Phenomenology and Existentialism Books
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Phenomenology of Virtual Technology
Book SynopsisThe digital age we now live in is fundamentally changing how we relate to our perceptions and images. Daniel O''Shiel provides the first comprehensive phenomenology of virtual technology in order to show how the previously well-established experiential lines and structures between three basic categories of phenomenal experience our everyday perceptions of reality; our everyday fantasies of irreality; and our everyday engagements with external images, not least digital ones are becoming blurred, inverted or are even collapsing in a new era where a specific type of virtuality is coming to the fore. O'Shiel examines in depth just what this means for the phenomenology behind it, as well as the concrete practical consequences going forward. The work is divided into two main parts. In the first O'Shiel fully investigates the phenomenological natures of perception and imagination through close textual analyses of the relevant works by Edmund Husserl, Eugen Fink and Jean-Paul Sartre. In eachTrade ReviewHow to interpret the relation between the infinite of our actual and real world, and the infinite of the digital and virtual world of social media? Not in terms of “transition”, but in terms of transformation. Daniel O’Shiel describes meticulously the very nature of it: i.e. as form of “irrealization”. This loss of the “real”, he shows, is at the core of the passions and experiences generated by virtual reality. Is this a problem? Read the book, and judge for yourself. * Roland Breeur, Professor of Philosophy, KU Leuven, Belgium *We live in a world dominated by the power of the image, wherein the boundaries between the real and the virtual are increasingly blurred. What happens to the self, to the other, and to values in such a situation? Mining crucial insights of classical phenomenology and applying his findings to a variety of contemporary virtual technologies, O’Shiel has produced a valuable monograph not only for scholars of phenomenology, but also for anyone who wishes to think seriously about what it means to perceive and to imagine in the digital age—and about how to do so with greater discernment. * Ian Alexander Moore, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Loyola Marymount University, USA *O’Shiel’s book is a major achievement. It offers a masterful survey of the contributions of major phenomenological thinkers to the conceptualisation and analysis of the virtual which could serve equally well as a point of entry for a phenomenologist curious about the virtual, or a researcher of the virtual seeking to grasp phenomenology. Ultimately O’Shiel’s project is a syncretic one, and this overview of phenomenological contributions to the understanding of the virtual serves as a springboard to the production of his own framework. The fecundity of which is amply demonstrated by its application to various forms of virtual technology, such as social media, online gaming, and virtual reality. This book is a treasure trove of phenomenological insights into the virtual. It is engagingly written, conversational without being superficial. The author has made a major contribution to contemporary phenomenology, and this book will undoubtedly become the go to text for those teaching and researching the phenomenology of the virtual. * Gregory Swer, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction PART I. PERCEPTION, IMAGE AND THE CHALLENGE OF VIRTUALITY 1. Husserl 1.1. Husserl’s Perception 1.2. Presentation, Presentification and Phantasy 1.3. The Problem of Image-Consciousness 2. Fink 2.1. Fink’s ‘Presentification and Image’ 2.2. Presentation, Depresentation and the Types of Presentification 2.3. Image-Consciousness, Again 3. Sartre 3.1. Perception and the Imaginary 3.1.1. Experiencing and Evoking Absence: Perception, Imagination and the Analogon 3.1.2. Sartre’s Imaginary: Between Perception and Concept 3.1.3. An Ambiguity in Sartre’s Conclusion? 3.2. Sartre’s Answer for Image-Consciousness .. 3.3. Recapitulation and Discussion 4. The Challenge of Virtuality 4.1. Heidegger and Our Forked Being 4.2. Bergson and Deleuze 4.3. Perception and Image: a Difference in Kind or Degree? 4.4. Real Virtualities: Self, World, Others and Values PART II. IRREAL VIRTUALITY: THE CASE OF VIRTUAL TECHNOLOGY 5. Social Media 5.1. The Significance and Influence of Social Media 5.2. Changed Selves, Worlds, Others and Values in Social Media 5.3. Breeur’s Challenge: A Possibility for Real Engagement On or Through Social Media? 6. Online Gaming 6.1. Games Are Not (Straightforward) Perceptions 6.2. The Online Gaming Experience 6.3. Changed Selves, Worlds, Others and Values in Games 6.4. Reality, Irreality, Superreality and Addiction 7. VR, AR and MR Technologies 7.1. A Summary of VR, AR and MR Technologies 7.2. Changed Selves, Worlds, Others and Values in VR, AR and MR Technologies 7.3. ‘Pure’ MR and the Case of Holograms 8. Considerations and Consequences 8.1. Virtual Technology: Its Current Status and Scope 8.2. Blurrings, Inversions and Collapses? Current Trends and Future Possibilities Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Film Bodies
Book SynopsisIn Film Bodies, Katharina Lindner took film studies into a new direction, integrating queer and feminist theory with film phenomenology. Her groundbreaking book explores the presence of women''s bodies in movement in a range of genres, including the dance film, the sports film and queer cinema, providing detailed textural analyses of Black Swan (2010), The Tango Lesson (1997), 2 Seconds (1998), Offside (2006), Tomboy (2011), and Girlhood (2014), and discussing the queer feminist encounters they give rise to. Published after Lindner''s untimely death in 2019, this new paperback edition of Film Bodies includes a special foreword by Jenny Chamarette, exploring the embodied, time travelling nature of Lindner''s work. Trailing gloriously in the wind behind Film Bodies are all the beginnings, the experiences that shape it, the visceral connections that give the book a bodymind from which to speak.Trade ReviewLindner provides a welcome guide through new terrain. Deftly navigating the challenge of bringing feminist and queer thought together, Film Bodies raises important questions about how the social, spatial and corporeal coordinates of cinematic being are imbricated. * Film-Philosophy *I cannot think of a single other scholar in the world who combines such an integrated approach to philosophical phenomenology, queer theory and feminist theory while also examining contemporary films in such insightful detail. -- Jenny Chamarette, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, Queen Mary University of LondonIn this challenging and provocative book, Katharina Lindner tackles the problems that film phenomenology has skirted around for years. What is a queer feminist phenomenology? What about female bodies that are in movement, that disrupt, that display themselves and unsettle? Who can speak about them and for them? Lindner looks at filmic female bodies that dance and play sport, and that are performatively queer, and examines the thrilling spaces and affective timeframes in which they move. The result is a new realm of queer feminist embodiment that enables different kinds of non-normative lived bodies to become visible and active, from tango dancers to tomboys, and boxers to ballerinas. A vital and significant development of film phenomenology. -- Lucy Bolton, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, Queen Mary University of LondonFilm Bodies vibrantly explores the intersections between film phenomenology and queer and feminist theories. Through a series of agile textual analyses, Lindner draws out the potential of the gendered body to trouble both cinema's sensory experience and film theory s critical categories. Film Bodies is an essential contribution to queer film scholarship. -- Rosalind Galt, Head of Department of Film Studies, King's College LondonTable of ContentsChapter 1 – Queer(ing) Phenomenology Chapter 2 – Female Bodies in ‘Action’: Gender/Genre Trouble Chapter 3 – ‘Throwing Like a Girl’? Physicality and Athletic Performance on Screen Chapter 4 – Dancing on Screen: Mirror-ing Movement Chapter 5 – Queer Cinema: Queer Orientations? Chapter 6 – Conclusion
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Materialist Phenomenology
Book SynopsisBringing together phenomenology and materialism, two perspectives seemingly at odds with each other, leading international theorist, Manuel DeLanda, has created an entirely new theory of visual perception. Engaging the scientific (biology, ecological psychology, neuroscience and robotics), the philosophical (idea of ''the embodied mind'') and the mathematical (dynamic systems theory) to form a synthesis of how to see in the 21st century. A transdisciplinary and rigorous analysis of how vision shapes what matters.Trade ReviewThis is arguably DeLanda’s best work, and that’s really saying something, as he has produced 30 years of innovative philosophy. Materialist Phenomenology is extensively and insightfully scientifically informed, bridges differing schools of philosophy with rigor and fairness, and is written with exemplary lucidity. * John Protevi, Phyllis M. Taylor Professor of French Studies, Louisiana State University, USA *Bringing together phenomenology and materialism, two perspectives seemingly at odds with each other, DeLanda once again makes an important contribution to theory at large. A well informed, transdisciplinary and rigorous analysis of how vision shapes what matters. * Rick Dolphijn, Associate Professor of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University, the Netherlands *Table of Contentsprelims acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Contribution of the World 2. The Contributions of the Body 3.Contributions of the Brain 4. Contributions of the Mind bibliography index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Structure Phenomenology
Book SynopsisThis is the first English translation of Herbert Witzenmann's seminal work, Strukturphänomenologie, which departs from the traditional phenomenological methods of Husserl, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty to introduce a fresh approach to the nexus of consciousness and reality. In Structure Phenomenology, published open access, Witzenmann argues for the active mental, yet mostly pre-reflective, participation of humans in the emergence of individual consciousness of all kinds and the basic structure that determines it. While Witzenmann ascribes a derivative or memorative status to habitual states of phenomenal consciousness, even if they seem to refer to present objectivity, he proposes that the underlying formative processes be unveiled and explored through systematic first-person observation. Through his logically grounded and experience-based approach, he contends that it is not neural processes that produce consciousness, but rather one's own preconscious rootedness in realitTrade ReviewThis book is a wide-ranging analysis and synthesis of how the principles and first-person methods of structural phenomenology cast light on conceptual and non-conceptual content of experience and enable insights into the constitution of intentional content and the formation of reality. It is a highly welcome addition and foundation for the growing interest in epistemological and phenomenological issues concerning the constitution of subjectivity and the world among scientists and laymen alike. * Christian Tewes, Adjunct Professor (Privatdozent) of Philosophy, University of Jena, Germany *Table of ContentsForeword, Johannes Wagemann (Alanus University, Germany) Introduction to Structure Phenomenology, Johannes Wagemann (Alanus University, Germany) 1. Biographical Notes on Herbert Witzenmann 2. The Role of Introspection 3. Intentionality and the Basic Structure 4. The Deposited Memorative Layer 5. Reality Access and Ontological Stratification 6. Reception and Further Development of Witzenmann’s Structure Phenomenology Structure Phenomenology, Herbert Witzenmann Foreword Introduction Part 1: The Basic Structure 1.1 Mistaken Conceptions Of The Relation Between Consciousness And Object 1.2 The Basic Structure In The Light Of Rudolf Steiner’s Epistemology 1.3 Explanatory Remarks Part 2: The Crucial Difficulty. The Problem of Generation 2.1 Self-giving. Temporalization. Depresentification 2.2. A Seemingly Resultant Infinite Regress 2.3 The Problem of Continuity Part 3: The Proposed Solution 3.1 Thinking Act and Thought Content (Evidence) 3.2 Further Elucidation on this Approach to a Solution 3.3 Formation of Reality and Beings 3.4 The Sub-temporal and Super-temporal 3.5 Thinking Act and Self-consciousness (the “I”). The Concept of Observation 3.6 The Solution to the Problem of Memory 3.7 The Deposited Memorative Layer. The Concept of Objectivity. The Gaze Behind the Veil 3.8 The Concept of Presence 3.9 Structural and Functional Remembering 3.10 The Paradox of Self-giving. The Self-forgetfulness of Supposing 3.11 Results of the Structure-phenomenological Exploration of the Contents of Consciousness Part 4: The Significance Of Structure Phenomenology Advice for the Reader References
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Kierkegaard and Possibility
Book SynopsisHow does our conception of possibility contribute to our understanding of self and world? In what sense does the possible differ from the merely probable, and what would it mean to treat possibility as part of the real? This book is an opportunity to see Kierkegaard as contributing to a distinctive phenomenology, ontology, and psychology of possibility that addresses the question of our existential relationship to the possible.The term possibility' (Mulighed) and its variants occur with curious frequency across Kierkegaard's writings. Key to Kierkegaard's understanding of the self, possibility is linked to a number of core concepts in his works: from imagination, anxiety, despair, and the moment' to the idea in The Sickness Unto Death that God is that all things are possible. Responding to what he sees as a Hegelian and Aristotelian misunderstanding of possibility, Kierkegaard offers a novel reading of the possible that, in turn, directly influences 20th-century philosophTable of ContentsForeword, George Pattison (University of Glasgow, UK) Introduction: Existence and possibility, Erin Plunkett (University of Hertfordshire, UK) Part I: Possibility and the Philosophical Tradition 1. From Possibility to Actuality and Back Again: Kierkegaard’s Ontology of the Possible and the Actually Ideal, Jeff Hanson (Harvard University, USA) 2. ‘What Our Age Needs Most’: Kierkegaard's Metaphysics of Virkelighed and the Crisis of Identity of Philosophy, Gabriel Ferreira (UNISINOS, Brazil) Part II: Possibility and Experience 3. Possibility, Meaning, and Truth: Kierkegaardian Themes in Proust, Rick Anthony Furtak (Colorado College, USA) 4. The Secrecy of Possibility in Kierkegaard’s “Pattern”, Frances Maughan-Brown (College of the Holy Cross, USA) 5. Kierkegaard and Deleuze: Anxiety, Possibility and A World Without Others, Henry Somers-Hall (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) Part III: Possibility and Freedom 6. On Being Educated for the Possibility by The Concept of Anxiety, Jakub Marek (Charles University, Czech Republic) 7. Isaac I cannot Understand: Sacrifice and the Possibility of Radical Intersubjectivity, Tatiana Chavalková Badurová (Charles University, Czech Republic)) Part IV: Possibility and Hope 8. Just a Glance! Kierkegaard’s Eschatology of the Possible, Saitya Brata Das (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India) 9. Climate Despair from a Kierkegaardian Perspective: Asceticism, Possibility and Eschatological Hope, Hjördis Becker-Lindenthal (Cambridge University, UK) 10. Hope in the Task of Forgiveness, John Lippitt (Institute for Ethics & Society at Notre Dame, Australia) Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Academic Radical Embodiment on Film
Book SynopsisLouis Bayman is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Southampton, UK. He is author of The Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama (2014) and co-editor of Folk Horror on Film: Return of the British Repressed (2023).Davina Quinlivan is a researcher, writer and curator, currently teaching at the University of Exeter, UK. She is author of Shalimar: A Story of Place and Migration (2022) and Filming the Body in Crisis: Trauma, Healing and Hopefulness (2015).
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Edinburgh University Press Towards a Critical Existentialism
Book SynopsisJeffrey Bell develops a critical existentialism and provides a new way of integrating the concerns of existentialist writers into contemporary political and social debates.
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Edinburgh University Press Art and Technology in Maurice Blanchot
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State University Press of New York (SUNY) JeanLuc Nancy and Plural Thinking Expositions of
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State University of New York Press Philosophers and Their Poets Reflections on the
Book SynopsisExamines the role that poets and the poetic word play in the formation of philosophical thinking in the modern German tradition.Several of the most celebrated philosophers in the German tradition since Kant afford to poetry an all-but-unprecedented status in Western thought. Fichte, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Gadamer argue that the scope, limits, and possibilities of philosophy are intimately intertwined with those of poetry. For them, poetic thinking itself is understood as intrinsic to the kind of thinking that defines philosophical inquiry and the philosophical life, and they developed their views through extensive and sustained considerations of specific poets, as well as specific poetic figures and images. This book offers essays by leading scholars that address each of the major figures of this tradition and the respective poets they engage, including Schiller, Archilochus, Pindar, Hölderlin, Eliot, and Celan, while also discussing the poets'' contemporary relevance to philosophy in the continental tradition.Above all, the book explores an approach to language that rethinks its role as a mere tool for communication or for the dissemination of knowledge. Here language will be understood as an essential event that opens up the world in a primordial sense whereby poetry comes to have a deeply ethical significance for human beings. In this way, the volume positions ethics at the center of continental discourse, even as it engages philosophy itself as a discourse about language attuned to the rigor of what poetry ultimately expresses.
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John Murray Press Understand Existentialism Teach Yourself
Book SynopsisIs this the right book for me?Understand Existentialism breaks down a complex mode of thought into more manageable sections, enabling you to get to grips with the key concepts within the movement. Chart the origins and development of existentialism in a variety of disciplines and learn about significant thinkers from Sartre and De Beauvoir to Beckett and Camus. Whether you are a newcomer or more experienced student, this book will enhance your understanding of a brand of philosophy designed to give meaning and direction amongst the uncertainties of modern life.Understand Existentialism includes:Chapter 1: Introduction to existentialismChapter 2: Living dangerously: the roots of existentialismChapter 3: Between birth and deathChapter 4: Existence precedes essenceChapter 5: The authentic lifeChapter 6: Freedom, choice and responsibilityChapter 7: The individual, art and societyChapter 8: Existentialism and religTable of Contents : Introduction : Chapter 1: Who’s who : Chapter 2: Personal Meaning : Chapter 3: Living Dangerously Chapter 4:: Between Birth and Death : Chapter 5: The Authentic Life : Chapter 6: Existence precedes Essence : Chapter 7: Existentialism and Religion : Chapter 8: Freedom, Choice and Responsibility Chapter 9:: The Individual and Society Chapter 10:: Commitment and Absurdity : Postscript: Where now for existentialism? : Glossary : Further Reading
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Edinburgh University Press The Principles of Deleuzian Philosophy
Book SynopsisKoichiro Kokubun focuses on Deleuze's method of 'free indirect discourse' to locate and explicate Deleuze's philosophy of transcendental empiricism and its constitutive limits. He works through Deleuze's confrontations with Hume, Kant, Bergson, Freud, Lacan, Foucault and Guattari, and the influence of structuralism and psychoanalysis.
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Edinburgh University Press Beckett and Embodiment
Book SynopsisThis book argues that the abject, decrepit body in Beckett does not signal the impossibility of agency but demands its reconceptualisation. Analysing the representation of the body in relation to the environment in Beckett?s work, the author interrogates the power to do and act. Separating dynamic interaction from willed intention, Amanda Dennis shows how Beckett?s oeuvre refashions subjectivity in dialogue with a disintegrating environment. The book provides a phenomenological reading of Beckett to argue that sensation and embodiment support our interactions with our material world, enabling possibilities for embodied agency in collaboration with our physical and linguistic surroundings.Trade Review"Attending to the meaning-making potential of the body in space," Amanda Dennis demonstrates the continuing value of Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology for an understanding of Beckett's posthuman ecology. Beckett and Embodiment is a timely and important study written with a keen and critical intelligence."" -Professor Jonathan Boulter, Western University
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Edinburgh University Press The Fragility of Caring for Others
Book SynopsisFerrarese develops our thinking about the social conditions of caring for others, while arguing for an understanding of morality that is materialist and political always-already political.
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Edinburgh University Press The Responsibility to Understand
Book SynopsisFew topics have received broader attention within contemporary philosophy than that of responsibility. Theodore George makes a novel case for a distinctive sense of responsibility at stake in the hermeneutical experiences of understanding and interpretation.He argues for the significance of this hermeneutical responsibility in the context of our relations with things, animals and others, as well as political solidarity and the formation of solidarities through the arts, literature and translation.
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Edinburgh University Press Agamben and the Existentialists
Book SynopsisDivided into three sections 'Agamben and the Sovereign Exception', 'Agamben and the Death of God' and 'Existentialist Themes in Agamben' this collection challenges, complicates and reimagines Agamben's critique of the sovereign exception and other existentialist themes including feminism and postcolonialism.Trade Review"Consistently challenging, informative, and enlightening, the essays in this volume make a major contribution in situating Agamben's thought in relation to existentialist thinkers and themes. They provide a bright new lens through which to view Agamben's work." -Kevin Attell, Cornell University
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Edinburgh University Press Dynamic Realism
Book SynopsisPhilosophy has traditionally considered reality as a set of static objects. Tina Rock transcends this understanding to explore the realistic potential of relational and dynamic ontology. Rock takes a new phenomenological path into a realism that discloses the world as temporal and relational.
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Edinburgh University Press Dynamic Realism
Book SynopsisPhilosophy has traditionally considered reality as a set of static objects. Tina R ck transcends this understanding to explore the realistic potential of relational and dynamic ontology. R ck takes a new phenomenological path into a realism that discloses the world as temporal and relational.Trade Review"The ambition of this book is breathtaking: nothing less than the articulation of a new metaphysics. More astonishing is the ease with which Tina R ck persuasively achieves this feat, drawing on resources ancient, modern and contemporary to reformulate the relation of thinking and being. Remarkable." -Craig Lundy, Nottingham Trent University
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Edinburgh University Press Nietzsche as Phenomenologist
Book SynopsisRadically revises Nietzsche's ethical and political views by controversially interpreting his philosophy as phenomenological.Trade Review"Nietzsche as Phenomenologist offers a provocative reading of Nietzsche as a phenomenologist avant la lettre. Daigle makes a compelling case for a Nietzschean 'wild phenomenology' that anticipates Husserl's philosophical framework and methodology. Her systematic reading challenges us to investigate consciousness and embodied subjectivity, ethics, and politics in Nietzsche through the lens of classical phenomenological concepts such as intentionality, being-in-the-world, and being-with-other. A refreshing addition to Nietzsche scholarship! ? " -Vanessa Lemm, Deakin University
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John Murray Press The Ceiling Outside: The Science and Experience
Book SynopsisAs her mother slips into the fog of dementia, a philosopher grapples with the unbreakable links between our bodies and our sense of self. Vanessa wakes from a coma having forgotten ten years of her life. Toussaint, is haunted by voices. Thomas no longer knows how to answer questions and Claire, a retired teacher loses the use of her right hand because of an inexplicable pain. Noga Arikha began studying these patients and their confounding symptoms in order to explore how our physical experiences inform our identities. Soon after she began her work, the question took on unexpected urgency, as Arikha's own mother began to show signs of Alzheimer's disease. Weaving together stories of her subjects' troubles and her mother's decline, Arikha searches for some meaning in the science she has set out to study. She explores how the self studies itself and how it loses itself, delving into the scientific research that can help us understand how deeply interconnected are our minds and bodies. The result is an unforgettable journey across the ever-shifting boundaries between ourselves and each other.Trade ReviewArikha is that rare author whose deep knowledge of philosophy, science, and the arts allows her to move deftly from the quandaries of medical diagnosis and the scientific ideas that inform them to the intimate narratives of people afflicted with illnesses that threaten the coherence of that mysterious thing we call "a self." Astute, compassionate, and brilliant, The Ceiling Outside is finally an adventure story in the bewildering drama of being -- Siri Hustvedt, bestselling author of MEMORIES OF THE FUTUREArikha is a poet and a painter with the soul of a scientist. Trust her to guide you through a study of suffering and healing that will leave you humanly richer and, wonder of wonders, at peace with yourself -- Antonio Damasio, David Dornsife Chair in Neuroscience, University of Southern California, and author of Descartes' ErrorWith grace, rigour and imagination, Arikha brings together the languages of mind, brain, and embodied human experience to give us a book that fascinates on every page -- Lisa Appignanesi, author of MAD, BAD AND SADA moving journey to the roots of the self, which uniquely combines the author's deep knowledge of its neuropsychological foundations with a touching humanistic sensibility. A must read -- Vittorio Gallese, Professor of Psychobiology at the University of Parma, ItalyA luminous, intellectually dense meditation on mind -- Kirkus ReviewsLike Oliver Sacks and the neuroscientist Antonio Damasio, Arikha structures her exploration of these larger questions around individual cases. Each is fascinating not only in itself, but also as an opportunity for Arikha to expand on the historical and social understandings of particular ailments, and of the evolution of those understandings -- Harper's MagazineArikha has a gift for making scientific technicalities digestible by baking them into irresistible narratives and wise reflections . . . a formidable scholar of medicine. As an impartial observer, she regards the history of the human sciences as inclusive, across both time and place, and it is refreshing to hear about traditional philosophical topics such as the mind-body problem or the distinction between the normal and the pathological from non-Western and premodern perspectives -- American Scholar
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John Murray Press The Ceiling Outside: The Science and Experience
Book Synopsis 'Astute, compassionate, and brilliant' Siri HustvedtVanessa wakes from a coma having forgotten ten years of her life. Toussaint is haunted by voices. Claire loses the use of her hand because of an inexplicable pain. Noga Arikha began studying these patients to explore how our physical experiences inform our identities. The question took on unexpected urgency when Arikha's own mother began to show signs of Alzheimer's disease. Weaving together stories of her subjects' troubles and her mother's decline, Arikha searches for meaning in the science she set out to study. The result is an unforgettable journey across the ever-shifting boundaries between ourselves and each other.As her mother slips into the fog of dementia, philosopher Noga Arikha grapples with the unbreakable links between our bodies and our sense of self.'Fascinates on every page' Lisa Appignanesi, author of Mad, Bad and Sad'Will leave you humanly richer and, wonder of wonders, at peace with yourself' Antonio Damasio, author of Descartes' ErrorTrade ReviewArikha is that rare author whose deep knowledge of philosophy, science, and the arts allows her to move deftly from the quandaries of medical diagnosis and the scientific ideas that inform them to the intimate narratives of people afflicted with illnesses that threaten the coherence of that mysterious thing we call "a self." Astute, compassionate, and brilliant, The Ceiling Outside is finally an adventure story in the bewildering drama of being -- Siri Hustvedt, bestselling author of MEMORIES OF THE FUTUREArikha is a poet and a painter with the soul of a scientist. Trust her to guide you through a study of suffering and healing that will leave you humanly richer and, wonder of wonders, at peace with yourself -- Antonio Damasio, David Dornsife Chair in Neuroscience, University of Southern California, and author of Descartes' ErrorWith grace, rigour and imagination, Arikha brings together the languages of mind, brain, and embodied human experience to give us a book that fascinates on every page -- Lisa Appignanesi, author of MAD, BAD AND SADA moving journey to the roots of the self, which uniquely combines the author's deep knowledge of its neuropsychological foundations with a touching humanistic sensibility. A must read -- Vittorio Gallese, Professor of Psychobiology at the University of Parma, ItalyA luminous, intellectually dense meditation on mind -- Kirkus ReviewsLike Oliver Sacks and the neuroscientist Antonio Damasio, Arikha structures her exploration of these larger questions around individual cases. Each is fascinating not only in itself, but also as an opportunity for Arikha to expand on the historical and social understandings of particular ailments, and of the evolution of those understandings -- Harper's MagazineArikha has a gift for making scientific technicalities digestible by baking them into irresistible narratives and wise reflections . . . a formidable scholar of medicine. As an impartial observer, she regards the history of the human sciences as inclusive, across both time and place, and it is refreshing to hear about traditional philosophical topics such as the mind-body problem or the distinction between the normal and the pathological from non-Western and premodern perspectives -- American Scholar
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Rowman & Littlefield Europe, Phenomenology, and Politics in Husserl
Book SynopsisEurope is often discussed in the context of crisis, usually economic or political. Less prominent these days is Europe’s spiritual crisis; an important topic throughout the previous century. Various catastrophes put in doubt the rationalist principles on which Europe had based itself. The current relativist intellectual and political climate can still be seen as an expression of this. Rather than following attempts to counter this via the restoration of a supposedly European essence (often in terms of Christianity or rationalism), this book attempts to think the crisis through to its end and to articulate the truth which manifests itself in it.The themes of this book – Europe, phenomenology and politics – share a concern with the crisis as the dissolution of the world, that is, the dissolution of a shared horizon of human existence. Among phenomenologists, Husserl and Patočka foremost have linked this problematic to reflections on the idea of Europe itself. They represent two distinct perspectives, corresponding to different historical situations. Nonetheless, what is presented here is not primarily the continuity between their thought and their historical circumstances, but rather the underexamined continuity between their phenomenology and their thought on Europe and politics.Applying phenomenology to politics, Husserl’s and Patočka’s thought are used to assess the justification for and limits of liberal and agonistic political philosophy respectively. By analysing the concrete ways in which our world is structured experientially, the limits of the ideal of rational reconciliation are shown. An alternative conception of politics is developed on the basis of the breakdown of Europe’s rationalist ideal, that is, on the basis of the truth which manifests itself in Europe’s crisis, without lapsing into a relativism where anything goes. This leads to an agonistic conception of liberal democracy based on Patočka’s phenomenological concept of problematicity.
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Equinox Publishing Ltd Playing the Scene of Religion: Beauvoir and Faith
Book SynopsisSimone de Beauvoir, one of the most famous existential philosophers of the 20th century, is a confirmed atheist. Despite this, she also engages and reassigns faith, that faith that is usually associated with 'religion, ' and iterates it in the service of her existential ethics. Beauvoir's ethic is founded in the axiom that 'I concern others, and they concern me. There we have an irreducible truth.' From this assumption, she articulates the principles for living an ethical life which honours above all the freedom of the other in a world fraught with contingency and ambiguity. In so doing, she enjoins us to undertake our efforts in generosity and risk, in faith toward each other, because only by doing so can we achieve the transcendence given in the existential condition. In this movement, Beauvoir confirms and performs a different reading of religion: religion as the scene of the self and other, of the appeal and response, of the holy and the faithful, which constitutes the history of European civilization. Following a certain thread in the discourse on religion given in Jacques Derrida and Michel de Certeau, this study proposes a theoretical apparatus for 'religion' which offers a different appreciation of Beauvoir's ethics. This study has two agendas: to interrogate popular notions of religion by reading it, out of Derrida and Certeau, as a signifier for a situated historical scene; and to show the existential philosophy of Beauvoir as a performance of that scene. In particular, it will show how the structure of relationships she presents in her ethics clearly reproduces the rhythms of the scene of religion. One of the implications of this reproduction is that existential philosophy can only emerge in the context of religion, and is necessarily an iteration of religion. The other implication is that we might reassess how we code the category 'religion' in our public and private discourse, with all the disruption that such a different coding might entail.Table of ContentsIntroduction CHAPTER 1 Writing Lives CHAPTER 2 Setting the Scene CHAPTER 3 Beauvoir's Conversion CHAPTER 4 The Other Shore CHAPTER 5 A Moving Scene
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Headline Publishing Group Pocket Philosophy: Heidegger's Lizard
Book SynopsisMartin Heidegger (1889-1976) is one of the most influential – and controversial – philosophers of the twentieth century. He is mostly associated with existentialism (the study of human experience) and phenomenology (the study of consciousness), and his work was enormously influential.In this story, Heidegger is exploring the relationship between 'beings' and their environments. How much does each – the rock, the lizard and the human – understand of the world around them?By adapting famous animal parables, the Pocket Philosophy series seeks to introduce inquisitive readers of all ages – from 1 to 100! – to the biggest names in philosophy.
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Imprint Academic Insides and Outsides: Interdisciplinary
Book SynopsisInsides and Outsides brings together diverse aspects of animate nature, diverse not only in terms of animate nature itself, but in terms of areas of study. Indeed, the book lives up to the word "interdisciplinary" in its title. It brings together diverse academic perspectives within each chapter and across chapters, showing in each instance that scientific understandings of animate nature are or can be complementary to philosophical understandings. Thus insides and outsides, typically viewed as subjective vs. objective, mind vs. body, and self vs. other, are shown to be woven together in complex and subtle ways in the complexities and subtleties of animate life itself.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Husserl Dictionary
Book SynopsisThis is a dictionary of the key terms and concepts in Husserl's philosophy, his major works and philosophical influences. "The Husserl Dictionary" is a guide to the world of Edmund Husserl, the founder of phenomenology. Meticulously researched and extensively cross-referenced, this unique book covers all his major works, ideas and influences and provides a firm grounding in the central themes of Husserl's thought. Students will discover a wealth of useful information, analysis and criticism. A-Z entries include clear definitions of all the key terms used in Husserl's writings and detailed synopses of his key works. The Dictionary also includes entries on Husserl's major philosophical influences, including Brentano, Hume, Dilthey, Frege, and Kant, and those he influenced, such as Gadamer, Heidegger, Levinas, Sartre and Merleau-Ponty. It covers everything that is essential to a sound understanding of Husserl's phenomenology, offering clear and accessible explanations of often complex terminology. "The Husserl Dictionary" is the ideal resource for anyone reading or studying Husserl, Phenomenology or Modern European Philosophy more generally. The "Continuum Philosophy Dictionaries" offer clear and accessible guides to the work of some of the more challenging thinkers in the history of philosophy. A-Z entries provide clear definitions of key terminology, synopses of key works, and details of each thinker's major themes, ideas and philosophical influences. The Dictionaries are the ideal resource for anyone reading or studying these key philosophers.Trade ReviewThe Husserl Dictionary should be welcomed by all those interested in Husserl and phenomenology. Novices will find its entries helpful in providing clear orientation in Husserl's difficult thought, while specialists will appreciate especially the numerous cross-references to Husserl's Collected Works that support the accounts of central terms. -- Steven Crowell, Joseph and Joanna Nazro Mullen Professor of Philosophy, Rice University, USA and Editor of Husserl StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction; A-Z Dictionary; Guide to Further Reading.
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De Gruyter Jean-Paul Sartre: Das Sein und das Nichts
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De Gruyter Toward an Ontology of Social Communities
Book SynopsisThis is the first English translation of a seminal book within the phenomenological movement. The work was orginally published in 1923 in Edmund Husserl´s yearbook Jahrbuch für Philosophie und phänomenologische Forschung, and has had a wide impact on work in phenomenology (Husserl, Heideger, Stein) and social ontology. Gerda Walther broaches the topic of social ontology, i.e., a study of social communities. She carries out this task by using the phenomenological method, that is, a study of the first-person (both singular and plural) experience of being a part of a community, what it feels like internally (and its constitutive elements), how it relates to other individuals or other communities, and how unifications between individiuals and communities or between communities take place. The book is an important contribution to the phenomenology of intersubjectivity or the study of social ontology. Social ontology has been an important and fruitful field of research in contemporary social theory, cognitive science, and other disciplines. It will be a crucial contribution to the fields mentioned.
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Kohlhammer Existenzielle Themen in Der Psychotherapie
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Martin Heidegger, Parmenides (Wintersemester
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Logik ALS Die Frage Nach Dem Wesen Der Sprache:
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Vortrage: Teil 2: 1935 Bis 1967
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Winke I Und II: Schwarze Hefte 1957 Bis 1959
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Martin Heidegger, Gesamtausgabe II. Abteilung:
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Martin Heidegger, Gesamtausgabe. II. Abteilung:
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Vorlaufiges I-IV: Schwarze Hefte 1963 -1970
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Vorlaufiges I-IV: Schwarze Hefte 1963 -1970
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Martin Heidegger, Gesamtausgabe. II. Abteilung:
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Hegel: Phanomenologische Interpretation Der
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Philosophie Der Geschichten
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Was Ist Phanomenologie?
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Hegels 'phanomenologie Des Geistes': Eine
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Zollikoner Seminare: Protokolle - Zwiegesprache -
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Realitat Im Spiegel Der Zeit
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Karl-Alber-Verlag Randzonen Der Erfahrung: Beitrage Zur
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Peter Lang AG The Presocratics in the Thought of Martin
Book SynopsisThe book focuses on Heidegger’s thoughtful repetition of early Greek thinking, and his receptive attention to the fragments of the Presocratics from our contemporary age. Their thought has a special value for him as the heritage which must be repeated anew in order to bring us back to the question of being and to open before us new avenues for existence. The author raises questions which help us to understand Heidegger as a thinker. He presents a deep analysis of Heidegger’s interpretations of the Presocratics and contributes to a new, insightful understanding of Heideggerian philosophy. «The book deserves a wide reception among scholars who are interested in the Presocratics, Heidegger and contemporary philosophy.» Dr. Katherine Morris (University of Oxford) «Prof. Korab-Karpowicz (…) develops a consistent reading of Heidegger’s historical studies, thereby significantly contributing to a new approach for the study of Heideggerian philosophy.» Dr. Michal Bizoń (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)Table of ContentsPhilosophy as Phenomenological Ontology – Heidegger’s Early View of History – Time and History in Being and Time – History as Repetition – World History, Historiography and Historicity – Authentic and Inauthentic Historiography – Philosophy as History – The Place of the Presocratics in Heidegger’s Thought – The Anaximander Fragment – Heidegger’s 1926 Lecture on Anaximander – The Departure of the Destiny of Being – Ἀρχή as Ordering (Verfügung) – Ordering as τὸ Ἄπειρον – The Earliest Name for Being: τὸ Χρεών – Being as Getting-Over Disorder – Τὸ Χρεών and the History of Being – Heraclitus: Physis and the Logos – The Φύσις Fragments (16, 123, 54, 8, 51, 64, 66, 30, 124, 93) – The Λόγος Fragments (50, 45, 72, 43, 108, 78, 41, 115, 112) – Being and Thinking in Parmenides – Ἀλήθεια - the Goddess of the Parmenidean Poem, Fragment 1 – At the Crossroads – Fragments 2 and 6 – Being and Thinking – Fragments 3 and 6 – Moira – Fragments 3 and 8 – The Presocratics and the History of Being – Heidegger’s Attempt to Overcome Metaphysics – From the First Beginning to the New Beginning
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Springer VS Zwischen Wir und Ich
Book SynopsisEinleitung.- Die Person.- Die soziale Gemeinschaft.- Die soziale Gemeinschaft.- Schluss.
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Schwabe Verlag GmbH Kritische Theorie Philosophische Anthropologie Logischer Empirismus
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