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Northwestern University Press Bakhtin and the Classics Rethinking Theory
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Univ of Chicago Behalf Northwestern Univ Pres The MerleauPonty Reader
Book SynopsisOffering a comprehensive view of Maurice Merleau Ponty's (1908-1961) work, this selection collects the foundational essays necessary for understanding the core of this critical twentieth-century philosopher's thought.Table of Contents Sources of the Texts Editors's Introduction I. The Pre-Sorbonne Period (Preceding 1949) 1. The Relations of the Soul & the Body & the Problem of Perceptual Consciousness, from The Structure of Behavior (1942) 2. The War Has Taken Place (1945), from Sense and Non-Sense 3. What is Phenomenology? Preface to the Phenomenology of Perception (1945) 4. Cezanne's Doubt (1945), from Sense and Non-Sense 5. The Contemporary Philosophical Movement (1945), from Parcours, 1935-1951 6. The Primacy of Perception and its Philosophical Consequences (1946), from the Bulletin de la societe francaise de philosophie 7. Reality and its Shadow (1948), from Parcours, 1935-1951 II. The Sorbonne Period (1949-1952) 8. A Note on Machiavelli (1949), from Signs 9. The Adversary is Complicit (1950), from Parcours, 1935-1951 10. The Child's Relations with Others (1951), extract, course at the Sorbonne 11. Human Engineering: The New ""Human"" Techniques of American Big Business (1951), from Parcours, 1935-1951 12. Man and Adversity, followed by discussion (1951), essay from Signs, discussion from Parcours Deux, 1951-1961 13. Indirect Language and the Voices of Silence (1952), from Signs 14. An Unpublished Text by Maurice Merleau-Ponty: A Prospectus of his Work (1952), from Parcours Deux, 1951-1961 III. The College De France Period (1952-1961) 15. Epilogue to Adventures of the Dialectic (1953-54) 16. Preface (1960) to Signs 17. Eye and Mind (1961) 18. Merleau-Ponty in Person (1958), from Parcours Deux, 1951-1961 19. The Intertwining - The Chiasm (1960-61), from The Visible and the Invisible 20. New Working Notes from the Period of The Visible and the Invisible (1955-61).
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Northwestern University Press MerleauPontys Philosophy of Nature Studies in
Book SynopsisExamines key moments in the development of Merleau-Ponty's philosophy of nature while roughly following the historical sequence of his major works. This book discusses the role of reflection in Phenomenology of Perception, as it negotiates the area between nature's own 'self-unfolding' and human subjectivity.Table of ContentsList of Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: Renewing the Philosophy of Nature; 1. Nature as Gestalt and Melody; The Structures of Behavior; Physical, Vital, and Mental Gestalts; The Problem of Perception; The Historicity of Consciousness; 2. Radical Reflection and the Resistance of Things; Perceptual dialogue and the "Natural Self"; Radical Reflection and Phenomenology; The Nature of Reflection; 3. Animality; Ontological Exceptionalism in Phenomenology; Human-Animal Intertwining; 4. The Space of Intentionality and the Orientation of Being; 5. The Human-Nature Chiasm; The Chiasm of Sentient and Sensible; Ontological Diplopia and the Phenomenological Reduction; The Duplicity of the Thing; Good Error and the Expression of Nature.
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Northwestern University Press The Unity of Hegels Phenomenology of Spirit A
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Northwestern University Press Phenomenology and Embodiment Husserl and the Constitution of Subjectivity Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
Book SynopsisIn his ambitious debut book, Phenomenology and Embodiment , Joona Taipale tackles the Husserlian concept—also engaging the thought of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Michel Henry—with a comprehensive and systematic phenomenological investigation into the role of embodiment in the constitution of self-awareness, intersubjectivity, and objective reality. In doing so, he contributes a detailed clarification of the fundamental constitutive role of embodiment in the basic relations of subjectivity.
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Northwestern University Press Feminist Experiences Foucauldian and
Book SynopsisDevelops and defends a distinctive understanding of feminist philosophy as social critique. Feminist philosophy is essentially a political endeavor, Johanna Oksala argues, aiming to expose, analyse, and ultimately change gendered power relations. However, such an understanding of feminist philosophy raises a host of theoretical problems and paradoxes.
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Northwestern University Press God the Flesh and the Other From Irenaeus to Duns
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Northwestern University Press A Process Model
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Northwestern University Press MerleauPontys Developmental Ontology
Book SynopsisShows how the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, from its very beginnings, seeks to find sense or meaning within nature, and how this quest calls for and develops into a radically new ontology. This makes key issues in Merleau-Ponty's philosophy clear and accessible to a broad audience while also advancing original philosophical conclusions.
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Northwestern University Press On Emotional Presentation
Book SynopsisFirst published in German in 1917, this book contains the Austrian philosopher Alexius Meinong's clearest and most-developed account of the emotions and their relation to values. Meinong argues that values are given in and through emotions but are also ontologically independent of these emotions or any subjective attitude.
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Northwestern University Press Watsuji on Nature Japanese Philosophy in the Wake of Heidegger Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
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Northwestern University Press Watsuji on Nature
Book SynopsisIn the first study of its kind, David W. Johnson's Watsuji on Nature reconstructs the astonishing philosophy of nature of Watsuji Tetsuro (1889-1960), situating it in relation both to his reception of the thought of Heidegger and to his renewal of core ontological positions in classical Confucian and Buddhist philosophy.
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Northwestern University Press The Michel Henry Reader
Book SynopsisFrom beginning to end, the philosophy of Michel Henry offers an original and profound reflection on life. The Michel Henry Reader provides broad coverage of the major themes in his philosophy and new translations of Henry’s most important essays.
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Univ of Chicago Behalf Northwestern Univ Pres 50 Concepts for a Critical Phenomenology
Book SynopsisPresents fresh readings of classic phenomenological topics and introduces newer concepts developed by feminist theorists, critical race theorists, disability theorists, and queer and trans theorists that capture aspects of lived experience that have traditionally been neglected.Trade Review50 Concepts for a Critical Phenomenology is an invaluable resource. Not only does it offer a clear overview of key texts and figures both within the center and the periphery of the phenomenological tradition, but it stands as a crucial critical intervention in the practice of phenomenology itself. It challenges us take seriously the ‘infinite task' of better understanding the very ways and means whereby we understand the world and our role in it. It shows, in other words, that rigorous phenomenology must be ‘critical,' and that critical phenomenology demands that we leave behind the comfort of tradition. "" - Michael J. Monahan, author of The Creolizing Subject: Race, Reason, and the Politics of Purity
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Northwestern University Press SelfAwareness and Alterity A Phenomenological
Book SynopsisIn the rigorous and highly original Self-Awareness and Alterity, Dan Zahavi provides a sustained argument that phenomenology, especially in its Husserlian version, can make a decisive contribution to discussions of self-awareness.Trade Review“The first edition of Self-Awareness and Alterity was ahead of its time; twenty years later, the second edition is timely indeed. The arguments in Zahavi’s book, which have been updated and revised throughout, are as fresh and provocative as ever, and the book remains a ‘must read’ for anyone interested in the way phenomenological and analytic approaches to the philosophy of mind can enrich one another.” —Steven Crowell, author of Normativity and Phenomenology in Husserl and Heidegger "This book has quickly become a classic. Authored by one of today’s most influential phenomenologists, it can be read both as an introduction to Husserl’s mature thought and as an original contribution to the current philosophical debate on the nature of the human self. Extraordinarily well informed, carefully argued, and written in clear and accessible language, Zahavi’s book masterfully defends Husserl against his prejudiced critics and breaks new ground in contemporary philosophy of mind and metaphysics. The work will be of equal benefit readers in the analytic and the continental traditions. —Rudolf Bernet, author of Force, Drive, Desire: A Philosophy of Psychoanalysis and coauthor of An Introduction to Husserlian Phenomenology.PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITIONSelf-Awareness and Alterity "is well organized, clear, and evenhanded, and it advances a thesis that is highly original and convincing, one that should command attention not only from phenomenologists but from any philosopher interested in the topic of self-awareness... There simply is no other work in phenomenology that goes at the problem of self-awareness in such detail and in such a systematic and illuminating way." —Steven Crowell, author of Husserl, Heidegger, and the Space of Meaning "This book, significant in its phenomenological detail, shows how phenomenology can contribute important insights that are easily overlooked in both analytic and scientific accounts of human experience." —Shaun Gallagher, author of The Inordinance of Time "An ambitious and original discussion of subjectivity and self-consciousness...accessible, rigorous, and engaging." —Robert Piercey, author of The Uses of the Past From Heidegger to Rorty
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Northwestern University Press Cognition and Work A Study concerning the Value
Book SynopsisMax Scheler's Cognition and Work first appeared in German in 1926, just two years before his death. The first part of the book offers one of the earliest critical analyses of American pragmatism. The second part of the work contains Scheler's phenomenological account of perception and the experience of reality.Trade ReviewAlong with Scheler’s mature account of perception as a value-laden experience of living beings, this key text contains his complex assessment of the shortcomings and contributions of pragmatism as a form of knowing." —Daniel O. Dahlstrom, author of The Heidegger DictionaryTable of Contents Acknowledgements Translator’s Introduction I. The Problem II. The Essence and Meaning of Knowledge and Cognition – The Kinds of Knowledge III. The Philosophical Pragmatism A. The Two Central Principles of Pragmatism – Historical Sources and Variations of the Pragmatic Movement B. The Errors of Pragmatism 1. The Falsification of the Idea of Knowledge 2. The Mistaken Ordering of the Reason-Consequence-Relationship of Knowledge and Action 3. The Misrecognition of the Difference between Essential Knowledge and Inductive Knowledge 4. The Mistaken Axioms of Pragmatic “Logic” C. The Partial Truth of Pragmatism: The Pragmatic Condition of the Formal-Mechanistic Theory of Nature -- Various Views regarding its Epistemic Value IV. The Pragmatic Method: The methodological-pragmatic standpoint and its meaning for the philosophical interpretation of the mechanistic view of nature. The kinds of knowledge concerning nature V. Concerning the Philosophy of Perception A. Perception and Sensation 1. Percpetual Content, Sensation, and the Trans-Conscious “Corporeal Images” 2. The Relation Between Sensation and Perception – the Drive-Motor Conditionality B. Perception and Fantasy VI. The Metaphysics of Perception and the Problem of Reality – The Work and the Cognition Possibility of Human Beings B Manuscripts Regarding “Cognition and Work” a) The “Spirit” of Pragmatism and the philosophical Concept of the Human Being
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Northwestern University Press Cognition and Work
Book SynopsisMax Scheler's Cognition and Work first appeared in German in 1926, just two years before his death. The first part of the book offers one of the earliest critical analyses of American pragmatism. The second part of the work contains Scheler's phenomenological account of perception and the experience of reality.Trade ReviewAlong with Scheler’s mature account of perception as a value-laden experience of living beings, this key text contains his complex assessment of the shortcomings and contributions of pragmatism as a form of knowing." —Daniel O. Dahlstrom, author of The Heidegger DictionaryTable of Contents Acknowledgements Translator’s Introduction I. The Problem II. The Essence and Meaning of Knowledge and Cognition – The Kinds of Knowledge III. The Philosophical Pragmatism A. The Two Central Principles of Pragmatism – Historical Sources and Variations of the Pragmatic Movement B. The Errors of Pragmatism 1. The Falsification of the Idea of Knowledge 2. The Mistaken Ordering of the Reason-Consequence-Relationship of Knowledge and Action 3. The Misrecognition of the Difference between Essential Knowledge and Inductive Knowledge 4. The Mistaken Axioms of Pragmatic “Logic” C. The Partial Truth of Pragmatism: The Pragmatic Condition of the Formal-Mechanistic Theory of Nature -- Various Views regarding its Epistemic Value IV. The Pragmatic Method: The methodological-pragmatic standpoint and its meaning for the philosophical interpretation of the mechanistic view of nature. The kinds of knowledge concerning nature V. Concerning the Philosophy of Perception A. Perception and Sensation 1. Percpetual Content, Sensation, and the Trans-Conscious “Corporeal Images” 2. The Relation Between Sensation and Perception – the Drive-Motor Conditionality B. Perception and Fantasy VI. The Metaphysics of Perception and the Problem of Reality – The Work and the Cognition Possibility of Human Beings B Manuscripts Regarding “Cognition and Work” a) The “Spirit” of Pragmatism and the philosophical Concept of the Human Being
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Northwestern University Press Gadamers Hermeneutics
Book SynopsisProvides a comprehensive and critical account of Hans-Georg Gadamer's hermeneutical philosophy. Robert Dostal defends Gadamer against charges of linguistic idealism and emphasizes language's relationship to understanding, though he criticizes Gadamer for too often ignoring the role of the prelinguistic in our experience.Trade ReviewRobert J. Dostal has written an illuminating and compelling book on one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. He covers all the major topics in Gadamer’s work, providing not just clear and sensitive commentary, but a vigorous defense of Gadamer against both criticisms and misinterpretations. The book is destined to be a watershed in our understanding of hermeneutics as philosophy, as well as of Gadamer, especially his ‘civic humanism’ and his differences with his controversial teacher, Heidegger." —Robert B. Pippin, author of Philosophy by Other Means: The Arts in Philosophy and Philosophy in the Arts"The ripe fruit of a diligent, life-long dialogue with Gadamer, which began in 1969, this clearly written book succeeds in bringing out the civic humanism of Gadamer’s philosophy, its intellectual roots and its relevance for our times." —Jean Grondin, author of Hans-Georg Gadamer: A Biography"A tour de force! In this comprehensive study Dostal not only let us see how Gadamer was inspired by Heidegger, but also where their differences—philosophical and political—lie. He also sets Gadamer’s reappropriation of Plato and Aristotle, his aesthetics, and understanding of the central role of 'the word' in the context of contemporary discussions of language and phenomenology." —Catherine Zuckert, author of Postmodern Platos: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Gadamer, Strauss, DerridaTable of Contents Acknowledgements Preface 1. Gadamers’s Ambivalence Toward the Enlightenment Project 2. Humanism and Politics: Gadamer’s Humanism in the Face of Heidegger’s Anti-humanism 3. Saving Plato from Platonism 4. From Bildung to Bild: Gadamer’s Aesthetics 5. Language and Understanding 6. Hermeneutics and Science 7. Between Phenomenology and Dialectic 8. Concluding Remarks: The Conversation that We Are—Solidarity Notes Bibliography Index
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Northwestern University Press The Heresies of Jan Patocka
Book SynopsisForegrounding the turbulent political and intellectual scene in Czechoslovakia following the Prague Spring in 1968, James Dodd explores the unity of philosophy, history, and politics in Jan Patooka's life and legacy.Trade Review“James Dodd gives us a lucid and comprehensive account of Patočka’s work, thought, and life: his idea of Europe and its classical origins; his background in phenomenology; and his role in the turbulent events of postwar Prague. For Dodd, Patočka’s thinking can be characterized as a philosophy of history rooted in a phenomenological ontology.” —David Carr, author of Experience and History: Phenomenological Perspectives on the Historical World“The best synthetic account of Patočka’s thought I’ve read. Dodd reads Patočka with an empathy and generosity; he writes of him in a way absolutely devoid of hagiography (which is not so easy when dealing with a Socrates-like figure), defensiveness, and apologetics. The analysis is subtle, the writing deeply reflective and never gratuitously polemical.” —Marci Shore, author of The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern EuropeTable of Contents Preface Introduction: Philosophy in Troubled Times Chapter One: On an Asubjective Phenomenology Chapter Two: On the Body Chapter Three: On the Three Movements of Human Existence Chapter Four: On Care for the Soul Chapter Five: On Sacrifice Chapter Six: On Hope Chapter Seven: On Dissidence Conclusion: Legacies Epilogue Notes Index
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MP-CUA Catholic Uni of Amer Moral Action A Phenomenological Study
Book SynopsisThe language he employs is almost wholly accessible to thinkers of the most disparate disciplines. Indeed, it is precisely because of these two facets of his work that Sokolowski's insightful descriptions and subsequent analyses can be the subject of debate and a foundation for future investigations into moral philosophy.Trade Review“In this carefully written study of the constituents of human decision making, Robert Sokolowski lays an elaborate groundwork to develop the importance of the distinction between choice and the voluntary in moral discourse…offers a new way of looking at moral actions which will have a profound effect in academia and pastoral practice.” – The Thomist“Fits nicely into Sokolowksi’s ongoing project of extending the insights of Husserl’s notion of intentionality to new areas.” – International Philosophical Quarterly“Consists of a single, tightly developed argument which displays the identities and differences and the presences and absences which constitute moral action…Makes an important contribution to action theory…deserves serious and thorough reading.” – Husserl Studies“A brilliant application of phenomenological concepts to moral experience.” – Philosophy in Review“The language he employs is almost wholly accessible to thinkers of the most disparate disciplines, and when technical terms are introduced, they are coupled with intelligible definitions. Indeed, it is precisely because of these two facets of his work that Sokolowski’s insightful descriptions and subsequent analyses can be the subject of debate and a foundation for future investigations into moral philosophy.” – The Journal of the British Society of Phenomenology“Although Moral Action is a short book, it is difficult to summarize – especially the first six chapters, the beauty of which lies in the subtlety and detail of the author’s discriminations rather than in a single thesis that the writer of a short review can seize upon.” – The Review of Metaphysics
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The Catholic University of America Press Eternal Life and Human Happiness in Heaven
Book SynopsisTreats four apparent problems concerning eternal life in order to clarify our thinking about perfect human happiness in heaven. The teachings of St. Thomas Aquinas provide the basis for solutions to these four problems about eternal life insofar as his teachings call into question common contemporary theological or philosophical presuppositions.
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MP-CUA Catholic Uni of Amer The Personalism of Edith Stein A Synthesis of
Book SynopsisProvides an investigation of Edith Stein's mature philosophical anthropology, exploring her engagement with the thought of Aquinas and Thomism while maintaining the phenomenological mode of investigation.Trade ReviewMakes an excellent contribution to Stein studies by 1) offering a comprehensive overview and detailed analysis of Stein's anthropology, 2) comparing and contrasting Stein's thought with parallel themes in Thomism, and 3) highlighting the development of Stein's positions through the phases of her writing. McNamara helps move Stein studies forward by synthesizing the textual analyses with a synoptic vision of her project, while also advancing the reception of Stein among Thomists through an irenic and positive comparison."" - Thomas Gricoski, OSB, author of Being Unfolded: Edith Stein on the Meaning of Being
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Unsettling Nature Ecology Phenomenology and the
Book SynopsisNowhere has a longing for home flourished more than in contemporary environmental thinking, and particularly in eco-phenomenology. Unsettling Nature opens with a meditation on the trouble with such ecological homecoming narratives, which bear a close resemblance to narratives of settler colonial homemaking.Trade ReviewThoughtful, deeply researched, balanced, and substantive. Eggan’s analysis of the settler colonialist myths of home develops into a profoundly consequential critique of Western humanist culture and European colonial history that should reorient our thinking about our place among other creatures on a threatened planet. The most impressive book of ecocriticism I have read in many years." - Louise Westling, University of Oregon, author of The Logos of the Living World: Merleau-Ponty, Animals, and Language
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University of Minnesota Press The Other Emerson
Book SynopsisNew readings of Ralph Waldo Emerson that reclaim his work for philosophy.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction Branka Arsi and Cary Wolfe I. Rethinking Subjectivity 1. The Way of Life by Abandonment: Emerson's Impersonal Sharon Cameron 2. Paths of Coherence through Emerson's Philosophy: The Case of "Nominalist and Realist" Russell B. Goodman 3. Brain Walks: Emerson on Thinking Branka Arsi II. Rethinking the Political 4. The Guano of History Eduardo Cadava 5. "Experience," Anti-Slavery, and the Crisis of Emersonianism Donald E. Pease 6. Reading Emerson, In Other Times: On a Politics of Solitude and an Ethics of Risk Eric Keenaghan 7. Emerson, Skepticism, and Politics Sandra Laugier III. Rethinking Philosophy 8. Emerson, or Man Thinking Gregg Lambert 9. Emerson's Adjacencies: Radical Empiricism in Nature Paul Grimstad 10. "The Eye is the First Circle": Emerson's "Romanticism," Cavell's Skepticism, Luhmann's Modernity Cary Wolfe Afterword Stanley Cavell Contributors Index
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Ohio University Press Husserl and Transcendental Intersubjectivity
Book SynopsisHusserl and Transcendental Intersubjectivity analyzes the transcendental relevance of intersubjectivity and argues that an intersubjective transformation of transcendental philosophy can already be found in phenomenology, especially in Husserl.
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Ohio University Press Between You and I
Book SynopsisClassical phenomenology has suffered from an individualist bias and a neglect of the communicative structure of experience, especially the phenomenological importance of the addressee, the inseparability of I and You, and the nature of the alternation between them.Trade Review“Between You and I: Dialogical Phenomenology moves beyond the tradition of Cartesian-Kantian philosophy through one of its progeny, transcendental phenomenology, toward an interdisciplinary project, dialogical phenomenology. Rather than critiquing the traditional modern subject on philosophical grounds alone, Stawarska indicates how part of the problem is both the isolation of the solitary ego in philosophy and the method of philosophy, psychology, and linguistics. This book is highly recommended for a new tradition, that of multidisciplinary dialogical phenomenology.” * Journal of Consciousness Studies *
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Ohio University Press The Memory of Place
Book SynopsisFrom the frozen landscapes of the Antarctic to the haunted houses of childhood, the memory of places we experience is fundamental to a sense of self. Drawing on influences as diverse as Merleau-Ponty, Freud, and J. G. Ballard, The Memory of Place charts the memorial landscape that is written into the body and its experience of the world.Trade Review“Genuinely unique and a signal addition to phenomenological literature…. It fills a significant gap, and it does so with eloquence and force.”“Important for readers of continental philosophy in general, as well as place studies and psychology, Trigg’s work is an indispensable piece not to be overlooked.” * International Journal of Philosophical Studies *“The rewards of (The Memory of Place)…are manifold, and its contribution to the growing literature on the uncanny is undeniable…. My experience of (Trigg’s) book can be characterized in the terms that Trigg himself uses: it is one of ambivalent fascination, at once enthralled and overwhelmed.” * Rain Taxi *“This work marks a highly original contribution to the growing interdisciplinary, phenomenological informed, literature examining the nature of place. However, while drawing on phenomenology, this is by no means standard phenomenologically-informed fare. The terrain covered and position arrived at is far weirder and unsettled.” * Emotion, Space and Society *“Trigg displays an impressive knowledge of the recent literature on place, memory and the uncanny, and the book is worth the effort for those with an interest in where the concept is currently headed… . Trigg’s emphasis on Merleau-Ponty rather than Heidegger for his phenomenology is a master-stroke: Trigg skillfully deploys Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy to transcend the rigid dichotomy between subject and object and thus manages to reveal uncanniness as both a subjective experience.” * Los Angeles Review of Books *“(The Memory of Place) will be of interest to researchers in philosophy, cultural studies, architectural theory, geography, and environmental studies. Summing Up: Recommended.” * Choice *“Trigg takes readers on a subtle and nuanced tour that will intrigue philosophers and psychologists as well as students and researchers involved with any of the disciplines that intersect as ‘place studies’—including architecture, geography, urban planning, and environmental studies.” * Book News *
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Ohio University Press From Mastery to Mystery
Book SynopsisFrom Mastery to Mystery is an original and provocative contribution to the burgeoningfield of ecophenomenology. Informed by current debates in environmental philosophy, Bannon critiques the conception of nature as u200asubstance that he finds tacitly assumed by the major environmental theorists.Table of Contents* Acknowledgments * Abbreviations * Introduction The Question of Nature * 1 The Promise of a Common World * i. Nature and the Modern World * ii. Rejecting Naturpolitik * iii. Re-collecting the Pluriverse into a Common World * iv. Conclusion * 2 Science, Technology, and the Closure of Nature * i. Phenomenology and Subjectivism * ii. The Twofold Essence of Physis at the Inception of Philosophy * iii. The Rise of Technology and the Devastation of the Earth * iv. Conclusion * 3 The Opening of the Earth * i. Deciding against the System of Nature * ii. Ereignis and the Restoration of Nature * iii. Conclusion * 4 Merleau-Ponty and Nature as the Common World * i. The Behavior of Nature * ii. Reading the Prose of the World * iii. The Flesh of Nature * iv. A Prospect from within Nature * v. The Dialectic of Nature and History * vi. Conclusion * Conclusion * Notes * Bibliography * Index
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Ohio University Press Natures Suit
Book SynopsisEdmund Husserl, founder of the phenomenological movement, is usually read as an idealist in his metaphysics and an instrumentalist in his philosophy of science. In Nature's Suit, Lee Hardy argues that both views represent a serious misreading of Husserl's texts.DrawingTrade Review“Lee Hardy’s study of Husserl is an outstanding achievement. The argumentation is crisp and clear throughout, and the discussion of primary and secondary texts is lucid and detailed. Above all, he makes a very good case for an important point that is highly relevant to the current resurgence of interest in phenomenology. Against the tendency of many other interpretations, he shows how Husserl’s phenomenology is in principle compatible with a realistic understanding of modern scientific theories.”Table of Contents* Acknowledgments * Abbreviations * Introduction * 1. Husserl: Realist or Instrumentalist? * 2. Laws and Theories * 3. The Plan of This Study * Part One: Husserl's Phenomenological Philosophy of Science * 1: The Idea of Science in Husserl and the Tradition * 1. The Classical Idea of Science * 2. The Idea of Science in Husserl's Phenomenology * 3. The Problem of Empirical Science: Locke * 4. The Problem of Empirical Science: Husserl * 5. The Unity of the Empirical Sciences * 6. Explanation in the Empirical Sciences * 7. The Laws of Empirical Science * 8. Empirical Science as Science * 9. The Idealization of the Idea of Science * 10. Summary * 2: Husserl's Phenomenology and the Foundations of Science * 1. Pure Logic as a Wissenschaftslehre * 2. Regional Ontology * 3. Transcendental Consciousness as the Ground of the Sciences * 4. Phenomenology as the All-Embracing Foundational Science * Part Two: Evidence and the Positing of Existence in Husserl's Phenomenology * 3: Truth, Evidence, and Existence in Husserl's Phenomenology * 1. Knowledge, Evidence, and Truth * 2. Evidence as an Ideal Possibility * 3. The Fallibility of Occurrent Cases of Evidence * 4. Evidence and Justification * 5. The Rational Indubitability of the Principle of Evidence * 6. Summary and Transition * 4: Evidence, Rationality, and Existence in Husserl's Phenomenology * 1. Husserl's Theory of Rationality: Ideas I * 2. The Strong Formulation and Philosophical Rationality * 3. Rationality in Nontheoretical Contexts * 4. Positive Scientific Rationality * Part Three: The Problem of Theoretical Existence in Husserl's Philosophy of the Physical Sciences * 5: Physical Things, Idealized Objects, and Theoretical Entities * 1. The Physical Thing * 2. Geometry and the Physical Thing * 3. Geometry and Physical Science * 6: Consciousness, Perception, and Existence * 1. Perceptions and Existence * 2. Consciousness and Existence * 3. The "Existence-Independence" of Intentional Relations * 4. The Ontological Status of the Noema * 5. Summary * Conclusion * 1. Husserl's "Dogmatism" * 2. The "Ambiguity" of Husserl's Philosophy of Science * 3. Husserl's "Instrumentalism" * 4. Husserl's "Provisional Instrumentalism" * 5. Summary and Prospect * Notes * Bibliography * Index
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Ohio University Press Time Memory Institution
Book SynopsisThis is the first investigation of the relation between time and memory in Maurice Merleau-Ponty's thought as a whole and the first to explore in depth the significance of his concept of institution. It brings his views on the self and ontology into contemporary focus, arguing that the self is not a self-contained or self-determining identity.Trade Review“An important volume, both for bringing together some excellent pieces of Merleau-Ponty scholarship and for opening up an ontological perspective on the self, which definitely merits further research.” * Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences (June 2020) *“Assembling some of the most important Merleau-Ponty scholars working today, Time, Memory, Institution may be the most important volume on Merleau-Ponty published in many, many years.”“The rich and impressive essays in Time, Memory, Institution make a new and significant contribution to the field, dealing with works of Merleau-Ponty’s that have only recently become available in English.”Table of Contents* Abbreviations for Works by Merleau-Ponty* Acknowledgments* Introduction*Part I: Memory and the Temporality of the Self*The Gift of Memory: Sheltering the I Kirsten Jacobson, University of Maine*The Depths of Time in the World's Memory of Self Glen A. Mazis, Penn State Harrisburg*Null-Body, Protean Body, Potent Body, Neutral Body, Wild Body Elizabeth A. Behnke, Study Project in Phenomenology of the Body*The Impossibilities of the I: Self, Memory, and Language in Merleau-Ponty and Derrida John Russon, University of Guelph*Part II: Expression, Institution, and Ontology*Memory-Of the Future: Institution and Memory in the Later Merleau-Ponty Robert Vallier, Sciences-Po Paris / DePaul University*Memory, Sedimentation, Self: The Weight of the Ideal in Bergson and Merleau-Ponty Donald A. Landes, Concordia University*Expression in Merleau-Ponty's Aesthetics, Philosophy of Nature, and Ontology Veronique M. Foti, Pennsylvania State University*"This Power to Which We Are Vowed": Subjectivity and Expression in Merleau-Ponty Scott Marratto, Michigan Technological University*The Origin of Corporeal Ipseity: Between Lag and Institution Caterina Rea, Universidade da Integracao da Lusofonia Afro-brasileira (Translated by Darian Meacham)*Part III: The Ontology of Time*The Subject as Time: Merleau-Ponty's Transition from Phenomenology to Ontology Michael R. Kelly, University of San Diego*Coming and Going of Time Bernhard Waldenfels, Ruhr University Bochum*The Presence of the Artwork, a Past That Is Not Past: Merleau-Ponty and Paul Klee Galen A. Johnson, University of Rhode Island*Edges of Time, Edges of Memory Edward S. Casey, Stony Brook University* Index
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Ohio University Press MerleauPonty Space Place Architecture
Book SynopsisPhenomenology has played a decisive role in the emergence of the discourse of place, and the contribution of Merleau-Ponty to architectural theory and practice is well established. This collection of essays by 12 eminent scholars is the first devoted specifically to developing his contribution to our understanding of place and architecture.Trade Review“An exceptionally impressive collection of provocative essays, all of which apply Merleau-Ponty’s ideas to new fields and frontiers. This book will probably be of most use and interest to those who are already familiar with Merleau-Ponty’s work, as well as those who are interested in the political implications which are expressed in or entailed by phenomenological concepts and techniques.” * Phenomenological Reviews *Merleau-Ponty: Space, Place, Architecture is a vanguard compilation of strong contributions by eminently capable scholars. It synthesizes the Merleau-Pontyian themes of dehiscence, chiasm, flesh, and space in a thoughtful, surprising, and fruitful manner…It opens new pathways for exciting and rewarding investigation, and the editors and contributors are to be commended. * Human Studies *Table of Contents* Introduction Patricia M. Locke*Part 1: Liminal Space*1. Hearkening to the Night for the Heart of Depth, Space and Dwelling Glen Mazis*2. Depth of Space and Depth of World: Merleau-Ponty, Husserl, and Rembrandt's Nightwatch on a Modern Baroque Galen A. Johnson*3. Finding Architectural Edge in the Wake of Merleau-Ponty Edward S. Casey*4. Liquid Space of Matrixial Flesh: Reading Merleau-Ponty and Bracha L. Ettinger Poolside Randall Johnson*Part 2: Temporal Space*5: Spatiality, Temporality, and Architecture as a Place of Memory David Morris*6: In Search of Lost Time: Merleau-Ponty, Bergson, and the Time of Objects Dorothea Olkowski*7: Inhabiting the House that Herman Built: Merleau-Ponty and the Pathological Space of Solitary Confinement Lisa Guenther*8: Stolen Space: The Perverse Architecture of Torture D. R. Koukal*Part 3: Shared Space*9: Through the Looking Glass: The Spatial Experience of Merleau-Ponty's Metaphors Rachel McCann*10: Sheltering Spaces, Dynamics of Retreat, and Other Hiding Places in Merleau-Ponty's Thought Suzanne Cataldi Laba*11: Dimensions of the Flesh in a Case of Twins with Which I Am Familiar: Actualizing the Potential for Shared Intentional Space Nancy Barta-Smith*12: Dwelling and Public Art: Serra and Bourgeois Helen Fielding* Contributors* Index
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Ohio University Press Thinking between Deleuze and MerleauPonty
Book SynopsisQuestioning the dominant view that Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty have little of substance in common, Judith Wambacq draws on unpublished primary sources and current scholarship in English and French to bring them into a compelling dialogue to reveal a shared concern with the transcendental conditions of thought.Trade Review“Wambacq’s book breaks new ground in scholarship on Deleuze, Merleau-Ponty, and Continental philosophy in general. Well written, well organized, lucid, and insightful, it will open new lines of scholarly investigation.”“Thinking between Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty provides us with the most complete comparison of the two philosophers’ thought. This is an impressive investigation. It brings forth a Deleuze and a Merleau-Ponty that we have not seen before: a Merleau-Ponty devoted to immanence and a Deleuze who is a genuine transcendental philosopher. Both Merleau-Ponteans and Deleuzians will come away from this study having seen something new.”
£67.15
Ohio University Press The Phenomenology of Pain
Book SynopsisThe Phenomenology of Pain is the first book-length investigation of its topic to appear in English. Groundbreaking, systematic, and illuminating, it opens a dialogue between phenomenology and such disciplines as cognitive science and cultural anthropology to argue that science alone cannot clarify the nature of pain experience without incorporating a phenomenological approach. Building on this premise, Saulius Geniusas develops a novel conception of pain grounded in phenomenological principles: pain is an aversive bodily feeling with a distinct experiential quality, which can only be given in original first-hand experience, either as a feeling-sensation or as an emotion.Geniusas crystallizes the fundamental methodological principles that underlie phenomenological research. On the basis of those principles, he offers a phenomenological clarification of the fundamental structures of pain experience and contests the common conflation of phenomenology with introspectionism. GeniusTrade Review“[A] radical and unitary attempt, newly thought through, at a methodical clarification of this crucial experience. The author’s expositions achieve a high scientific standard and display an admirable familiarity with the enormous literature on the topic, yet without ever losing sight of the phenomenon itself, and he makes himself intelligible to readers who are not specialists in phenomenology. This is certainly not a minor merit of the book…. Any future treatment of pain in a phenomenological or philosophical perspective will accordingly have to pay very serious attention to this book." * Husserl Studies *“By making phenomenology dialogical, Geniusas opens up his study to findings from disciplines other than phenomenology. Philosophers, scientists, psychologists, sociologists, and really anyone interested in pain experience can both understand and critically engage with the book. Furthermore, … [Geniusas’s] explorations of the relation between listening and treatment of pain conditions, between the life-world and pain experiences, and between the lived body and the mind shed a new light on different aspects of medical treatments.” * Journal of Phenomenological Psychology *“Geniusas convincingly substantiates his claim that phenomenology is essential to reconciling various elements of the slippery concept of pain, while also elegantly teaching the basic principles of phenomenology. By focusing on Husserl rather than Heidegger or Merleau-Ponty, who are more commonly invoked in the contemporary phenomenology of health, illness, and medicine, Geniusas allows for a more analytical approach to his subject.”“Geniusas is the first to have developed a systematic phenomenology of pain, which has never existed before the publication of this book as far as its conceptual scale and empirical base are concerned….It is also its great merit that it outlines new prospects for a dialogue between phenomenology and the positivistic sciences of pain." * Horizon: Studies in Phenomenology *
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Ohio University Press Becoming a Place of Unrest
Book SynopsisIn this bold argument, Robert Booth asserts that the environmental crisis stems from our anthropocentric understanding of, and behavior in, the more-than-human world. Linking environmental phenomenology to ecofeminism, he shows why and how an ecophenomenological praxis may interrupt the environmental crisis at its source.Trade Review“In Becoming a Place of Unrest, Robert Booth builds on the insights of ecofeminists, new materialists, and (especially) phenomenologists to develop an original and highly compelling environmental philosophy. The book is not just an exemplary work of ecophenomenology; it is, more generally, an important contribution to environmental thought.” -- Simon P. James, author of Environmental Philosophy: An IntroductionTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Perception and Unrest 2. Ecofeminism and Ecophenomenology 3. Seeing Better 4. The Specter of Correlationism 5. Androcentrism, Nondiscursive Grounds and the Hyperdialectic 6. Radical Reflection, Reversibility, and the Flesh “Conclusions”; or, Becoming a Place of Unrest Notes References Index
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Ohio University Press The Affection in Between
Book SynopsisDrawing on phenomenology and everyday affective encounters of grieving, befriending, rearing, and bonding, Flakne warns against the disorientation and division implicit in what we think we mean by common sense. Instead, she invites us to relearn sensing together as key to an inevitable ethics of interembodiment.Trade Review“April N. Flakne’s book succeeds admirably to explain the complex terrain of intercorporeality in its many dimensions and in the way it grounds common sense in its intimate, social and political possibilities. A pleasure to read. Her style is intimate, but precise, clear without sacrificing complexity…. at times poetic.” -- Helen A. Fielding, author of Cultivating Perception through Artworks: Phenomenological Enactments of Ethics, Politics, and Culture
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Duke University Press History the Human and the World Between
Book SynopsisPresents a philosophical investigation of the human subject and its simultaneous implication in multiple and often contradictory ways of knowing. This title argues that there is still something profoundly vulnerable that is at stake in the practice of phenomenology.Trade Review“[A] compelling interrogation. . . .” - Christine M. Battista, Modern Fiction Studies“Radhakrishnan's great contribution in this book [is that] he shows that every proposition offered in the service of understanding the world is also a form of negation, and even the best intentions of theorists and poets may foreclose on the very generative potential of alterity, of the unfinished processes of becoming.” - Stephen M. Levin, MELUS“[A] work of noteworthy scholarship. Committed rigorously to the in-between space father than ‘the comfort and security of a monologic home’ (24), History, the Human and the World Between emblemizes intellectual cosmopolitanism with the author's existential respect for the particularity of humanity, poststructuralist critique of totalization, and a fervent pursuit of the dialogical relations between the compulsion to define and a learned conviction about the limitation of defining and definitions.” - Leilei Chen, Ariel“Highly recommended.” - K. M. Kapanga, Choice“History, the Human, and the World Between will certainly become a significant locus of theoretical discussion given R. Radhakrishnan’s remarkable ability to bring into conjunction lines and lineages of thought that are so often pursued discretely.”—David Lloyd, author of Ireland after History“In this provocative, enlightening theoretical exegesis, R. Radhakrishnan brings together a series of theorists—Frantz Fanon, Edward Said, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Martin Heidegger, Ranajit Guha, and David Harvey—who are rarely, if ever, examined in conjunction with each other. Maintaining a powerfully rigorous and lucid focus on the epistemological structures underlying their theories, Radhakrishnan brings them all to bear on the problematic relations between the human subject, history, temporality, and world created by the interaction between these. This is an excellent book.”—Abdul R. JanMohamed, author of The Death-Bound-Subject: Richard Wright’s Archaeology of Death“R. Radhakrishnan’s caring but critical engagement with the writings of Ranajit Guha and Edward Said—set in the background of some deep reflections on the intellectual heritage of poststructuralism—reinvigorates for our times the long-standing conversation between postcolonial critics and modern European thought. A stimulating contribution to contemporary debates.”—Dipesh Chakrabarty, author of Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference“A compelling interrogation. . . .” -- Christine M. Battista * Modern Fiction Studies *“A work of noteworthy scholarship. Committed rigorously to the in-between space father than ‘the comfort and security of a monologic home’ (24), History, the Human and the World Between emblemizes intellectual cosmopolitanism with the author's existential respect for the particularity of humanity, poststructuralist critique of totalization, and a fervent pursuit of the dialogical relations between the compulsion to define and a learned conviction about the limitation of defining and definitions.” -- Leilei Chen * ariel *“Highly recommended.” -- K. M. Kapanga * Choice *“Radhakrishnan's great contribution in this book [is that] he shows that every proposition offered in the service of understanding the world is also a form of negation, and even the best intentions of theorists and poets may foreclose on the very generative potential of alterity, of the unfinished processes of becoming.” -- Stephen M. Levin * MELUS *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Revisionism and the Subject of History 31 2. Edward Said and the Politics of Secular Humanism 115 3. Worldling, by Any Other Name 183 Notes 249 Works Cited 267 Index 281
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Fordham University Press Poetics of Imagining Modern and Postmodern
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Analyzes and assesses the decisive contributions made to our understanding of the imaginary life of phenomenology (Husserl, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Bachelard), hermeneutics (Heidegger, Ric/ur), and postmodernism (Vattimo, Kristeva, Lyotard) ... superb and highly recommended." -The Midwest Book Review
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ME - Fordham University Press Prolegomena to Charity
Book SynopsisIn seven essays that draw from metaphysics, phenomenology, literature, Christological theology, and Biblical exegesis,Marion sketches several prolegomena to a future fuller thinking and saying of love's paradoxical reasons, exploring evil, freedom, bedazzlement, and the loving gaze; crisis, absence, and knowing.Trade Review"... [Marion] is one of the most provocative thinkers working on the boundaries of philosophy and theology today...[Prolegomena to Charity] represents such a theological work-rich, insightful, and constructively traversing 'phenomenology as well as the most straightforwardly Christological theology.'"-Choice -Choice
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ME - Fordham University Press Schelers Ethical Personalism Its Logic Development and Promise
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Fordham University Press Schelers Ethical Personalism
Book Synopsis"Breaks new ground in a number of promising directions, and will surely be viewed as a major contribution to the developing field of Scheler studies...comprehensive and sympathetic, yet without being uncritical."-Philip Blosser, Lenoir-Rhyne CollegeTrade Review"Breaks new ground in a number of promising directions, and will surely be viewed as a major contribution to the developing field of Scheler studies...comprehensive and sympathetic, yet without being uncritical." -- -Philip Blosser Lenoir-Rhyne College "...clearly written...a welcome addition to the growing English-language scholarship on Max Scheler..." -Choice
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Fordham University Press In Excess
Book SynopsisIn the third text in the phenomenological trilogy that includes "Reduction and Givenness" and "Being Given", Jean-Luc Marion renews his argument for a phenomenology of givenness, with penetrating analyses of the phenomena of event, idol, flesh and icon.
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ME - Fordham University Press In Excess Studies of Saturated Phenomena
Book SynopsisIncludes Reduction and Givenness and Being Given. In this title, the author argues for a phenomenology of givenness, with penetrating analyses of the phenomena of event, idol, flesh, and icon.
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Fordham University Press Debates in Continental Philosophy
Book SynopsisA collection of illuminating encounters with some of the most important philosophers of our ageTrade Review"Kearney's ability to enter into the thought of such a variety of figures...while at the same time critically engaging it is of the highest order and a valuable resource for anyone interested in these postmodern questions and thinkers." -Religion and the ArtsTable of ContentsPreface Part One: Recent Debates Jacques Derrida: Terror, Religion, and the New Politics Jean-Luc Marion: The Hermeneutics of Revelation Paul Ricuur: (a) On Life Stories (b) On The Crisis of Authority (c) The Power of the Possible (d) Imagination, Testimony, and Trust Georges Dumezil: Myth, Ideology, Sovereignty Part Two: From Dialogues: The Phenomenological Heritage, 1984 Emmanuel Levinas: Ethics of the Infinite Herbert Marcuse: The Philosophy of Art and Politics Paul Ricuur: (a) The Creativity of Language (b) Myth as the Bearer of Possible Worlds Stanislas Breton: Being, God, and the Poetics of Relation Jacques Derrida: Deconstruction and the Other Part Three: From States of Mind, 1995 Julia Kristeva: Strangers to Ourselves: The Hope of the Singular Hans Georg Gadamer: Text Matters Jean-Francois Lyotard: What Is Just? George Steiner: Culture-The Price You Pay Paul Ricuur: Universality and the Power of Difference Umberto Eco: Chaosmos: The Return to the Middle Ages Part Four: Colloquies with Richard Kearney Villanova Colloquy: Against Omnipotence Athens Colloquy: Between Selves and Others Halifax Colloquy: Between Being and God Stony Brook Colloquy: Confronting Imagination Boston Colloquy: Theorizing the Gift Dublin Colloquy: Thinking Is Dangerous Appendix: Philosophy as Dialogue
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ME - Fordham University Press Between Chora and the Good Metaphors
Book SynopsisBigger's larger goal is to align the primacy of the Good in Plato and Christian Neoplatonism with the creator God of Genesis and the God of love in the New Testament.
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ME - Fordham University Press Stealing a Gift Kierkegaards Pseudonyms and the
Book SynopsisThis book studies the use of biblical quotations in Kierkegaard's pseudonymous works, as well as Kierkegaard's hermeneutical methods in general. Kierkegaard's mode of writing in these works-indeed, the very method of indirect communication-consists in a certain appropriation of the Bible.
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ME - Fordham University Press Phenomenology Wide Open After the French Debate
Book SynopsisThis book follows up the developments inphenomenology discussed in Phenomenology andthe Theological Turn: The French Debate, attempting toestablish what potentialities in the phenomenologicalmethod exist at present.
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ME - Fordham University Press Givenness and God Questions of JeanLuc Marion
Book Synopsis"After the subject" and beyond Heideggerian ontology there is the sheer givenness of phenomena without condition. In theology, this liberation means rethinking God in terms of phenomena such as love, gift, and excess. Includes an essay by Marion, "The Reason of the Gift," and a dialogue between Marion and Richard Kearney.
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Fordham University Press On the Ego and on God
Book SynopsisA study on Descartes, that brings together essays on the topics of the ego and of God. It explores the alterity of the Cartesian ego. It closes with a careful delineation of the concept of causa sui and a detailed survey of the idea of God in seventeenth-century thought.Trade Review"Offers a rare and accessible survey of the questions that motivate one of the most important interpreters of Descartes in the twentieth century." -- -Jeffrey Kosky Washington & Lee University "To read Jean-Luc Marion on Descartes provokes the same sorts of excitement, surprise, disagreement and admiration that an earlier generation experienced when reading Martin Heidegger on Nietzsche. If Marion is less exorbitant than Heidegger, he is more exacting in what he demands of Descartes's writings. One thing is certain: no one who reads Descartes can afford not to read Marion on Descartes." -- -Kevin Hart University of Virginia "... Marion's project is immensely rich, subtle, and inventive." -Christianity and Literature
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