Phenomenology and Existentialism Books

Book SynopsisMetals are central to human civilization. Used in everything from technology to human bodily processes, we are constantly discovering new metal deposits in the earth, and refining our knowledge and understanding of these precious commodities.In this book, Pelikan discusses the importance of the classic 'seven metals' for humankind and nature, in the light of spiritual science. He adopts a phenomenological, Goethean approach, as developed by Rudolf Steiner, and considers the metals' various effects, including their therapeutic effects.Table of Contents1. The Metallic Condition on Earth2. Cosmic Aspects of the Metallic Nature3. Lead4. Tin5. Iron6. Gold7. Copper8. Quicksilver9. Silver10. Zinc11. Aluminum12. Nickel and Cobalt—Siblings of Iron13. Antimony14. The Nature of Sulphur

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Book SynopsisPart of the PCCS Books bestselling Primers in Counselling series, The Existential Counselling Primer is a concise summary of the philosophical origins of existentialist therapy, existentialist understandings of what it is to be human, and how both inform the theory and practice of existential counselling. It ends with a case study to demonstrate what the approach might look like in practice and includes a helpful glossary of key terms and terminology. The PCCS Books primers offer students concise, accessible descriptions of the key counselling approaches in widespread use today. The series is ideal for students needing texts that provide a bridge between introductory, intermediate and diploma courses or easily digested summaries of the different approaches for comparative essays and integrative theory assignments. The books are perfect supplements to the Steps in Counselling series to accompany students as they progress through training. They are also a helpful for qualified counsellors considering expanding their repertoire of skills. In this revised second edition, Mick Cooper has updated the references to incorporate important additions to the literature and added to some sections to reflect developments in thinking and practice.Trade Review'A very clear introduction to existential counselling by one of Britain's leading counselling academics. It will whet your appetite and leave you wanting more, which is exactly the point of a primer. Mick Cooper writes clearly, sensitively and engagingly. A gem of a book!' Windy Dryden, Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapeutic Studies, Goldsmith's, University of London.Table of ContentsIntroduction, 1. The origins of existential therapy, 2. Key existential therapies, 3. Human being: an existential understanding, 4. Chronic psychological distress, 5. The therapeutic process, 6. Therapeutic methods, 7. The process of change, 8. Issues and applications, 9. Research, 10. Client study: a personal existential practice, Resources for learning, Glossary.

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Book SynopsisIn June 2016, the UK voted to leave the European Union. The decision plunged the five million EU residents in the UK into a toxic abyss of fear, anger, shock and shame. Suddenly they were ‘citizens of nowhere’ in a country they regarded as home and faced having to move back to their country of origin and start life again, often without their British partners and children. In 2019, a virus born in a little-known Chinese city over-ran the entire world, causing many millions of deaths and bringing national economies and people’s usual ways of life to a standstill. So much of what we took for granted crumbled to ashes as countries locked down and families mourned their dead. In this book, leading existential theorist and practitioner Emmy van Deurzen explores how we handle such existential crises, and how and what we can learn from them to better prepare ourselves psychologically for the future. Inevitably, we will face many more such calamities due to climate breakdown and the consequent international instability, she warns. One of those five million EU citizens, Emmy had to fight for her right to stay. Here she draws on her personal experiences of such crises, the accounts of others and on her extensive clinical, theoretical and research knowledge to argue that such events need not spell the end of life as we know it. Rather, they can open the door to different, richer and more thoughtful, relational ways of being in the world.Trade Review‘With a rare blend of audacity and authenticity, van Deurzen acknowledges the genuine anguish that arises when lives fall apart, whether through extreme personal adversity, system-shattering socio-political events or an ineluctable and impersonal global pandemic. Her book comes as a wake-up call amid the rumble of the mundane to reclaim our lives…’ – Professor Robert A. Neimeyer, Director of the Portland Institute for Loss and Transition; ‘A major contribution to thinking and writing about the impact of political phenomena on the bodies, minds and souls of individuals.’ – Professor Andrew Samuels; ‘The stories contain a universal message of hope, resilience and overcoming in the face of adversity. Whatever happens to you, it’s what you do next that matters.’ – Roger Casale, Secretary General of New Europeans.Table of ContentsPreface, Introduction – What is existential crisis? 1. Experiencing existential crisis, 2. Brexit: shattered lives and identitie, 3. Joan’s breakdown, 4. Lucie’s despair, 5. Making sense of life and loss, 6. Existential explorations, 7. When crisis destroys meaning, 8. Surviving a global pandemic, 9. Living with existential courage, Conclusions

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Book SynopsisIs life worth living? If human existence holds no significance, what can keep us from suicide? In this book, the author argues if there is no God to give meaning to our lives, humans must take on that purpose themselves. It also argues for an acceptance of reality that encompasses revolt, passion and, above all, liberty.

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Book SynopsisCultural theorist Sara Ahmed demonstrates how queer studies can put phenomenology to productive use by analyzing what it means for bodies to be "oriented" in space and time.Trade Review“[G]round shaking. The book is disorienting in a good way. It invites the reader to be shaken, disoriented, to question our selves and our position and it evokes the power and necessity ofdisorientation as a source of movement and challenge. Ahmed doesn’t seem to insist that we deny the positions we currently occupy, or to move on, but to reorient ourselves. Like earthly tremors, queer phenomenology facilitates the formation of lines and fissures along the spaces of our existence, as events that open up new connections, rather than points in lines that bind us to existing structures and spaces in which living obliquely is made uncomfortable, if not impossible.” - Margaret Mayhew, Cultural Studies Review“Ahmed’s most valuable contribution in Queer Phenomenology is her reorienting of the language of queer theory. The phenomenological understanding of orientation and its attendant geometric metaphors usefully reframes queer discourse, showing disorientation as a moment not of desperation but of radical possibility, of getting it twisted in a productive and revolutionary way.” - Zachary Lamm, GLQ “In her book, Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others, Sara Ahmed offers a thorough and at times playful analysis of what it means to be oriented—oriented toward objects, ideas, cultures, and sexes. . . . [T]his book is . . . inspiring, stimulating, and a pleasure to read.” - Elizabeth Simon Ruchti, College Literature“Rarely does philosophical writing successfully manage to make its reader embrace the abstraction that comes along with such writing and bridge this abstraction with everyday, lived experience. Sara Ahmed’s Queer Phenomenology astoundingly does both. . . . Queer Phenomenology impressively emerges as a text that is reachable to its readers.” - Yetta Howard, Women’s Studies“The aim of Sara Ahmed’s dense, stimulating and thought-provoking book is to connect sexual orientation with phenomenology in a way that takes the spatiality of sexuality, gender and race seriously, opening up new questions for the cross-disciplinary audience that should read this book. . . . In the acknowledgment, Sara Ahmed notes that her book was a pleasure to write. It is also a pleasure to read. The author’s immense erudition is worn lightly and the book, although dealing with complex ideas is a joy to read as it guides the reader through the argument with great clarity. It will appeal to a wide range of readers—and deservedly so.” - Linda McDowell, Sexualities“Finally, a theorist who takes sexual ‘orientation’ at its word. In this moving meditation on directionality, Sara Ahmed takes phenomenology for a turn through queer theory, postcolonial studies, feminism, critical race theory, geometry, and labor politics. In the world Ahmed encourages us to reinhabit, as bodies come to matter, bodily action materializes space, children inherit proximities rather than attributes, privileged bodies sink into familiarity, and politics is at its best when it involves a measure of disorientation. Follow her ‘lines’ of reasoning and you’ll never again reach for an explanation, a book, or a lover without wondering how your grasp extended so far in the first place.”—Kath Weston, author of Gender in Real Time: Power and Transience in a Visual Age“In this dazzling new book, Sara Ahmed has begun a much needed dialogue between queer studies and phenomenology. Focusing on the directionality, spatiality, and inclination of desires in time and space, Ahmed explains the straightness of heterosexuality and the digressions made by those queer desires that incline away from the norm, and, in her chapter on racialization, she puts the orient back into orientation. Ahmed’s book has no telos, no moral purpose for queer life, but what it brings to the table instead is an original and inspiring meditation on the necessarily disorienting, disconcerting, and disjointed experience of queerness.”—Judith Halberstam, author of In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives“This is an original and refreshing use of phenomenological theory to address the kinds of questions—about orientations and about how bodies and objects become oriented through their interrelations—that help link it more directly to political and social questions—about gender, sexuality, and race, for example—that have tended to be treated as outside or beyond phenomenological frameworks. This extension and development of phenomenology is a major contribution.”—Elizabeth Grosz, author of The Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution, and the Untimely“In the context of recent literary and critical theories that have often favored impatience over patience, a hermeneutics of suspicion over a sense of wonder, extremity over everydayness, one of Ahmed’s singular achievements is to reorient our affective stances and intellectual idioms toward a less punitive engagement with the ordinary.” -- Rita Felski * Contemporary Women's Writing *“[G]round shaking. The book is disorienting in a good way. It invites the reader to be shaken, disoriented, to question our selves and our position and it evokes the power and necessity of disorientation as a source of movement and challenge. Ahmed doesn’t seem to insist that we deny the positions we currently occupy, or to move on, but to reorient ourselves. Like earthly tremors, queer phenomenology facilitates the formation of lines and fissures along the spaces of our existence, as events that open up new connections, rather than points in lines that bind us to existing structures and spaces in which living obliquely is made uncomfortable, if not impossible.” -- Margaret Mayhew * Cultural Studies Review *“Ahmed’s most valuable contribution in Queer Phenomenology is her reorienting of the language of queer theory. The phenomenological understanding of orientation and its attendant geometric metaphors usefully reframes queer discourse, showing disorientation as a moment not of desperation but of radical possibility, of getting it twisted in a productive and revolutionary way.” -- Zachary Lamm * GLQ *“In her book, Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others, Sara Ahmed offers a thorough and at times playful analysis of what it means to be oriented—oriented toward objects, ideas, cultures, and sexes. . . . This book is . . . inspiring, stimulating, and a pleasure to read.” -- Elizabeth Simon Ruchti * College Literature *“Rarely does philosophical writing successfully manage to make its reader embrace the abstraction that comes along with such writing and bridge this abstraction with everyday, lived experience. Sara Ahmed’s Queer Phenomenology astoundingly does both. . . . Queer Phenomenology impressively emerges as a text that is reachable to its readers.” -- Yetta Howard * Women's Studies *“The aim of Sara Ahmed’s dense, stimulating and thought-provoking book is to connect sexual orientation with phenomenology in a way that takes the spatiality of sexuality, gender and race seriously, opening up new questions for the cross-disciplinary audience that should read this book. . . . In the acknowledgment, Sara Ahmed notes that her book was a pleasure to write. It is also a pleasure to read. The author’s immense erudition is worn lightly and the book, although dealing with complex ideas is a joy to read as it guides the reader through the argument with great clarity. It will appeal to a wide range of readers—and deservedly so.” -- Linda McDowell * Sexualities *Table of ContentsAcknowlegments ix Introduction: Find Your Way 1 1. Orientations Toward Objects 25 2. Sexual Orientation 65 3. The Orient and Other Others 109 Conclusion: Disorientation and Queer Objects 157 Notes 181 References 203 Index 227

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Book SynopsisPlants in Place is a collaborative study of vegetal phenomenology at the intersection of Edward S. Casey’s phenomenology of place and Michael Marder’s plant-thinking.Trade ReviewBrilliant and astounding. Casey and Marder revolutionize our notion of place through a meditation on the being of plants. Place becomes a dynamic symbiosis with vegetal life such that it cannot be measured, quantified, or mastered. Nothing short of a paradigm shift in the way we think about both plants and place. -- Kelly Oliver, author of Earth and World: Philosophy After the Apollo MissionsThis singular work is not only timely but also vitally important in this age of planetary environmental crisis and existential estrangement from the Earth itself. The product of a unique collaboration between two prominent philosophers, Casey and Marder's Plants in Place enables us to reimagine our natural interconnectedness, spurring us on to be more actively engaged with not only the preservation of plant-beings and the myriad other entities that depend on them for their very life, but also with the immense pleasure that attends our interaction with the vegetal world. -- Brian Schroeder, Rochester Institute of TechnologyIn this extraordinary book, two of our most respected and inspiring contemporary philosophers invite us to new paths of thought regarding the mystery of places. In their phytophenomenology, they disclose how places are plants, multidirectional flourishing, upward and downward branching, spreading in the open air and in the night of the underground. Traditional distinctions between mobility and immobility, place and time, measure and the measureless lose their evidence. From the viewpoint of the placiality of plants, of the mysterious ways a plant shows the taking place of places, this book shakes dominant presuppositions about what it means to be in places and to be a place. Discovering how places are plants and planted rather than occupied and planned, how they are emergences and not only constructions, this book asks humans to learn to be with plant places and to find new modes of coexistence: an urgent task. -- Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback, Södertörn University, SwedenPlants in Place is a philosophically exciting book that provokes and inspires. Casey and Marder explore the relation between plants and place, and the interconnection of plants with places, in the process articulating an innovative philosophical vision that offers a new way of seeing and thinking about the world. -- Jeff Malpas, author of In the Brightness of Place: Topological Thinking In and After HeideggerTable of ContentsPreface: Walking Among PlantsAcknowledgments1. The Placial Basis of Plant Sessility and Mobility2. Peripheral Power: Structural Dynamics at the Edges of PlantsInterlude I. How Plants Think3. Taking Trees Over the EdgeInterlude II. Plants Up-Close: The Case of Moss4. The Shared Sociality of Trees, with Implications for PlaceInterlude III. Plants from Afar: As Seen in Landscape Painting5. Attachment and Detachment in the Place of PlantsConclusion: The Fate of Places, the Fate of PlantsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisGebser’s central thesis was that a potent “leap” in thinking was happening in the 20th century. This new mode of thought would be a holistic-centered, or integral one; an answer to the type of thinking responsible for economic and industrial crisis, two World Wars, and what many today consider a dire, global ecological crisis.Trade Review“Gebser’s noetic analysis, of Teilhardian scope, is only partially equaled by such works as Erich Neumann’s The Origins and History of Consciousness or Gaston Bachelard’s The Philosophy of No. A profound and sagaciously polemic work, remarkably relevant to discussions of holism and postmodern consciousness.” * Library Journal *“Jean Gebser’s magnum opus is at long last available in a fine English rendering … I expect no less an interest in the English translation, and hope that Gebser’s work will now begin to receive the worldwide recognition it deserves.” * Emergent Paradigm Bulletin *“(The book) impressed me as a very important, indeed in some respects pioneering, piece of work. It treads new paths, opens new vistas, and in so doing it is vastly, solidly, and subtly documented by a wealth of anthropological, mythological, linguistic, artistic, philosophical, and scientific material which is fruitfully brought into play and shown in its multifold and striking interrelationships. The book is brilliantly written and introduces many valuable new terms and distinctions. (It shows) that scholarly precision and faithfulness to given data are fully compatible with a broad, imaginative, and spiritual outlook; and (it exposes) the utter sterility of the prevailing positivistic, mechanistic, and wrongfully scientistic methods.”“The gigantic attempt of one of the most creative and stimulating thinkers of modern Europe to integrate the most advanced knowledge of our time with the spiritual sources of the past.”

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Book SynopsisJonathan Sterne offers a sweeping cultural study and theorization of impairment, in which experience is understood from the standpoint of a subject that is not fully able to account for itself.Trade Review“In this intimate critical phenomenology, Jonathan Sterne shows us that the agential subject of disability studies is interpretive, nonstandard, somewhat unreliable, and nevertheless political. Diminished Faculties is at once an account of the lived experience of impairment and an inventory of what it can engender. Crip humor, technological hacks, imaginary archives, and material metaphors form the myriad registers of Sterne's authorial voice.” -- Aimi Hamraie, author of * Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability *“Offering a compelling account of the phenomenology of impairment, this fascinating, brilliant, and witty book will take disability studies in at least three new directions.” -- Michael Bérubé, author of * The Secret Life of Stories: From Don Quixote to Harry Potter, How Understanding Intellectual Disability Transforms the Way We Read *“With its capacious, unpressured mode of being, theorizing, and storytelling, this profound book teaches us how to think and how to be.” -- Kathleen Stewart, coauthor of * The Hundreds *"Diminished Faculties is a lyric, genre-bending book, that is forcefully argued, rendered beautifully, and will open the path for further research. It is deeply generous both to reader and future scholar, as Sterne’s work always is. But additionally, this is a book that so many have needed, and need now, a way of situating the present emergency in a much longer, political history." -- Hannah Zeavin * boundary 2 *"A new book by Sterne is a seismic event, an idea drop so heavy that it takes time to fully process. Sterne is preternaturally skilled at taking apart prosaic, everyday objects . . . connecting them to history and culture and formulating elegant arguments that make you see and hear the world in new ways. His scholarship is rigorous, but he also maintains a fluid, approachable style that isn’t dry, as much academic prose tends to be. . . . His wide-ranging, cross-disciplinary outlook is not only instructive, but also empowering and inspiring." -- Geeta Dayal * 4Columns *"An intimate and rigorous journey, indispensable for anybody who wants to engage with the issue of disability in media and reflect on its importance for organisations, accessibility and inclusion." -- Domenico Napolitano * punt0org *"So often disabled people are expected to clarify to others what is wrong with them, a pedagogical task that more sophisticated critical explorations of disability can’t quite accomplish. But through his multi-genre approach, Sterne is able to assert and justify his existence while studying the cultural and technological forces that shape it. This is why it’s gratifying to read disability scholarship written by disabled scholars." -- Sophia Stewart * The Baffler *"A triumph from beginning to end. . . . The use of humility and humor, specifically sourced from the collective and individual lived experiences of disabled people (i.e. crip humor), is a major strength of the manuscript. Sterne is also skillful at bringing disability scholars into conversation with one another and engaging readers interactively as interlocutors." -- Meryl Alper * New Media & Society *"A thoughtful analysis of originality and imagination in the midst of so-called diminished faculties. . . . Sterne’s exploration of what constitutes valued labor within the academy is particularly illuminating. Sterne also provides useful resources on impairment theory and extensive notes and references providing an excellent foundation for future research in the subject area." -- Nancy Hansen * H-Disability, H-Net Reviews *"Diminished Faculties offers a new theoretically and methodologically accessible impairment theory as a political phenomenology of bodies and technologies. The book provides a rigorous study of technology, hearing, and voice with respect to impairment. In addition, Sterne engages with his own lived experiences of diminished faculties in speech, voice, hearing, and the feeling of wellness. . . . The book is not only insightful, but also funny and quite quirky." -- Slava Greenberg * Film Quarterly *"Sterne’s exploration of experiences of speech and hearing across theory, autoethnography, art practice, and activism makes Diminished Faculties a rigorous yet personal account of impairment as an inherent part of human embodiment." -- Dorothy R. Santos * Public *Table of Contents1. Degrees of Muteness 1 2. Meet the Dork-o-Phone 41 3. In Search of New Vocalities: An Imaginary Exhibition 69 4. Audile Scarification: On Normal Impairments 117 5. There Are Never Enough Spoons 157 Impairment Theory: A User's Guide 193 Credits 209 Notes 217 Bibliography 249 Index 281

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Book SynopsisPossibility is a concept central to both philosophy and social theory. But in what philosophical soil, if any, does the possibility of a better society grow? At the intersection of metaphysics and social theory, What Would Be Different looks to Theodor W. Adorno to reflect on the relationship between the possible and the actual. In repeated allusions to utopia, redemption, and reconciliation, Adorno appears to reference a future that would break decisively with the social injustices that have characterized history. To this end, and though he never explains it in any detail—let alone in the form of a full-blown theory or metaphysics—he also makes extensive technical use of the concept of possibility. Taking Adorno's critical readings of other thinkers, especially Hegel and Heidegger, as his guiding thread, Iain Macdonald reflects on possibility as it relates to Adorno's own writings and offers answers to the question of how we are to articulate such possibilities without lapsing into a vague and naïve utopianism.Trade Review"This exemplary and highly original piece of philosophical scholarship precisely illuminates a central but hitherto unrecognized concern in Adorno's work—his notion of 'real but blocked possibility'—demonstrating how it operates throughout his writing. I know of no study similar to it."—Henry Pickford, Duke University"Macdonald is not only an authority on Adorno but also a deeply skilled philosopher. What Would Be Different deals with some ferociously difficult and abstract conceptual material while remaining lucid, careful, and thorough. Without question, it figures among the most genuinely pathbreaking recent work on Adorno."—Maxim Pensky, Binghamton University, the State University of New York"What is possible? With this question in mind, Macdonald sets out on a breathtaking intellectual journey. In a series of spectacularly powerful and compelling readings of such key thinkers as Hegel, Marx, Heidegger, Benjamin, Bloch, and Adorno, he throws new and much needed light on the post-Kantian philosophical tradition while offering resources for responding to our contemporary crisis."—Espen Hammer, Temple University"This much-needed book explores how possibility, for Adorno, can be thought beyond mere contingency or empty utopia. To ask 'what would be different' is as concrete as it is radical—and only radical insofar as it is concrete. Macdonald shows that the possible cannot be defined generally and ontologically but only historically and socially: as a world that could well be realized but that is blocked by the ruling powers."—Christoph Menke, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main"What Would Be Different presents readers with the results of years of fruitful effort....[It] takes an important stand in a debate that matters, not just to armchair academics, but to everybody on the planet."—Deborah Cook, Symposium"What Would Be Different provides us with an essential, long neglected, philosophical and biographical examination of Adorno and Heidegger's complicated relationship....[It offers] a valuable contribution to philosophy in that it provides a clear, non-partisan presentation of famously difficult thinkers from disparate traditions. Macdonald's synthesis and framing of these ideas is admirable."—Matthew Eckel, Marx & Philosophy Review of Books Table of Contents1. What Would Be Different 2. Hegel's Fallacy: Possibility and Actuality in Hegel and Adorno 3. Adorno: Nature–History–Possibility 4. Adorno and Heidegger: Possibility Read Backward and Forward 5. Adorno, Benjamin, and What Would Be Different

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Book SynopsisThis volume provides the first English translation of Nietzsche's unpublished notes from the spring of 1884 through the winter of 1884–85, the period in which he was composing the fourth and final part of his favorite work, Thus Spoke Zarathustra. These notebooks therefore provide special insight into Nietzsche's philosophical concept of superior humans,as well as important clues to the identities of the famous nineteenth-century European figures who inspired Nietzsche's invention of fictional characters such as "the prophet," "the sorcerer," and "the ugliest human."In these notebooks, Nietzsche also further explores ideas that were introduced in the first three parts of Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Zarathustra's teaching about the death of God; his proclamation that it is time for humankind to overcome itself and create the superhumans; his discovery that the secret of life is the will to power; and his most profound thought—that the entire cosmos will eternally return. Readers will encounter here a wealth of material that Nietzsche would include in his next book, Beyond Good and Evil, as he engages the ideas of Kant and Schopenhauer, challenges cultural icons like Richard Wagner, and mercilessly exposes the foibles of his contemporaries, especially of his fellow Germans. Readers will also discover an extensive collection of Nietzsche's poetry. Richly annotated and accompanied by a detailed translators' afterword, this volume showcases the cosmopolitanism at work in Nietzsche's multifaceted and critical exploration of aesthetic and cultural influences that transcend national (and nationalist) notions of literature, music, and culture.Trade Review"The Fragments are a terrific read – pithy, cutting, stark, playful, grand. It is like being in the company of the philosopher at his most expansive and garrulous."—Alexander Adams, The Brazen Head

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Book SynopsisCommunicology is Vilém Flusser's first thesis on his concepts of technical images and technical imagination. In this foundational text he lays the groundwork for later work, offering a philosophical approach to communication as a phenomenon that permeates every aspect of human existence. Clearly organized around questions such as "What is Communication?," "What are Codes?," and "What is Technical Imagination?," the work touches on theater, photography, film, television, and more. Originally written in 1978, but only posthumously published in German, the book is one of the clearest statements of Flusser's theory of communication as involving a variably mediated relation between humans and the world. Although Flusser was writing in the 1970s, his work demonstrates a prescience that makes it of significant contemporary interest to scholars in visual culture, art history, media studies, and philosophy.Trade Review"Flusser is a painter of oblique strokes, dismantling familiar perspectives. Never less than entertaining, Communicology refreshes, challenges and blasts open unexpected vistas."—Seán Cubitt, University of Melbourne"If you are in search of Flusser the media theorist, indeed, if you are seeking to understand how information works, Communicology is it. Flusser teases out the kinds of fundamental questions that are at the core of the human experience."—Anke Finger, University of Connecticut"Communicology is a central work for any appraisal of Flusser's thinking, and an innovative and singular introduction to media theory."—Erick Felinto, State University of Rio de Janeiro"Communicology is an important work for the study of media theory in general and, more specifically, Flusser's own communication theory."—Rodrigo Petronio, Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation"New theories in communication are rare. However,Communicology—written in 1978, posthumously published (in German), and now newly translated into English—leads the reader to consider contemporary answers to age-old questions.... Though Flusser builds on philosophers suchas Heidegger, this work is original and seminal. Flusser's work is now more important than ever, given the present rapid and radical changes to communication such as ChatGPT. Highly recommended."—K. L. Majocha, CHOICETable of Contents0. Synopsis 1. What Is Communication? 2. What Are Codes? 3. What is Technical Imagination?

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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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Book SynopsisThe 10th anniversary edition of a witty classic about the philosophy of existentialism. It is also a genuine self-help book offering clear advice on how to live according to the principles of existentialism formulated by Nietzsche, Sartre, Camus, and the other great existentialist philosophers. An attack on contemporary excuse culture, the book urges us to face the hard existential truths of the human condition. By revealing that we are all inescapably free and responsible - ''condemned to be free,'' as Sartre says - the book aims to empower the reader with a sharp sense that we are each the master of our own destiny. Cox makes fun of the reputation existentialism has for being gloomy and pessimistic, exposing it for what it really is - an honest, uplifting, and potentially life changing philosophy!This striking 10th anniversary edition with a substantial new preface includes more pointers on how to be a true existentialist, including how to be an existentialist at aTrade ReviewEvangelises eloquently for a slightly revised version of Sartrean existentialism, nicely explaining much-worried about notions such as “authenticity” and “bad faith”. Thus armed, one may face down absurdity and the inevitability of death in all those locations that irresistibly evoke them. * The Guardian *An instructive, witty and entertaining guide to existentialism * Good Book Guide *Think of it as a serious self-help book for the perplexed ... an absorbing book ... I found it a stimulating read, which forced me to re-think some of my current perceptions. * LeaderValues www.leader-values.com *According to existentialists, selecting this book is an active choice for which the reader is responsible. Cox, who earned his doctorate in philosophy in the UK writing on Sartre, presents an accessible overview of this philosophical worldview, its path to living an authentic life, and existential counseling (which sounds akin to cognitive behavioral therapy) as a means to this end. The book includes suggested further reading. * Eithne, O'Leyne, BOOK NEWS, Inc. *This is a good introduction for anyone interested in studying the philosophy of existentialism, and as a "handbook", it highlights the importance of personal freedoms, responsibility and the importance of making, and accepting, clear choices, whether they turn out to be right or wrong. -- The House PartnershipI have recommended How to be an Existentialist to many people and all have gained a clearer understanding of Sartre than they had before... Cox has achieved something extremely impressive here. He has written something short and simple while not losing any of the depth and subtlety. -- Existential Analysis... Cox does a good job of explaining... abstruse ideas in language accessible to non-philosophers... [he] has produced a fine book that can be highly recommended. http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/news/content/view/full/113984 -- Morning Star

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Book SynopsisThis volume provides the first English translation of Nietzsche's unpublished notes from late 1879 to early 1881, the period in which he authored Dawn, the second book in the trilogy that began with Human, All Too Human and concluded with The Joyful Science. In these fragments, we see Nietzsche developing the conceptual triad of morals, customs, and ethics, which undergirds his critique of morality as the reification into law or dogma of conceptions of good and evil. Here, Nietzsche assesses Christianity's role in the determination of moral values as the highest values and of redemption as the representation of humanity's highest aspirations. These notes show the resulting tension between Nietzsche's contrasting thoughts on modernity, which he critiques as an unrecognized aftereffect of the Christian worldview, but also views as the springboard to "the dawn" of a transformed humanity and culture. The fragments further allow readers insight into Nietzsche's continuous internal debate with exemplary figures in his own life and culture—Napoleon, Schopenhauer, and Wagner—who represented challenges to hitherto existing morals and culture—challenges that remained exemplary for Nietzsche precisely in their failure. Presented in Nietzsche's aphoristic style, Dawn is a book that must be read between the lines, and these fragments are an essential aid to students and scholars seeking to probe this work and its partners. Table of ContentsNotebook 1 = N V 1. Beginning of 1880 Notebook 2 = N V 2. Spring 1880 Notebook 3 = M II 1. Spring 1880 Notebook 4 = N V 3. Summer 1880 Notebook 5 = Mp XV 1a. Summer 1880 Notebook 6 = N V 4. Autumn 1880 Notebook 7 = N V 6. End of 1880 Notebook 8 = N V 5. Winter 1880–1881 Notebook 9 = M II 2. Winter 1880–1881 Notebook 10 = Mp XV 1b. Spring 1880–Spring Notes Translator's Afterword Index of Persons Subject Index

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Book SynopsisPhenomenology has the strongest claim to the mantle of continental philosophy. Edward Baring shows that credit for its prodigious growth goes to a surprising group of early enthusiasts: Catholic intellectuals. Tracing debates in Europe from existentialism to speculative realism, he shows why European philosophy bears the mark of Catholicism.Trade ReviewBaring has achieved something very significant…Not just a story of ideas…but a story of how ideas spread across the boundaries between national communities or between secular and Catholic thought. -- Sarah Shortall * Commonweal *An important book that should appear on the shelves of every serious scholar committed to the study of either of its chosen fields. -- Jeffrey Bloechl * Theological Studies *Brilliantly conceived…By showing how Catholicism nourished the roots of modern European philosophy, Baring sheds invaluable light on ongoing discussions of the persistence of Christianity in a not-so-secular age. -- Brandon Bloch * Church History *A story of thought as an inter-personal, inter-institutional happening, where events of thinking take place between works, between thinkers…Baring tells continental philosophy’s church history. -- Elad Lapidot * Phenomenological Reviews *An impressive work that combines a broad scope and fluent, accessible style with the kind of deep detail usually confined to specialist studies. -- Clare Carlisle * Times Literary Supplement *Socrates modestly described himself as a midwife, helping others to give birth to a wisdom that was their own. The analogy springs to mind when reading this fascinating, well-researched and imaginative book by Edward Baring. His aim is to show something both striking and unexpected: that Catholicism is ‘the single most important explanation’ for the international success of phenomenology. -- Maximilian de Gaynesford * The Tablet *[A] very rich book…It is both profound and sweeping in its scope; it is almost a history of twentieth-century philosophy. -- Jude P. Dougherty * Review of Metaphysics *Baring’s history of phenomenology is itself phenomenological in its attention to hundreds of dramas of belief, the outcomes of which—contextualized but not determined by the Catholic Church—helped imprint the continental philosophy of the twentieth century with the strangeness of their unforeseen patterns…[A] rich, deeply researched book. -- Martyn Wendell Jones * Hedgehog Review *An exemplary model of the scholarship that is so needed in continental philosophy of religion: historically and philosophically learned, attuned as much to archives as to arguments. It is accessible without being simplistic, driven by narrative without sacrificing detail. -- Vincent Lloyd * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *A scholarly achievement of the highest order…a profoundly original and painstakingly detailed history of the shared conceptual spaces of phenomenology and Catholic thought…Successfully lay[s] out a genealogy of continental philosophy that spans (and indeed, calls into question) the separation of sacred and secular…As much a normative attempt to resolve a host of philosophical and theological disputes as it is a work of transnational intellectual history…Converts to the Real is a work of great erudition. -- Piotr H. Kosicki * Journal of Modern History *Well-written and direct, Converts to the Real is bold and well worth reading by all interested in philosophy or Catholicism. -- Graham McAleer * Law & Liberty *Excellent and exhaustively researched…A major contribution to the history of European philosophy in the 20th century, and of phenomenology more particularly. * Choice *Through archival research and an analysis of philosophical affinities, Baring traces the influence of neo-scholasticism on continental philosophy…A detailed study of the tight but often awkward relationship between Catholicism and continental philosophy in the first half of the twentieth-century and its philosophical and political implications. * Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal *Converts to the Real tells an intriguing, valuable, and timely story about the religious leanings of European phenomenology, especially with respect to its associations with Neo-Scholasticism and the Catholic Church. Baring has done impressive archival research to create a narrative with considerable detail. An excellent book. -- Kevin Hart, University of VirginiaThe virtues of Edward Baring’s superb book are many. Converts to the Real demonstrates the importance of phenomenology—typically viewed as a philosopher’s philosophy—not only for twentieth-century European intellectual life but for key social and political trends as well. Its great achievement is to merge two contemporary histories by showing how transformations in modern Catholic thought turned phenomenology into the continental philosophy. -- Michael Gubser, author of The Far Reaches: Phenomenology, Ethics, and Social Renewal in Central Europe

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Book SynopsisPhilosopher, novelist, playwright and polemicist, Jean-Paul Sartre is thought to have been the central figure in post-war European culture and political thinking. His most well-known works, all of which are published by Penguin, include THE AGE OF REASON, NAUSEA and IRON IN THE SOUL.

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Book SynopsisThese three plays, diverse in subject but thematically coherent, illuminate one of Sartre''s major philosophical concerns: the struggle to live and act freely in a complex and constricting world. Lucifer and the Lord, Sartre''s favourite among his plays, explores this theme in depth, dealing in the process with fundamental questions of faith and disillusionment; in Huis Clos - arguably Sartre''s most important play - he contends that ''Hell is other people'', and details the afterlife of three souls trapped together in locked room and the torments that they inflict on each other; while The Respectable Prostitute, set in the Deep South of America, is concerned with racism, subjugation and the demands of conscience.

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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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Book SynopsisTrade Review"An admirable project." * Publishers Weekly *“Following in the vein of Karl Schlechta, de Launay turns to Nietzsche’s texts to dispel many of the misunderstandings of his ideas and thoughts. Centering the role of the Nietzsche Archive, de Launay historically contextualizes notorious efforts to associate Nietzsche’s works and words with Nazism and philologically traces Nietzsche’s enigmatic but decidedly non-nationalistic notion of race. In the end, de Launay rightly shifts the focus away from Nietzsche’s allusions to human heredity and toward his exaltation of the universal and indiscriminate possibility of human genius.” -- A. Todd Franklin, Hamilton College“De Launay’s elegantly written book is an extremely valuable introduction to Nietzsche’s much misunderstood concept of ‘race.’ The book successfully debunks the idea that Nietzsche advanced a racist use of the term and instead foregrounds the complex historicity of the concept itself. A precise and thoughtful reader of the original texts, de Launay offers a philosophical interpretation that convincingly shows that Nietzsche’s use of the term ‘race’ should not be understood along biologistic lines.” -- Christian Emden, Rice UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Nietzsche under Nazism The Nietzsche Archives and the ReichThe Will to Power: An Editorial Fiction The “Will to Power”: A Concept The Overman Darwinism? Eternal Return Peoples and Nations “The Purest Race in Europe . . .” The Concept of “Race”In Fine Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisPragmatic Perspectives in Phenomenology offers a complex analysis of the pragmatic theses that are present in the works of leading phenomenological authors, including not only Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, as it is often the case within Hubert Dreyfusâ tradition, but also Husserl, Levinas, Scheler, and Patocka. Starting from a critical reassessment of existing pragmatic readings which draw especially on Heideggerâs account of Being-in-the-world, the volumeâs chapters explore the following themes as possible justifications for speaking about the pragmatic turn in phenomenology: the primacy of the practical over theoretical understanding, criticism of the representationalist account of perception and consciousness, and the analysis of language and truth within the context of social and cultural practices. Having thus analyzed the pragmatic readings of key phenomenological concepts, the book situates these readings in a larger historical and thematic context and introduces themes that until now have been overlooked in debates, including freedom, alterity, transcendence, normativity, distance, and self-knowledge. This volume seeks to refresh the debate about the phenomenological legacy and its relevance for contemporary thought by enlarging the thematic scope of pragmatic motives in phenomenology in new and revealing ways. It will be of interest to advanced students and scholars of phenomenology who are interested in moving beyond the analytic-continental divide to explore the relationship between practice and theory.Trade Review"There are some excellent papers here that not only articulate the pragmatic turn in the history of phenomenology, but offer much-needed insight into the problems associated with long-standing pragmatic interpretations of the works of Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Husserl." – Phenomenological Reviews"The debate over the pragmatic turn in phenomenology is of the utmost significance since it will determine the future of the movement, and in this volume prominent philosophers examine the key positions and arguments that have been developing over at least a decade." – Michael D. Barber, St. Louis University, USATable of ContentsIntroduction: Localizing the Pragmatic Turn in Phenomenology Ondřej Švec and Jakub Čapek Part I: Contemporary Pragmatic Readings of Phenomenology1. On Layer Cakes: Heidegger’s Normative Pragmatism RevisitedMark Okrent2. Heidegger’s Pragmatist ReadersThomas Nenon3. Primordiality and the Pragmata. A Critical Assessment of Rorty’s Challenge to Heideggerian NostalgiaAndreas Beinsteiner4. Two Forms of Practical Knowledge in Being and TimeTucker McKinney5. Discursive Intentionality as Embodied Coping. A Pragmatist Critique of Existential PhenomenologyCarl B. SachsPart II: Pragmatic Readings Challenged by the History of the Phenomenology6. The Limits of Dreyfus’ View of Husserl: Intentionality, Openness, and praxisWitold Płotka7. On Dreyfus’ Naturalization of Phenomenological Pragmatism: Misleading Dichotomies, and the Counter-Concept of IntentionalitySophie Loidolt8. Perceptual Faith beyond Practical Involvement: Merleau-Ponty and His Pragmatist ReadersJakub Čapek9. Max Scheler and PragmatismZachary Davis10. From Circumspection to InsightEddo EvinkPart III: Opening up Perspectives11. Freedom and The Theoretical AttitudeJames Mensch12. The Primacy of Practice and the Pervasiveness of DiscourseOndřej Švec13. Making Sense of Human Existence (Heidegger on the Limits of Practical Familiarity)Mark Wrathall14. Exemplary Necessity: Heidegger, Pragmatism, and ReasonSteven Crowell

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Book SynopsisThe first of its kind, this book applies existential principles to sexual problems, providing clinicians with the tools to understand male sexuality more deeply.Alighting from the existential psychotherapy tenets of Irvin D. Yalom, Watter introduces the notion that the penis is a conduit for male emotion, and hence regulates their ability to form and experience intimate relationships. Subsequent chapters explore an existential view of male sexual dysfunction, non-sexual trauma, hypersexuality, changing bodies through illness, age, and injury, and examines badly behaved men to understand the meaning of certain behaviors. This book will be an invaluable resource for sex therapists, marriage and family therapists, psychologists, and social workers in practice and in training, assisting them to develop the therapeutic skills that will improve their understanding of men's psychological experience.Trade ReviewThe Existential Importance of the Penis is a ground-breaking book by the well-respected sex therapist Dan Watter. Traditionally, male sexuality has been simplified--either placed on a pedestal or demonized. Dr. Watter describes existential sex therapy as a way to understand male sex dysfunction. His detailed, complex case descriptions are of great value. This approach emphasizes the role of anxiety and trauma as well as the importance of careful emotional and sexual assessment. He explores the man’s inability to integrate sexuality into his life and relationship. Watter’s book is a crucial resource for clinicians.Barry McCarthy, professor emeritus of psychology and author of Contemporary Male SexualityOstensibly this is a book about men, their penises, and the stories, meanings and histories that underlie common sexual problems such as erectile unpredictability. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Dan demonstrates beautifully that the penis is most alive in its moments of fallibility, for it is then that the traumas we exiled to our unconscious depths are demanding to be heard and reckoned with. In treating symptoms (sexual or otherwise) we are missing the existential big picture and Dan’s book is not just a tonic to the dessicated solutions-oriented ethos we have all internalized, it is a manifesto and rallying cry to live authentically, work deeply and create meaning. It goes without saying that Dan is a master-therapist. But as this book shows us he is also a gifted reader, writer, poet, philosopher and historian. When the penis speaks, we need to listen. And when Dan writes, we need to read. Ian Kerner, sex therapist and NY Times best-selling author of She Comes FirstWritten in a lively, conversational, empathic, and often witty style, mercifully free from psychobabble, The Existential Importance of the Penis is intended mainly for clinicians and male patients, but it will also be of interest to many others, including aging men who experience a "quiet" penis. Female readers and non-patients will also profit from reading the book. Dr. Watter offers us an intriguing guide to "penis speak." One feels pleasure from reading the book, never Schadenfreude. If the penis could read, it would surely learn much from this wise and compassionate study. Jeffrey Berman, distinguished teaching professor, Department of English, University of Albany, author of Writing the Talking Cure: Irvin D. Yalom and the Literature of PsychotherapyDan Watter has been a leader in the sex therapy field for years. In this long-awaited book, he deftly applies his expertise in existential psychotherapy to tackle sexual issues, especially those of men. Not only is Watter a world class therapist he is a master educator and storyteller, who uses these gifts to support his theory and interventions. He specifically shares with his readers the power of the penis in the mind of man as he struggles to be an authentic human. You will laugh and cry, but it is all worth the ride. Stephen J. Betchen, co-author, Master Conflict Therapy: A New Model for Practicing Couples and Sex therapyThe Existential Importance of the Penis is a profound and deeply moving study of the existential turmoil underlying the confusing, hurtful, and self-defeating sexual behavior of men. Daniel Watter is an extraordinarily gifted psychotherapist who translates the language of the penis into remarkable insights that forever change the way his patients relate to their own sexuality. Weaving together patient stories with literature and philosophy, this compelling and compassionate book challenges us to look beyond moral judgments and little blue pills to find meaning and to restore joy in the sexual lives of our patients. May we never look back.Kathryn Hall, editor, Principles and Practice of Sex Therapy, 6th edition, former president, Society for Sex Therapy and Research, book review editor, Journal of Sex and Marital TherapyDaniel Watter’s The Existential Importance of the Penis is a penetrating examination of the relationship of men’s identity to their sexuality, to their bodily integrity and to their sense of themselves. The book captures the paradox of how a small part of the body, hidden from daily view, is nevertheless central -- how a man’s relationship to his phallus, which seems to be about that single body part, in fact acts as a hologram for his relationship to himself, to those he loves, and to the wider world. For an absolutely new perspective on links between body, mind and the journey of the self through intimate realms, read this book! David E. Scharff, co-founder and former director, The International Psychotherapy Institute; 2021 Winner of the Sigourney Award for the promulgation of psychoanalysis; and author of The Sexual Relationship and Marriage and Family in Modern ChinaThought-provoking and insightful, this volume is an important contribution to our understanding of male sexuality. Watter's illuminating perspective breaks the binary split between the sexual and the existential and dives into the tension and the connection between mind and body, life and death, early loss and sexual behaviors. Watter listens to the ways the internal world voices itself through the sexual body, bringing unconscious material into the surface and with it a new possibility for a fulfilling life. Galit Atlas, faculty, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, author of Emotional inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients and the Legacy of Trauma The Existential Importance Of The Penis by Dr. Daniel Watter is both prescient and trendsetting as it artfully incorporates key wisdom from Existential Psychology and the Human Potential Movement with the practice of modern Sex Therapy. The meaning of both the sexual disorder and its resolution are often, as, if not more important than accomplishing the initial requested behavioral change first sought by the patient. Watter effectively challenges the reader to engage that dialectic in a well-written and accessible manner, that simultaneously explore’s the human condition. It is a pleasure to be able to highly recommend this book for every sex therapist’s library. Michael A. Perelman, co-director, Human Sexuality Program, clinical professor emeritus of Psychology in Psychiatry, former clinical professor of Reproductive Medicine & Urology, Weill Cornell Medicine | NewYork-PresbyterianIn this gem of a book, Dr Watter starts with the idea that a man’s penis is actually his primary conduit for emotion—then shows how conventional sex therapy for men can be transformed into something far deeper. Performance anxiety? Secondary at best. Instead, look for erections to fail following a "relationship-deepening event." Out-of-control sexual behavior? Look for early relational trauma, and don’t be shocked to find death anxiety in the mix. Many male sexual problems are ultimately about vulnerability, loss, and buried yearning—and Watter is a sure-footed guide to this still mostly untraveled territory. Stephen Snyder, author of Love Worth MakingThis book couldn’t be more welcome or timely. To judge from public discourse, we only ever hear about male sexuality when it results in harm. Here is a book that goes well beyond the bounds of the recent foci of research and practice and explores the experience of being a man far more holistically. Importantly, while only a handful of books have ever explored the effects of early sexual abuse on men, this may well be the first book to explore deeply how non-sexual trauma can shape male sexuality. While this book will cater primarily to those working directly with male sexuality, it should have a place in the library of anyone interested in what it means to be a man. David S. Prescott, co-author of Trauma-Informed Care: Transforming Treatment for People Who Have Sexually AbusedOne might well ask oneself, do we really need another book written about the penis? After all, if one does a Google search, literally millions of treatises pertaining to this organ are at one’s fingertips. However, I think that the reader will find Dan Watter’s approach to this topic a surprisingly fresh addition to this repository of literature. No doubt, some readers and scholars may disagree or find his approach somewhat surprising. Never one to shy away from expressing himself in his own way, using his extensive knowledge and clinical experience to shape the readers thinking, Dan has put together a remarkable opus. I found this work fascinating, forcing me to rethink the concept of phallocentricity. As a sexual medicine physician and researcher in this area, this book is a very welcome addition to my book collection, forcing even me to rethink contemporary paradigms in this field. I have little doubt that the reader will come away both entertained and challenged.John P. Mulhall, professor of Urology, director of Sexual & Reproductive medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; editor-in-chief, The Journal of Sexual MedicineThis is an outstanding book in which Dr. Watter imparts his wisdom on the psychotherapy of men’s sexual problems/relationships from an existential vantage point. This is not a lengthy philosophical tomb on death anxiety; it is a satisfying and nourishing journey replete with: snippets of conversation with renowned clinicians like Dr. Irv Yalom, in-depth clinical vignettes, and illustrations from literature, film, song, poetry and culture that highlights Dr. Watter’s clinical perspective. Reading Dr. Watter’s book will significantly transform your clinical perspective leading to more nuanced and sophisticated ways of helping men with their sexual struggles and relationships. Stanley E. Althof, executive director, Center for Marital and Sexual Health of South Florida, professor emeritus, Case Western Reserve University School of MedicineWhat does it mean to be a man? In this brilliant book, sex therapist Dr. Daniel N. Watter allows penises to respond. Writing from an existential perspective, Watter demonstrates that when men refuse to listen to their own inner voices, the messages from their penises prove harder to ignore. You must read this deeply thought-provoking and illuminating book!Peggy J. Kleinplatz, professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, CanadaDan Watter takes us on an intriguing odyssey with his ground-breaking book The Existential Importance of the Penis. He provides an engaging, fresh perspective with respect to male sexuality and the how and why things can often go awry. Not content with snorkeling, he requests we put on our scuba gear and debunk the one-size-fits-all performance anxiety theory often attributed to male sexual problems. Grounded in Yalom’s existential theories as well as fascinating case vignettes, he provides a cogent stance for the utility of existential sex therapy especially when traditional CBT methods fall short. He convincingly suggests we explore the existential inner conflicts and dilemmas that are often at play behind the scenes of the narratives clients present when they walk into our office. Read it slowly as I did, chew on all he unpacks, and allow it to change the way you think about and engage our work.Michael Moran, founder and director of The Center for Relational Fulfillment, New YorkTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Penis Speaks: An Existential View of Male Sexual Dysfunction 2. Existential Psychotherapy and the Work of Irvin D. Yalom, M.D. 3. Death: The Unavoidable Condition 4. Existential Sex Therapy 5. Hypersexuality, Sex Addiction, Out-of-Control Sexual Behavior: A Diagnositc Dilemma? 6. Why Men Behave Badly 7. Aging: The Penis Speaks, But Sometimes it Whispers Conclusions

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Book SynopsisA cornerstone of Sartre's philosophy, The Imaginary was first published in 1940. Sartre had become acquainted with the philosophy of Edmund Husserl in Berlin and was fascinated by his idea of the ''intentionality of consciousness'' as a key to the puzzle of existence. Against this background, The Imaginary crystallized Sartre''s worldview and artistic vision. The book is an extended examination of the concepts of nothingness and freedom, both of which are derived from the ability of consciousness to imagine objects both as they are and as they are not ideas that would drive Sartre''s existentialism and entire theory of human freedom.Table of ContentsNotes on the Translation Part One: The Certain The Intentional Structure of the Image I. Description 1. The Method 2. First Characteristic: The Image is a Consciousness 3. Second Characteristic: The Phenomenon of Quasi-Observation 4. Third Characteristic: The Imaging Consciousness Posits its Object as a Nothingness 5. Fourth Characteristic: Spontaneity 6. Conclusion II. The Image Family 1. Image, Portrait, Caricature 2. Sign and Portrait 3. From Sign to Image: Consciousness of Imitations 4. From Sign to Image: Schematic Drawings 5. Faces in the Fire, Spots on Walls, Rocks in Human Form 6. Hypnagogic Images, Scenes and Persons Seen in Coffee Grounds, in a Crystal Ball 7. From Portrait to Mental Image 8. Mental Image Part Two: The Probable Nature of the Analogon in the Mental Image 1. Knowledge 2. Affectivity 3. Movements 4. The Role of the Word in the Mental Image 5. The Mode of Appearance of a Thing in the Mental Image Part Three: The Role of the Image in Psychic Life 1. The Symbol 2. Symbolic Schemas and Illustrations of Thought 3. Image and Thought 4. Image and Perception Part Four: The Imaginary Life 1. The Irreal Object 2. Conduct in the Face of the Irreal 3. Pathology of the Imagination 4. The Dream Conclusion 1. Consciousness and Imagination

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Book SynopsisMartin Heidegger (1889–1976) influenced the work of such diverse thinkers as Sartre and Derrida. In Tool-Being, Graham Harman departs from the prevailing linguistic approach to analytic and continental philosophy in favor of Heideggerian object-oriented research into the secret contours of objects. Written in a colorful style, it will be of interest to anyone open to new trends in present-day philosophy.

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together a group of Judith Butler's philosophical essays written over two decades that elaborate her reflections on the roles of the passions in subject-formation through an engagement with Hegel, Kierkegaard, Descartes, Spinoza, Malebranche, Merleau-Ponty, Freud, Irigaray and Fanon.Trade Review"Judith Butler's reading of major works on the construction of the subject, ranging from Descartes and Spinoza to Irigaray and Fanon, intertwines three projects, which prove intimately related: a symptomatic reading of texts, where the materiality of their writing reveals a permanent uncertainty about the "sovereignty" or "autonomy" that they claim; a phenomenology of the affective "third substance" which, being neither mind nor body, must also encroach on both; and a critique of normative ontological binarisms which, in particular, confuse sexual otherness with a difference of given places. In this account of the latent "sensible" mover of metaphysics, she also gives an account of herself as incarnated thinker, beautifully complex and inventive. Her book will generate admiration and continuous reflection." -- -Etienne Balibar author of Equaliberty "With this inspiring book--simultaneously a philosophical dispossession of philosophy, a paean to sensation and an affirmation of the 'radically impossible venture' of ethics and politics--[Butler] edges towards a palpable, outward-looking alternative to philosophical chest beating." -Times Higher Education "In this exceptional collection, Judith Butler displays the unusually vivid, even startling insight that makes her indisputably the world's most interesting contemporary philosopher. These lucid essays climb in and out of the me, the her, the you, dream and reality, subject, object, nature and the preternatural, meaning and its deadly discontents. Butler wrestles the narratives of embodiment into language that lives." -- -Patricia J. Williams Columbia Law School "Butler concludes the Introduction to this book thus: 'Acted on, I act still, but it is hardly this "I" that acts alone, and even though, and precisely because, it never gets done with being undone.' In these eloquent, passionately dialectical, and vertiginous essays, Butler relentlessly tracks our being undone by others, by language, by things, by institutions, and by the normative formations that hold us upright beyond our standing upright in the writings of, among others, Descartes, Spinoza, Hegel, Merleau Ponty, Irigaray, and Fanon. This is echt Butler: a necessity for those who already know her work, and a generous point of entry for those philosophers who have yet to find their way to her thought." -- -J. M. Bernstein The New School for Social ResearchTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments "How Can I Deny That These Hands and This Body Are Mine?" Merleau-Ponty and the Touch of Malebranche The Desire to Live: Spinoza's Ethics under Pressure To Sense What Is Living in the Other: Hegel's Early Love Kierkegaard's Speculative Despair Sexual Difference as a Question of Ethics: Alterities of the Flesh in Irigary and Merleau-Ponty Violence, Non-Violence: Sartre on Fanon Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is a rehabilitation sensibility. It defines what we call sensibility or sensible life by defining the ontological status of images. It shows that images have an intermediate ontological status and exist in an autonomous sphere. It also explores our interactions with images in dream, fashion and language.Trade Review"La vita sensibile (2011) is Emanuele Coccia's first book to be translated into English. Rendered as Sensible Life: a micro-ontology of the image, it comes with an insightful prologue by Kevin Attell, and it belongs to the excellent "Commonalities" series edited by Timothy Campbell...Sensible Life is not a book about the ontology of the image in the pictorial or phenomenological sense, but an investigation into the metaxy of existence and being in the world." -- -Gerardo Munoz Infrapolitical Deconstruction Initiative "What Emanuele Coccia has done in Sensible Life is to create a path through which I might imagine myself-and all of us-richly obliged in the nature of the image, open to encounters that are not only of the material world, encounters that resonate as a whole that exists between the material, dematerial, psychological, and sociological spaces of things. Through Sensible Life, I partake in both the world I am in and the world I can see, whether in my mind, in my dreams, or on a glass slide. I want to do more with the layers of the world, more with the possibility of things manifested in my work." -- -Theaster GatesTable of ContentsI. Sensible Life II. Man and Animal III. Intentional Species Part I. Physics of the Sensible IV. The World of the Sensible V. Intermediaries VI. Mirrors VII. The Place of the Images VIII. The Image in the Mirror IX. Micro-ontology X. Transparency XI. The Multiplication of the Real XII. The Primacy of the Sensible XIII. Natural Theater XIV. The Unity of the World Part II. Anthropology of the Sensible XV. "Vita Activa XVI. Transforming Spirit into Sensation XVII. Medial Existence XVIII. Intentional Projections XIX. Becoming What One Sees XX. Losing Oneself in Images XXI. Dream XXII. The "Intrabody" XXIII. Being Constantly Elsewhere XXIV. Seeds XXV. Influences XXVI. On the Surface of the Skin XXVII. Metaphysics of Clothing XXVIII. Fashion XXIX. Making the World Our Skin XXX. The Body of Clothing XXXI. "Ethos" XXXII. Living in Images Notes

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Book SynopsisCopleston, an Oxford Jesuit and specialist in the history of philosophy, created his history as an introduction for Catholic ecclesiastical seminaries. The 11-volume series gives an accessible account of each philosopher's work, and explains their relationship to the work of other philosophers.Trade ReviewA monumental history . . . learned, lucid, patient and comprehensive. * New Statesman *We can only applaud at the end of each act and look forward to applauding again at the final curtain. * Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsPreface I Contemporary British Philosophy II Some Reflection on Logical Positivism III A Note on Verification IV A Further Note on Verification V The Function of Metaphysics VI On Seeing and Noticing VII The Meaning of the Terms Predicated by God VIII The Human Person in Contemporary Philosophy IX Existentialism: Introductory X Theistic Existentialism XI Aesthetic Existentialism XII A Critical Discussion of Existentialism Index

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Book SynopsisThis unique book explores the captivating colors that appear in the atmosphere of the earth: coronas, glories, halos, rainbows, dawn and dusk.

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a comprehensive account of Martin Heidegger's social philosophy. It reconstructs Heidegger's accounts of social cognition, collective intentionality, and social normativity, while also reassessing the significance of his existentialist account of authenticity and his affiliation with Nazism.

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Book SynopsisThis book is a theoretical and practical guide for mental health professionals who wish to utilize existential principles in their social work and clinical practice. Existential questions concerning life situations, such as anxiety, suffering, choosing, authenticity, are at the heart of the craft of any helping profession. The book aims to confront students and practitioners with the need to be simultaneously philosophical and experiential in their clinical approach. Written in an accessible tone, Eisikovits and Buchbinder bridge existential-philosophical concepts often seen as removed from everyday practice and the practical concerns of therapy. Each chapter presents a concept from existential philosophical tradition, such as anxiety, meaning making, time, and space, and then demonstrates their use by drawing from real-life clinical examples and interventions. The book illustrates their implementation in social work practice with reference to values suchTrade Review"Existential Social Work: Making Meaning in the Face of Distress provides an innovative approach to therapeutic practice. Analyzing practice from a philosophical perspective that is accessible to readers, the book offers practitioners and students a creative way for understanding and addressing the problems of their clients."Stanley L Witkin, expert in social constructivist theory in social work; President, GPTSW; former editor-in-chief of Social Work; Emeritus Professor of Social Work, University of Vermont; Adjunct Professor, University of Pennsylvania"Existential Social Work: Making Meaning in the Face of Distress weaves together existential theory with practice wisdom and a reflective stance, to describe and analyze the therapeutic process of reconstructing meaning. As such this book is bound to become an important resource for both scholars and practitioners interested in the field." Zahava Solomon, Professor Emerita, Bob Shapell School of Social Work; eminent trauma researcher; Head of The Multidisciplinary Center of Excellence for Mass Trauma Research, Tel Aviv University; holder of the Israel Price for Excellence in Social SciencesTable of Contents1. Anxiety 2. Choosing, Acting, and Responsibility 3. The Meaning of Meaning 4. Being With and Among Others 5. Being in Time 6. Being in space 7. Intervention in Existential Social Work 8. Toward an Integrative Implementation Model 9. Relationships in Existential Intervention

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Book SynopsisIn Existential Therapy: Responses to Frequently Asked Questions, the authors address those questions most frequently asked by potential clients of existential therapy or by people beginning their training or by those interested in counselling or psychotherapy. The book is divided into five parts, with each focusing on responding to questions about different elements of existential theory and its practice and applications: Part 1: Existential philosophy Part 2: Existential method and theory Part 3: Existential skills and practice Part 4: Existential applications in different contexts Part 5: Existential relevance to everyday life The Q&A format, presented in accessible language, emphasises commonly unknown or misunderstood areas that are typically overlooked. The book will appeal to a wide audience of potential clients and trainees, practitioners from other approaches, and those outside of the profession who Trade Review‘Existential Therapy: Responses to Frequently Asked Questions is the perfect introduction to existential philosophy and its application to therapeutic practice and everyday life. The authors, all experienced therapists, are to be congratulated for demystifying existential therapy. Their accessible, refreshingly jargon-free approach provides a companionable guide to this most practical of philosophies. While the Q&A format gives the reader the freedom to dip in and out, or read from cover-to-cover, as they please, it does not detract from the overall quality of the text. Anyone interested in the nature of human existence – whether trainee, practitioner, client or the general reader – will find here inspiring and creative ways to meet the inevitable challenges of living.’ Simon du Plock, DCPsych, Senior Research Fellow at the Metanoia Institute, London‘Existentialism has a reputation for being rather dense and consequently it is often misunderstood. This book shows that when written about well, its questions can become understandable, its insights can become practical and its relevance can become contemporary. The authors, all experts and teachers in the field, have distilled their experience and knowledge into a highly coherent and readable overview. Although written for relative beginners it can offer a great deal to all readers, whether familiar with existential therapy or not.’ Martin Adams, PhD, author of Skills in Existential Counselling & Psychotherapy (with E. van Deurzen), A Concise Introduction to Existential Counselling, and An Existential Approach to Human Development‘Existential Therapy: Responses to Frequently Asked Questions is the perfect introduction to existential philosophy and its application to therapeutic practice and everyday life. The authors, all experienced therapists, are to be congratulated for demystifying existential therapy. Their accessible, refreshingly jargon-free approach provides a companionable guide to this most practical of philosophies. While the Q&A format gives the reader the freedom to dip in and out, or read from cover-to-cover, as they please, it does not detract from the overall quality of the text. Anyone interested in the nature of human existence – whether trainee, practitioner, client or the general reader – will find here inspiring and creative ways to meet the inevitable challenges of living.’ Simon du Plock, DCPsych, Senior Research Fellow at the Metanoia Institute, London‘Existentialism has a reputation for being rather dense and consequently it is often misunderstood. This book shows that when written about well, its questions can become understandable, its insights can become practical and its relevance can become contemporary. The authors, all experts and teachers in the field, have distilled their experience and knowledge into a highly coherent and readable overview. Although written for relative beginners it can offer a great deal to all readers, whether familiar with existential therapy or not.’ Martin Adams, PhD, author of Skills in Existential Counselling & Psychotherapy (with E. van Deurzen), A Concise Introduction to Existential Counselling, and An Existential Approach to Human DevelopmentTable of ContentsPart 1: Existential philosophy: Questions about existential philosophical ideas 1. What is existentialism? 2. What are the main themes of existential philosophy? 3. Is existential therapy pessimistic? 4. What is the meaning of life? 5. Does existential philosophy only focus on the present? 6. Is existentialism more about individuals than societies? 7. What is an existential crisis? 8. Can existentialism exist alongside religious beliefs? 9. Does existential philosophy encompass all aspects of human existence? 10. Do clients need to know anything about existential philosophy? Part 2: Existential method and theory: Questions about existential psychology and psychotherapeutic work 1. Do existential therapists get you to think about death? 2. Do existential therapists work with the unconscious? 3. What is phenomenology? 4. What is the role of the therapist in existential therapy? 5. Do existential therapists believe in mental illness? 5. What is a mind and how is it seen through an existential lens? 6. What is Socratic Dialogue and how do existential psychotherapists use 7. Socratic Dialogue therapeutically? 8. What is the framework of Existential Psychotherapy? 9. Why have different schools emerged and what are the main differences? 10. How can philosophy help with emotional and psychological problems? Part 3: Existential skills and practice: Questions about the way existential therapists work 1. Are existential therapists free to work in any way they want? 2. Do existential therapists confront, ask questions and challenge more than other therapists? 3. Are existential therapists empathic? 4. Do existential therapists make interpretations? 5. Do existential therapists work with the past? 6. How do existential therapists work with dreams? 7. How do existential psychotherapists work with difference? 8. Is it possible to have short-term existential therapy? 9. What could you expect from an existential therapist in the first session? 10. What is the difference between existential therapy and existential coaching? Part 4: Existential applications in different contexts: Questions about how the existential approach can be used for different presenting issues and client groups 1. How do you formulate a case in existential therapy? 2. Is existential therapy helpful for clients suffering from depression and high levels of anxiety? 3. How does existential therapy conceptualise trauma? 4. How do existential therapists work with clients diagnosed with life limiting or terminal illness? 5. What is the existential view of loss and bereavement? 6. What is the existential perspective on addiction? 7. How do existential therapists work with clients with auditory and visual delusions / Psychosis? 8. How do existential therapists work with suicidal clients? 9. How do therapists work with chronic pain from an existential approach? 10. Do existential therapists work with couples or families? Part 5: Existential relevance to everyday life: Questions about the application of existential ideas to ordinary everyday living 1. How can we be free when life is full of duties, chores and obstacles? 2. Can people ever truly love each other, or are they always more selfish than caring? 3. Is authenticity about being selfish and doing what we want? 4. What is healthy/unhealthy living from an existential perspective? 5. What is the point to life if we are all going to die anyway? 6. Does it matter what meaning system I follow? 7. Will existential therapy/ideas make me happy? 8. Is it okay to self-harm or kill myself? 9. If anxiety is inevitable, how do we learn to live with it? 10. Are existential ideas still relevant to modern life?

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1958 Concerning Human Understanding treats the chief problems of philosophy. Professor Banerjeeâs intention is âto separate philosophic thought from effects of sophistication and intellectual pride to which philosophical enquiry is usually proneâ. The book pursues a line of thought which calls for the replacement of certain old beliefs that are still dominant in philosophical circles, suggests the need for a fresh enquiry into some of the problems of philosophy and brings into prominence others which have generally escaped the serious attention of philosophers in modern times. It offers a restatement of the problems of knowledge, attempts a solution of the conflict between science and philosophy and handles the baffling problem: âis metaphysics possible?â In particular this book deals with the problem of religion in its bearing upon the future of civilization and finds the solution in an outlook on life opposed to the surrender of man to Institution and Power and founded upon the feeling of obligation regarded as âthe most human of the forces that deserve to govern the world of human affairs and to shape the destiny of manâ. This is a must read for students of philosophy.

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Book SynopsisThe cost of living crisis is both new and not new. With a focus on how economic decline is temporally experienced, Wood explores how consumption habits; find solidarity with the past, claim membership in the present, and grasp at uncertain futures.

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Book Synopsis'No matter how long I may look at an image, I shall never find anything in it but what I put there. It is in this fact that we find the distinction between an image and a perception.' - Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sarte's LâImagination was published in 1936 when he was thirty years old. The Imagination is Sartreâs first full philosophical work, presenting some of the basic arguments concerning phenomenology, consciousness and intentionality that were to mark his philosophy as a whole and be so influential in the course of twentieth-century philosophy.Sartre begins by criticising philosophical theories of the imagination, particularly those of Descartes, Leibniz and Hume, before establishing his central thesis. Imagination does not involve the perception of âmental imagesâ in any literal sense, Sartre argues, yet reveals some of the fundamental capacities of consciousness. He then reviews psychological theories of the imagination, including a fascinating discussion of the work of Henri Bergson.Sartre argues that the âclassical conceptionâ is fundamentally flawed because it begins by conceiving of the imagination as being like perception and then seeks, in vain, to re-establish the difference between the two. Sartre concludes with an important chapter on Husserlâs theory of the imagination which, despite sharing the flaws of earlier approaches, signals a new phenomenological way forward in understanding the imagination.The Imagination is essential reading for anyone interested in the philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre, phenomenology, and the history of twentieth-century philosophy. The translation has been revised throughout for this Routledge Classics edition. Also included is a revised translatorsâ introduction and a new foreword, both by Kenneth Williford and David Rudrauf. Also included is Maurice Merleau-Pontyâs important review of LâImagination upon its publication in French in 1936.Translated by Kenneth Williford and David Rudrauf.

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Book SynopsisA fascinating introductory volume, Existential Psychoanalysis: A Contemporary Introduction integrates existential philosophy with psychoanalysis, drawing on key theorists from both areas and expertly guiding the reader on how to incorporate these two disciplines, which may appear disparate on the surface, into their clinical and theoretical work. This unique and accessible book sees M. Guy Thompson explore key concepts, such as experience, authenticity, freedom, psychic change, agency and the pervasive role of suffering in our lives. Throughout, he draws on a wide range of thinkers from both fields, including Sartre, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Freud, Winnicott, Bion, Laing and Lacan. Exquisitely lucid and engaging, Thompson deftly brings the reader into thoughtful and enlightening territory typically inaccessible to the general reader. Although existential philosophy and psychoanalysis are often thought of as incompatible fields, Thompson shows how they share far more in co

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Book SynopsisExistential-Psychoanalytic Reflections on Belief and Being offers an exploration of faith not as dogma but as a psychoanalytic and existential phenomenon.Drawing from existential phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and theology, Brent Potter examines how individuals navigate despair, loss, and meaning-making today. This book engages deeply with thinkers such as Freud, Jung, Heidegger, Winnicott, Bion, Eigen, Tolkien, and Michael Heiser, weaving together clinical insights and philosophical reflection to offer an integrative approach to faith and human existence. This book argues that faith is not a belief in propositions but a form of lived trust. It is an ethical and emotional disposition that endures in the face of ambiguity. This book also explores the meaning and experience of faith in a world marked by psychological fragmentation, cultural upheaval, and existential crises.Existential-Psychoanalytic Reflections on Belief and Being will be of great interest to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and pastoral counsellors, as well as academics and scholars of theology, philosophy, existential psychology, and spirituality. It will also be relevant to anyone seeking to understand the complex interplay between psychological depth and spiritual meaning in the contemporary world.

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Book SynopsisThis Element examines the phenomenological conceptions of natural number, the continuum, geometry, formal systems, and the applicability of mathematics. Its focus is the mathematical thought of Edmund Husserl and other phenomenologists including Weyl, Gödel, and Rota.Table of Contents1. Basic concepts of Husserl's phenomenology; 2. Husserl's path from mathematics to phenomenology; 3. Phenomenology of mathematics; 4. Phenomenology and philosophies of mathematics; References.

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Book SynopsisDeeply erudite but also playful and full of wit. Salman RushdieFashion Sense is designed to explode fashion, and with it, the stigma in philosophy against fashion's superficiality. Fashion appears to be altogether differently occupied, disingenuous and insubstantial, even sophistic in its pretense to peddle surfaces as if they were something deep. But is fashion's apparent beguilement more philosophical than it seems? And is philosophy's longing for exposed depth concealing fashion in its anti-fashion stance? Using primarily ancient Greek texts, peppered with allusions to their echoes across the history of philosophy and contemporary fashion and pop culture, Gwenda-lin Grewal not only examines the rift between fashion and philosophy, but also challenges the claim that fashion is modern. Indeed, fashion's quarrel with philosophy may be at least as ancient as that infamous quarrel between philosophy and poetry alluded to in Plato's Republic. And the quest for fashiTrade ReviewFASHION | SENSE is Gwenda-lin Grewal’s brilliant meditation, deeply erudite but also playful and full of wit, on clothing as disguise, revelation, acquiescence, transformation, identity, and second self, as the "bodies we put on." In Grewal’s hands the “age-old argument” between philosophy and fashion, the things of the mind and the things of the body, is scintillatingly renewed. * Salman Rushdie, Distinguished Writer in Residence, New York University, USA *Fashion | Sense: On Philosophy and Fashion is a brilliant book... The book is extremely original in writing and thinking. Grewal has style in spades, and this style creates (or rather is) her considerable substance. The book thrums with energy and wit, and it was an absolute pleasure to read. It took my breath away. * Fashion Theory *Fashion | Sense: On Philosophy and Fashion by Gwenda-lin Grewal explores how philosophers underestimate fashion's power in their search for the naked truth. Mercifully devoid of academic jargon and pomposity, the book is studded with brilliant and often witty observations on the unexpected parallels between philosophy and fashion. * Valerie Steele, Director and Chief Curator, The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, USA *Gwenda-lin Grewal’s Fashion | Sense should be read more than once, for it moves conceptually, on multiple levels, and stylistically on many others. If you read it for its insights into Ancient Greek philosophy, you will find yourself returning to it for its sharp criticism of contemporary society—mores and looks. On a third time, you may want to reread it just for its prose. * British Journal of Aesthetics *This rich, knowledgeable, variegated book challenges easy assumptions about fashion’s modernity. Grewal juxtaposes contemporary manifestations of fashion with situations and characters from ancient literatures in an expert pursuit of fashion-thinking, where “fashion-thinking” means philosophy’s engagement with dress, but also fashion’s own mode of reflection. * Nickolas Pappas, Professor of Philosophy, The City University of New York Graduate Center, USA *A fascinating book by a great new talent which wholly successfully drags philosophy out the closet. In writing that is at once clear and deep, classically informed and very funny, Grewal makes a wholly convincing case for the kinship of philosophy and fashion. Highly recommended." * Simon Critchley, Hans Jonas Professor, The New School for Social Research, New York *Table of ContentsNote to Reader Preface: The 'Other' Ancient Quarrel 1. Fashion Sense 2. Phantom Selves 3. The Dead 4. The Dandy 5. Divine Tailoring 6. The Beauty of Ugliness 7. The Question of Fashion's Beginning Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIntercultural Phenomenology explores the nature of reality by engaging in a cross-cultural dialogue between two of the most influential philosophical traditions of the 20th century. Drawing on ideas from phenomenology, Japanese philosophy and Zen Buddhism, it follows the philosophers who changed their perception of the world by choosing to suspend judgement. Guided by this philosophical method known as the epoché, or suspension of judgment in ancient Greek, it is an introduction to the philosophy and practice of letting objects in the world speak for themselves. Inspired by Nishida Kitaro's insight that true reality is beyond the subject-object duality, the book uses a series of examples and exercises to explore the background to Husserl's idea of the phenomenological epoché, Hans-Georg Gadamer's emphasis on play in human understanding and the haiku poet Matsuo Basho''s call for a new level of freedom. This practice-oriented approach moves beyond the traditionTrade ReviewThis sparkling book is an antidote to technical philosophy closed to non- specialists. Instead of working through abstract ideas detached from ordinary life, its chapters and exercises open fresh access to philosophy that deepens as well as widens a direct and playful engagement with reality. * John C. Maraldo, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of North Florida, USA *This book presents the dialogue between the phenomenology of Husserl and Heidegger and the Japanese Zen practice integrating philosophy of NIshida and Ueda. In it, the deep dimension of pre-linguistic experience accessible through Husserl's phenomenological reduction is clearly revealed, from which the subject-object duality arises and into which it dissolves. * Ichiro Yamaguchi, Professor emeritus, Faculty of Letters, Toyo University, Japan *Drawing on Japanese and other Asian as well as European thinkers, this refreshingly accessible book reenvisions the phenomenological epoché as a practice of suspending our pre-judgments—of removing our “colored glasses”—so that we can learn to cooperatively play with the various ways in which reality manifests itself. * Bret W. Davis, Professor and Higgins Chair in Philosophy, Loyola University Maryland, USA *Table of ContentsList of Figures Series Editor Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Part I 1. An Invitation to Play with Reality 2. Falling into Play 3. Openness, Playfulness and Freedom 4. Practicing Playing 5. A Conversation with Contemplative Traditions Part II 6. Practicing Phenomenology—the Historico-Theoretical Context 7. Practicing Phenomenology—the Personal Side in Practice and ‘Play’ 8. Japanese Perspectives on ‘Practice’, ‘Nature’, and ‘Play’ Recommended Readings Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisEmmanuel Falque is one of the foremost philosophers working in the continental philosophy of religion today. This is the first English-language anthology to bring together extracts from Falque's major works, key essays and even some previously unpublished material. Spanning his entire career to date, The Emmanuel Falque Reader is organised thematically and showcases the vast array of Falque's interests, from his early work on medieval philosophy to his methodology, anthropology and Christian phenomenology. It also includes an Editor's Introduction, which situates Falque within phenomenology's so-called theological turn' and provides a comprehensive overview of his philosophy. Falque''s thinking urges more careful consideration of human finitude, atheism in a secular age, and the interaction between philosophy and theology. Featuring a foreword by esteemed scholar Kevin Hart, this essential collection explores the new directions in which Falque is taking contin

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Book SynopsisUncurating Sound performs, across five chapters, a deliberation between art, politics, knowledge and normativity. It foregrounds the perfidy of norms and engages in the curatorial as a colonial knowledge project, whose economy of exploitation draws a straight line from Enlightenment's desire for objectivity, through sugar, cotton and tobacco, via lives lost and money made to the violence of contemporary art.It takes from curation the notion of care and thinks it through purposeful inefficiency as resistance: going sideways and another way. Thus it moves curation through the double negative of not not to uncuration: untethering knowledge from the expectations of reference and a canonical frame, and reconsidering art as political not in its message or aim, but by the way it confronts the institution.Looking at Kara Walker's work, the book invites the performance of the curatorial via indivisible connections and processes. Reading Kathy Acker and Adrian Piper it speculates on how the body brings us to knowledge beyond the ordinary. Playing Kate Carr and Ellen Fullman it re-examines Modernism's colonial ideology, and materialises the vibrational presence of a plural sense. Listening to Marguerite Humeau and Manon de Boer it avoids theory but agitates a direct knowing from voice and hands, and feet and ears that disorder hegemonic knowledge strands in favour of local, tacit, feminist and contingent knowledges that demand like Zanele Muholi's photographs, an ethical engagement with the work/world.Trade ReviewAn actual and effectual processual removing of the residues of decades of artistic and intellectual encrustations. * Morten Søndergaard, Seismograf *Salomé Voegelin's oeuvre epitomizes sonic dynamism. Her latest work is no different. In Uncurating Sound, Voegelin invites us to listen along as she troubles and blurs static lines between knowledge and curation, writers and bodies, sound and the book, reading and performing. As she converses with works by such figures as Kara Walker, Kathy Acker, Adrian Piper, Kate Carr, Ellen Fullman and Manon de Boer, Voegelin reminds us vitally – especially as we continue to emerge from pandemic isolation and sustained distancing – that we are embodied. And questions like, Who is the “I” and the ear that writes? and For whom do we write and listen? are vital to our collective flourishing. Compelling in its speculation and expansive in its sonic wanderings, Uncurating Sound will interrupt our deep assumptions about sound and knowledge as it calls for us, in all our full embodiment, to listen. Where is your body tuned now? * Nicole Furlonge, Professor and Director of the Klingenstein Center, Columbia University, USA *With detours and fuzzy paths, inhalations and exhalations, rivers and their volumes, Uncurating Sound proposes the decolonial and transversal politics of sound is a matter not only for art institutions and their publics but also for a broader untethering from extractive histories and ways of knowing. * Sasha Engelmann, Senior Lecturer in GeoHumanities, Royal Holloway University of London, UK *Salomé Voegelin’s sensitive handling of sound topics as a post-colonial un-discipline is both observational and treatise-ish, caring and critical, and affirms the complex entanglement of curation, the cannon, the archive, and the body, and proposes a new traversing identity of sound studies. A Tour de Force. * Miya Masaoka, composer, artist and Associate Professor of Visual Art (Sound Art) and Director, Sound Art Program MFA, Columbia University, USA *Salomé is able to bring art work and theory into a real dialogue (instead of the art work being subordinated to the theoretical frame), which implies that there’s a win-win situation: on the one hand, Salomé invites the reader to encounter a sonic art work by offering an open theoretical frame; on the other hand, the theories are brought to another plane by confronting them with concrete art works that “speak back.” * Marcel Cobussen, Professor of Auditory Culture and Music Philosophy, Leiden University, Netherlands *Table of ContentsList of figures Acknowledgements Prologue: Sounding Gaps in Pavements Introduction: Taking a breath together Breath 1 Curating politics in the gallery space Breath 2 The possibility of resistance and the performance of alternatives Performance score listen across to uncurate knowledge Breath 3 With voice and hands sound it IIIIIII Breath 4 Postnormal Performing Walls IX Bibliography List of Works Index

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Book SynopsisPossibility is a concept central to both philosophy and social theory. But in what philosophical soil, if any, does the possibility of a better society grow? At the intersection of metaphysics and social theory, What Would Be Different looks to Theodor W. Adorno to reflect on the relationship between the possible and the actual. In repeated allusions to utopia, redemption, and reconciliation, Adorno appears to reference a future that would break decisively with the social injustices that have characterized history. To this end, and though he never explains it in any detail—let alone in the form of a full-blown theory or metaphysics—he also makes extensive technical use of the concept of possibility. Taking Adorno's critical readings of other thinkers, especially Hegel and Heidegger, as his guiding thread, Iain Macdonald reflects on possibility as it relates to Adorno's own writings and offers answers to the question of how we are to articulate such possibilities without lapsing into a vague and naïve utopianism.Trade Review"This exemplary and highly original piece of philosophical scholarship precisely illuminates a central but hitherto unrecognized concern in Adorno's work—his notion of 'real but blocked possibility'—demonstrating how it operates throughout his writing. I know of no study similar to it."—Henry Pickford, Duke University"Macdonald is not only an authority on Adorno but also a deeply skilled philosopher. What Would Be Different deals with some ferociously difficult and abstract conceptual material while remaining lucid, careful, and thorough. Without question, it figures among the most genuinely pathbreaking recent work on Adorno."—Maxim Pensky, Binghamton University, the State University of New York"What is possible? With this question in mind, Macdonald sets out on a breathtaking intellectual journey. In a series of spectacularly powerful and compelling readings of such key thinkers as Hegel, Marx, Heidegger, Benjamin, Bloch, and Adorno, he throws new and much needed light on the post-Kantian philosophical tradition while offering resources for responding to our contemporary crisis."—Espen Hammer, Temple University"This much-needed book explores how possibility, for Adorno, can be thought beyond mere contingency or empty utopia. To ask 'what would be different' is as concrete as it is radical—and only radical insofar as it is concrete. Macdonald shows that the possible cannot be defined generally and ontologically but only historically and socially: as a world that could well be realized but that is blocked by the ruling powers."—Christoph Menke, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main"What Would Be Different presents readers with the results of years of fruitful effort....[It] takes an important stand in a debate that matters, not just to armchair academics, but to everybody on the planet."—Deborah Cook, Symposium"What Would Be Different provides us with an essential, long neglected, philosophical and biographical examination of Adorno and Heidegger's complicated relationship....[It offers] a valuable contribution to philosophy in that it provides a clear, non-partisan presentation of famously difficult thinkers from disparate traditions. Macdonald's synthesis and framing of these ideas is admirable."—Matthew Eckel, Marx & Philosophy Review of Books Table of Contents1. What Would Be Different 2. Hegel's Fallacy: Possibility and Actuality in Hegel and Adorno 3. Adorno: Nature–History–Possibility 4. Adorno and Heidegger: Possibility Read Backward and Forward 5. Adorno, Benjamin, and What Would Be Different

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