophical roots." —David Rehorick, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of New Brunswick (Canada) & Professor Emeritus, Fielding Graduate University (U.S.A.), Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Book SynopsisThe volume gathers together over twenty contributions that emerged from a conference held in in honour of Dermot Moran on the occasion of his retirement from University College Dublin. The book explores the contribution of phenomenology to empathy, intersubjectivity, affectivity, and the constitution of the cultural and social world, from both a historical and an applied philosophical perspective. Theoretical and methodological differences in approach notwithstanding, phenomenologists have converged in the recognition that self and others are fundamentally related, and have provided fine-grained accounts of the origin, forms, and implications of such relationship. The volume critically reconstructs and further develops central aspects of this body of research within a pluralistic framework. It offers a renewed investigation of the work of classical phenomenologists like Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty, as well as an original application of phenomenological concepts and theories to contemporary discussions on intentionality, culture, emotions, and morality. The book provides insights for scholars in phenomenological philosophy as well as in philosophy of mind and interpersonal and social experience.

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