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 SynopsisThe “job system” for organizing work has only existed for around 200 years - since the industrial revolution. Always problematic, it now approaches collapse, and what follows, either for good or ill, depends on decisions made and executed in current times. Many people are filled with dismay, and turn for succor to political opportunists. Prescient of the looming disaster, Frithjof Bergmann began to devise alternatives to the job system in the 1970s. He started with the fostering of dialogue, about ameliorating the impacts of layoffs in times of recession, among the workforce in the auto industry and community, in Flint, Michigan. What has evolved, over years, is his proposed alternative to the job system. New Work, New Culture recounts the development of his ideas, and describes one course which humanity might follow, that all might live better lives.

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Book SynopsisNarrating some lesser known episodes from the deep history of digital machines, Alexander R. Galloway explains the technology that drives the world today, and the fascinating people who brought these machines to life. With an eye to both the computable and the uncomputable, Galloway shows how computation emerges or fails to emerge, how the digital thrives but also atrophies, how networks interconnect while also fray and fall apart. By re-building obsolete technology using today's software, the past comes to light in new ways, from intricate algebraic patterns woven on a hand loom, to striking artificial-life simulations, to war games and back boxes. A description of the past, this book is also an assessment of all that remains uncomputable as we continue to live in the aftermath of the long digital age.Trade ReviewGalloway's work is conceptually sharp, visually compelling and completely attuned to the political moment. * New York Times *An engaging methodological hybrid of the Frankfurt School and UNIX for Dummies. Galloway brings the uncool question of morality back into critical thinking. * Village Voice *Praise for Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture:This is contemporary media theory at its best. -- Lev Manovich, Professor of Computer Science, CUNY Graduate CenterThe Interface Effect builds on the work of Marxist critical theorists such as Fredric Jameson, new media scholars such as Wendy Chun, and Galloway's own work in earlier books such as Protocol. An interface, for him, becomes a technique for thought: an 'allegorical device' that makes the social world accessible in an age of information. The Interface Effect raises many critical questions about the ways that contemporary human beings mediate a historical present that invariably eludes us. * Los Angeles Review of Books *Employing a sustained, powerful methodology, The Interface Effect sparkles with original insights. Galloway is interested not only in the effects that interfaces have, but also in them as themselves the results of cultural, technological, economic, and political forces. This double movement provides a way to connect the historical with the political, and the technological with both. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in new media studies, contemporary theory, and digital technologies. -- N. Katherine Hayles, Professor of Literature, Duke UniversityGalloway's theorisation of the computer as a mode of mediation offers rich possibilities for the critical analysis of the digital. * Radical Philosophy *The Interface Effect fuses sophisticated contemporary theory with a detailed knowledge of the technics and techniques of digital media. Galloway is an important voice, and the book is sure to have a wide uptake among those interested in new media theory and contemporary aesthetics. -- Jodi Dean, Professor of Political Science, Hobart and William Smith CollegesPraise for The Exploit:Essential reading for all theorists, artists, activists, techheads, and hackers of the Net. -- McKenzie Wark, Professor of Culture and Media, The New SchoolAlexander Galloway's Uncomputable is a brilliant counter-history of some of the technological worlds we are all currently inhabiting. In this enthralling genealogy of computation, we encounter a refreshingly unfamiliar constellation of marginalized or overlooked practices, theories, artifacts and individual innovators. -- Jonathan CraryHow to translate political struggle into algorithm? How to transpose material entanglement into executable operations? What is the relation between passion, heartbreak and mathematics and what are the losses incurred by moving in-between them? Alexander Galloway's intelligent and delicate treatise draws out the tensions between matter and thought, the invisible and the sharp impact of historical manifestation, the palpable and the operational and these other, unspeakable things and situations, that keep evading through the cracks, shining. -- Hito SteyerlThrough a series of wonderfully surprising hidden histories of computation, Galloway provides a radically different perspective on the digital age and computational media, illuminating its limitations and its possibilities. -- Michael HardtAt a historical moment characterized by totalizing forms of data-capture, rabid machine learning algorithms, and the colonization of everyday life by the logics of computation and capital, Galloway asks a pointed question: "What if things were otherwise?" Using case studies from across the arts, humanities, and sciences, Uncomputable shows the alternate pathways of history, and provides a glimpse towards a theory, practice, and politics of radical refusal whose timeliness could not be more relevant. -- Trevor Paglen

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Book SynopsisRichard Appignanesi goes on a personal quest of Existentialism in its original state. He begins with Camus' question of suicide: 'Must life have a meaning to be lived?' Is absurdity at the heart of Existentialism? Or is Sartre right: is Existentialism 'the least scandalous, most technically austere' of all teachings? This brilliant Graphic Guide explores Existentialism in a unique comic book-style.

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Book SynopsisDaseinsanalysis - the psychiatric and psychotherapeutic school of thought founded by Ludwig Binswanger and Medard Boss in the 1940s - had a huge impact on the development of existential therapies in the English-speaking world. This highly stimulating and lucid book gives a critical overview of the daseinsanalytic concepts of Binswanger and Boss and explains their key differences despite the common reference to Freudian psychoanalysis and the Heideggerian philosophy from which daseinsanalysis took its name. The author gives a systematic account of a new approach to mental suffering based on Kierkegaard, Heidegger and Sartre that never loses sight of Freud's fundamental insight into the hidden meaning of apparently senseless neurotic symptoms. She goes on to demonstrate that mental suffering is a 'suffering from our own being' and the mentally suffering patient is an individual overwhelmed by frightening experiences of the finitude and frailty of the human condition that can neither be suppressed nor tolerated. Finally, the author considers the therapeutic implications of the existential view of mental suffering and concludes that Freud's three technical rules provide the optimal conditions for understanding and engaging with these baffling existential experiences.Trade Review'There are few truly thought-provoking books - this is one that draws on an extensive knowledge not only of daseinsanalysis but also psychoanalysis and 20th-century philosophy'. - Joachim Kuchenhoff, MD, Professor of Psychiatry and Psychoanalyst, Basel Switzerland

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Book SynopsisThis book covers Husserl’s stance on the philosopher and the history of philosophy, whether or not such a history is part of the philosophical attitude itself, and if so, how Husserl’s phenomenology might weigh in on such matters. Firstly, this text spells out some of the manifold ways in which the history of philosophy works its way in Husserl’s phenomenology, showing how concepts, methods and problems drawn from various Ancient and Modern philosophical traditions (Platonism, Aristotelianism, Sophistry, Stoicism, Scholasticism, Modern Rationalism) are transformed and embedded within transcendental phenomenology itself. Secondly, it shows how a better understanding of the distinctive patterns by means of which Husserl’s phenomenology confronts the history of philosophy could be extremely significant for historians of philosophy who are interested in learning something entirely new about the unexplored horizons of such concepts, methods and problems. Finally, based on such twofold historical and philosophical approach and thanks to a substantial reinterpretation of some key phenomenological concepts such as “multiplicity”, “constitution”, “attitude” and “variation”, this book provides a novel and original reading of Husserl’s overall philosophical project in its full meaning and scope. By doing so, this volume appeals to both students and researchers and critically engages in mainstream interpretations of phenomenology, suggesting a unique take on the idea of transcendental phenomenology as a whole.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- 1. The invention of infinity? On some provisional questions.- Part I: Openings.- 2. Multiplicity, manifolds and varieties of constitution. A manifesto.- 3. The reach of attitudes.- Part II: Maps.- 4. Individuum and region of being. On the unifying principle of a “headless” ontology.- 5. Mapping ontology and its boundaries.- Part III: Worlds and Unworlds.- 6. “Until the end of the world”. On eidetic variation and absolute being of consciousness.- 7. Within and beyond productive imagination. A historical-critical inquiry into phenomenology.- Part IV: Paths.- 8. The vicissitudes of the improper.- 9. Back to the meanings themselves (and away from the Noema). On phenomenology and the Stoic doctrine of the lekton.- Part V: Infinity.- 10. Plato’s light and Gorgias’s shadow. On the manifold “beginnings” of philosophy.- 11. The Infinite Academy. On how to be a Platonist with some (Aristotelian?) help.- Conclusion.- 12. The invenvion of infinity. On a tentative answer.

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Book SynopsisANTHROPOCENE AND CRITICAL PHENOMENOLOGY. CRITICAL PHENOMENOLOGY AFTER MERLEAU-PONTY (PART II). AROUND MERLEAU-PONTY. TEXTS BY Nicola Banwell, Gael Caignard, Myriam Coté, Stanislas De Courville, Gianluca De Fazio, Elena De Silvestri, Luca Fabbris, Emmanuel Falque, Giovanni Fava, Lisa Guenther, Galen A. Johnson, Rajiv Kaushik, Corinne Lajoie, Emily S. Lee, Federico Leoni, Paolo Missiroli, Cinzia Orlando, Pietro Pasquinucci, Marie-Anne Perreault, Stéphanie Perruchoud, Andrea Pitts, Joel Michael Reynolds, Camille Roelens, Tristana Martin Rubio, Davide Scarso, Alessandra Scotti, Jenny Slatman, Bryan Smyth, Ted Toadvine

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Book SynopsisJudith Butler shows how COVID-19 and all its consequencespolitical, social, ecological, economicchallenge us to develop a new account of interdependency. Butler argues for a radical social equality and advocates modes of resistance that seek to establish new conditions of livability and a new sense of a shared world.Trade ReviewThrough a thorough philosophical accounting of the moral imperatives of living in a globalized society, Butler makes a rousing case for pushing progressive policies as a response to the disruptions of the pandemic. Thoughtful and profound, this hits the mark. * Publishers Weekly *By investigating the world's disunity, Butler provides an excellent text where readers can reflect on how the pandemic affected us all and what it revealed about the nature of our national and global realities. . . Butler challenges readers to think more deeply about how they share their physical and social space with other humans to assemble a more interconnected and livable world. * Philosophy in Review *'Death and illness have been quite literally in the air,' writes Judith Butler in this stunningly poignant study. Phenomenology, they argue, speaks to moments when, every now and then, many, if not all of us, are reminded of the eventual end of the world, and, even more, worlds. That harbinger knocks at the door in 'this' world in which 'all' now at least attempt, despite and even because of tragedy, to live. Addressing the pan-demos, the people everywhere and our interconnectedness, permeability, and irreplaceability, Butler challenges the hubris of imagined protection from the 'external' and articulates the ebb, flow, fragility, and precarity of life beyond idols—beyond, in their word, 'pretense'—of self-sustained and hoarded power. In the spirit of repair, they ask us to embrace responsibility for conditions of radical equality and nonviolence on which livable lives depend, a common world of the symbiosis of breath and touch in the sociality of life. A beautiful and profound offering for our times and beyond. -- Lewis R. Gordon, author of Fear of Black ConsciousnessA thoughtful meditation on what it means to share a world with others in a time of global pandemic and climate change, from a philosopher who has already taught us so much about livable and grievable lives. This book offers a deeply human perspective on life at the edge of disaster. -- Lisa Guenther, author of Solitary Confinement: Social Death and its AfterlivesIn this remarkable meditation, Judith Butler draws together the key strands of their thought—from bodies that matter to melancholia to grievability to nonviolence—and offers a manifesto for our time. Turning to phenomenology, they make the urgent case for a new form of global responsibility based on the deepest entwinement of everyone to each other, to the earth we live on, and to the air we breathe. Nobody else could have made it. What World Is This? offers hope in a cruel and endangered world. -- Jacqueline Rose, author of On Violence and On Violence Against WomenIn this timely and important book, Butler pays careful attention to the specifics of our contemporary situation with startling clarity, bringing their inimitable voice and philosophical resources to the questions of what it means for life to be livable, what it means for the earth to be inhabitable, what it means for an entity to be grievable, and the ways the COVID-19 pandemic has cast these questions into relief, at the same time marking how intimately entwined with each other they are. -- Amy Hollywood, author of Acute Melancholia and Other Essays: Mysticism, History, and the Study of ReligionTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Senses of the World: Scheler and Merleau-Ponty2. Powers in the Pandemic: Reflections on Restricted Life3. Intertwining as Ethics and Politics4. Grievability for the LivingPostscript: TransformationsNotesIndex

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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 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 in The Complete Works presents the first English translations of Nietzsche's unpublished notebooks from Winter 1874/1875 through 1878, the period in which he developed the mixed aphoristic-essayistic mode that continued across the rest of his career. These notebooks comprise a range of different materials, including early drafts and near-final versions of aphorisms that would appear in both volumes of Human, All Too Human. Additionally, there are extensive notes for a never-completed Unfashionable Observation that was to be titled "We Philologists," early drafts for the final sections of "Richard Wagner in Bayreuth," plans for other possible publications, and detailed reading notes on philologists, philosophers, and historians of his era, including Friedrich August Wolf, Eugen Dühring, and Jacob Burckhardt. Through this volume, readers gain insight into Nietzsche's emerging sense of himself as a composer of complexly orchestrated, stylistically innovative philosophical meditations—influenced by, but moving well beyond, the modes used by aphoristic precursors such as Goethe, La Rochefoucauld, Vauvenargues, and Schopenhauer. Further, these notebooks allow readers to trace more closely Nietzsche's development of ideas that remain central to his mature philosophy, such as the contrast between free and constrained spirits, the interplay of national, supra-national, and personal identities, and the cultural centrality of the process of Bildung as formation, education, and cultivation. With this latest book in the series, Stanford continues its English-language publication of the famed Colli-Montinari edition of Nietzsche's complete works, which include the philosopher's notebooks and early unpublished writings. Scrupulously edited so as to establish a new standard for the field, each volume includes an Afterword that presents and contextualizes the material it contains.

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Book SynopsisAnyone who has ever experienced a sporting event in a large stadium knows the energy that emanates from stands full of fans cheering on their teams. Although "the masses" have long held a thoroughly bad reputation in politics and culture, literary critic and avid sports fan Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht finds powerful, as yet unexplored reasons to sing the praises of crowds. Drawing on his experiences as a spectator in the stadiums of South America, Germany, and the US, Gumbrecht presents the stadium as "a ritual of intensity," thereby offering a different lens through which we might capture and even appreciate the dynamic of the masses. In presenting this alternate view, Gumbrecht enters into conversation with thinkers who were more critical of the potential of the masses, such as Gustave Le Bon, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, José Ortega y Gasset, Elias Canetti, Siegfried Kracauer, T. W. Adorno, or Max Horkheimer. A preface explores college crowds as a uniquely specific phenomenon of American culture. Pairing philosophical rigor with the enthusiasm of a true fan, Gumbrecht writes from the inside and suggests that being part of a crowd opens us up to an experience beyond ourselves.Trade Review"A wild, entertaining ride from Maradona to Nietzsche, from the Russian Revolution to the Boston Tea Party, from Jesus to Karl Marx." —Neue Zürcher Zeitung"[Gumbrecht's] new book takes an empathetic look at the elation of fans like me, on nights like the one I experienced eight years ago [at the Pittsurgh Pirates playoff game against the Cincinnati Reds]. In a synoptic history, Gumbrecht explores both fear of crowds, of their violence and unreason—going back, via Freud and José Ortega y Gasset, to Gustave Le Bon's Psychologie des Foules in 1895—and implausible hopes for their political efficacy, from the French Revolution to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Arab Spring."—Keiran Setiya, Times Literary Supplement"Seamlessly weav[es] together philosophy, theology, history, politics, and culture with ethnographic participant observation and personal experience... What the book lacks in length, it more than makes up for in its ability to advance readers' theoretical and conceptual understanding of what transpires in so many of the grand settings in which culture is experienced, expressed, consumed, and re-created. As people accept that COVID-19 is here to stay but nevertheless feel the urge to return to normal life and reconvene againen masse, the lessons articulated in this book will be invaluable to sociologists, historians, philosophers, and all scholars who study sport spectatorship and popular-culture fandom. Highly recommended."—J. R. Mitrano, CHOICE"This small, delightful, and passionate book didn't require the evacuation of crowds from sports stadiums in 2020 to come into being and to make its case. But the ghostly and ghastly memory of empty stadiums during the early pandemic supplies any reading of Gumbrecht's series of energetic essays with a lens that magnifies most of his at once playful and utterly serious claims."—Lutz Koepnick, The German QuarterlyTable of ContentsAbout the Present and the Presence of Crowds: Preface to the English Translation of a German Book 1. Empty Stadiums 2. Stadium-Masses 3. The Contempt for the Masses 4. Masses of the Past 5. In the Crowd—Laterally: Swarms, Mirror Neurons, Primates 6. In the Crowd—Vertically: Mystical Bodies, Intensity, Transfiguration 7. The Stadium as Ritual of the Crowd 8. "You'll Never Walk Alone": Dortmund, March 13, 2016

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Book SynopsisThe first communication between human beings, the one between the newborn and the mother, happens through touch. And yet touching and being touched means experiencing ourselves as living beings.

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Book SynopsisA foundational text by Eugene Gendlin, increasingly recognised as one of the most original contemporary thinkers, A Process Model demonstrates how human behaving, perceiving, speaking, and everyday living arise from body-environment interaction. Gendlin creates ""an alternative model in which we define living bodies in such a way that one of them can be ours.

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Book Synopsis"Faithful to the original Danish text and eminently readable, Jech''s translation of Fear and Trembling admirably communicates the literary qualities of Kierkegaard''s text, as well as his occasional fits of inspiration. Jech displays an unusual sensitivity not only to the literary/linguistic qualities of Kierkegaard?s prose, but also to his (often realized) aspirations to philosophical precision. As presented by Jech, Kierkegaard is not simply a gifted writer and speculative theologian dabbling in philosophy, but a philosopher concerned to limn the optimal role of philosophical reflection, and to do so experimentally, especially with respect to matters of morality and faith. The translation is furthermore supplemented by very helpful explanatory notes that convey Kierkegaard?s own erudition and the multiple influences upon his thinking. The Historical Glossary will become a valuable reference tool for students and scholars of Kierkegaard?s writings. It is likely to play a welcome role in encouraging an improved understanding of what Kierkegaard means when he employs his idiosyncratic categories, allusions, and vocabulary." ?Daniel Conway, Professor of Philosophy and Humanities, Texas A&M University

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Book SynopsisStructural Existential Analysis (SEA) is a qualitative research method which uses an existential-phenomenological framework that has been developed through decades of therapeutic and research practice. This book describes the method of SEA and how to apply it to qualitative research.The book starts with a detailed description of the existential underpinnings of SEA, drawing on a range of phenomenologists, to demonstrate the need for a phenomenology of interiority. The method is described in full, explaining the use of a specific form of self-reflection (SOAR) and of the Existential Research Dialogue. The second part focuses on the analysis of the research data. A full description is given of each of the filters, in terms of their origin, their meaning and of the specific ways in which they are applied. The text is enlivened by ample examples demonstrating how the filters can be used and how the analysis can draw out different aspects of human experience throughout the process

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Book SynopsisMeditation techniques, including mindfulness, have become popular wellbeing practices and the scientific study of their effects has recently turned 50 years old. But how much do we know about them: what were they developed for and by whom? How similar or different are they, how effective can they be in changing our minds and biology, what are their social and ethical implications?The Oxford Handbook of Meditation is the most comprehensive volume published on meditation, written in accessible language by world-leading experts on the science and history of these techniques. It covers the development of meditation across the world and the varieties of its practices and experiences. It includes approaches from various disciplines, including psychology, neuroscience, history, anthropology, and sociology and it explores its potential for therapeutic and social change, as well as unusual or negative effects. Edited by practitioner-researchers, this book is the ultimate guide for all interested in meditation, including teachers, clinicians, therapists, researchers, or anyone who would like to learn more about this topic.Trade ReviewThe Oxford Handbook of Meditation offers ample resources that provide a useful overview of important questions currently being discussed in the field of meditation studies: the promise and limits of empirical research, the possibility of a transcultural science of meditation (and the risks necessarily involved in such a project), and comparative concerns about "meditation" across cultural and disciplinary boundaries. It can serve as an introduction to the field of meditation studies as well as provide direction for future research. Serious readers will no doubt agree that the Handbook successfully follows through on its promise to feed the wonder and desire to know of a wide audience of specialists and non-specialists alike. * Journal of Contemplative Studies *Table of ContentsForeword Part I. Overview 1: Miguel Farias, David Brazier, & Mansur Lalljee: Understanding and studying meditation 2: Richard King: Meditation and the Modern Encounter between Asia and the West 3: Doug Oman: Studying the Effects of Meditation: The First Fifty Years Part II. Meditation across the World's Traditions 4: Gavin Flood: Hinduism and Meditation: Tantra 5: Bjarne Wernicke-Olesen: Hinduism and Meditation: Yoga 6: Tomer Persico: Judaism and Meditation 7: Martin Laird: Western Christianity and Meditation 8: Cyril Hovorun: Eastern Christianity and Meditation 9: Scott Kugle: Meditation in the Islamic Tradition 10: Sarah Shaw: Theravada Buddhism and Meditation 11: Caifang Zhu: Chan Buddhism and Meditation 12: Georgios Halkias: Buddhist Meditation in Tibet: Exoteric and Esoteric Orientations 13: Harold Roth: Classical Daoist Meditation: 400-100 B.C.E 14: Louis Komjathy: Daoist Meditation: From 100 CE to the Present Part III. Varieties of Meditative Practices and Experiences 15: Nobuyoshi Yamabe: Concentration and Visualization Techniques in Buddhist Meditation 16: Carlos do Carmo Silva: The Phenomenology of Meditation: Commonalities and Divergences between Christian Meditatio and Hindu Dhy?na 17: Jessica Frazier: The Self in Meditation: The art of self-transformation 18: Ayesha Nathoo: Relaxation and Meditation Part IV. Approaches to the Study of Meditation Biology and Neuroscience 19: Kieran C. R. Fox and B. Rael Cahn: Meditation and the brain 20: Dusana Dorjee: Psychophysiology of Meditation Psychology 21: Tim Lomas: Meditation and emotion 22: Ivana Buric & Inti Brazil: Individual differences in meditation outcomes 23: Peter Sedlmeier and Kunchapudi SrinivasDR: Psychological Theories of Meditation in Early Buddhism and S??khya/Yoga Sociology 24: Michal Pagis: The sociology of meditation 25: Conrad Hackett: The demographics of meditation in the United States Anthropology 26: Manu Bazzano: Meditation and the post-secular condition 27: Douglas E. Christie: Christian Contemplative Thought and Practice in the Contemporary World 28: Masoumeh Rahmani: Goenka's Vipassana Movement: From Conversion to Disaffiliation 29: Caroline Starkey: Meditation in Contemporary Monastic Life Part V. Individual and Social Change through Meditation Therapeutic Applications 30: Patricia Lynn Dobkin and Kaveh Monshat: Mental Illness Through the Lens of Mindfulness 31: Madhav Goyal and Heather L. Rusch: Mindfulness-based interventions in the treatment of physical conditions 32: David Orme-Johnson: Transcendental Meditation in the treatment of mental and physical conditions 33: David Brazier: Zen Therapy Social Change 34: Ann Gleig: Enacting Social Change Through Meditation 35: Candy Gunther Brown: Meditation and Education 36: Katherine M. Auty: Meditation in Prison Part VI. Debates and Controversies in Meditation 37: Jared R. Lindahl, Willoughby B. Britton, David J. Cooper, Laurence J. Kirmayer: Challenging and Adverse Meditation Experiences: Toward A Person-Centered Approach 38: Nathan Fisher: The Dark Nights of the Soul in Abrahamic Meditative Traditions 39: Juhn Y. Ahn: Meditation sickness 40: Brian Victoria: Meditation to kill and be killed by The Use of Sam?dhi Power (???) in Imperial Japan 41: Ron Purser and David Lewis: Neuroscience and meditation: Help or hindrance? 42: Etzel Cardeña: Meditation, Exceptional Psychophysiological Control, and Parapsychology 43: Deane H. 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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 SynopsisIn this essential early work, the preeminent European philosopher Peter Sloterdijk offers a cross-cultural and transdisciplinary meditation on humanity''s tendency to refuse the world.Developing the first seeds of his anthropotechnics, Sloterdijk theorizes consciousness as a medium, tuned and retuned over the course of technological and social history. His subject here is the world-alien (Weltfremdheit) in man that was formerly institutionalized in religions, but is increasingly dealt with in modern times through practices of psychotherapy. Originally written in 1993, this almost clairvoyant work examines how humans seek escape from the world in cross-cultural and historical context, up to the mania and world-escapism of our cybernetic network culture. Chapters delve into artificial habitats and forms of intoxication, from early Christian desert monks to pharmaco-theology through psychedelics. In classic form, Sloterdijk recalibrates and reinvents concepts from the anc

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Book SynopsisA study of violence and the image in the work of Bataille, Agamben and Girard, thinkers who aim to explain the basis of society and culture in the context of power and the sacred.

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Book SynopsisStephen Mulhall explores how J. M. Coetzee's 'Jesus' Trilogy engages with themes drawn from Wittgenstein's later philosophy, and how Wittgenstein's and Coetzee's thought relates to the critique of modernity elaborated in the work of Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre.Table of ContentsIntroduction Acknowledgements Part One Novilla: The Deviant Pupil Part Two Estrella: The Marionette Part Three Estrella: The Orphan Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFeelings of Being is the first ever account of the nature, role and variety of ''existential feelings'' in psychiatric illness and in everyday life. There is a great deal of current philosophical and scientific interest in emotional feelings. However, many of the feelings that people struggle to express in their everyday lives do not appear on standard lists of emotions. For example, there are feelings of unreality, surreality, unfamiliarity, estrangement, heightened existence, isolation, emptiness, belonging, significance, insignificance, and the list goes on. Ratcliffe refers to such feelings as ''existential'' because they comprise a changeable sense of being part of a worldIn this book, Ratcliffe argues that existential feelings form a distinctive group by virtue of three characteristics: they are bodily feelings, they constitute ways of relating to the world as a whole, and they are responsible for our sense of reality. He explains how something can be a bodily feeling and, at theTrade ReviewThis book is for those who wonder about normal and pathological existential experiences. Clinicians who have time to pursue philosophy will be enriched. * Patricia E. Murphy. PhD (Rush University Medical Center) *Ratcliffe deserves credit for drawing attention to a shortcoming in the discussion of emotions and feelings and for providing an importance corrective to this tendency. * Phenom Cogn Sci *Table of ContentsPART I - THE STRUCTURE OF EXISTENTIAL FEELING; PART II - VARIETIES OF EXISTENTIAL FEELING IN PSYCHIATRIC ILLNESS; PART III - EXISTENTIAL FEELING AND PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT

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Book SynopsisReconsidering the dynamics of perceptionUsing cinema to explore the visual aspects of alterity, Randall Halle analyzes how we become cognizant of each other and how we perceive and judge another person in a visual field. Halle draws on insights from philosophy and recent developments in cognitive and neuroscience to argue that there is no pure natural sight. We always see in a particular way, from a particular vantage point, and through a specific apparatus, and Halle shows how human beings have used cinema to experiment with the apparatus of seeing for over a century. Visual alterity goes beyond seeing difference to being conscious of how one sees difference. Investigating the process allows us to move from mere perception to apperception, or conscious perception. Innovative and insightful, Visual Alterity merges film theory with philosophy and cutting-edge science to propose new ways of perceiving and knowing.Trade Review"Visual Alterity offers a theoretically sophisticated and incisive analysis of seeing, apprehending difference and moving image technology that challenges long-established assumptions. Kaleidoscopic in scope and deft in argument, Randall Halle’s pathbreaking book makes an important contribution to the fields of visual and alterity studies."--Daniela Berghahn, author of Far-Flung Families in Film: The Diasporic Family in Contemporary European Cinema

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Book SynopsisThis book, first published in 1951, discusses the fundamental concepts which have crystallized around the fatal âcrisisâ. It proceeds by critically examining the theories which, from Kierkegaard to Heidegger, Sartre and their associates, have placed Existentialism in the focus of philosophical thought. Table of Contents1. What is Existence? 2. Nothingness Astir 3. Estrangement 4. Subjective Truth 5. Gravediggers at Work 6. Condemned to be Free 7. The Crisis of the Drama 8. Illumination through Anguish 9. Beyond Crisis

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Book SynopsisPhenomenology was one of the twentieth centuryâs major philosophical movements, and it continues to be a vibrant and widely studied subject today with relevance beyond philosophy in areas such as medicine and cognitive sciences.The Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy is an outstanding guide to this important and fascinating topic. Its focus on phenomenologyâs historical and systematic dimensions makes it a unique and valuable reference source. Moreover, its innovative approach includes entries that donât simply reflect the state-of-the-art but in many cases advance it.Comprising seventy-five chapters by a team of international contributors, the Handbook offers unparalleled coverage and discussion of the subject, and is divided into five clear parts:â Phenomenology and the history of philosophyâ Issues and concepts in phenomenologyâ Major figures in phenomenologyâ Intersectionsâ Phenomenology in the world.Essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy studying phenomenology, The Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy is also suitable for those in related disciplines such as psychology, religion, literature, sociology and anthropology.Trade Review"This volume arguably represents the most ambitious and complete attempt until today to collect in a uniform form a series of highly qualified contributions on the entire spectrum of phenomenological philosophy. Given the peculiar character of each entry of this Handbook, it will be no surprise if the text will be taken as a useful guide by students entering for the first time in the difficult terrain of phenomenology as well as by experienced scholars." - Gabriele Baratelli, Phenomenological ReviewsTable of ContentsIntroduction D. De Santis, B. Hopkins and C. Majolino Part 1: Phenomenology and the History of Philosophy 1. The History of the Phenomenological Movement P.-J. Renaudie 2. Phenomenology and Greek Philosophy B. Hopkins 3. Phenomenology and Medieval Philosophy F. V. Tommasi 4. Phenomenology and the Cartesian Tradition E. Mehl 5. Phenomenology and British Empiricism V. De Palma 6. Phenomenology and German Idealism Th. Seebohm 7. Phenomenology and Austrian Philosophy C. Ierna Part 2: Issues and Concepts in Phenomenology 8. Aesthetics and Art F. Vassiliou 9. Body M. Doyon, M. Wehrle 10. Consciousness W. Hopp 11. Crisis E. Trizio 12. Dasein D. Dahlstrom 13. Ego M. Shim 14. Eidetic Method D. De Santis 15. Ethics J. Drummond 16. Existence E. Mariani 17. Genesis P. Alves 18. Horizon S. Geniusas 19. Imagination and Fantasy J. Jansen 20. Instinct Nam-In Lee 21. Intentionality B. Hopkins 22. Intersubjectivity and Sociality J. Čapek, T. Matějčková 23. Life-World L. Perreau 24. Mathematics V. Gérard 25. Monad A. Altobrando 26. Mood and Emotions O. Švec 27. Nothingness K.-Y. Lau 28. Ontology, Metaphysics, First Philosophy V. Gérard 29. Perception W. Hopp 30. Phenomenon A. Dijan and C. Majolino 31. Reduction A. Staiti 32. Synthesis J. Rump 33. Transcendental J. Dodd 34. Theory of Knowledge E. Trizio 35. Time N. De Warren 36. Truth and Evidence G. Heffernan 37. Variation D. De Santis 38. World K. Novotný Part 3: Major Figures in Phenomenology 39. Hannah Arendt S. Loidolt 40. Simone de Beauvoir Ch. Daigle 41. Franz Brentano A. Chrudzimski 42. Eugen Fink R. Lazzari 43. Aron Gurwitsch M. Barber and O. Wiegand 44. Martin Heidegger D. Dahlstrom 45. Michel Henry P. Lorelle 46. Edmund Husserl B. Hopkins 47. Roman Ingarden G. Bacigalupo 48. Jacob Klein B. Hopkins 49. Ludwig Landgrebe I. Quepons 50. Emmanuel LevinasR. Moati 51. Maurice Merleau-Ponty P. Burke 52. Enzo Paci M. Ferri 53. Jan Patočka R. Paparusso 54. Adolf Reinach M. Tedeschini 55. Jean-Paul Sartre N. Masselot 56. Max Scheler P. Theodorou 57. Alfred Schutz M. Barber 58. Edith Stein A. Calcagno 59. Trân Duc Thao J. Melançon Part 4: Intersections 60. Phenomenology and Analytic Philosophy G. Fréchette 61. Phenomenology and Cognitive Sciences J. Yoshimi 62. Phenomenology and Critical Theory A. Procyshyn 63. Phenomenology and Deconstruction M. Senatore 64. Phenomenology and Hermeneutics J. Risser 65. Phenomenology and Medicine V. Bizzarri 66. Phenomenology and Philosophy of Science E. Trizio 67. Phenomenology and Political Theory E. Jolly 68. Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis P. Giampieri-Deutsch 69. Phenomenology and Religion S. Bancalari 70. Phenomenology and Structuralism K.-Y. Lau Part 5: Phenomenology in the World 71. Africa B. Ndoye 72. Australia and New Zealand E. Copelj and J. Reynolds 73. Eastern Asia S. Ebersolt, T.-h. Kim and C.-s. Han 74. Latin America R. Rizo-Patron 75. North America S. Crowell and R. Parker Appendix 76. Family Tree C. Ierna. Index

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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 SynopsisThe Phenomenology Reader is the first comprehensive anthology of seminal writings in phenomenology. Carefully selected readings chart phenomenology''s most famous thinkers, such as Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre and Derrida, as well as less well known figures such as Stein and Scheler. Ideal for introductory courses in phenomenology and continental philosophy, The Phenomenology Reader provides a comprehensive introduction to one of the most influential movements in twentieth-century philosophy.Trade Review'Clearly the product of serious thinking and a significant contribution ... the anthology is exemplary in its comprehensiveness, accessibility and its combination of informative discussion with critical evaluation.' - Critical and Cultural Theory'In addition to such central figures as Brentano, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and Gadamer, this book also contains clear introductions to, and useful excerpts from Reinach, Scheler, Stein, de Beauvoir, Arendt, Derrida, and Ricoeur. The result is a rich, informative, reliable, and highly readable guide to phenomenology from its inception to the present day.' - David Bell, Sheffield University'A judiciously selected and carefully edited series of readings in phenomenology. It will make an ideal sourcebook for students and an excellent textbook for teachers.' - Simon Critchley, University of Essex'Clearly the product of serious thinking and a significant contribution ... the anthology is exemplary in its comprehensiveness, accessibility and its combination of informative discussion with critical evaluation.' - Critical and Cultural TheoryTable of Contents1. Franz Brentano: Intentionality and the Project of Descriptive Psychology 2. Edmund Husserl: Founder of Phenomenology 3. Adolf Reinach: The Phenomenology of Social Acts 4. Max Scheler: Phenomenology of the Person 5. Edith Stein: Phenomenology and the Interpersonal 6. Martin Heidegger: Hermeneutical Phenomenology and Fundamental Ontology 7. Hans-Georg Gadamer: Phenomenology, Hermeneutics and Tradition 8. Hannah Arendt: Phenomenology of the Public World 9. Jean-Paul Sartre: Transendence and Freedom 10. Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Embodied Perception 11. Simone de Beauvoir: Phenomenology and Feminism 12. Emmanuel Levinas: The Primacy of the Other 13. Jacques Derrida: Phenomenology and Deconstruction 14. Paul Ricoeur: Phenomenology as Interpretation

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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 SynopsisInaugural Study.- Origins of Life and the New Critique of Reason: The Primogenital Generative Matrix.- Overture the Tree of Life in Aesthetic Inspiration.- Leonardo's Sala delle Asse and Sullivan's Organic Architecture.- Creative Timber: Poets and Trees.- The Tree of the Credo: Symbolism of the Tree in Medieval Images of the Christian Creed.- Section I The Dialogue Between Life Sciences and Philosophy.- The Origin of Life: Individuation and Evolutionism.- On the Metaphysical Foundations of Life.- Creative Emergence and Complexity Theory.- Contemporary Life Sciences and the Scientific Worldview.- On Some Problems Concerning Observation of Biological Systems.- Life-Space and Life-World: Merleau-Ponty on Situations.- Section II Primal Origin, Individuation, Interplay.- The Construction of the Concept The Omnividual.- The Mathematical Horizon of the Future.- The Individualism of Twentieth-Century Phenomenology and Existentialism.- Is Phenomenology as a Science Possible? Reading Heidegger'sTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. The Theme: The Origins of Life/the Primogenital Religion of Sense. Overture. The Tree of Life in Aesthetic Inspiration. Leonardo's Sala Delle Asse and Sullivan's Organic Architecture; P. Trutty-Goohill. Inaugural Study. Origins of Life and the New Critique of Reason; A.-T. Tymieniecka. Creative Timber: Poets and Trees; N. Goldfarb. The Tree of the Credo: Symbolism of the Tree in Medieval Images of the Christian Creed; S.B. Simor. Section I: The Dialogue Between Life Sciences and Philosophy. The Origin of Life: Individuation and Evolutionism; V.S. Rai. On the Metaphysical Foundations of Life; B. Ogrodnik. Creative Emergence and Complexity Theory; A.J. Antonites. Contemporary Life Sciences and the Scientific Worldview; S. Spassov. On Some Problems Concerning Observation of Biological Systems; P. Lenartowicz, J. Koszteyn. Life-Space and Life-World: Merleau-Ponty on Situations; R. Zembahs. Section II: Primal Origin, Individuation, Interplay. The Construction of the Concept `The Omnividual'; B. Tjellander. The Mathematical Horizon of the Future; G. Graff, K. Dzediziul. The Individualism of Twentieth-Century Phenomenology and Existentialism; H. Szabala. Is Phenomenology as a Science Possible? Reading Heidegger's Viewpoint; W. Pawliszyn. Self-Interpretation of Time as a Rule of Individuation in Scheler's, Dilthey's and Heidegger's Concepts of Man; J. Brejdak. Section III: The Transitions of Sense: Body, Organism, Conscious Life. The Body and the Self-Identification of conscious Life, the Science of Man Between Physiology and Psychology in Maine de Biran; C. Canullo. The Reciprocity of Human Organism and Circumstance: An Ecological Approach to Understanding the Actions and Experiences of an Human Organism in its Environment; W.K. Rogers. Die Sprache des Traumes und der Traum der Sprache: Beitrag zur Phänomenologie der Träume in den kritischen Lebenssituationen; E. Syristova. The Connection Between Phenomenological Culture and the Clinical Practice of Psychiatry; B. Callieri. The Dyadics of Complementarity: Towards a New Vision of Reality; E.V. Altekar. Giving Form to Life: Processes of Functionalization and of Work in Max Scheler; D. Verducci. The Consciousness &endash; Corporeality Problem; S.V. Komarov. Death as a Limit of Phenomenology, the Notion of Death from Husserl to Derrida; J. Kauppinen. A Possible Reason for the `Fatal Vision' of the Famous American Surgeon Jeffrey MacDonald; J. Grzeszczuk. Reflexion and the Universal Structures of Consciousness; A. Kuzmin. Appendix: Program of the Gdansk Congress.

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Book SynopsisForeground Following the Logos through the Labyrinth of Life.- One From The Elusive Primeval Logos to the Open-Ended Great Plan of Life.- One The Primeval Logos.- Two Life and Non-Life.- Three Life in Its Specifics.- Tying Point One The Manifestation of Life Through the Nature-Life Complex and Its Radius.- Nature -Life.- Two Embodiment And the Transformation of Sense.- One The Embodiment of the Logoic Lifedynamics and The Phases of the Conversion of Sense.- Two The Gathering of the Dynamic Logoic Threads.- Three The Embodiment of the Logos in the Second Phase: Transformation of Sense.- Four Voluminosity Crystalizing the Vital Dimension of Beingness.- Five The Differentiation of the Logos in Constitutive and Intelligible Expression.- Tying Point Two Anticipating the Manifestation of the Logos of Life.- One Metaphysics of Manifestation Logos in the Individualization of Life, Sociability, and Culture.- Two Spontaneity, Constructive Dynamism, and Ciphering in the Human Condition.- Three MaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. In praise of philosophy. Introduction. Foreground. Following the logos through the labyrinth of life. Part One: From the elusive primeval logos to the open-ended great plan of life. 1. The primeval logos. 2. Life and non-life. 3. Life in its specifics. Tying point one. The manifestation of life through the nature-life complex and its radius. Nature-life. Part two: Embodiment and the transformation of sense. 1. The embodiment of the logoic life dynamics and the phases of the conversion of sense. 2. The gathering of the dynamic logoic threads. 3. The embodiment of the logos in the second phase: transformation of sense. 4. Voluminosity crystalizing the vital dimension of beingness. 5. The differentiation of the logos in constitutive and intelligible expression. Tying point two. Anticipating the manifestation of the logos of life. 1. Metaphysics of manifestation. Logos in the Individualization of Life, Sociability, Culture. 2. Spontaneity, constructive dynamism, and ciphering in the human condition. Part III: Manifestation and differentiation. 1. The surging manifestation of life. 2. The strategies of differentiation and harmony in the self-individualizing life process. 3. Ontopoietic diversity and the unity of apperception. Tying point three. The great plan of life anticipating the triadic logos. 1. The esoteric logos. 2. The great plan of life, the esoteric passion of the mind. Part IV: The emergence of the triadic logos: the turning point. 1. The manifestation of the intellection in the universe in the triadic logos: the turning point. 2. Knowledge and cognition in the self-individualizing progress of life. 3. The creative rise of the human spirit. Tying point four. The logos of subliminal passions - their crucial role in human self-interpretation in existence. 1. The passion for place as the thread leading out of the labyrinth of life. 2. Spacing/Scanning as the foundational function of individualization within the territory of life. 3. The release of subliminal yearnings. Part V: The promethean direction of the logos of life in quest of accomplishment. 1.The human self in the communal fabric. 2. From Husserl's formulation of the soul-body problem to the differentiation of faculties. 3. Telos and destiny. Tying point five. Introducing the measure: Chronos and Kairos. Introduction. Life's timing itself vs. the human esoteric passion for accomplishment. 1. Chronos and Kairos: ordering on the one side and radiating on the other. 2. Chronos and Kairos seen in their ontopoietic roles. Part VI: The strategies of impetus/equipoise in communal sharing-in-life. 1. The fulguration of the logos in the `overt' strategies of the existential interaction. The Communal Significance of Life. 2. The dialectic junction in the logoic strategies: moral law vs. commitment. 3. The creative forge of the logos within the human condition. The Twilight of Consciousness, the Human Virtues. 4. Moral and civic virtue as the bedrock of the manifest game of life, the cornerstone of dynamic social equipoise. Tying point six. The golden measure: toward a new enlightenment. The meta-ontopoietic closure. Notes. Index of names.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This series will become the definitive resource for English readers, a resource much needed given the great wave of philosophical, literary, and political interest in Nietzsche's thought. The excellent translations draw on the latest scholarship and are based on the state-of-the-art Colli-Montinari edition. The editors and translators have taken care to provide consistency in rendering Nietzsche's German and explaining important terms and variants. With their extensive and helpful annotations, the translations are indispensable for the scholar and appealing to the general reader."—Gary Shapiro, University of Richmond"Stanford University Press is doing Nietzsche studies and readers in the English-speaking world a great service through its support and publication of this series of translations of Nietzsche's texts. The Colli-Montinari (de Gruyter) critical edition of Nietzsche's writings, on which they are based, is the German-language 'gold standard' for Nietzsche scholarship. The Stanford series, as it fills out, will undoubtedly come to hold comparable pride of place for English-speaking readers world-wide."—Richard Schacht, University of Illinois

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Book SynopsisWhile digital gaming and culture has become a popular field of academic study, there has been a lack of sustained philosophical analysis of this direct gaming experience. In Parables of the Posthuman, Jonathan Boulter addresses this gap by analysing video games and the player experience philosophically.

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Book SynopsisIain D. Thomson is renowned for radically rethinking Heidegger''s views on metaphysics, technology, education, art, and history, and in this book, he presents a compelling rereading of Heidegger''s important and influential understanding of existential death. Thomson lucidly explains how Heidegger''s phenomenology of existential death led directly to the insights which forced him to abandon Being and Time''s guiding pursuit of a fundamental ontology, and thus how his early, pro-metaphysical work gave way to his later efforts to do justice to being in its real phenomenological richness and complexity. He also examines and clarifies the often abstruse responses to Heidegger''s rethinking of death in Levinas, Derrida, Agamben, Beauvoir, and others, explaining the enduring significance of this work for ongoing efforts to think clearly about death, mortality, education, and politics. The result is a powerful and illuminating study of Heidegger''s understanding of existential death and its enduring importance for philosophy and life.

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Book SynopsisHusserl''s Philosophy of Mathematical Practice explores the applicability of the phenomenological method to philosophy of mathematical practice. The first section elaborates on Husserl''s own understanding of the method of radical sense-investigation (Besinnung), with which he thought the mathematics of his time should be approached. The second section shows how Husserl himself practiced it, tracking both constructive and platonistic features in mathematical practice. Finally, the third section situates Husserlian phenomenology within the contemporary philosophy of mathematical practice, where the examined styles are more diverse. Husserl''s phenomenology is presented as a method, not a fixed doctrine, applicable to study and unify philosophy of mathematical practice and the metaphysics implied in it. In so doing, this Element develops Husserl''s philosophy of mathematical practice as a species of Kantian critical philosophy and asks after the conditions of possibility of social and self-critical mathematical practices.

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Book SynopsisThis thoughtful and heartfelt book develops two main themes: the healing power of a compassionate understanding towards ourselves and others, and the ways boundaries are set within and around various areas of our lives. It examines how we live these boundaries, how they impact us, and what it takes to live these with deeper satisfaction. This book also addresses: shame and rage; the impact of trauma; the power of parental messages, spoken and unspoken; and transgenerational burdens. A theoretical chapter summarizes the author's integrative, phenomenological approach: it brings the insights of a body-focused trauma therapy and a systemic lens to an overarching Existential perspective. Numerous vignettes, case studies and client-therapist dialogues illustrate reflections on life, philosophy, therapeutic modalities and practice. This book will be a thought-provoking read for trainee and practising counsellors and psychotherapists, or anyone looking for self-Trade Review'This is a wise and beautiful book. Like some of the best writers in the existential humanistic tradition (Carl Rogers, R.D. Laing, Irvin Yalom, Ernesto Spinelli), Laura Barnett has a talent for making therapy and philosophical theory understandable to everyone without sacrificing complexity and depth. She adds to this tradition a very precise consideration of the importance of the body and transgenerational issues. As a vivid but modest presence in the book, she demonstrates in her very attuned handling of delicate material the book’s three interwoven themes. Holding theory lightly and combining a very distinct personal voice with compelling vignettes, she invites us to confront the mystery of being human.'Betty Cannon, PhD, Professor Emerita, author of Sartre and Psychoanalysis and founder of Applied Existential PsychotherapyTable of Contents1. Spatial Boundaries 2. Finding My Place: Spatial Boundaries 3. Time: Understanding, Compassion and Boundaries 4. My Place in Time 5. What Gets in the Way of Compassion, Understanding and Boundaries 6. Shame 7. Mothers: Challenges of Motherhood and Mothering 8. Mothers: Some Mother-child Stories of Narcissism, Absence and Trauma 9. Mothers: Some Mother-child Stories: Broken Bonds 10. Mothers: Maternal Feelings in the Therapeutic Relationship; Conclusion 11. Fathers 12. The Family Holy Book 13. Understanding 14. Heart

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Book SynopsisChanging Art into Research: Soliloquy Methodology presents a research methodology that enables inquiry into one's personal experiences in an endeavour to reveal essential commonalities of human experience. Arts-informed research methods are becoming increasingly popular with scholars in Arts, Education and the Social Sciences, but there is often confusion about how to turn arts practice into rigorous inquiry.This book examines the theoretical perspectives needed to inform these research approaches, which are often missing in methods teaching and research. Soliloquy is a new methodology that interprets and applies Husserl's philosophical concept of Transcendental Phenomenology. It marries together the synthesizing powers of the unconscious mind with the analytical capacities of conscious cognition and articulation. It further explores the possibility that both cognitive and intuitive ways of knowing are valid and appropriate for academic inquiry, provided theTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Preface; 1. A Concise Overview of Soliloquy 2. The Co-Existing Realities of the Ephemeral and the Eternal: Aristotle and Plato 3. Intuition 4. The Theoretical Perspective of Soliloquy: Transcendental Phenomenology 5. Soliloquy for the Intuitive Researcher: The Methods; Glossary of Terms

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Book SynopsisMartin Heidegger is one of the most important as well as one of the most difficult thinkers of the last century. His masterpiece Being and Time has been described as the most profound turning point in German philosophy since Hegel. Raymond Tallis, who has been arguing with Heidegger for over thirty years, illuminates his fundamental ideas through an imaginary conversation, which is both relaxed and rigorous, witty and profound. The Conversation defines Heidegger''s relevance to the philosophical agenda of the present century by illuminating his great contribution to our thinking about what it is to be a human being while identifying the weaknesses in his thought.Trade Review'Lively, engaging and does something that few philosophy books do - it gives a real sense of how even seemingly abstruse metaphysical issues can be of the first moment of a person's life - It is the testament of a talented writer to the immense grip of Heidegger's thought can exert. Unique in its style, the book has a genuine significance which more orthodox discussions, though several of them are perfectly worthy, do not.' - David Cooper, University of DurhamTable of ContentsPreface By Way of Introduction PART I In My Study: Beyond the Subject and Object A Breath of Fresh Air Intermezzo Wayfaring Darkness in Todtnauberg PART II Leaving You and Not Quite Leaving You Sunlight on My Arm Notes References Appendix: Some Controversies in the Interpretation of Being and Time Index

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Book SynopsisIn this original study, Keith Crome argues for the importance of Lyotard's analyzes of sophistry. In the second section, the book shows the radicality of Lyotard's analyzes in contrast to such traditional views. It examines Lyotard's complex and original readings of sophistical arguments, and offers a new interpretation of The Differend .Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction PART I: THE PLACE OF SOPHISTRY IN PHILOSOPHY The Sophists Hegel and the Sophists Heidegger and Sophistry PART II: LYOTARD AND THE SOPHISTICATIONS OF PHILOSOPHY Lyotard and Sophistry Lyotard and Kant: A Sophistical Critique Lyotard and the Sophistication of Ontology A Sophistical Differend Conclusion

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Book SynopsisOne is not born a woman, but becomes one, Simone de BeauvoirA symbol of liberated womanhood, Simone de Beauvoir's unconventional relationships inspired and scandalised her generation. A philosopher, writer, and feminist icon, she won prestigious literary prizes and transformed the way we think about gender with The Second Sex. But despite her successes, she wondered if she had sold herself short.Her liaison with Jean-Paul Sartre has been billed as one of the most legendary love affairs of the twentieth century. But for Beauvoir it came at a cost: for decades she was dismissed as an unoriginal thinker who applied' Sartre's ideas. In recent years new material has come to light revealing the ingenuity of Beauvoir's own philosophy and the importance of other lovers in her life. This ground-breaking biography draws on never-before-published diaries and letters to tell the fascinating story of how Simone de Beauvoir became herself.Trade ReviewA book to be read slowly and savoured. There’s too much detail to gulp it down. But it is worth the time it takes to read a fascinating portrait of a woman who inspired women around the world and who changed the way many people think. * The Sunday Times *[Kirkpatrick] gives more space to De Beauvoir’s contrary relationship with feminism, and the discussion here is helpfully rich ... The letters to Lanzmann do constitute a major new resource ... Where Kirkpatrick’s biography is strongest is in clarifying and showing the strength of De Beauvoir’s ethical commitments, and how these were transformed into political commitments after the war. * The Guardian *4 stars ... Illuminating. * The Daily Telegraph *Kirkpatrick's biography is an exercise in meticulous research. Using newly published diaries – only recently made available to researchers – it refuses simple characterisations and reveals de Beauvoir in all her brilliance and complexity ... Becoming Beauvoir is a beautiful tribute to a remarkable woman. * Times Higher Education *Fascinating and deeply researched. * Daily Mail *Kirkpatrick offers a far more detailed and analytical account of de Beauvoir's philosophy than any previous biography ... Kirkpatrick's essential achievement here is to have related Simone de Beauvoir's logic to her life ... This is the best Beauvoir biography yet. * Standpoint Magazine *In her excellent new biography, Kate Kirkpatrick [..] shows us why we've much more to learn from Beauvoir. * New Statesman *In Kirkpatrick’s biography, Beauvoir is restored to her full body of work, her full complexity, her full bravery – so much more than one misquoted line. * Literary Review *An admirable biography probing beneath the surface of misogynistic predecessors and exposing the complexities and contradictions of this extraordinary woman. * Irish Examiner *While she advocates for de Beauvoir, contesting various criticisms, she allows complexity...Meticulously and engagingly, Kirkpatrick catches myriad "instants" of the flux behind the icon. -- Felicity Plunkett * The Australian *Kirkpatrick has trawled fastidiously through her commentaries, diaries and, significantly, the interviews she gave towards the end of her life. The result is a rich rediscovery of this inspirational feminist, philosopher and existentialist. It will spark a whole new love affair since such politically-aware feminists remain thin on the ground – and more needed than ever. -- Samela Harris * SA Weekend Magazine *[An] accessible and enjoyable resource for a wide audience … Becoming Beauvoir gives sensitive treatment to issues that have troubled feminists: Beauvoir’s polyamory; the damage caused by her early liaisons with younger women; and her ambivalent attitude toward the philosophical content of her own oeuvre. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers. * CHOICE *A comprehensive and revealing approach to the life of the French philosopher and writer * Philosophy (Bloomsbury Translation) *This powerful, important book offers a necessary and radical, new, evidence-based reading of Simone de Beauvoir’s life and work. It unpicks and undermines the extraordinary torrent of belittling and sexist criticism that has been directed at Beauvoir, both in her lifetime and since, and recovers her from Jean-Paul Sartre’s shadow to bring her to stand in her own light. This haunting, scholarly, and compelling biography lingers long in the reader’s mind. * Suzannah Lipscomb FRHS, Professor of History, University of Roehampton, UK *Do we need another biography on Simone de Beauvoir? Definitely! Here we finally have a biography that makes Beauvoir’s philosophical ideas the focal point – not her love life. Based on new material, and written with insight, respect and sympathy, Kate Kirkpatrick re-examines Beauvoir’s life and demonstrates how it was guided by her own existentialist ideals as well as twisted by her circumstances. A timely and fascinating book! * Tove Pettersen, Professor of Philosophy, University of Oslo, Norway. President of the International Simone de Beauvoir Society *Beautifully written and meticulously researched, Kirkpatrick draws on new material to find contradictions in previous accounts of Simone de Beauvoir’s biography, including those from Beauvoir herself. Becoming Beauvoir is essential reading for anyone interested not just in Beauvoir’s life, but the philosophy within it. * Fiona Vera-Gray, Assistant Professor in Sociology, Durham University, UK *Table of ContentsAbbreviations of Beauvoir’s Works Introduction: Simone de Beauvoir—Who’s She? 1. Growing like a girl 2. The dutiful daughter 3. Lover of God or lover of men? 4. The love before the legend 5. The Valkyrie and the Playboy 6. Rooms of her own 7. The trio that was a quartet 8. War within, war without 9. Forgotten philosophy 10. Queen of existentialism 11. American dilemmas 12. The scandalous Second Sex 13. Putting a new face on love 14. Feeling gypped 15. Old age revealed 16. The dying of the light 17. Afterwords: What will become of Simone de Beauvoir? Select Bibliography

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