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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions
Book SynopsisAlthough written fairly early in his career, in 1939, Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions is considered to be one of Jean-Paul Sartre''s most important pieces of writing. It not only anticipates but argues many of the ideas to be found in his famous Being and Nothingness. By subjecting the emotion theories of his day to critical analysis, Sartre opened up the world of psychology to new and creative ways of interpreting feelings. Emotions are intentional and strategic ways of coping with difficult situations. We choose to utilize them, we control them, and not the other way around, as has been posited elsewhere. Emotions are not fixed; they have no essence and indeed are subject to rapid fluctuations and about-turns. For its witty approach alone, Sartre''s Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions can be enjoyed at length. It is a dazzling journey to one of the more intriguing theories of our time.Trade Review'A model of lucid exposition, very well translated. The central thesis stands out with tempting clarity ... Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions is certainly the best introduction available to the world of Being and Nothingness, and is also a useful guide to M. Sartre's more difficult views on the imagination.' - Times Literary Supplement'A driving force in all Sartre's writing is his serious desire to change the life of his reader.' - Iris Murdoch'The best source for Sartre's theoretical views on the nature of psychology.' - Mary Warnock, from the introduction
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Karl Jaspers Politics and Metaphysics Routledge Studies in TwentiethCentury Philosophy
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Martin Buber
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Husserl and the Cartesian Meditations
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Edmund Husserl
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Taylor & Francis Ltd In Defence of Objectivity On Realism Existentialism and Politics 9 Routledge Studies in Critical Realism
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Taylor & Francis Ltd PhenomenologyCrit Con In Phil
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Taylor & Francis Ltd PhenomenologyCrit Con In Phil
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Taylor & Francis Maurice MerleauPonty Basic Writings
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Taylor & Francis Ltd On the Public Thinking in Action
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Taylor & Francis Ltd PhenomenologyCrit Con In Phil
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Buddhist Phenomenology
Book SynopsisA richly complex study of the Yogacara tradition of Buddhism, divided into five parts: the first on Buddhism and phenomenology, the second on the four basic models of Indian Buddhist thought, the third on karma, meditation and epistemology, the fourth on the Trimsika and its translations, and finally the fifth on the Ch''eng Wei-shih Lun and Yogacara in China.Trade Review'A well-researched and lucid exposition of an old Buddhist school of thought that is usually seen as hopelessly complex and difficult' - Bibliographia Missionaria'His unique approach ... both in content and style, may be the most formidable aspect of this discursive, incisive, often brilliant, 600 page work.' - H-Buddhism, H-Net Reviews'[Lusthaus's] weighty book certainly succeeds in raising our awareness of this complex tradition. This is no small achievement, and it is one for which we should be extremely grateful.' - The Journal of Asian Studies'A well-researched and lucid exposition of an old Buddhist school of thought that is usually seen as hopelessly complex and difficult' - Bibliographia Missionaria'His unique approach ... both in content and style, may be the most formidable aspect of this discursive, incisive, often brilliant, 600 page work.' - H-Buddhism, H-Net ReviewsTable of ContentsPrefacePart One Buddhism and Phenomenology Ch.1Buddhism and Phenomenology Ch.2 Husserl and Merleau-PontyPart Two The Four Basic Buddhist Models in India Introduction Ch.3 Model One: The Five Skandhas Ch.4 Model Two: Pratïtya-samutpada Ch.5 Model Three: Tridhatu Ch.6 Model Four: Sila-Samadhi-Prajna Ch.7 Asamjni-samapatti and Nirodha-samapatti Ch.8 Summary of the Four ModelsPart Three Karma, Meditation, and Epistemology Ch.9 Karma Ch.10 Madhyamikan Issues Ch.11 The Privilaging of Prajna-paramitaPart Four Trimsika and Translations Ch.12 Texts and TranslationsPart Five The Ch'eng Wei-Shih Lun and the Problem of Psychosophical Closure: Yogacara in China Ch.13 Ch.14 Seven Trajectories Ch.15 The Legend of the Transmission of the Ch'eng Wei-Shih Lun Ch.16 Alterity: Parinama Ch.17 Why Consciousness in Not Empty Ch.18 On Rupa Ch.19 Externality Ch.20 The Four Conditions Ch.21 Mirror Knowing: Soteric Alterations Ch.22 Language, Avijnapti-Rupa and Vijnapti-Rupa Ch.23 Is What is Ultimately Real Itself Ultimately Real?ConclusionsAppendicesBibliographyIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Kierkegaard and Philosophy Selected Essays
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Taylor & Francis Cognitive Phenomenology New Problems of Philosophy
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Guidebook to Heideggers Being and Time
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Husserl and Phenomenology 7 Routledge Library Editions Phenomenology
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Phenomenology and the Social World The Philosophy of MerleauPonty and its Relation to the Social Sciences 13 Routledge Library Editions Phenomenology
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Phenomenology and the Science of Behaviour An Historical and Epistemological Approach 14 Routledge Library Editions Phenomenology
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Phenomenology and Marxism
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Taylor & Francis Structures of Subjectivity
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Taylor & Francis Structures of Subjectivity
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Experiencing Phenomenology An Introduction
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Guidebook to Nietzsches Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Guidebook to Nietzsches Thus Spoke
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Guidebook to Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra is an engaging introduction to this rich and provocative philosophical text. Nietzsche is arguably one of the most influential and yet least understood philosophers of the nineteenth century. The same can be said of his self-proclaimed magnum opus, Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The work has influenced everything from poetry, literature, and music to philosophy, psychoanalysis, and soldiers on the battlefields of World War I. Its contents, however, are still far from being understood. On the one hand, the principal aims and even the genre of Zarathustra remain unclear. On the other hand, the work expresses, in poetic fashion, some of Nietzsche's most important, controversial, and enigmatic doctrines: the Üebermensch, the eternal recurrence of the same, and the will to power.The Routledge Guidebook to Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra is essential
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Taylor & Francis Theology as an Empirical Science Routledge Library Editions Philosophy of Religion
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Taylor & Francis Death A Philosophical Inquiry
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Taylor & Francis Death A Philosophical Inquiry
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Phenomenology and Existentialism
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Taylor & Francis The Phenomenology of Moral Normativity
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Taylor & Francis Ltd World Affectivity Trauma
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Taylor & Francis Conscious Thinking and Cognitive Phenomenology
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Taylor & Francis Performance and Phenomenology
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Taylor & Francis Paolo Bozzis Experimental Phenomenology
Book SynopsisThis anthology translates eighteen papers by Italian philosopher and experimental psychologist Paolo Bozzi (1930-2003), bringing his distinctive and influential ideas to an English-speaking audience for the first time. Trade Review‘Bozzi was an original whose thinking did not observe conventional boundaries. The same may be said of this collection of elegant original essays inspired by Bozzi’s writings. It offers the reader the prospect of a rich and challenging intellectual feast.’ William Epstein, Emeritus Professor, University of Wisconsin, USA‘Paolo Bozzi was an unusual and original psychologist and philosopher, who developed a distinctive picture of the psychology and the phenomenology of perception, in particular in its connection to the philosophical question of realism. Yet his work is not as widely known as it should be. This volume of his essays, supplemented by commentaries by contemporary experts, is an invaluable resource, and will surely help in giving Bozzi’s work the wider recognition it deserves.’ Tim Crane, Professor of Philosophy, Central European University, HungaryTable of ContentsPart I 1. Experimental Phenomenology Translated and commented by Ivana Bianchi 2. On some paradoxes of current perceptual theories Commented by Sergei Gepshtein 3. Phenomenal experience, epistemic experience and psychological experience. Notes towards an epistemology of the phenomenological experimental method. Translated by Richard Davies and commented by Maurizio Ferraris Part II 4. The stream of consciousness, or the events under observation Translated by Achille Varzi and commented by Richard Davies 5. Untimely meditations on the relation between self and non-self Translated by Alessio Moretti and commented by Robert Kelly and Barry Smith 6. Logical analysis of the psychophysical (L-R) scheme Translated by Richard Davies and commented by Francesco Orilia and Michele Paolini Paoletti 7. Five varieties of stimulus error Translated and commented by Roberto Casati 8. Seeing As Translated and commented by Kevin Mulligan Part III 9. Phenomenological descriptions and physical-geometrical descriptions Translated and commented by Ugo Savardi 10. Interobservation as a method for experimental phenomenology Translated and commented by Michael Kubovy Part IV 11. Phenomenological analysis of pendular harmonic motion & the conditions for "natural" motion along inclined planes Translated by Paola Bressan and Paolo Gaudiano and commented by Marco Bertamini. 12. A new factor of perceptual grouping: demonstration in terms of pure experimental phenomenology. Translated and commented by Luigi Burigana 13. Two factors of unification for musical notes: closeness in time and closeness in tone. Translated by Luisa Zecchinelli and Richard Davies and commented by Luisa Zecchinelli 14. Observations on some cases of phenomenal transparency obtained with line drawings Translated by Ivana Bianchi and Richard Davies and commented by Daniele Zavagno 15. Original observations on certain characteristics of afterimages Translated by Tiziano Agostini and commented by Tiziano Agostini and Alessandra Galmonte 16. Tertiary Qualities Translated and commented by Ian Verstegen and Carlo Maria Fossaluzza AFTERTHOUGHTS 17. Experimental Phenomenology: A Historical Profile. Commented by Alan Costall 18. What is still living and what has died of the Gestalt approach to the analysis of perception. Commented by Johan Wagemans
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Taylor & Francis Reason and Conversion in Kierkegaard and the German Idealists Routledge Studies in NineteenthCentury Philosophy
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Trauma and Its Impacts on Temporal Experience
Book SynopsisThis unique text develops an original theoretical framework for understanding the relationship between trauma and time by combining phenomenological and psychoanalytical traditions. Moving beyond Western psychoanalytical and phenomenological traditions, this volume presents new perspectives on the assessment and treatment of trauma patients. Powerfully illustrating how the temporal dimension of a patient's symptoms has until now been overlooked, the text presents a wealth of research literature to deepen our understanding of how trauma disrupts individual temporal experience. Ultimately, the resulting phenomena that occur (including dissociation and cognitive distortions) position time as a transdiagnostic psychological dimension, closely connected to the subject's sense of self.This text will benefit researchers, academics, and educators with an interest in psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and trauma and dissociation studies more broadly. Those specifically interTrade Review"While Mezzalira’s book is only 156 pages, it is an extensive compilation and summary of theory and research, past and present, on time and trauma. She includes perspectives from philosophy (especially phenomenology), psychoanalysis, neuroscience, and cognitive science. This book explores many, many useful concepts and research findings and is a valuable reference source for clinicians and researchers."-Michael Stadter, Psychodynamic PracticeTable of ContentsAbout the Author Introduction: Trauma and the Elusive Nature of Psychic Time1: Time and the Nature of Psychological Trauma2. The Concept of Nachträglichkeit and the Traumatic Disruption of Linear Time3. Time, Trauma, and the Unconscious Mind4. Trauma, Time, and Psychopathology5. Dissociation and Traumatic Temporality6. Time, Trauma, and Memory7. Time, Trauma, and Neural (Dis-)Integration8. Time, Trauma, and Therapeutic ChangeConclusion: Healing From TraumaIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary
Book SynopsisOf the philosophical movements of the twentieth century existentialism is one of the most powerful and thought-provoking. Its engagement with the themes of authenticity, freedom, bad faith, nihilism, and the death of God captured the imagination of millions. However, in the twenty-first century existentialism is grappling with fresh questions and debates that move far beyond traditional existential preoccupations, ranging from the lived experience of the embodied self, intersectionality, and feminist theory to comparative philosophy, digital existentialism, disability studies, and philosophy of race.The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Existentialism explores these topics and more, connecting the ideas and insights of existentialism with some of the most urgent debates and challenges in philosophy today. Eight clear sections explore the following topics: methodology and technology social and political perspectives environment and place affectivity and emotion death and freedom value existentialism and Asian philosophy aging and disability. As well as chapters on key figures such as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, and Beauvoir, the Handbook includes chapters on topics as diverse as Chicana feminism, ecophilosophy and the environment, Latina existentialism, Black nihilism, the Kyoto school and southeast Asian existentialism, and the experiences of aging, disability, and death.Essential reading for students and researchers in the areas of existentialism and phenomenology, The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Existentialism will also be of interest to those studying ethics, philosophy and gender, philosophy of race, the emotions and philosophical issues in health and illness as well as related disciplines such as Literature, Sociology, and Political Theory.
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Taylor & Francis Eight Domains of Phenomenology and Research
Book SynopsisEight Domains of Phenomenology and Research Methods is a unique text that explains how the foundational literature representing our lifeworld experience aligns theory with research methods.Maintaining focus on the core problem of phenomenological investigations, the author strives to bridge theory with applied research by critically reviewing examples from the applied literature. With the extensive use of the foundational literatureâs original voices, the book elaborates on how renowned scholars such as Husserl, Heidegger, and Sartre argued their ideas. A range of diverse voices is also explored through the perspectives of feminist and Black phenomenologists. The text then goes on to unpack the phenomenological methodologies with detailed explanations of signature techniques, hereunder the epochà and reduction from the perspectives of transcendental phenomenology, phenomenological psychology, and genetic (generative) phenomenology. Finally, it addresses the problem of articulating phenomenological research questions as well as interview questions that align with the different domains and methodologies.This book is a must read for postgraduate students, dissertation students, and qualitative researchers interested in conducting phenomenological research within social psychology, sociology, and education.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Psyche Culture World
Book SynopsisAcross the array of topics explored in this comprehensive volume, philosopher and psychoanalyst Jon Mills argues for a fundamental return to the question and meaning of existence. Drawing on the traditions of German Idealism, existentialism, and onto-phenomenology, he offers a rich tapestry of insight and critique into the foundations of psyche, human nature, and society. As a philosophy of mind and culture, psychoanalysis offers us a promising perspective to reengage our being in the world in meaningful ways that illuminate human existence, the mysteriousness of unconscious processes, our relation to transcendence, ethical obligations towards social collectives, and the wonder of logos for our present-day consciousness. After examining the unconscious origins of psychic reality and the contradictory nature of our internal lives, Mills examines the scope of existentialism from antiquity to postmodernism, the question of authenticity, paranoiac epistemology, the essence of eviTrade Review"Jon Mills’ Psyche, Culture, World is one of the most ambitious attempts yet to synthesize philosophy and psychoanalysis. In particular, Mills offers readers a sophisticated contemporary reactivation of the tradition of existential psychoanalysis bringing together analytic metapsychology with the insights of phenomenology and existentialism. Against those who would dismiss psychoanalysis and/or existentialist thought as passé, Mills convincingly demonstrates that a combination of these two orientations provides the best cognitive mapping available of our present set of psychical and social conundrums, of the human condition in the twenty-first century." Adrian Johnston, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of New Mexico; author of Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism (3 Vols)"Once again, Jon Mills has regaled us with yet another example of the breadth and depth of his subtle understanding of the relationship between philosophy and psychoanalysis. In this important work, Mills deftly demonstrates the philosophical underpinnings of psychoanalysis while bringing heretofore neglected aspects of phenomenology and existential philosophy to bear in illuminating the existential basis of psychoanalytic practice. His exegesis of the unconscious, myth, truth, freedom, and evil are both impressive and original. A true tour de force and cogent exploration of the role that existence plays in our lives."M. Guy Thompson, PhD, author of The Death of Desire: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness"Jon Mills views psychoanalysis as essentially an existential enterprise about human beings as agents. He combines psychoanalysis with a rich philosophical tradition to confront key conundrums of human existence. Novel and illuminating ideas leap from the pages of this brilliant scholarly yet accessible magnum opus."Douglas Kirsner, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Psychoanalytic Studies, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia; author of Unfree AssociationsJon Mills is a rare breed. . . . Mills himself is extraordinarily prolific, and his work is extremely wide-ranging. Dr. Mills newest book, Psyche, Culture, World: Excursions in Existentialism and Psychoanalytic Philosophy tackles many diverse topics from relational psychoanalysis to the future of human life. Firmly rooted in psychoanalysis and European philosophy, Mills brings a unique sensibility to the most central issues in and outside psychoanalysis. His ambitious goal is to move towards a psychology of existence.Ken Fuchsman, International Psychohistorical AssociationTable of ContentsProlegomenon: Towards a Psychology of Existence About the Texts 1. On the Origins of Psychic Reality 2. Psyche as Inner Contradiction 3. Existentialism and Psychoanalysis: From Antiquity to Postmodernism 4. The False Dasein: From Heidegger to Sartre and Psychoanalysis 5. Lacan on Paranoiac Knowledge 6. The Essence of Evil 7. Recognition and Pathos 8. God: The Invention of an Idea 9. Towards a Theory of Myth 10. Deconstructing Hermes: A Critique of the Hermeneutic and Phenomenological Turn in Psychoanalysis 11. Psychoanalysis and the Ideologies of Science 12. Truth 13. Freedom and Determinism 14. Civilization and its Fate
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Taylor & Francis Art Animals and Experience
Book SynopsisElizabeth Sutton, using a phenomenological approach, investigates how animals in art invite viewers to contemplate human relationships to the natural world. Using Rembrandt van Rijnâs etching of The Presentation in the Temple (c. 1640), Joseph Beuysâs social sculpture I Like America and America Likes Me (1974), archaic rock paintings at Horseshoe Canyon, Canyonlands National Park, and examples from contemporary art, this book demonstrates how artists across time and cultures employed animals to draw attention to the sensory experience of the composition and reflect upon the shared sensory awareness of the world.Trade Review"This book asks readers to take another look at the ways in which animals are represented in art and, in so doing, raises some important ethical and aesthetic considerations." – J. Keri Cronin, Brock University"Phenomenology has taught us much about how artworks trigger our perceptual capacities, but its ability to teach us about the possible ethical relationships between viewer and artwork has been less explored. In this original and thought-provoking study, Sutton explores such a possibility through the framework of the representation of dogs in art. Through such exploration, Sutton shows that our empathy with animals—and their empathy with us—has much to tell us about our empathy with artworks."- Matthew Bowman, University of Suffolk Table of ContentsTable of ContentsChapter 1. Relational Ethics and AestheticsBeing and Thinking With Art and AnimalsBetween Presence and Absence An Ethical Art HistoryChapter 2. Dogged Flesh: Rembrandt’s Presentation in the Temple, c. 1640 Real and Represented DogsRembrandt’s Three R’s: Radical, Reflective, RevelatoryThe Rhetoric of EtchingFleshly Experience Past Made PresentChapter 3. Glances with Wolves: Encounters with Little John and Joseph Beuys Entangled EncountersSeeing and Being with Little JohnPresencing Other WorldsImaginative EmpathyGathering Together in the GapChapter 4. Glimpses into the Unknown: Contemporary Taxidermy and Photography Spaces Between: Yellow and Taza Respecting UnknownsDominance, Submission, and Freedom: Inert and Progression of Regression Death and the Object (Ars longa vita brevis EST)From Hierarchy to HorizontalityChapter 5. "We Are All Connected": Experiencing Art and Nature at Horseshoe Canyon Guided by Dogs and Children"We Are All Connected"Dwelling with Dogs and Earth Accessing Histories with Attentive CareArt and Earth as Places of EmergenceChapter 6. Caring for Art and Animals
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Heideggerian Existential Therapy
Book SynopsisHeideggerian Existential Therapy focuses on Martin Heidegger's philosophy in order to provide both a wider accessibility as well as understanding of its relevance to therapeutic practice.This book unveils in great depth the core tenets of Heidegger's thinking, without presuming any philosophical background. It attends to the manner in which we inevitably undergo disruptions, disturbances, perturbations, breakdowns, and collapses in the course of our lives, and on the way in which they can be addressed and understood from an existential therapeutic perspective. The text covers Heidegger's ideas with illustrations and examples, in order to free them from the confines of philosophy in a way that then enables them to be brought directly into the therapy room. Each chapter takes the reader from an initial philosophical grounding of this approach towards a clear and concrete way of working existentially with clients.The text is primarily intended for trainee and practTrade Review‘This remarkable book by Mo Mandić is a major contribution to existential therapy from a Heideggerian perspective in its difference to other forms of therapy and an important further extension of Heidegger´s philosophy into the field of therapy. The book makes understandable the basic ideas of Heidegger´s existential analytic of Dasein, which inspired the work of both Binswanger and Boss in the last century, in their relevance for psychotherapy today. For Heidegger scholars, it is an important contribution to research into the relation of Heidegger´s thinking and its practical relevance. The author writes in a clear and accessible style which helps the reader to grasp also the more difficult topics in Heidegger´s understanding of the human being.’Alfred Denker, PhD, Director of the Martin-Heidegger-Archive, Messkirch; co-director of the Archivo-Heidegger, Seville.‘Martin Heidegger's impact upon the theory and practice of existential therapy is both wide-ranging and — for many therapists — close to inaccessible due to the originality (and complexity) of his radical philosophical arguments. Thankfully, Dr. Mo Mandić's Heideggerian Existential Therapy succeeds in teasing out key ideas and concerns in a highly accessible account that, nonetheless, retains a genuine Heideggerian spirit of enquiry. This is a book that calls into question many of the most foundational assumptions regarding both the aims and practice of therapy. Although of particular pertinence to existential therapists, I have no doubt that practitioners and trainees allied to any of the current approaches to psychotherapy and counselling will be both challenged and enlightened by Dr. Mandić's exposition.’Ernesto Spinelli, PhD, Professor, author of Practising Existential Therapy: The Relational World (2nd ed).‘Mo Mandić’s Heideggerian Existential Therapy: Philosophical Ideas in Practice is a welcome and important addition to the growing literature on Heideggerian therapy. However, rather than tread familiar ground, Mandić’s book advances our understanding of existential therapy on several fronts. Alongside serving an accessible overview of Heideggerian concepts, Heideggerian Existential Therapy also articulates in vivid clarity how these concepts can be situated in the centre of therapeutic practice. Interspersed with rich vignettes from a diverse range of case studies, the book sheds light on key issues such as breakdowns, identity, and dreaming. Destined to be a formative work within the genre, Heideggerian Existential Therapy is a must read for those interested and working within the existential tradition of therapy.’Dylan Trigg, PhD, FWF Senior Researcher at the University of Vienna, Department of Philosophy.Table of ContentsPART I: Introduction 1. The World of Therapy 2. Why Heidegger? 3. The Question of Human Existence 4. Human Existence and Existential Therapy 5. Methodological Considerations PART II: Dasein 6. Dasein 7. Dasein’s Way of Being PART II: Dasein’s Challenges 8. Disruptions, Ruptures, Disturbances, Breakdowns, Collapses 9. Existentiales and Breakdowns 10. Some Breakdowns in Therapy 11. Transitioning Breakdowns 12. A Cartesian Breakdown: Winnicott PART IV: Heideggerian Existential Therapy 13. Working Phenomenologically 14. Formal Indication as a Therapeutic Approach 15. Working Hermeneutically 16. Working Existentially 17. Working Existentially with Dreams
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Essays in Existential Psychoanalysis
Book SynopsisIn this brilliant and revolutionary collection of 14 major essays that draw from more than 25 years of painstaking research, M. Guy Thompson regales us with a stunning revisioning of conventional psychoanalysis that deepens our understanding of the human condition.Integrating the most seminal existentialist philosophers, including Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre, with the most forward-thinking psychoanalysts over the past century, including Freud, Laing, Bion, Winnicott, and Lacan, Thompson offers a profound yet deeply personal vision of what psychoanalysis can be in the 21st century. In this fascinating volume, Thompson explores such concepts as experience, authenticity, will, happiness, and agency by utilizing a wide range of thinkers, including the ancient Greeks, but always in his singular voice. Exquisitely lucid and engaging to read, Thompson deftly lures us into thoughtful and enlightening territory typically inaccessible to the general reader.This coTrade Review'Essays in Existential Psychoanalysis: On the Primacy of Authenticity draws together 14 major papers written by Michael Guy Thompson. Their aim is to reconsider various foundational themes and assumptions within psychoanalysis from the focus point of existential theory. Always exciting to read, they are uniformly and clearly argued and presented. Thompson is rightfully renowned as an original theorist whose writing is both accessible and challenging, as well as to the point and passionate. These essays are intended to provoke and illuminate. Not only do they achieve this aim, in my view they surpass it thanks to the author's mastery of the material under discussion and, not least, his genuine enthusiasm in offering fresh perspectives on both psychoanalysis and existentialism.'Professor Ernesto Spinelli, PhD, author of Practising Existential Therapy: The Relational World'A unqiue and absorbing development of key commonalities between existential and psychoanalytic apporaches to understanding clinical issues and the human condition. This book is a unique integration of existential philosophy and psychoanalysis, comprising Dr Thompson's nearly thirty years of painstaking publications that have developed this perspective. As an existential psychoanalyst, Thompson explores concepts such as experience, authenticity, will, and agency by utilizing a wide range of thinkers from the ancient Greeks through to Nietzche, Freud, Heidegger, Sartre, and Laing. His thought-provoking existential perspective on psychoanalytic concepts such as free association, neutrality and working through makes this an invaluable and distinctive contribution to existential psychoanalysis.'Douglas Kirsner, PhD, Emeritus Professor, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia; author of The Schizoid World of Jean-Paul Satre and R.D. Laing and Unfree Associations: Inside Psychoanalytic Institutes 'M. Guy Thompson knew and worked with some of the greats from the 20th century. Among these were R.D. Laing and Ernest Hemingway no less! And their influence is palpable. In this volume, Thompson's excursion through the interiors of existential psychoanalysis is exquisitely lucid and engaging—a revelation even to those of us schooled in its principles. Any reader wishing to understand the basis and importance of existential analysis in contemporary theory and practice simply must read this volume. With both passion and intimate experience, Thompson shows precisely why existential analysis still informs the bedrock of depth psychotherapy.'Kirk. J. Schneider, PhD, author of Life-Enhancing Anxiety: Key to a Sane World, The Psychology of Existence (with Rollo May), and Existential-Integrative Psychotherapy 'A fascinating, enlightening and stimulating exploration of the interface and intertwining of existential and psychoanalytic thinking. This book is strong in both its detailed analysis and overall vision and co-nourishing vistas of existential-psychoanalytic theory and practice, in support of our appreciative sense of lived experience.Michael Eigen, PhD, author of Contact with the Depths, The Sensitive Self, The Psychoanalytic Mystic, and Flames from the Unconscious 'The beauty of Thompson's approach, which he exemplifies throughout his book, lies in an emotional sensibility rather than just a theoretical doctrine. This rich text brings the existential sensibility to life in a manner that will be highly valuable to psychoanalytic therapists of all persusasions, as well as those who officially advocate existentialist thought.'Robert D. Stolorow, PhD, author of Trauma and Human Existence and The Power of Phenomenology: Psychoanalytic and Philosophical Perspectives'I know I am not alone in considering Michael Guy Thompson to be perhaps the best living exponent of existential psychoanalysis. Michael uniquely develops for us in the 21st century an unprecedented and compelling integration of continental philosophy and psychoanalysis. We are very fortunate to have so many of Thompson's key writings in one volume.'Professor Del Loewenthal, University of Roehampton and Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling (SAFPAC), UK, author of Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling After PostmodernismTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface: What Is the Existentialist Sensibility? 1. Sartre and Psychoanalysis: The Role of Freedom in the Clinical Encounter 2. Nietzsche and Psychoanalysis: The Fate of Authenticity in a Postmodernist World 3. Logos and Psychoanalysis: The Role of Truth and Creativity in Heidegger's Conception of Language 4. What Is the Will? On the Role of Desire in Psychoanalysis 5. Vicissitudes of Authenticity in the Psychoanalytic Situation 6. The Crisis of Experience in Contemporary Psychoanalysis 7. The Sceptic Dimension to Psychoanalysis 8. Happiness and Chance 9. Is the Unconscious Really all that Unconscious? 10. The Demise of the Person in the Psychoanalytic Situation 11. Deception, Mystification, Trauma: Laing and Freud 12. Free Association: A Technical Principle or Model for Psychoanalytic Education? 13. The Rule of Neutrality 14. The Existential Dimension to Working Through Index
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Taylor & Francis Latin American and Latinx Philosophy
Book SynopsisLatin American and Latinx Philosophy: A Collaborative Introduction is a beginnerâs guide to canonical texts in Latin American and Latinx philosophy, providing the non-specialist with necessary historical and philosophical context, and demonstrating their contemporary relevance. It is written in jargon-free prose for students and professors who are interested in the subject, but who donât know where to begin. Each of the twelve chapters, written by a leading scholar in the field, examines influential texts that are readily available in English and introduces the reader to a period, topic, movement, or school that taken together provide a broad overview of the history, nature, scope, and value of Latin American and Latinx philosophy. Although this volume is primarily intended for the reader without a background in the Latin American and Latinx tradition, specialists will also benefit from its many novelties, including an introduction to Aztec ethics; a critique of âœthe LatinTrade Review"A great new resource for present and future teachers and students about an exciting and important emerging field in philosophy." — Gregory Fernando Pappas, Editor-in-Chief of the Inter-American Journal of Philosophy (IJP), Texas A&M University, USA"Latin American and Latinx Philosophy fills a huge hole in our existing English language resources. The detail of the essays, the expansive coverage of topics, the superb philosophical analysis and the excellent introductory overviews will make this volume vital for everyone with an interest in this area. Bravo!" — Linda Martín Alcoff, Hunter College, USA"This is an appealing place for the interested reader to get started with some of the rich and fascinating episodes in the history of philosophy in Latin America, as well as some of the exciting recent work on Latinx philosophy in the U.S. The contributions map out an impressive cross-section of philosophical questions, historical periods, geographical regions, and methodological approaches. Throughout, the volume engages in an insightful discussion of the role of history, politics, and identity in the formation of philosophical traditions. It also advances the metaphilosophical debate concerning the self-conception of this emerging field." — Clinton Tolley and Manuel Vargas, The Mexican Philosophy Lab at UC San Diego, USATable of ContentsIntroductionRobert Eli Sanchez, Jr.Chapter 1: Philosophy without Europe James MaffieChapter 2: "The Indian Problem": Conquest and the Valladolid DebateAlejandro SantanaChapter 3: The Continental Struggle for Democracy: The American Wars of Independence as Experiments in JusticeJose-Antonio OroscoChapter 4: Nation-Building through Education: Positivism and its Transformations in MexicoAlexander V. StehnChapter 5: The Philosophy of Mexican CultureRobert Eli Sanchez, Jr.Chapter 6: Mexican ExistentialismCarlos Alberto SánchezChapter 7: Liberation PhilosophyGrant SilvaChapter 8: Latin American and Latinx FeminismsStephanie Rivera BerruzChapter 9: Indigenism in Peru and BoliviaKim DíazChapter 10: Latinx Philosophy and the Ethics of MigrationJosé Jorge MendozaChapter 11: Latinx IdentityAndrea PittsChapter 12: Metaphilosophy: Defining Latin American and Latinx PhilosophyLori Gallegos de Castillo and Francisco Gallegos
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Taylor & Francis Inc The Paradoxical Structure of Existence
Book SynopsisFor metaphysicians who have imbibed the sober and inebriating teachings of Thomas Aquinas, existence is an act, the act which makes all things actually to be. As the act of existence makes things to be, essence makes them to be what they are. Essence and the act of existence, in other words, are really distinct yet together they compose each of the things that are.Such an understanding involves a number of paradoxes, and Frederick D. Wilhelmsen''s articulation of them reveals his philosophical genius. These paradoxes include the fact that the act of existence does not exist, that it can be thought but not conceived by the mind, and that truths about God can be known while He himself remains absolutely unknown. Wilhelmsen argues the notion that the Christian faith and philosophical reason harmonize while remaining completely distinct from each other.Writing in a captivating style, Wilhelmsen begins with a discussion of the development, strengths, and limitations of the Table of ContentsForeword, Introduction to the Transaction Edition, Introduction, 1 The History of Being in Western Civilization: a Résumé, 2 The Problematic of Existence: a Parenthesis on Metaphysical Methodology, 3 St. Thomas Aquinas and an Introduction to the Metaphysics of Existence, 4 Reasoning about Existence, 5 The Domestication of the Nothing, 6 Existence as a “Towards God”, 7 The Human Person: Towards a Metaphysics of the Future, 8 Existence and History, 9 The Philosopher and the Myth, Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Phenomenology: Responses and Developments
Book SynopsisAfter Husserl, the study of phenomenology took off in different directions. The ambiguity inherent in phenomenology - between conscious experience and structural conditions - lent itself to a range of interpretations. Many existentialists developed phenomenology as conscious experience to analyse ethics and religion. Other phenomenologists developed notions of structural conditions to explore questions of science, mathematics, and conceptualization. "Phenomenology: Responses and Developments" covers all the major innovators in phenomenology - notably Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and the later Heidegger - and the major schools and issues. The volume also shows how phenomenological thinking encounters a limit, a limit most apparent in the aesthetical and hermeneutical development of phenomenology. The volume closes with an examination of the furthering of the division between analytic and continental philosophy.Table of ContentsSeries Preface; Introduction, Leonard Lawlor; 1. Dialectic, difference and the Other: the Hegelianizing of French phenomenology, John Russon; 2. Existentialism, S. K. Keltner & Samuel J. Julian; 3. Sartre and phenomenology, William L. McBride; 4. Continental aesthetics: phenomenology and antiphenomenology, Galen A. Johnson; 5. Merleau-Ponty at the limits of phenomenology, Mauro Carbone; 6. The hermeneutic transformation of phenomenology, Daniel L. Tate; 7. The later Heidegger, Dennis J. Schmidt; 8. Existential theology, Andreas Grossmann; 9. Religion and ethics, Felix O Murchadha; 10. The philosophy of the concept, Pierre Cassou-Nogues; 11. Analytic philosophy and continental philosophy: four confrontations, Dermot Moran
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Cambridge University Press Heideggers Concept of Truth
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