Phenomenology and Existentialism Books
State University Press of New York (SUNY) On Nietzsche
Book SynopsisA poetic, philosophical, and political account of Nietzsche''s importance to Bataille, and of Bataille''s experience in Nazi-occupied France.Georges Bataille wrote On Nietzsche in the final months of the Nazi occupation of France in order to cleanse the German philosopher of the "stain of Nazism." More than merely a treatise on Nietzsche, the book is as much a work of ethics in which thought is put to the test of experience and experience pushed to its limits. At once personal and political, it was written as an act of war, its publication contingent upon the German retreat. The result is a poetic and philosophical-and occasionally harrowing-record of life during wartime.Following Inner Experience and Guilty, On Nietzsche is the third volume of Bataille''s Summa Atheologica. Haunted by the recognition that "existence cannot be at once autonomous and viable," herein the author yearns for community from the depths of personal isolation and transforms Nietzsche''s will to power into his own will to chance.This new translation includes Memorandum, a selection of 280 passages from Nietzsche''s works edited and introduced by Bataille. Originally published separately, Bataille planned to include the text in future editions of On Nietzsche. This edition also features the full notes and annotations from the French edition of Bataille''s Oeuvres Complètes, as well as an incisive introductory essay by Stuart Kendall that situates the work historically, biographically, and philosophically.
£24.27
Columbia University Press Alienation
Book SynopsisA bold defense of a neglected concept and its relevance for critical social theory.Trade ReviewThrough a compelling combination of acute analysis and rich phenomenological description, Rahel Jaeggi brings alienation back to the center of political philosophy. She argues alienation concerns a failure to appropriate oneself in the right way, a problem with how one comes to be what one is, rather than an inability to realize some pregiven identity. Jaeggi is not only thoroughly learned in both the continental and analytic traditions. She does what is quite rare: she brings these traditions into a highly productive synthesis. A very impressive achievement. -- Daniel Brudney, University of Chicago With this masterful reconstruction of the concept of alienation, Jaeggi opens fruitful new avenues for critical theory. She also claims her place as a powerful exponent of social philosophy and a thinker of the first rank. Her book is a tour de force of cogent argumentation and rich phenomenological description. -- Nancy Fraser, The New School Alienation, the concept Hegel and Marx made so central to European political and social thought, has receded in importance in recent political philosophy. Like self-deception and weakness of will, it is extremely resistant to analysis even though it continues to be a major theme of modern life and accounts for the features of contemporary life. Jaeggi's great accomplishment is to provide the outlines of a new theory of an old term and thereby show its linkage to major ethical and political concerns. With this book, an entire tradition of political and social philosophy receives a new lease on life. -- Terry Pinkard, Georgetown University Jaeggi's scholarship and writing in this book is excellent, and the resuscitation of the concept of alienation in critical social theory is a welcome event in the literature. -- Matthias Fritsch, Concordia University Alienation is one of the most exciting books to have appeared on the German philosophical scene in the last decade. It not only rejuvenates a lagging discourse on the topic of alienation; it also shows how an account of subjectivity elaborated two centuries ago can be employed in the service of new philosophical insights. -- Frederick Neuhouser, Barnard College This insightful and learned book will appeal to anyone interested in social philosophy. Library Journal Rahel Jaeggi's Alienation is an important contribution to - and rejuvenation of - the philosophical literature on the phenomenon of alienation. Marx & Philosophy Review of Books [A]n excellent representative of the work of a new generation of German philosophers who...seem well positioned to reanimate Western philosophy. -- Frederick Neuhouser Review of MetaphysicsTable of ContentsForeword, by Axel Honneth Translator's Introduction, by Frederick Neuhouser Preface and Acknowledgments Part 1. The Relation of Relationlessness: Reconstructing a Concept of Social Philosophy 1. "A Stranger in the World That He Himself Has Made": The Concept and Phenomenon of Alienation 2. Marx and Heidegger: Two Versions of Alienation Critique 3. The Structure and Problems of Alienation Critique 4. Having Oneself at One's Command: Reconstructing the Concept of Alienation Part 2. Living One's Life as an Alien Life: Four Cases 5. Seinesgleichen Geschieht or "The Like of It Now Happens": The Feeling of Powerlessness and the Independent Existence of One's Own Actions 6. "A Pale, Incomplete, Strange, Artificial Man": Social Roles and the Loss of Authenticity 7. "She but Not Herself": Self-Alienation as Internal Division 8. "As If Through a Wall of Glass": Indifference and Self-Alienation Part 3. Alienation as a Disturbed Appropriation of Self and World 9. "Like a Structure of Cotton Candy": Being Oneself as Self-Appropriation 10. "Living One's Own Life": Self-Determination, Self-Realization, and Authenticity Conclusion: The Sociality of the Self, the Sociality of Freedom Notes Works Cited Index
£19.80
Oxford University Press Inc Phenomenology of Spirit
Book SynopsisExpounds upon consciousness, self-consciousness, reason, spirit, religion and absolute knowing and also supports Kant, denounces skepticism and hails idealism.Trade Review"Excellent translation. After decades of neglect in English-speaking countries, Hegel's philosophy is arousing the interest of a new generation of graduate students, even in heavily "analytic" department."--Forrest Williams, University of Colorado "No one can read this book without feeling that he or she is encountering not only an important historical document but a living example of the finest powers of the philosophical imagination."--Robert C. Solomon, University of Texas, Austin "This new translation...is no doubt the event of the year in nineteenth-century philosophical research."--Choice "Clear, lucid, excellent balance between literalness and paraphrase."--Lucian Krukowski, Washington University "An excellent translation and a most valuable original source."--George Kovacs, Florida International University
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Indiana University Press Genealogy as Critique Foucault and the Problems
Book SynopsisShows that philosophical genealogy involves not only the critique of modernity but also its transformationTrade ReviewGenealogy as Critique breathes fresh air into a number of stale scholarly debates about the periodization of Foucault's work, the viability of genealogy as a method, and the relationship between Foucault and his interlocutors. It is a must read for anyone interested in Foucault and especially in the relationship between Foucault and critical theory. * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *This impressive book by Koopman . . . exposes what he perceives to be inaccurate readings of Foucault's work stemming from Habermas, Derrida, and other 'Weberian' interpretations. . . . Recommended. * Choice *Colin Koopman's 'Genealogy as Critique' is critical theory at its best: informed by incisive intellectual reconstructions, guided by immanent critique, and aiming at practical transformations that speak to our unique historical challenges.Oct. 2014 * Foucault Studies *Genealogy as Critique is an excellent book. . . After the academic industry that Foucault's works have spawned, it is difficult to imagine yet another treatment of them that could possibly offer new insight or open up a dimension of his thought that hadn't already been noticed. However, Colin Koopman's book does just that. . . Although I have studied and written on Foucault for over thirty years now, I found much in the book that was fresh and interesting.Oct. 2014 -- Todd May * History & Theory *In Genealogy as Critique, Colin Koopman traces the contours of Foucault's critical method of genealogy, presenting it not as a catch-all term for approaching history as a nonhistorian, but rather as a method of inquiry valuable to many fields, including communication, cultural studies, history, and sociology.8, 2014 * INTL JRNL OF COMMUNICATION *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: What Genealogy Does1. Critical Historiography: Politics, Philosophy & Problematization2. Three Uses of Genealogy: Subversion, Vindication & Problematization3. What Problematization Is: Contingency, Complexity & Critique4. What Problematization Does: Aims, Sources & Implications5. Foucault's Problematization of Modernity: The Reciprocal Incompatibility of Discipline and Liberation6. Foucault's Reconstruction of Modern Moralities: An Ethics of Self-Transformation7. Problematization plus Reconstruction: Genealogy, Pragmatism & Critical TheoryNotesBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Heidegger and Language Studies in Continental
Book SynopsisTakes a new look at the role of language in the thought of Martin Heidegger to reassess its significance for contemporary philosophyTrade ReviewThe essays in this volume . . . provid[e] worthwhile reading for anyone coming to Heidegger's work on language for the first time, and some help for those who have been thinking about, with, or against him already. * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *The 14 original essays in this indispensable volume trace the transformations in Heidegger's thinking about language and discourse, hiddenness and unhiddenness, and, most importantly, the limits of language and the significance of silence. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction \ Jeffrey Powell1. Heidegger's Ontological Analysis of Language \ Daniel O. Dahlstrom2. Listening to the Silence: Reticence and the Call of Conscience in Heidegger's Philosophy \ Walter Brogan3. In Force of Language: Language and Desire in Heidegger's Reading of Aristotle's Metaphysics \ William McNeill4. The Secret Homeland of Speech: Heidegger on Language, 1933–1934 \ Richard Polt5. The Logic of Thinking \ John Sallis6. Giving Its Word: Event (as) Language \ Krzysztof Ziarek7. Heidegger's Poietic Writings: From Contributions to Philosophy to Das Ereignis \ Daniela Vallega-Neu8. Poets as Prophets and as Painters: Heidegger's Turn to Language and the Hölderlinian Turn in Context \ Robert Bernasconi9. Truth Be Told: Homer, Plato, and Heidegger \ Dennis J. Schmidt10. The Way to Heidegger's "Way to Language" \ Jeffrey L. Powell11. Is There a Heidegger—or, for That Matter, a Lacan—Beyond All Gathering? \ David Farrell Krell12. Heidegger and the Question of the "Essence" of Language \ Françoise Dastur13. Dark Celebration: Heidegger's Silent Music \ Peter Hanly14. Heidegger with Blanchot: On the Way to Fragmentation \ Christopher FynskContributorsIndex
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Zone Books A Dream Interpreted within a Dream: Oneiropoiesis
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Oneworld Publications Existentialism: A Beginner's Guide
Book SynopsisExistentialism pervades modern culture, yet if you ask most people what it means, they won’t be able to tell you. In this lively and topical introduction, Wartenberg reveals a vibrant mode of philosophical inquiry that addresses concerns at the heart of the existence of every human being. Wartenberg uses classic films, novels, and plays to present the ideas of now-legendary Existentialist thinkers from Nietzsche and Camus to Sartre and Heidegger and to explore central concepts, including Freedom, Anxiety, and the Absurd. Special attention is paid to the views of Simone de Beauvoir and Franz Fanon, who use the theories of Existentialism to address gender and colonial oppression.
£9.49
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Irrational Man
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State University of New York Press The Phenomenology of Spirit Reader Critical and
Book SynopsisThe most complete collection of essays on Hegel''s Phenomenology of Spirit available in any language, with essays by distinguished international Hegel scholars.The Phenomenology of Spirit was Hegel''s first major philosophical work and is considered by many to be his masterpiece. Its several hundred pages treat topics as diverse as Greek drama, religion, medieval court culture, natural science, Romanticism, and the Enlightenment. Hegel regarded it as the introduction to his philosophical system as a whole, and it is often thought to be the most accessible work in his otherwise difficult philosophical corpus.This anthology represents the most complete collection of essays on the Phenomenology in any language. It follows Hegel''s table of contents, and all of the major sections of the work are covered. The main goal guiding the selection of essays was to collect the best articles written on the Phenomenology by distinguished international Hegel scholars and at the same time to provide systematic coverage. Although the essays are all by leading Hegel scholars, none of them presupposes any particular in-depth knowledge of Hegel or German philosophy. The object of the book is thus to make the Phenomenology more accessible for students while serving as an impetus for further Anglo-American Hegel research.Among the contributors to the book are Howard Adelman, John W. Burbidge, Martin De Nys, Kenley R. Dove, Katharina Dulckeit, Joseph C. Flay, Moltke S. Gram, Daniel P. Jamros, George Armstrong Kelly, Alasdair MacIntyre, Mitchell H. Miller, Jr., Patricia Jagentowicz Mills, Karlheinz Nusser, David W. Price, John Sallis, Harald Schondorf, Gary Shapiro, Jean-Louis Vieillard-Baron, Kenneth R. Westphal, and Merold Westphal.
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University Press of America A Fools Phenomenology
Book SynopsisFool''s Phenomenology gives an original metaphysics approach to, as well as an in-depth account of, the structures of spiritual evolution. Using a wide range of references to philosophical and literary sources, the author adumbrates a surprisingly complex and complete view of the spiritual condition of our species as it struggles in conditions of late modernity.Table of ContentsPart 1 Apology Part 2 Argument Part 3 Index
£42.30
University of Notre Dame Press Conscience
Book SynopsisConscience offers a detailed historical survey of the concept of conscience from ancient times, through the Middle Ages, and up to more modern philosophers.Trade Review“There are books that get more attention than they deserve, and there are books that, due to unfortunate historical contingencies, suffer unjust neglect. Stoker’s Conscience is one of the latter. Though Scheler and Heidegger recognized the significance of Stoker’s book when it first appeared in 1925, it did not get the reception that it merited. Philip Blosser has done an important work of retrieval by translating this work and making it available again. Everyone interested in the primordial human phenomenon of conscience has something to learn from Stoker. Notre Dame Press has given us a major new resource for a fundamental issue of philosophy.” —John Crosby, Franciscan University of Steubenville“Blosser’s scholarship is excellent. He has done the tedious work, important to scholars, of correcting Stoker’s references to his source literature when they are in error regarding date or place of publication. The text is quite readable: it is stylistically up-to-date, and the description of obscure but important phenomena is clear.” —Eugene Kelly, New York Institute of Technology"Few subjects are more important today that the question regarding the nature of moral conscience and its origin, development, reliability, and validity in a person's life. In this profoundly original and significant work, the late South African philosopher, Hendrik Stoker (1899–1993), addresses this question in a masterly way—a point highlighted by philosophers Martin Heidegger and Max Scheler—that is of relevance not only to scholars in the areas of moral and religious psychology, philosophical anthropology, but also to theologians, epistemologists, and those interested in moral issues generally. Translator Philip Blosser, who also wrote an illuminating introduction to Stoker's thought in this English translation of Stoker's 1925 German work, should be congratulated for retrieving Stoker's unfortunately neglected study of conscience. May this eminently accessible and readable work be enthusiastically received for its contribution to a crucially important subject." —Eduardo Echeverria, author of Divine Election: A Catholic Orientation in Dogmatic and Ecumenical Perspective“The scholarship is solid and amazing, displaying a sound knowledge of related literature reflected in notes and wide-ranging references. Stoker was on the forefront of knowledge about the leading figures of various fields of study. His exposition on the ideas and conceptions of the leading intellectuals of his time is impressive and in many instances could serve as a brief orientation in the views of the authors discussed by him.” —Danie Strauss, North-West University“Stoker sets forth his argumentation with force and verve. Equally interesting are the lengthy analyses of theories touching on this subject: Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Freud, J.H. Cardinal Newman, Buytendijk, Bavinck and Hepp, of course.” —Philosophical Reformata“Stoker’s work on conscience is of enormous value, especially in its historical range and experiential focus.” —New Oxford ReviewTable of ContentsForeword by D. F. M. Strauss Translator’s Introduction Editor's Foreword Author's Preface 1. Current Scholarship and Orientation 2. The Ambiguity of Conscience 3. Intellectualism and Bad Conscience 4. Intuitionism and Bad Conscience 5. Voluntarism and Bad Conscience 6. Emotionalism and Bad Conscience 7. Personal Evil and the Essence of Conscience 8. The Problem of the Genesis of Conscience 9. Some Theories of the Development of Conscience 10. The Reliability of Conscience Appendix: Brief Biographies of Authors Cited Bibliography of Works Cited Index of Names
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Transcript Verlag Body and Reality – An Examination of the
Book SynopsisIs materialism right to claim that the world of everyday-life experience - the phenomenal world - is nothing but an illusion produced in physical reality, notably in the brain? Or is Merleau-Ponty right when he defends the fundamental character of the phenomenal world while rejecting physical realism? Jasper van Buuren addresses these questions by exploring the nature of the body proper in Merleau-Ponty and Plessner, arguing that physical and phenomenal realism are not mutually exclusive but complementary. The argument includes a close examination of the relationships between scientific and pre-scientific perspectives, between living and non-living things, and between humans and animals.
£38.24
MP-MQU Marquette University The Metamorphoses of Phenomenological Reduction
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Harvard University Press Adorno and Existence
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis extraordinary study is a marvelous interpretation of the whole of Adorno’s philosophical thinking by making convincingly clear to what surprising degree it is dependent on some constitutive ideas of Kierkegaard. Gordon successfully integrates two aims, the systematic re-interpretation of Adorno’s philosophy and the subtle reconstruction of his intellectual development. This is a tour de force for which Peter Gordon deserves highest admiration. -- Axel Honneth, Goethe University Frankfurt and Columbia UniversityAdorno and Existence struck me as almost inevitable: how is it that no one had thought to write this necessary book previously? With a rare combination of narrative brio and analytic insight, Peter Gordon tracks Adorno’s repeated confrontations with Kierkegaard, Husserl, Heidegger, Kafka, & co. This is a fine, even irreplaceable study with a superb and riveting final chapter. -- Jay Bernstein, The New SchoolOn first reading Adorno’s early study of Kierkegaard, Walter Benjamin intuited that it was ‘very possible that the author’s later books will spring from this one.’ When Adorno reissued it many years later, he admitted to Ernst Bloch that it had ‘the character of a dream-like anticipation.’ With Peter Gordon’s arresting new interpretation of Adorno’s life-long struggle with Kierkegaard’s legacy, a struggle generating the dynamic force field of theology, aesthetics and social critique he called negative dialectics, we can understand for the first time how right both of these observations actually were. -- Martin Jay, University of California, BerkeleyWritten with elegance and meticulously researched, the book focuses on Adorno’s successive encounters with Kierkegaard, Husserl, and Heidegger over the years as a key to unlock Adorno’s own difficult thinking. A major contribution to Adorno studies and beyond. -- Seyla Benhabib, Yale UniversityA perceptive philosophical inquiry. -- Samuel Freeman * New York Review of Books *Gordon, in a detailed, sensitive, fair-minded way, leads the reader through Adorno’s various, usually quite vigorous, rhetorically pointed attacks on both transcendental and existential phenomenology from 1930 on…[A] singularly illuminating study. -- Robert Pippin * Critical Inquiry *Adorno and Existence is an expansive and ambitious undertaking and Gordon deserves praise for elucidating the dense constructions of Adorno’s texts, especially in the often elliptical prose of Negative Dialectics. He traces a constant concern in Adorno, from the 1930s onwards, to associate the ontology of existentialism with idealism while also acknowledging an underlying value in idealism’s resistance to the merely given…[An] elegantly composed study. -- Sean Sheehan * Marx and Philosophy Review of Books *Gordon’s book offers a significant contribution to our understanding of Adorno’s thought. He writes with expertise, authority, and compendious scholarship, moving with confidence across the thinkers he examines. Throughout his argument, he effectively places Adorno’s work in the context of contemporary debates and events. His well-organized exposition and lucid prose are particularly noteworthy, conveying complex ideas with clarity and nuance. Above all, I found myself persuaded of his central claim, as it seems quite clear that Adorno’s engagement with the thought of Kierkegaard, Husserl, and Heidegger played a decisive role in the development of his own philosophy, rather than entailing merely a straightforward rejection. After this book, it will not be possible to explain Adorno’s philosophical development without serious consideration of his reactions to them. -- Richard Westerman * Symposium *Gordon masterfully reconstructs Adorno's lifelong engagement with existentialist thinkers and themes…The lucid and concise way in which he writes about Adorno is no less than exemplary…The book brilliantly succeeds in its aims. It indicates the path for a further exploration of the hidden affinities between one of the main theorists of the Frankfurt school and existential philosophy. -- Helmer Stoel * Universa Recensioni di Filosofia *
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Heidegger and the Problem of Knowledge
Book SynopsisThe best book-length treatment of Heidegger with which I am familiar. . . . What Guignon does, very skillfully, is to use the problem of knowledge as a focus for organizing a discussion of Heidegger's thought in its entirety. . . . Places him squarely within the philosophical tradition he struggled to overcome and provides an account of his development from Being and Time to the last writings, which make the changes in his thought continuous and intelligible. --Harrison Hall, Inquiry Trade Review". . . . an admirably clear account of Heidegger’s relation to the philosophical tradition, and especially of his criticism of Cartesianism." --Richard Rorty, University of Virginia
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University of Minnesota Press Gestures
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Flusser transforms gesture to the level of metaphor, offering deep, sometimes metaphysical, interpretation of the human condition. Though it resists being put in a particular disciplinary niche, Gestures will surely become a standard for the many scholars who have already debated or acknowledged the value of Flusser’s claims."—CHOICE"Flusser’s book transcends the time in which it was written."—International Journal of Communication"Flusser's writings have a more accessible style, offering precise examples and analogies to specify key concepts. For this reason, the work of Flusser, especially Gestures, eclectically engages with deconstructive paradigms of philosophy at a level accessible to undergraduate students and academics."—Screen BodiesTable of ContentsContentsTranslator’s PrefaceGesture and Affect: The Practice of a Phenomenology of GesturesBeyond Machines (But Still within the Phenomenology of Gestures)The Gesture of WritingThe Gesture of SpeakingThe Gesture of MakingThe Gesture of LovingThe Gesture of DestroyingThe Gesture of PaintingThe Gesture of PhotographingThe Gesture of FilmingThe Gesture of Turning a Mask AroundThe Gesture of PlantingThe Gesture of ShavingThe Gesture of Listening to MusicThe Gesture of Smoking a PipeThe Gesture of TelephoningThe Gesture of VideoThe Gesture of SearchingAppendix: Toward a General Theory of GesturesTranslator’s NotesIndex
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Stanford University Press The Joyful Science / Idylls from Messina /
Book SynopsisWritten on the threshold of Thus Spoke Zarathustra during a high point of social, intellectual and psychic vibrancy, The Joyful Science (frequently translated as The Gay Science) is one of Nietzsche's thematically tighter books. Here he debuts and practices the art of amor fati, love of fate, to explore what is "species preserving" in relation to happiness (Book One); inspiration and the role of art as they keep us mentally fit for inhabiting a world dominated by science (Book Two); the challenges of living authentically and overcoming after the death of God (Book Three); and the crescendo of life affirmation in which Nietzsche revealed the doctrine of eternal recurrence and previewed the figure of Zarathustra (Book Four). Invigorated and motivated by Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche in 1887 added a new preface, an appendix of poems, and Book Five, where he deepened the critique of science and displayed a more genealogical approach. This volume provides the first English translation of the Idylls from Messina and, more importantly, it includes the first English translation of the notebooks of 1881–1882, in which Nietzsche first formulated the eternal recurrence. Structurally and stylistically, The Joyful Science remains Nietzsche's most effective book of aphorisms, immediately after which he took on the voice and alter ego of Zarathustra in order to push beyond the boundaries of even the most liberating prose.
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Princeton University Press The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A gorgeous stand-alone edition. . . . For a reader familiar with Kierkegaard's philosophical work, what's most striking about Three Godly Discourses is its gentle, graceful simplicity."---Will Rees, Times Literary Supplement"Kirmmse's new translation of Kierkegaard's homiletical reflections on Matthew 6:24-34 captures the sermons' beauty and gravitas." * The Christian Century *"Kirmmse offers a new translation of this religious work and a concise introduction. In the original preface, Kierkegaard expresses the hope that the lily and the bird would serve as a means for humans to learn silence, obedience, and joy. Those three concepts loom large in some of Kierkegaard's writings, and they receive lucid treatment here." * Choice *
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Oxford University Press The Oxford Handbook of Meditation
Book SynopsisMeditation techniques, including mindfulness, have become popular wellbeing practices and the scientific study of their effects has recently turned 50 years old. But how much do we know about them: what were they developed for and by whom? How similar or different are they, how effective can they be in changing our minds and biology, what are their social and ethical implications?The Oxford Handbook of Meditation is the most comprehensive volume published on meditation, written in accessible language by world-leading experts on the science and history of these techniques. It covers the development of meditation across the world and the varieties of its practices and experiences. It includes approaches from various disciplines, including psychology, neuroscience, history, anthropology, and sociology and it explores its potential for therapeutic and social change, as well as unusual or negative effects. Edited by practitioner-researchers, this book is the ultimate guide for all interested in meditation, including teachers, clinicians, therapists, researchers, or anyone who would like to learn more about this topic.Trade ReviewThe Oxford Handbook of Meditation offers ample resources that provide a useful overview of important questions currently being discussed in the field of meditation studies: the promise and limits of empirical research, the possibility of a transcultural science of meditation (and the risks necessarily involved in such a project), and comparative concerns about "meditation" across cultural and disciplinary boundaries. It can serve as an introduction to the field of meditation studies as well as provide direction for future research. Serious readers will no doubt agree that the Handbook successfully follows through on its promise to feed the wonder and desire to know of a wide audience of specialists and non-specialists alike. * Journal of Contemplative Studies *Table of ContentsForeword Part I. Overview 1: Miguel Farias, David Brazier, & Mansur Lalljee: Understanding and studying meditation 2: Richard King: Meditation and the Modern Encounter between Asia and the West 3: Doug Oman: Studying the Effects of Meditation: The First Fifty Years Part II. Meditation across the World's Traditions 4: Gavin Flood: Hinduism and Meditation: Tantra 5: Bjarne Wernicke-Olesen: Hinduism and Meditation: Yoga 6: Tomer Persico: Judaism and Meditation 7: Martin Laird: Western Christianity and Meditation 8: Cyril Hovorun: Eastern Christianity and Meditation 9: Scott Kugle: Meditation in the Islamic Tradition 10: Sarah Shaw: Theravada Buddhism and Meditation 11: Caifang Zhu: Chan Buddhism and Meditation 12: Georgios Halkias: Buddhist Meditation in Tibet: Exoteric and Esoteric Orientations 13: Harold Roth: Classical Daoist Meditation: 400-100 B.C.E 14: Louis Komjathy: Daoist Meditation: From 100 CE to the Present Part III. Varieties of Meditative Practices and Experiences 15: Nobuyoshi Yamabe: Concentration and Visualization Techniques in Buddhist Meditation 16: Carlos do Carmo Silva: The Phenomenology of Meditation: Commonalities and Divergences between Christian Meditatio and Hindu Dhy?na 17: Jessica Frazier: The Self in Meditation: The art of self-transformation 18: Ayesha Nathoo: Relaxation and Meditation Part IV. Approaches to the Study of Meditation Biology and Neuroscience 19: Kieran C. R. Fox and B. Rael Cahn: Meditation and the brain 20: Dusana Dorjee: Psychophysiology of Meditation Psychology 21: Tim Lomas: Meditation and emotion 22: Ivana Buric & Inti Brazil: Individual differences in meditation outcomes 23: Peter Sedlmeier and Kunchapudi SrinivasDR: Psychological Theories of Meditation in Early Buddhism and S??khya/Yoga Sociology 24: Michal Pagis: The sociology of meditation 25: Conrad Hackett: The demographics of meditation in the United States Anthropology 26: Manu Bazzano: Meditation and the post-secular condition 27: Douglas E. Christie: Christian Contemplative Thought and Practice in the Contemporary World 28: Masoumeh Rahmani: Goenka's Vipassana Movement: From Conversion to Disaffiliation 29: Caroline Starkey: Meditation in Contemporary Monastic Life Part V. Individual and Social Change through Meditation Therapeutic Applications 30: Patricia Lynn Dobkin and Kaveh Monshat: Mental Illness Through the Lens of Mindfulness 31: Madhav Goyal and Heather L. Rusch: Mindfulness-based interventions in the treatment of physical conditions 32: David Orme-Johnson: Transcendental Meditation in the treatment of mental and physical conditions 33: David Brazier: Zen Therapy Social Change 34: Ann Gleig: Enacting Social Change Through Meditation 35: Candy Gunther Brown: Meditation and Education 36: Katherine M. Auty: Meditation in Prison Part VI. Debates and Controversies in Meditation 37: Jared R. Lindahl, Willoughby B. Britton, David J. Cooper, Laurence J. Kirmayer: Challenging and Adverse Meditation Experiences: Toward A Person-Centered Approach 38: Nathan Fisher: The Dark Nights of the Soul in Abrahamic Meditative Traditions 39: Juhn Y. Ahn: Meditation sickness 40: Brian Victoria: Meditation to kill and be killed by The Use of Sam?dhi Power (???) in Imperial Japan 41: Ron Purser and David Lewis: Neuroscience and meditation: Help or hindrance? 42: Etzel Cardeña: Meditation, Exceptional Psychophysiological Control, and Parapsychology 43: Deane H. Shapiro, Jr.: Reflections on the role of control in meditation
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Stanford University Press Theory of the Earth
Book SynopsisWe need a new philosophy of the earth. Geological time used to refer to slow and gradual processes, but today we are watching land sink into the sea and forests transform into deserts. We can even see the creation of new geological strata made of plastic, chicken bones, and other waste that could remain in the fossil record for millennia or longer. Crafting a philosophy of geology that rewrites natural and human history from the broader perspective of movement, Thomas Nail provides a new materialist, kinetic ethics of the earth that speaks to this moment. Climate change and other ecological disruptions challenge us to reconsider the deep history of minerals, atmosphere, plants, and animals and to take a more process-oriented perspective that sees humanity as part of the larger cosmic and terrestrial drama of mobility and flow. Building on his earlier work on the philosophy of movement, Nail argues that we should shift our biocentric emphasis from conservation to expenditure, flux, and planetary diversity. Theory of the Earth urges us to rethink our ethical relationship to one another, the planet, and the cosmos at large.Trade Review"One of the most remarkable books I've read in some time. Thomas Nail forges a mode of materialist philosophy in conversation with recent, cross-disciplinary movements in the environmental humanities, generating a mode of thinking and theorizing that moves beyond the scale of human life." -- Claire Colebrook * Pennsylvania State University *"Thomas Nail has developed a much-needed, and previously underrepresented philosophy of geology. In elaborating a process theory of a kinetic earth, this book helps us imagine our planet as neither a static place of habitation nor a protective Mother Earth." -- Matthias Fritsch * Concordia University *"Is ecocide, unconsciously practiced by industrio-techno-capitalist humans to their own detriment and potential extinction, a direct result of the reduction and destruction of Earth's complex energy dissipation? In an ambitious and fabulous synthesis, with a Lucretian sensibility and deep scientific rapprochement, Thomas Nail gives us back a real Earth, where life is part of a planetary more-than-human dissipative system and humans better get with the flow. A fascinating, difficult, needed scientifico-philosophical document, Theory of the Earth should interest and irritate scientists as it provides a needed provocation to much modern environmental philosophy." -- Dorion Sagan * author of Cosmic Apprentice: Dispatches from the Edges of Science *"While Anthropocene ideology focuses on the destructive action of humans on a passive Earth, Nail posits that conceptual refocusing—away from conservation toward an ethics of energy transformation—can help address the serious environmental problems we face. Though chiefly a work of philosophy, this text is accessible for any advanced reader interested in environmental meta issues. Recommended." -- E. Kincanon * CHOICE *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction chapter abstractWe are witnessing a second Copernican revolution, in which the earth is not just moving around the sun but is itself internally on the move. Terrestrial events that we could in the past only have imagined taking place over huge time scales are now happening before our eyes. Flora and fauna are headed north in mass migrations, throwing tens of thousands of species into motion around the world. Today, half of all species on earth are on the move, including insects, viruses, and microbes. However, since not all species are moving at the same rate or in the same way, species are coming into contact with one another in new ways and producing new hybrids. A new history of the earth is necessary in order to understand the immanent conditions of the present and the kind of earth that we are. 1The Flow of Matter chapter abstractThe earth flows because the matter of the cosmos flows through it. It is not an unchanging or even uniformly changing substance following its own autonomous processes. Geology is also cosmology, and the cosmos flows. Flows of matter continually compose, cycle through, and flow out of the earth. The earth is only a regional circulation of a much larger kinetic and entropic process. Historically, however, philosophy, politics, and much of geology have not taken the ongoing flow of cosmic matter seriously. This has led to a complete inversion of what the earth is and the human relationship to it. The earth is not a planet, but rather a process of terrestrialization. 2The Fold of Elements chapter abstractThe pedetic flow and fluctuation of matter is constitutive of the earth and its elemental body. The word "earth" designates not only a planet and its soil but also one of the four classical elements. The earth is elemental and elementary only because the universe is—and the latter is the key to understanding the former. If the element "earth" is mineral, then the earth must share its elemental namesake with the mineral bodies of the cosmos. In this sense, earth is not just on the earth, but in the universe and from the universe. In other words, the universe was already earthly before the earth was terrestrialized. 3The Planetary Field chapter abstractMatter flows and folds into elements, but these elements are in turn distributed into celestial and planetary fields. Elements are conjoined into atomic and molecular composites that in turn are arranged and ordered together in a field of celestial and planetary circulation. This is the third core concept of geokinetics. If matter flows and elements fold into periodic cycles, planetary fields organize them all in a continuous feedback loop. This chapter provides a geokinetic theory of how conjoined flows become organized according to distinct regimes or planetary fields. 4Centripetal Minerality chapter abstractThe earth is material, kinetic, and thus historical; it is possible for different, coexisting, and mixed planetary fields to emerge. In other words, it is possible for matter to distribute itself differently over time into different patterns or orders of arrangement. There is no way to know what the earth is without understanding its historical process of becoming. If this is the case then it is possible to study this material history and to discern the planetary regimes or fields along with the different elements and beings that are distributed there: minerals, atmosphere, plants, and animals. What this means is that the contemporary earth is not defined by a single geokinetic field or pattern of motion, but is composed of a motley mixture of everything that has ever been. 5Hadean Earth chapter abstractIn this chapter we look closely at the kinetic patterns produced by three major geokinetic phenomena that define the Hadean earth: meteors, the moon, and water. The argument of this chapter is that each of these major phenomena is defined predominately by a distinctly centripetal pattern of motion and a geokinetics of mineralization. Centripetal mineralization was the first major transcendental kinetic regime invented by the earth. This first movement inward toward the center from the periphery along differentiated layers continues today as the immanent condition of planetary life and mineral-based technologies. 6Centrifugal Atmospherics chapter abstractThe second major geokinetic field to rise to dominance in the earth's history was the atmospheric field. This second type of field became increasingly prevalent over the course of the Archean Eon, from about 4 billion years ago to about 2.5 billion years ago. Three major events define this transition: the end of heavy meteor bombardment, the emergence of living organisms, and the rise of a highly oxygenated atmosphere. These events were the cause of a dramatic historical shift in the earth's pattern of motion, from one of largely centripetal accretion and crystallization to one of increasingly centrifugal movements of outward expansion, respiration, and reproduction. 7Archean Earth I: Pneumatology chapter abstractDuring the Archean Eon (4 to 2.5 billion years ago), the entire planet began to move in an increasingly centrifugal pattern of motion from the center out to the periphery (and back). This chapter argues that the emergence of a prevailing centrifugal pattern of motion occurs increasingly over the course of the Archean Eon. The deep history of atmospherization is the material condition of terrestrial motion for all subsequent eons, up to the present. In this chapter we look closely at the kinetic patterns produced by four major geokinetic phenomena that define the Archean earth: sky, clouds, mountains, and life. The argument of this chapter is that each of these major phenomena is defined predominately by a distinctly centrifugal pattern of motion and a geokinetics of atmospherics. 8Archean Earth II: Biogenesis chapter abstractThe second major historical event of the Archean Eon was the emergence of living organisms (prokaryotic bacteria and archaea) with metabolism, genetic multiplication, and natural selection. Organisms are dissipative or vortical systems that have the distinct ability to remember and reproduce the material kinetic patterns that produced them. During the Archean, the entire earth erupted into centrifugal motion. Volcanoes blasted themselves into the air, the ocean evaporated into the clouds, and organisms released an incredible amount of volatiles and stored energy. However, by the end of the Archean Eon, around 2.5 billion years ago, a new form of life emerged that would change the motion of the planet yet again: plants. 9Tensional Vegetality chapter abstractThe third major geokinetic planetary field to rise to dominance in the earth's history was the vegetal field. Over the course of the Proterozoic Eon, the longest eon in the earth's history, from about 2.5 billion years ago to 541 million years ago, three major events occurred: the emergence of eukaryotes (cells with a nucleus and organelles), the development of multicellular organisms (such as protozoa, fungi, and plants), and the arrival of life on land. All these events were defined by a new kind of tensional motion inside, between, and through these organisms. But this new pattern of motion defined by a system of held contrasts was not limited to life alone. Life, like mineral and atmospheric flows, is not just one discrete region among others, in isolation. Vegetal life completed, saturated, and transformed all planetary processes. 10Proterozoic Earth chapter abstractDuring the Proterozoic Eon, the entire life-saturated planet began to fold itself up into a vast knotwork of cellularized tensions. The birth of cellular and complex cellular life was not just the birth of a new type of substance "on" the earth but a new kinetic relation of the earth to itself. This chapter argues that the emergence of a prevailing tensional pattern of motion occurred increasingly over the course of the Proterozoic Eon. I argue that the deep history of phytality is the material condition of terrestrial motion for all subsequent eons, up to the present. In this chapter we look closely at the increasingly tensional kinetic patterns produced by vegetal bodies and that eventually defined the Proterozoic and early Phanerozoic earth: thallus, stem, leaf, root, seed, and flower. 11Elastic Animality chapter abstractAnimality is the fourth major geokinetic planetary pattern of motion. The rise of animality overlapped with the end of the Proterozoic Eon as vegetality slowly dovetailed into the Phanerozoic Eon, from 541 million years ago to the present. The Phanerozoic Eon began with the Cambrian explosion of diverse animal and plant life. This explosion was itself made possible by increased oxygen in the atmosphere and mineral-rich soils produced by vegetal life across the continents. The emergence and proliferation of animals on the earth was the source of a radical new regime of elastic motion defined by the ability of living matter to expand, contract, stretch and oscillate back and forth to a degree never before seen on the earth. 12Phanerozoic Earth I: Kinomorphology chapter abstractThe Phanerozoic Eon (541 million years ago to the present) is our geological eon. It began with the Cambrian explosion of living forms, the greatest number of evolving creatures in a a single period in the history of the earth. During the Phanerozoic, the entire planet became increasingly elastic as the proliferation of life forms expanded, contracted, and mutated more rapidly than ever before. The more new organisms emerged, the faster they changed their environment. This chapter argues that the emergence of a prevailing elastic pattern of motion occurred increasingly over the course of the Phanerozoic Eon. In this chapter we look closely at the increasingly elastic kinetic structures produced by animal bodies that eventually saturated the late Proterozoic and early Phanerozoic Earth: body, head, and tail. 13Phanerozoic Earth II: Terrestrialization chapter abstractThe third major historico-morphological event of the Phanerozoic Eon was the explosion of elastic sensory organs and limbs in the animal body. With the evolution of mollusks, arthropods, and vertebrates, an enormous transformation occurred as animal life in the seas spread to the land and the skies. The process of terrestrial animality saturated the untapped energy of these new regions—completing the transformation of the earth into its full animality. The material evolution of animal morphology is also a kinetic evolution toward the increasingl elasticity, mobility, sensitivity, and energy expenditure of the earth more broadly. Animals are not on the earth but aspects of the earth itself—the becoming animal and becoming elastic of the earth. 14Kinocene Earth chapter abstractToday, the earth is in increasingly unstable motion. The earth, as we have seen in this book, has always been in motion, but today these four major patterns of geological motion have become increasingly disrupted due to the coordinated efforts of certain human groups. What I am calling the "Kinocene" in the final Part of this book is a new geological period not because motion is new to the earth, as we have seen, but because of the increasing mobility of the earth's geological strata, described in Parts I and II. At the same time, however, we are also witnessing for the first time in a long time a significant reduction in the net kinetic expenditure of the planet as a whole. 15Kinocene Ethics chapter abstractThe ethics of kinetic expenditure is not a universal ethical ground but a hypothetical ethical ground that allows us to say not only that capitalism is descriptively wrong about nature but that it is unethical (assuming we want to survive), on the grounds that it leads to the reduction of planetary expenditure (including the reduction of human and ecological diversity). Furthermore, the ethics of expenditure relates to the material conditions of all human society as such. If we even want to have humanist ethics in the first place, there must be humans alive to practice it. Thus, implicit in all humanist ethics is the assumption of planetary existence and survival. In short: If we want human ethics, then we need to be alive and survive, and if we want to survive then we need to try to increase planetary expenditure (with all that entails). Conclusion: The Future chapter abstractEverything is in motion. The earth is in motion because so is the cosmos. The West's historically mistaken belief in a static or stable earth is one of the biggest mistakes ever made. This mistake is symptomatic of a similar belief in stasis in politics, ontology, science, and the arts. Together, the belief in stasis of one form or another across the major domains of human knowledge and activity is the source of our contemporary world crisis. Movement and expenditure had always been primary. Human history was not the progressive realization of static forms. Progress and development in the Western tradition are dead. Human history can now be seen for what it is: a series of kinetic patterns iterated in the material diffusion of the cosmos itself.
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Lexington Books Problems of Religious Luck
Book SynopsisTo speak of being religious lucky certainly sounds odd. But then, so does My faith holds value in God's plan, while yours does not. This book argues that these two concerns with the concept of religious luck and with asymmetric or sharply differential ascriptions of religious value are inextricably connected. It argues that religious luck attributions can profitably be studied from a number of directions, not just theological, but also social scientific and philosophical. There is a strong tendency among adherents of different faith traditions to invoke asymmetric explanations of the religious value or salvific status of the home religion vis-à-vis all others. Attributions of good/bad religious luck and exclusivist dismissal of the significance of religious disagreement are the central phenomena that the book studies. Part I lays out a taxonomy of kinds of religious luck, a taxonomy that draws upon but extends work on moral and epistemic luck. It asks: What isTrade ReviewIn this book, Guy Axtell joins this important conversation about lucky belief, with an eye toward the religious case. He focuses on the epistemic justification of religious belief: the "de jure question" (p. 6). Axtell's main target is religious exclusivism -- a doctrinal or soteriological uniqueness that sets a particular religion apart from other religions. . . . Overall, the contingency of belief is a fascinating issue that deserves serious consideration. I'm hopeful that Axtell's book draws more attention to the intriguing problems raised by religious luck. * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *A thought-provoking, historically-informed, and highly distinctive take on the important questions raised by religious luck, this is a welcome addition to the literature. -- Duncan Pritchard, University of EdinburghTable of ContentsPart IReligious Cognition and Philosophy of Luck1 Types of Religious Luck: A Working Taxonomy2 The New Problem of Religious LuckPart II Applications and Implications of Inductive Risk3 Enemy in the Mirror: The Need for Comparative Fundamentalism 4 We Are All of the Common Herd: Montaigne and the Psychology of our ‘Importunate Presumptions’5 Scaling the ‘Brick Wall’: Measuring and Censuring Strongly Fideistic Religious Orientation 6 The Pattern Stops Here? Counter-Inductive Thinking, Counter-Intuitive Ideas, and Cognitive Science of Religion
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Atlantic Books Gathering Evidence
Book SynopsisWith extinction imminent, researchers visit an exclusive national park to observe one of the last troops of bonobo chimpanzees. Amid unusual behaviour and unexplained deaths, Shel Murray suspects her team is being hunted. Back at home, Shel's partner is attacked touring their new property. Amnesiac and quarantined, John is visited by an inscrutable doctor, tending to the still fresh wounds. As his memory returns, John questions not only the assault, but the renewed marks on his body, and the black fungus now growing on the walls.A sudden event changes everything. Shel is interrogated over the expedition in the park; John throws himself into work, developing new software. Together, with a greater understanding of how much they have to lose, they face a grave threat, something that promises to devour everything.Trade ReviewThe best experimentalist now working -- Simon Ings * The Times *Compelling, full of intriguing ideas, and yet retains an emotional sincerity and sensitivity... In terms of genre, MacInnes is gloriously promiscuous... covers everything from science-fiction to horror to dystopia, and manages to breeze through all this and more... It is written in a beautifully understated style - when you are dealing with big concepts, it's probably best to steer clear of too much flash prose - and will indubitably linger in my mind for a long time to come. -- Stuart Kelly * Scotsman *MacInnes's writing is rigorous in its abstraction, yet there is a beauty to it, a quiet compassion. For all his gathering of evidence, he offers scant conclusions and in this he is like every one of us, sharing our fear for the future even as he charts its progress in meticulous detail. This novel confirms MacInnes as a writer of serious ambition and an uncanny degree of talent. * Guardian *A ghost story, a novel of ideas whose allusiveness and vaguely defined foreboding gives it an unsettling power. * The Herald *This book is mooted to be one of the best of 2020, featuring bonobo crime and one man's head trauma in an extinguishing world. * New Scientist *Gathering Evidence makes a conspiracy theorist of the reader, sending them scavenging across the pages for clues and cyphers, for overlaps between strands which should be separate, for integrations and disintegrations. Gathering Evidence sits comfortably alongside peers such as Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing's The Mushroom at the End of the World as a superbly current novel of 21st century pattern recognition, portraying a world where digital advancement and environmental devastation might be the same thing. * The List *Remarkably prescient. MacInnes illustrates earth on the verge of extinction with stunning creativity and verve. * Book Riot *MacInnes's intriguing second novel deserves to cement his reputation as a bold and curious writer * New Statesman *MacInnes has created a strangely prescient vision that fuses risks of ecological catastrophe, technological dependence, and social isolation. * Sydney Morning Herald *MacInnes's prose contains the novel's ratcheting urgency with an empiricist's precision. This is chaos in a specimen jar. * TLS *
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Prometheus Books Demons of the Modern World
Book SynopsisThis fascinating discussion of modern demonology focuses on our ability to differentiate the physical world, with its mechanical laws, from the inherently less predictable psychological realm of thoughts and beliefs. McGrath points out that this ability was a hard-won historical development, and today must be learned in childhood through education. Because of this historical background and our rich fantasy life in childhood, each of us unconsciously suspects, or fears, that supernatural forces may break through the borders of our everyday common sense order at any time. Indeed, at times of personal stress or societal crisis, the modern boundaries between fantasy and reality begin to slip, and then a magical world of demons and other phantasms can come flooding back into our disenchanted reality. Through this innovative thesis, McGrath goes a long way toward explaining both our fascination with fantasy entertainment, such as horror stories and films, and bizarre crazes, such as witch-hunts, Satanism scares, and even claims of alien abduction. Despite our demystified culture, the lure of childhood's magic kingdom with its monstrous shadow realm remains strong.
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Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co Theologico-Political Treatise
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University of Illinois Press Diary of a Philosophy Student
Book SynopsisSimone de Beauvoir, still a teen, began a diary while a philosophy student at the Sorbonne. Written in 1926-27before Beauvoir met Jean-Paul Sartrethe diaries reveal previously unknown details about her life and times and offer critical insights into her early intellectual interests, philosophy, and literary works. Presented for the first time in translation, this fully annotated first volume of the Diary includes essays from Barbara Klaw and Margaret A. Simons that address its philosophical, historical, and literary significance. It remains an invaluable resource for tracing the development of Beauvoir's independent thinking and her influence on philosophy, feminism, and the world.Trade Review"Both volumes are strong and important contributions to feminist philosophy, not only in their themes but in significantly addressing these themes with reference to gendered human existence. I recommend them to anyone who is interested in understanding the making of a feminist philosopher, especially to early researchers working on Beauvoir, to undergraduates trying to understand philosophy, as well as to scholars seeking to understand Beauvoir and her philosophical themes." --Hypatia"Klaw's extensive notes are invaluable, not only in providing biographical background for Beauvoir's literary and philosophical references, but also for flatting difficulties in translation." --Choice"A fascinating text! Barbara Klaw's translation is consistently accurate as well as highly readable and the entire volume is essential for understanding how Beauvoir became Beauvoir."--Gerald J. Prince, author of A Grammar of Stories: An Introduction"This is a truly remarkable book, and a significant contribution to Beauvoir scholarship. Barbara Klaw's excellent translation provides unique access to the formative years of one of the twentieth century's great philosophers, authors, and public intellectuals. Beauvoir's portrayals and reflections on her first meetings and conversations with Sartre, on family, love, friendship and everyday life in Paris—as well as her thoughts on the philosophical and literary texts that she studied—are all included in this fascinating book. This is mandatory reading for all striving to obtain an understanding of Beauvoir, her life, and her work."--Tove Pettersen, President of the International Simone de Beauvoir Society"This diary increases our admiration for Beauvoir's heroic determination to make something of herself. A precious document."--Bookforum"This is a groundbreaking and extremely important work for feminists, philosophers, and scholars of autobiography, and a welcome academic corrective to the edited, abridged, and simplified commercial representations of this important and complex twentieth-century French feminist, philosopher, and writer."--Kentucky Philological Review"Barbara Klaw, Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir, Margaret Simons, and Marybeth Timmerman have given the world a remarkable gift. This volume is organized, annotated, and contextualized superbly. How much richer and more profound [Beauvoir's] corpus becomes with the addition of these priceless writings. The publication of her diaries will only further elevate her philosophical and literal legacy."--H-France Review"This indispensable volume offers a panorama of Beauvoir's intellectual preoccupations. The translators and editors are to be applauded for producing such a valuable contribution to Beauvoir studies."--French Studies "An admirable example of careful translating and editing. The diary presents an opportunity for opening an avenue of Beauvorian scholarship in aesthetics."--APA Newsletter “This is a magnificent piece of work. It is an engaging read and lets English readers to whom French is not accessible have first-hand access to some now much-discussed evidence regarding the independence of Beauvoir’s thought. The translation is beautiful, smooth, and true. A real coup!”--Claudia Card, author of The Cambridge Companion to Simone de Beauvoir “This book is an enormously significant event which scholars have been eagerly awaiting for quite some time. Study of Beauvoir’s diaries not only alerts us to fascinating and unknown influences on her intellectual and personal development, but it could also form the basis for an amazing study of how the raw material of adolescent emotion, all its masochism and its narcissism, became transmuted into the readable and beautiful texts from which we can all learn so much.”--Meryl Altman, DePauw University
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St Augustine's Press Question Of Being – Reversal Of Heidegger
Book SynopsisIn this book, Rosen enters into a debate with Heidegger in order to provide a justification for metaphysics. Rosen presents a fresh interpretation of metaphysics that opposes the traditional doctrines attacked by Heidegger, on the one hand, and by contemporary philosophers influenced by Heidegger, on the other. He refutes Heidegger's claim that metaphysics (or what Heidegger calls Platonism) is derived from the Aristotelian science of being as being. He argues indeed that metaphysics is simply the commonsensical reflection on the nature of ordinary experience and on the standards of living a better life. Rosen uses his critique of Heidegger to suggest the next step in philosophy: that technical precision and speculative metaphysics be unified in what he calls a "step downward into the rich air of everyday life."Trade Review'This is a great book of philosophy by a great thinker. It is what the whole philosophical scene needs; it is how philosophy should be done. A huge enlightening work of scholarship and philosophical insight.' - Iris Murdoch 'I would recommend The Question of Being as the most intelligent study of Heidegger written in English. In fact there are few studies in other languages that seem as good.' - Paul Gottfried, 'The Review of Metaphysics' 'Rosen's book brims with brilliance.' - Keith Ansell-Pearson,'The Times Higher Education Supplement' 'I know of no more thoughtful and challenging discussion of Heidegger than Rosen's The Question of Being.' - Karsten Harries, 'International Journal of Philosophical Studies' 'Rosen's book is unique and original, a genuine work of philosophy.' - Jacques Taminiaux, Boston CollegeTable of ContentsIntroduction, notes, appendix, index
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Ideas for a Pure Phenomenology and
Book SynopsisHusserl's Ideas is one of the most important works of twentieth-century philosophy, offering a detailed introduction to the phenomenological method, including the reduction, and outlining the overall scope of phenomenological philosophy. Husserl's explorations of the a priori structures of intentionality, consciousness, perceptual experience, evidence and rationality continue to challenge contemporary philosophy of mind. Dan Dahlstrom's accurate and faithful translation, written in pellucid prose and in a fluid, modern idiom, brings this classic work to life for a new generation. --Dermot Moran, University College, DublinTrade ReviewHusserl's Ideas is a notoriously difficult book, given especially its author's penchant for not making any concessions to his reader. Working from the original 1913 text, Daniel Dahlstrom's new translation succeeds where others have failed by producing a readable and accurate rendering of Husserl's challenging German original. --Burton Hopkins, Seattle UniversityDahlstrom's new translation is a blessing for Anglophone readers of Husserl. It surpasses the two pre-existing translations in balancing readability, elegance, rigor, and faithfulness to the German original. Not only has Dahlstrom provided us with a superb translation of the founding document of transcendental phenomenology, he has set an unbeatable standard for future translations of Husserl's work into English. --Andrea Staiti, Boston CollegeThis lucid new translation of one of Husserl's key texts comes just at the right time, as we witness a resurgence of interest in Husserl's original program. Elegantly readable, never sacrificing precision and fidelity, Dahlstrom's translation will breathe new life into Husserl scholarship in particular and contemporary work in phenomenology in general. Husserlian phenomenologists will welcome this volume as will contemporary philosophers who wish to take Husserl's method into current philosophy and extra-philosophical enterprises. --Sebastian Luft, Marquette University
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Penguin Books Ltd Fear of Black Consciousness
Book Synopsis''Important . . . powerful . . . . an explanation of why Black protest is such a dangerous prospect to the white power structure'' Kehinde Andrews, GuardianWhere is the path to racial justice? In this ground-breaking book, philosopher Lewis R. Gordon ranges over history, art and pop culture - from ancient African languages to the film Get Out - to show why the answer lies not just in freeing Black bodies from the fraud of white supremacy, but in freeing all of our minds. Building on the influential work of Frantz Fanon and W. E. B. Du Bois, Fear of Black Consciousness is a vital contribution to our conversations on racial politics, identity and culture. ''Expansive . . . reminds us that the ultimate aim of Black freedom quests is, indeed, universal liberation'' Angela Y. Davis Trade ReviewLewis Gordon's expansive philosophical engagement with the current moment - its histories and globalities, its politics and protests, its visual and sonic cultures - reminds us that the ultimate aim of Black freedom quests is, indeed, universal liberation -- Angela Y. Davis * author of Women, Race and Class *Powerful . . . one of the most prominent scholars of racism, tries to enrich our knowledge with his unique brand of intellectual precision and analysis -- Kehinde Andrews * Observer *Gordon's surprising observations crack open the mind to connect various creative disciplines -- Vanessa Willoughby * Literary Hub *Reading Fear of Black Consciousness had me nodding so often and so vigorously, I got a mild case of whiplash . . . With surgical precision, laser sharp wit, and the eye of an artist, Lewis Gordon doesn't just dissect race, racism, and racial thinking but offers a clarion call to embrace Black Consciousness, to take political responsibility for decolonizing and transforming the world as it is -- Robin D G Kelley * author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original *A thinker whose reflections on race have produced singular illuminations on our times . . . he draws on a wide range of colonial histories, African popular culture, aboriginal histories, contemporary films and stories, to show the critical powers of creativity in dismantling racism by the making of Black consciousness, the making of a world where breath and love and existence become possible -- Judith Butler * author of Gender Trouble *Striking... You will want Lewis Gordon's Fear of Black Consciousness among your primary intellectual road supplies for the future -- Hortense Spillers * author of Black, White and in Color *As atrocity, injury, white supremacy, and racial violence loom, Gordon holds steady a Fanonian outlook, theorizing black consciousness as the realization of possibility - that is, a sustained political commitment that recalculates the stakes of freedom -- Katherine McKittrick * author of Demonic Grounds *A resolute response to the ongoing pessimism . . . Gordon seamlessly weaves together discussions of contemporary and historical Western philosophers such as Gabriel Marcel and Friedrich Nietzsche with his analyses of film, music, culture, and more . . . Sprinkled with personal stories, witty anecdotes, and powerful arguments, the book encourages readers to rethink historical descriptions of anti-black violence as well as the vocabulary used to talk about race and racism today. -- Edward O'Byrn * The Philosophical Quarterly *
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Berghahn Books Existentialism and Contemporary Cinema: A
Book Synopsis At the heart of this volume is the assertion that Sartrean existentialism, most prominent in the 1940s, particularly in France, is still relevant as a way of interpreting the world today. Film, by reflecting philosophical concerns in the actions and choices of characters, continues and extends a tradition in which art exemplifies the understanding of existentialist philosophy. In a scholarly yet accessible style, the contributors exploit the rich interplay between Sartre’s philosophy, plays and novels, and a number of contemporary films including No Country for Old Men, Lost in Translation and The Truman Show, with film-makers including the Dardenne brothers, Michael Haneke, and Mike Leigh. This volume will be of interest to students who are coming to Sartre’s work for the first time and to those who would like to read films within an existentialist perspective.Trade Review “One of the strengths of the volume overall is the breadth of approaches to and applications of Sartrean thinking, from the personal and political to the atheistic and artistic. There is also a refreshing selection of films under consideration…their edited collection is very welcome evidence in support of the proposition that thinking about Sartre and film together can produce stimulating and insightful film philosophy.” · Journal of Contemporary European Studies “As someone who teaches both French cinema and existentialism courses, I would expect students of existentialism in particular to be enthusiastic about discussing this intersection of familiar concepts and such recent films. The essays are thoughtful, informed and illuminating. While some of the interpretations of the philosophy, and at times of Sartre’s imaginative texts, may be unorthodox, students and scholars will find much here with which to reflect and engage. Collectively, they certainly demonstrate the richness of an existentialist interrogation of meaning and purposefulness of action in the world, and the extent to which contemporary cinema continues to prove fertile material for philosophical enquiry.” · H-France "All of the essays here are fine pieces in their own right, and the collection certainly succeeds in its aim of showing the relevance of Sartre for the study of contemporary cinema. It whets the appetite for a more systematic consideration of what a Sartrean approach to cinema might be" · Modern & Contemporary France “[This volume] will provide a useful tool, in particular for students seeking to learn about Sartre and existentialism but also for students exploring the application of philosophy to the understanding of cinema.” · Douglas Morrey, University of WarwickTable of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Jean-Pierre Boulé and Enda McCaffrey PART I: THE CALL TO FREEDOM Chapter 1. Peter Weir’s The Truman Show and SartreanFreedom Christopher Falzon Chapter 2. Michael Haneke and the Consequences of Radical Freedom Kevin L. Stoehr Chapter 3. Naked, Bad Faith and Masculinity Mark Stanton Chapter 4. Pursuits of Transcendence in The Man Who Wasn’t There Tom Martin Chapter 5. Lorna’s Silence: Sartre and the Dardenne Brothers Sarah Cooper PART II: FILMS OF SITUATION Chapter 6. Being–Lost in Translation Michelle R. Darnell Chapter 7. If I Should Wake Before I Die: Existentialism as a Political Call to Arms in The Crying Game Tracey Nicholls Chapter 8. Crimes of Passion, Freedom and a Clash of Sartrean Moralities in the Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men Enda McCaffrey Chapter 9. ‘An Act of Confidence in the Freedom of Men’: Jean-Paul Sartre and Ousmane Sembene Patrick Williams Chapter 10. Cédric Klapisch’s The Spanish Apartment and Russian Dolls in Nausea’s Mirror Jean-Pierre Boulé Chapter 11. Baz Luhrmann’s William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet: The Nauseous Art of Adaptation Alistair Rolls Notes on Contributors Index
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Stanford University Press Revelation Comes from Elsewhere
Book SynopsisJean-Luc Marion has long endeavored to broaden our view of truth. In this illuminating new bookhis deepest engagement with theology to dateMarion proposes a rigorous new understanding of human and divine revelation in a deeply phenomenological key.Although today considered the central theme of theology, the concept of Revelation was almost entirely unknown to the first millennium of Christian thought. In a penetrating historical deconstruction, Marion traces the development of this term to the rise of metaphysics from Aquinas through Suárez, Descartes, and Kant; formalized into an epistemological framework, this understanding of Revelation has restricted philosophical and theological thinking ever since. To break free from these limits, Marion takes hints from theologians including Barth and Balthasar while mobilizing the phenomenology of givenness to provide a rigorous new understanding of revelation as a mode of uncovering. His extensive study of the Jewish and Chris
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University of Notre Dame Press The Philosophy of Drama
Book SynopsisThe Philosophy of Drama provides an in-depth and erudite exploration of human existence as a dramatic existence, interpreted in terms of encounter, dialogue, reciprocity, erring, temptation, condemnation, and justification.In this magnum opus, Catholic philosopher Józef Tischner offers a philosophical interpretation of the human experience and articulates a metaphysics of good and evil, arguing that the drama of existence is revealed most clearly through the painful encounter with evil. Long overdue for translation into English, The Philosophy of Drama is one of the most important works of Polish philosophy to date and a major contribution to phenomenology and the philosophy of dialogue.Tischner writes of a drama that is at once personal and social, that is bound both by the stage of the present world and by the flow of time. It supposes human freedom while also recognizing the way in which human beings refuse to take responsibility f
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Pushkin Press The Unhappiness of Being a Single Man: Essential
Book Synopsis'The supreme fabulist of modern man's cosmic predicament' John Updike 'The stories are dreamlike, allegorical, ghoulishly detached, exquisitely comic, numinous, and prophetic' New York Times The essential stories of one of the twentieth century's greatest and most influential writers No one has captured the modern experience, its wild dreams, strange joys, its neuroses and boredom, better than Franz Kafka. His vision, with its absurdity and twisted humour, has lost none of its force or relevance today. This essential collection, translated and selected by Alexander Starritt, casts fresh light on Kafka's genius. Alongside brutal depictions of violence and justice are jokes and deceptively slight, mysterious fables. These unforgettable pieces reflect the brilliance at the core of Franz Kafka, arguably most fully expressed within his short stories. Together they showcase a writer of unmatched imaginative depth, capable of expressing the most profound reality with a wry smile. Part of the Pushkin Press Classics series: timeless storytelling by icons of literature, hand-picked from around the globe Translated by Alexander Starritt Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was born to Jewish parents in Prague and wrote in German. He published only a few story collections and individual stories in literary magazines during his lifetime. The rest of his work was published posthumously. He is now considered one of the most influential authors of the twentieth century.Trade ReviewPraise for The Unhappiness of Being a Single Man:'A welcome distillation of Kafka's short fiction, essential indeed.' - Kirkus Reviews'The Unhappiness of Being a Single Man nicely makes a case that readers should not forget Kafka's sly sense of humor and, of course, his humanity, when considering his impact on culture.' - Noah Cruickshank, Forefront, in Shelf AwarenessPraise for the work of Franz Kafka:'The stories are dreamlike, allegorical, symbolic, parabolic, grotesque, ritualistic, nasty, lucent, extremely personal, ghoulishly detached, exquisitely comic, numinous, and prophetic.' - The New York Times'The greatest German writer of our time. Such poets as Rilke or such novelists as Thomas Mann are dwarfs or plastic saints in comparison with him.' - Vladimir Nabokov'A genius.' - The Guardian '[Kafka] spoke for millions in their new unease; a century after his birth, he seems the last holy writer, and the supreme fabulist of modern man's cosmic predicament.' - John Updike
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Oxford University Press A Phenomenological Approach to Quantum Mechanics
Book SynopsisSteven French suggests a radical new approach to the understanding of quantum physics, derived from Husserl''s phenomenological philosophy. In 1939 two physicists, Fritz London and Edmund Bauer, published an account of measurement in quantum mechanics. Widely cited, their ''little book'' featured centrally in an important debate over the role of consciousness in that process. However, it has been fundamentally misunderstood, both in that debate and beyond. Steven French argues that London, in particular, approached the measurement process from the perspective of Husserlian phenomenology, which he had studied as a student and which he retained an interest in throughout his career. This casts his work with Bauer in an entirely novel light and suggests a radical alternative understanding of quantum mechanics in which consciousness still plays a role but one that is fundamentally different than previously conceived. Most interpretations of the theory approach it on the basis of the so-callTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1: The Measurement Problem (Featuring the Usual Suspects) 2: The Orthodox Solution, Its History and Multiplicity 3: The Debate About Consciousness 4: Physical and Phenomenological Networks 5: The Epoché and the Ego 6: London and Bauer Revisited 7: Completing the Crisis 8: QBism and the Subjective Stance 9: Many Worlds, Many Minds, and (Many) Relations 10: Interpretation or Reconstruction? References Index
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MK - Stanford University Press Out of the World
Book SynopsisIn this essential early work, the preeminent European philosopher Peter Sloterdijk offers a cross-cultural and transdisciplinary meditation on humanity''s tendency to refuse the world.Developing the first seeds of his anthropotechnics, Sloterdijk theorizes consciousness as a medium, tuned and retuned over the course of technological and social history. His subject here is the world-alien (Weltfremdheit) in man that was formerly institutionalized in religions, but is increasingly dealt with in modern times through practices of psychotherapy. Originally written in 1993, this almost clairvoyant work examines how humans seek escape from the world in cross-cultural and historical context, up to the mania and world-escapism of our cybernetic network culture. Chapters delve into artificial habitats and forms of intoxication, from early Christian desert monks to pharmaco-theology through psychedelics. In classic form, Sloterdijk recalibrates and reinvents concepts from the anc
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Rowman & Littlefield Hegel and the Problem of Beginning: Scepticism
Book SynopsisHegel opens the first book of his Science of Logic with the statement of a problem: The beginning of philosophy must be either something mediated or something immediate, and it is easy to show that it can be neither the one nor the other, so either way of beginning runs into a rebuttal. Despite its significant placement, exactly what Hegel means in his expression of this problem, and exactly what his solution to it is, remain unclear.In this book Robert Dunphy provides a detailed, critical engagement with Hegel's problem of beginning, and with the various putative solutions that Hegel might be thought to put forward. The book also provides original interventions into discussions concerning Hegel's wider logical project, the relationship between his Logic and his Phenomenology, and his engagement with the Pyrrhonian skeptical tradition.
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Free Association Books Martin Heidegger's Impact on Psychotherapy (2nd
Book SynopsisMartin Heidegger’s Impact on Psychotherapy is the first comprehensive presentation in English of the background, theory and practice of Daseinsanalysis, the analysis of human existence. It is the work of the co-founding member of a radical re-envisioning of psychoanalysis initiated by the work of the Swiss psychiatrist, Medard Boss (1903-1990). Originally published in 1998, this new edition of Gion Condrau’s (1919-2006) book acquaints new generations of psychotherapists, psychiatrists and psychoanalysts with an alternative to psychodynamic, humanistic and existential forms of the therapy of the word that is currently experience a renaissance of interest, especially in the United States and the UK. The volume presents the basic ideas of Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) that made possible this unique approach to psychotherapy. It is arranged in sections on (1) the foundations of Daseinsanalysis in Heidegger’s thought, (2) understanding psychopathology, (3) daseinsanalytic psychotherapy in practice, (4) working with the dying person, and (5) the preparation of the professional Daseinsanalyst. Several extended cases are presented to illustrate daseinsanalytic practice at work (narcissistic personality disorder and obsessive compulsive personality disorder). Since dreaming and dream life are central to Daseinsanalysis, a number of dreams are analyzed from its perspective. Daseinsanalysis originated as a form of psychoanalysis and retains a number of its features: free association, optional use of the couch, and attention to dreams. It differs from psychoanalysis by abandoning the natural science perspective which understands human experience and behavior in terms of causality. Instead, human existence is seen to be utterly different from every other kind of sentient animal life. Taking a phenomenological perspective, Daseinsanalysis is based on letting the existence of the human being in all his or her uniqueness show itself. In practice, Daseinsanalysis avoids intervening in the life of the person in favor of maximizing the conditions in which existence can come into its own with maximum freedom.
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Karl-Alber-Verlag Bewusstsein Und Welt: Phanomenologie Und
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Rowman & Littlefield International After Heidegger?
Book SynopsisThis unique volume collects more than 30 new essays by prominent scholars on what remains philosophically provocative in Heidegger's thought. His writings continue to invite analysis and application — ut, particularly in the light of his political affiliations, they must also be critiqued. Philosophy today takes place after Heidegger in that his views should not be accepted naively, and there are new issues that he did not address — but also in that we continue to think in the wake of important questions that he raised. The contributors to this volume ask questions such as: - What does it mean to think "after" Heidegger? - What is valuable in his early work on finite existence, and in his early and late phenomenology? - What is the root of his political errors? Are there still elements in his thought that can yield helpful political insights? - Should we emulate his turn toward "releasement"? - Can he help us understand the postmodern condition? Readers will find thought-provoking echoes and points of contention among these engaging and lively essays.Trade ReviewThis extremely rich volume gathers more than thirty brand-new essays by leading scholars to explore the many meanings of “After Heidegger.” Is his philosophy a thing of the past? Is our way of thinking influenced by Heidegger like Francis Bacon’s “Study after Velázquez” is indebted to the Spanish painter? Do we go 'after' Heidegger like spurned lovers or dogged investigators? -- Dieter Thomä, Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Gallen, and editor of the Heidegger HandbuchAfter a careful reading, the most striking traits of this volume are the diversity and the originality of the ways of thinking opened by dealing with Heidegger’s legacy […]. The substantial mix of the topics, which range from Heidegger’s fundamental questions […], concepts and ideas […], critiques […], his accounts on life, phenomenology, hermeneutics, ontology, art, poetry, history, to matters concerning his historical situation […], makes this volume relevant for a wide range of researchers. […] Overall, with its rich and original content, renowned international authors and thematic diversity, “After Heidegger?” has all the ingredients to be a sought-after milestone when one genuinely embarks on the adventure of thinking after Heidegger. * Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and Practical Philosophy, Vol. X, no. 1, June 2018 *Table of ContentsEditors’ Introduction / Part I: Overviews / 1.Heidegger: Enduring Questions, Drew Hyland / 2. On Beyond Heidegger, Gregory Fried / 3. In Heidegger’s Wake, Daniel Dahlstrom / 4. The Critical Appropriation of Heidegger’s Philosophy, Peter Gordon / Part II: After the Black Notebooks / 5. What is Left of Heidegger, Donatella Di Cesare / 6. Thinking-Time: Or, Why Do “We” Ask About the Future of Heidegger’s Thinking? Peter Trawny / 7. Getting Ourselves on the Hook, Julia Ireland / 8. Aftermath, Babette Babich / Part III: Politics and Ethics / 9. Heidegger: Beyond Anti-Semitism and Seinsgeschichte, John McCumber / 10. Ecce Homo/Ecce Cogitatio: On Heidegger’s Politics and Philosophy, Lawrence Hatab / / 11. Thought, Action and History: Rethinking Revolution After Heidegger, Arun Iyer / 12. Ethics After Heidegger, Dennis Schmidt / Part IV: Life and Existence / 13. Becoming Hermeneutical Before Being Philosophical, Robert Schaff / 14. The Strangeness of Life in Heidegger’s Philosophy, Eric Nelson / 15. Alienation and Belongingness, Kevin Aho and Charles Guignon / 16. Being at Issue, Richard Polt / 17. Heidegger’s Schematizations, Lee Braver / 18.Dasein: From Existential Situation to Appropriation in the Event, Theodore Kisiel / Part V: Phenomenology and Ontology / 19. Of Paths and Method: Heidegger as a Phenomenologist, Steven Crowell / 20. But What Comes Before the “After”? Thomas Sheehan / 21. Still, the Unrest of the Question of Being, Katherine Withy / 22. What is the Meaning of the Meaning of Being? Simon Critchley / 23. The Future of Thought: Of a Phenomenology of the Inapparent, François Raffoul / Part VI: Thinking with Late Heidegger/ 24. On the Essence and Concept of Ereignis: From Technē to Technicity, William McNeill / 25. Learning to See Otherwise: The Transformative Appropriation of Vision, David Kleinberg-Levin / 26. On the Meaning and Possibility of Thought, Miguel de Beistegui / 27. Clearing and Space: Thinking with Heidegger and Beyond, Günter Figal / 28. Thinking Embodied Time-Spaces with and Beyond Heidegger, Daniela Vallega-Neu / 29. The Appeal of Things: Ethics and Relation, Andrew Mitchell / 30. Overcoming the Subjectivisms of Our Age, Richard Capobianco / Part VII: Openings to Others /31. Thinking Heidegger’s Postmodern Unthought, Iain Thomson / 32. East-West Dialogue after Heidegger, Bret Davis / 33. This is not a Love Story: Robot Girl and das Rettende after Heidegger, Trish Glazebrook / About the Contributors / Index
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University of Illinois Press Diary of a Philosophy Student
Book SynopsisSimone de Beauvoir, still a teen, began a diary while a philosophy student at the Sorbonne. Written in 1926-27—before Beauvoir met Jean-Paul Sartre—the diaries reveal previously unknown details about her life and times and offer critical insights into her early intellectual interests, philosophy, and literary works. Presented for the first time in translation, this fully annotated first volume of the Diary includes essays from Barbara Klaw and Margaret A. Simons that address its philosophical, historical, and literary significance. It remains an invaluable resource for tracing the development of Beauvoir’s independent thinking and her influence on philosophy, feminism, and the world.Trade Review"Both volumes are strong and important contributions to feminist philosophy, not only in their themes but in significantly addressing these themes with reference to gendered human existence. I recommend them to anyone who is interested in understanding the making of a feminist philosopher, especially to early researchers working on Beauvoir, to undergraduates trying to understand philosophy, as well as to scholars seeking to understand Beauvoir and her philosophical themes." --Hypatia"Klaw's extensive notes are invaluable, not only in providing biographical background for Beauvoir's literary and philosophical references, but also for flatting difficulties in translation." --Choice"A fascinating text! Barbara Klaw's translation is consistently accurate as well as highly readable and the entire volume is essential for understanding how Beauvoir became Beauvoir."--Gerald J. Prince, author of A Grammar of Stories: An Introduction"This is a truly remarkable book, and a significant contribution to Beauvoir scholarship. Barbara Klaw's excellent translation provides unique access to the formative years of one of the twentieth century's great philosophers, authors, and public intellectuals. Beauvoir's portrayals and reflections on her first meetings and conversations with Sartre, on family, love, friendship and everyday life in Paris—as well as her thoughts on the philosophical and literary texts that she studied—are all included in this fascinating book. This is mandatory reading for all striving to obtain an understanding of Beauvoir, her life, and her work."--Tove Pettersen, President of the International Simone de Beauvoir Society"This diary increases our admiration for Beauvoir's heroic determination to make something of herself. A precious document."--Bookforum"This is a groundbreaking and extremely important work for feminists, philosophers, and scholars of autobiography, and a welcome academic corrective to the edited, abridged, and simplified commercial representations of this important and complex twentieth-century French feminist, philosopher, and writer."--Kentucky Philological Review"Barbara Klaw, Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir, Margaret Simons, and Marybeth Timmerman have given the world a remarkable gift. This volume is organized, annotated, and contextualized superbly. How much richer and more profound [Beauvoir's] corpus becomes with the addition of these priceless writings. The publication of her diaries will only further elevate her philosophical and literal legacy."--H-France Review"This indispensable volume offers a panorama of Beauvoir's intellectual preoccupations. The translators and editors are to be applauded for producing such a valuable contribution to Beauvoir studies."--French Studies "An admirable example of careful translating and editing. The diary presents an opportunity for opening an avenue of Beauvorian scholarship in aesthetics."--APA Newsletter “This is a magnificent piece of work. It is an engaging read and lets English readers to whom French is not accessible have first-hand access to some now much-discussed evidence regarding the independence of Beauvoir’s thought. The translation is beautiful, smooth, and true. A real coup!”--Claudia Card, author of The Cambridge Companion to Simone de Beauvoir “This book is an enormously significant event which scholars have been eagerly awaiting for quite some time. Study of Beauvoir’s diaries not only alerts us to fascinating and unknown influences on her intellectual and personal development, but it could also form the basis for an amazing study of how the raw material of adolescent emotion, all its masochism and its narcissism, became transmuted into the readable and beautiful texts from which we can all learn so much.”--Meryl Altman, DePauw University
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Northwestern University Press The Phenomenon of Life Toward a Philosophical
Book SynopsisA classic of phenomenology and existentialism, The Phenomenon of Life sets forth a systematic and comprehensive philosophy. Hans Jonas shows how life-forms present themselves on an ascending scale of perception and freedom of action, a scale reaching its apex in a human being's capacity for thought and morally responsible behaviour.
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St Augustine's Press The Heart – An Analysis of Human and Divine
Book SynopsisThis new edition of The Heart (out of print for nearly 30 years) is the flagship volume in a series of Dietrich von Hildebrand’s works to be published by St. Augustine’s Press in collaboration with the Dietrich von Hildebrand Legacy Project. Founded in 2004, the Legacy Project exists in the first place to translate the many German writings of von Hildebrand into English.While many revere von Hildebrand as a religious author, few realize that he was a philosopher of great stature and importance. Those who knew von Hildebrand as philosopher held him in the highest esteem. Louis Bouyer, for example, once said that “von Hildebrand was the most important Catholic philosopher in Europe between the two world wars.” Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger expressed even greater esteem when he said: “I am personally convinced that, when, at some time in the future, the intellectual history of the Catholic Church in the twentieth century is written, the name of Dietrich von Hildebrand will be most prominent among the figures of our time.”The Heart is an accessible yet important philosophical contribution to the understanding of the human person. In this work von Hildebrand is concerned with rehabilitating the affective life of the human person. He thinks that for too long philosophers have held it in suspicion and thought of it as embedded in the body and hence as being much inferior to intellect and will. In reality, he argues, the heart, the center of affectivity, has many different levels, including an eminently personal level; at this level affectivity is just as important a form of personal life as intellect and will. Von Hildebrand develops the idea that properly personal affectivity, far than tending away from an objective relation to being, is in fact one major way in which we transcend ourselves and give being its due. Von Hildebrand also developed the important idea that the heart “in many respects is more the real self of the person than his intellect or will.”At the same time, the author shows full realism about the possible deformities of affective life; he offers rich analyses of what he calls affective atrophy and affective hypertrophy. The second half of The Heart offers a remarkable analysis of the affectivity of the God-Man.
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Edinburgh University Press Violence Image and Victim in Bataille Agamben and
Book SynopsisA study of violence and the image in the work of Bataille, Agamben and Girard, thinkers who aim to explain the basis of society and culture in the context of power and the sacred.
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The School of Life Press The Meaning of Life
Book SynopsisA thought-provoking and practical guide to one of the greatest questions we will ever face: what is the meaning of life?
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Rowman & Littlefield Buddhist Philosophy and the Embodied Mind
Book SynopsisIn the last 30 years, embodied, embedded, enactive, and extended (4E) accounts of mind and experience have flourished. A more cosmopolitan and pluralistic approach to the philosophy of mind has also emerged, drawing on analytic, phenomenological, pragmatist, and non-Western sources and traditions. This is the first book to fully engages the 4E approach and Buddhist philosophy, drawing on and integrating the intersection of enactivism and Buddhist thought. This book deepens and extends the dialogue between Buddhist philosophy and 4E philosophy of mind and phenomenology. It engages with core issues in the philosophy of mind broadly construed in and through the dialogue between Buddhism and enactivism. Indian philosophers developed and defended philosophically sophisticated and phenomenologically rich accounts of mind, self, cognition, perception, embodiment, and more. As a work of cross-cultural philosophy, the book investigates the nature of mind and experience in dialogue with Indian and Western thinkers. On the basis of this cross-traditional dialogue, the book articulates and defends a dynamic, non-substantialist, and embodied account of experience, subjectivity, and self.
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Rowman & Littlefield International Contexts of Suffering: A Heideggerian Approach to
Book SynopsisEcologies of Suffering draws on the methods of Heidegger's existential and hermeneutic phenomenology to critique the objectifying and reductive assumptions of mainstream psychopathology by contextualizing the lived-experience of mental illness and illuminating its existential and qualitative aspects. Focusing primarily on anxiety and depression, the book explores the limitations of the dominant naturalistic-scientific account and examines the disorders from a first-person perspective to show the extent to which they can disrupt and modify the structures of meaning that constitute our sense of self. The book goes on to introduce how a hermeneutic approach to psychopathology can shed light on the ways our historical situation shapes the way we diagnose and classify mental disorders and provides the discursive context through which suffers interpret and make sense of them. To this end, Ecologies of Suffering highlights the crucial need for clinicians to situate mental illness within the context of the sufferer's life-world in order to properly understand the experience. This is a valuable resource for philosophers, medical humanists, biomedical ethicists, and mental health professionals.Trade ReviewContexts of Suffering is a superb addition to the philosophy of mental health, and specifically the nature of psychiatric problems. Heidegger, for many, is a guiding light in such approaches and Aho provides a masterful overview of how his work, and that of phenomenology and hermeneutics in general, can inform mental health practice and research and relates to the author’s own experiences. -- Matthew Broome, Director of the Institute for Mental Health, University of Birmingham, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction / Part I: Phenomenology and the Limits of Contemporary Psychopathology / 1. Medicalizing Mental Illness / 2. Heidegger and the Structures of Subjectivity / Part II: Structural Breakdowns: Space, Time, and Understanding / 3. Disturbances of Spatiality / 4. Disturbances of Temporality / 5. The Death of Meaning / Part III: Hermeneutic Psychiatry: Situating Mental Illness / 6. What is Hermeneutic Psychiatry? / 7. Situating Social Anxiety / 8. Situating Neurasthenia / 9. Situating Rage / Conclusion / Bibliography / Index
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State University of New York Press The Event of the Good
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Taylor & Francis Loss Grief and Existential Awareness
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Existentialists Survival Guide
Book SynopsisIn The Existentialist's Survival Guide, Gordon Marino, director of the Hong Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf College and boxing correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, recasts the practical takeaways existentialism offers for the twenty-first century.Trade Review“The Existentialist’s Survival Guide is a remarkable book. We can’t think of another writer who so thoroughly understands Kierkegaard and his followers, presents their thought more accessibly than they themselves did, and—crucially— relates them concretely to the dark places in his own life, and ours.” — Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein, authors of Plato and a Platypus Walk Into A Bar, and Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates “When it comes to living, there’s no getting out alive. But books can help us survive...by passing on what is most important about being human before we perish. Marino has produced an honest and moving book of self-help for readers generally disposed to loathe the genre.” — The Wall Street Journal “Marino’s brilliant The Existentialist’s Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age. . . gives existentialism a 21st-century presence more gripping, nuanced, and convincing than in its initial American portrayal 60 years ago. . . The prose is electric, illustrating the point that existentialism is also literary.” — The Los Angeles Review of Books “[Marino] brings his life story together with philosophy in this lively account of how existentialism can enhance life and awaken empathy amid the realities of anxiety, death, and depression. . . His disarming honesty and sense of humor make the book easy to read despite its heavy subject matter.” — The Christian Century
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