Phenomenology and Existentialism Books

Book SynopsisMatthew Fuller is Professor of Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. He is co-author of Evil Media (2012), Editor of Software Studies: a Lexicon (2008) and co-editor of the journal Computational Culture.Trade ReviewMatthew Fuller has composed a revelatory and brilliantly original book. This richly insightful and multifaceted work will be indispensable reading for anyone concerned with the increasingly urgent problem of sleep. -- Jonathan Crary, Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art and Theory, Columbia University, USAWhere do you fall when you fall asleep? Out of consciousness and into a state of quasi-death, or into an unconscious form of activity? Do you withdraw from the world or get projected upon it differently? Who is the subject of sleep? Like love, sleep makes us creative and vulnerable at the same time. It is a democratic state, yet inaccessible to phenomenological accounts: it does not even make sense to state: “I am asleep”, and yet sleep deprivation is torture. Arguing passionately that sleep is both our posthuman, animal core and a form of power, this original volume performs a series of sleep acts, ranging from insomnia, apnea, narcolepsy, to sleep-walking, doziness, cataplexy and plain not wanting to wake up. In a brilliant combination of aphorisms, meditations, snippets of self-help and shreds of critical analysis, the book explores the bio-politics of sleep, as well as its social, psychological and aesthetic aspects. This is Matthew Fuller at his best: witty, theoretically sharp and thoroughly enjoying his inimitable flair for paradoxes. -- Rosi Braidotti, Distinguished University Professor and founding Director of the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University, The NetherlandsTable of Contentspreface acknowledgements 1. How to Sleep 2. Without Thinking 3. Dormant 4. I Don't Want to be Awake 5. The Domestic Architecture of the Skull 6. Heroes of Sleep 7. Too Much Dream 8. Mediating 8. Sleep Acts 9. Repulsive Sleep 10. Ingredients of Sleep 11. Sleep Gltiches 12. Body Parts 13. Be Unconscious 14. The Luxuriance of Dissolving 15. Free-Running 16. Sleep in Love 17. Vulnerable 18. Hyperpassivity 19. The Eye Busy Unseeing 20. How to Thrive Biologically 21. Repetition 22. Architecture 23. Laws Governing Sleep 24. Film Sleep 25. Man Controls the Day.But We Will Control the Night 26. Headless Brim 27. Trains and Buses 28. The Smell of Sleep 29. The Child's Bed 30. Brain as Labourer 31. Melnikov’s Promethean Sleepers 32. Sleep on the Road 33. Terraforming 34. Dozy-looking 35. Nocturne 36. Waking Up 37. Equipment 38. Sleep Upright In Order to Avoid Death 39. Animal Sleep 40. Wrap Up Warm bibliography index

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Book SynopsisHeideggers construction of Being is paramount in Western philosophy and arguably the most enduring effort to construct a presupposition free ontology. Nevertheless, using the theory of encryption of power, we can discover that the result of his effort is a sophisticated perpetuation of a kind of knowing and of doing that alienates the possibility of any kind of politics as a commonality of differences. This book connects the theory of encryption of power with an array of ground-breaking philosophical and scientific traditions of the last hundred years in order to perforate and depose Heideggers metaphysics, through his construction of the ready-to-hand. Through a hypothetical language game, based on Wittgensteins language games (The X game of language) this book decrypts Heideggers construction of Being while also decrypting and empowering the Wittgensteinian philosophy of language along with it.The idea of decryption demonstrates that, through particular forms of language use and philosophy, the world as we know it is encrypted; forms of resistance and life are covered over by a surface of control and determination that leads to economic and political forms like capitalism, fascism and liberalism. Decryption is a way of unconcealing what has been concealed. By staging this encounter, Sanin-Restrepo brings the insights of decolonial theory to bear on the main body of Western philosophy and directly on Heidegger himself.

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Book SynopsisIn Being and Time Martin Heidegger developed a way of considering human existence as being there', a process of interrelationships with aspects of the environment in which the very process itself constitutes the essence of human being. From Heidegger to Performance engages with this radical perspective and consider Heidegger's thinking in relation to different senses of performance, from the familiar, such as theatrical contexts of dance, live art and theatre, to explorations of modes of being within these performative situations. The contributors engage with a wide variety of topics from clowning to questions of linguistic construction; from the phenomenology of objects in stage space to the ephemerality of performance; from the performance of personal memory to the anxiety of the moment of choice in performing a complex movement. This book explores the ways in which Heidegger's work and ideas of performance and performativity intersect, across their various senses and usages and will be useful to scholars, teachers and students who are interested in thinking about performance, and themselves as performative, in new ways.

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Book SynopsisAlthough she never penned a text dedicated exclusively to ethics, Edith Stein's work encompasses an implicit, but self-consciously developed, moral philosophy not yet sufficiently developed in the current English-language literature. However, comparison of Stein's anthropological and metaphysical theories against the ethical philosophy of other early phenomenological thinkers, such as Max Scheler and Edmund Husserl, reveals lines of moral theory woven throughout her texts. In On the Ethical Philosophy of Edith Stein: Outlines of Morality, William E. Tullius endeavors to present a systematic account of Stein's moral thought as it takes shape in conversation with neo-scholasticism and develops across her corpus in conversation with her philosophical anthropology, axiological theory, and metaphysics. The ethics which emerge from these sources is oriented around the moral project of the development of personality through the unfolding of one's personal core and which entails a call to the development of an ethical community reflective of and oriented by its responsiveness to the highest values and to the communal destiny of all humanity in God

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Book SynopsisThe late Bruno Latour has come a long way since he claimed that we have never been modern and analyzed the hole in the ozone layer from an armchair. From his initial analysis of modernity, Latour evolved to confront the detrimental impact of modern civilization on the Earth. This book contends that Latour''s early and later works can be connected to the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, so as to render a profound understanding of the intricate relationship between modernity and technology in our era. Reconsidered in tandem, these thinkers can become essential guides to help us circumvent some of the fundamental human and environmental tragedies of our time.While both Latour and Heidegger illuminate the perils of our epoch, they also offer a beacon of hope. Through their alternative examination of human existence, technology, and the world around us, they inspire us to envision paths toward overcoming the challenges of modernity. In their interconnected philosophies lies the potential for rediscovering hope despite the pressing dangers of our age. This book calls for theoretical fieldwork and a parallel reassessment of these intellectual giants and urges us to draw upon their insights in order to confront and transcend the dilemmas of our modern world.

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Book SynopsisValentina Gaudiano is Associate Professor of Philosophical Anthropology at Sophia University Institute by Florence.

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Book SynopsisJoseph Gamache is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Marian University Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.

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Book SynopsisTimothy A. Burns is Senior Teaching Professor of Philosophy at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota.Travis Lacy is Assistant Professor of Theology at Providence College.Eric J. Mohr is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Liberal Arts program at Saint Vincent College, Latrobe, PA, and Secretary of the Max Scheler Society of North America.

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Book SynopsisThe Phenomenology of Revelation in Heidegger, Marion, and Ricoeur provides a critical framework for understanding the phenomenology of revelation through a series of close readings that serve as the basis for an imagined dialogue between Martin Heidegger, Jean-Luc Marion, and Paul Ricoeur. Adam J. Graves distinguishes between two dominant approaches to revelation: a radical approach that seeks to disclose a pre-linguistic experience of revelation through a radicalization of the phenomenological reduction, and a hermeneutical one that characterizes revelation as an eruption of meaning arising from our encounter with concrete symbols, narratives, and texts. According to Graves, the radical approach is often driven by a misplaced concern for maintaining philosophical rigor and for avoiding theological biases, or contaminations. This preoccupation leads to a process of counter-contamination in which the concept of revelation is ultimately estranged from the phenomenon's rich historical and linguistic content. While Ricoeur's hermeneutic phenomenology may do a better job of accommodating the concrete content of revelation, it does so at the price of having to renouncing the kind of presuppositionlessness generally associated with phenomenological method. Ultimately, Graves argues that a more nuanced appreciation of the complex nature of our linguistic inheritance enables us to reconceive the relationship between revelation and philosophical thought.

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Book SynopsisPhenomenology research design is often very difficult for the novice researcher to grasp, particularly when the researcher has little to no background in philosophy. As such, dissertation students tend to struggle with the design throughout the entire dissertation process, often confusing case study design with phenomenology design. Phenomenology Research Design for Novice Researchers provides a practical guide for the novice researcher. It is geared primarily to the thesis and dissertation student as an entryway for students who will go deeper into the definitive literature and gives them a practical starting point to begin thinking about and designing their research and how to execute it successfully. Covering topics such as critical thinking, interviewing, data collection, and phenomenological writing, this reference work is crucial for researchers, academicians, practitioners, scholars, educators, and students.

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Book SynopsisPhenomenology research design is often very difficult for the novice researcher to grasp, particularly when the researcher has little to no background in philosophy. As such, dissertation students tend to struggle with the design throughout the entire dissertation process, often confusing case study design with phenomenology design. Phenomenology Research Design for Novice Researchers provides a practical guide for the novice researcher. It is geared primarily to the thesis and dissertation student as an entryway for students who will go deeper into the definitive literature and gives them a practical starting point to begin thinking about and designing their research and how to execute it successfully. Covering topics such as critical thinking, interviewing, data collection, and phenomenological writing, this reference work is crucial for researchers, academicians, practitioners, scholars, educators, and students.

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