Phenomenology and Existentialism Books

Book SynopsisThe New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy provides an annual international forum for phenomenological research in the spirit of Husserl''s groundbreaking work and the extension of this work by such figures as Scheler, Heidegger, Sartre, Levinas, Merleau-Ponty and Gadamer.Table of ContentsI. Essays, II. Texts and Documents, III. Discussion - Reviews - Notices, Notes on Contributors

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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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Book SynopsisThis collection is intercultural philosophy at its best. It contextualizes the global significance of the leading figures of Western phenomenology, including Husserl, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Buber and Levinas, enters them into intercultural dialogue with the Daoism of Laozi and Zhuangzi and in doing so, breaks new ground. By presenting the first sustained analysis of the Daoist worldview by way of phenomenological experience, this book not only furthers our understanding of Daoism and phenomenology, but delves deeper into the roots of human thinking, aesthetic expression, and its impact on the modern social world. The international team of philosophers approach the phenomenological tradition in the broadest sense possible, looking beyond the phenomenological language of Husserl. With chapters on art, ethics, death and the metaphor of dream and hermeneutics, this collection encourages scholars and students in both Asian and Western traditions to rethink their philosophical beaTrade ReviewThis book covers a lot of ground, and the participation of multiple scholars raises the bar. Bridging the gap between Asian and Western Philosophy, it will be of interest to researchers, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates. * Alan Fox, Professor of Asian and Comparative Philosophy and Religion, University of Delaware, USA *David Chai has assembled an excellent cast of comparative philosophers and has given the field a must-read volume on phenomenology and Daoist philosophy. The book is a landmark study with this intercultural encounter being enhanced with chapters by some of comparative philosophy’s luminaries and complemented by a host of other prominent thinkers. New ground is broken, especially for the Western phenomenological experience when it is brought into dialogue with the philosophies of Laozi and Zhuangzi. Likewise, traveling the pathway from its counterpart’s direction, Daoist philosophy is enriched by its encounter with Western phenomenological thinking and analysis. Spanning the expanse of aesthetics and art, death, silence, ethics, the dream-world, and hermeneutics, Daoist Encounters with Phenomenology tenderly touches all these topics—and even more—in a variety of significant ways. * David Jones, Professor of Philosophy, Kennesaw State University, Atlanta, USA *Table of ContentsList of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1. Precursory Encounters: Unearthing Fertile Seeds 1. Daoism and Hegel on Painting the Invisible Spirit: To Color or Not? David Chai (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) 2. Two Portrayals of Death in Light of the Views of Brentano and Early Daoism, Mary I. Bockover (Humboldt State University, USA) 3. In the Light of Heaven before Sunrise: Zhuangzi and Nietzsche on Transperspectival Experience, Graham Parkes (University College Cork, Ireland and East China Normal University, China) Part 2. Early Encounters: Nourishing the Sprouts of Possibility 4. The Pre-objective and the Primordial: Elements of a Phenomenological Reading of Zhuangzi, Kwok-Ying Lau (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) 5. Martin Buber’s Phenomenological Interpretation of the Daodejing, Eric S. Nelson (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) 6. Martin Buber’s Dao, Jason M. Wirth (Seattle University, USA) 7. The Dao of Existence: Jaspers and Laozi, Mario Wenning (University of Macau, China) Part 3. Mature Encounters: A Forest of Ideas 8. Heidegger and Daoism: A Dialogue on the Useless Way of Unnecessary Being, Bret W. Davis (Loyola University Maryland, USA) 9. Heidegger and Zhuangzi: The Transformative Art of the Phenomenological Reduction, Patricia Huntington (Arizona State University, USA) 10. The Reader’s Chopper: Finding Affinities from Gadamer to Zhuangzi on Reading, Sarah A. Mattice (University of North Florida, USA) 11. Unknowing Silence in the Daodejingand Merleau-Ponty, Katrin Froese (University of Calgary, Canada) Part 4. A Most Urgent Encounter: Re-Rooting Our Futural Selves 12. Grounding Phenomenology in the Daodejing: The Anthropocene, the Fourfold, and the Sage, Martin Schönfeld (University of South Florida, USA) Index

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Book SynopsisThe Being and Event trilogy is the philosophical basis of Alain Badiou''s entire oeuvre. It is formed of three major texts, which constitute a kind of metaphysical saga: Being and Event (1988). ), Logics of the Worlds (2006) and finally The Immanence of Truths, which he has been working on for 15 years. The new volume reverses the perspective adopted in Logics of Worlds. Where in that book, Badiou saw fit to analyze how truths, qua events, appear from the perspective of particular worlds that by definition exclude them, in The Immanence of Truths Badiou asks instead how the irruption of truths transforms the worlds within which they by necessity must arise. An emphasis on regularity and continuity has given way to an attempt, one unquestionable in its philosophical power and implications, to formalize rupture and reconfiguration.The Being and Event trilogy is a unique and ambitious work that reveals how truths can be at once context-specTrade ReviewAlain Badiou is that rare thing: a true Philosopher. In an age of cynicism, nihilism, relativism, and the deadening suspicion of thought, Badiou remains true to the courage that characterises Philosophy from the very beginning. Casting his rational and patient eye over developments in thought, religion and mathematics, Badiou continues to grapple with the infinite in this admirably clear work. Everyone is already capable of thought, Badiou suggests, the point is to realise it. * Nina Power, Philosopher, UK *The Immanence of Truths completes Alain Badiou’s philosophical trilogy that began with Being and Event. It is a grand summa of years of conceptual creativity, mathematical research, political militancy in the quest for a new form of communism, and fidelity to the infinite power of art and the amorous encounter. * Bruno Bosteels, Professor of Comparative Literature and Latin American and Iberian Cultures, Columbia University, USA *Table of ContentsList of Symbols Introduction, Kenneth Reinhard (UCLA, USA) Prologue Section I: The Classic Forms Of Finitude Section II: The Modernity Of Finitude: Covering-Over Section III: The Supremacy Of Infinity Section IV: On The Edge Of The Absolute Section V: Conditions For Defeating Covering-Over Section VI: Parmenides’ Revenge. Section VII: The General Theory Of Works-In-Truth Section VIII: Works Based On The Object: Art, Science Section IX: Works Based On Becoming: Love, Politics General Conclusion Appendices

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Book SynopsisThe preface to the Phenomenology of Spirit (1807) is one of the most widely-read texts in Hegel's corpus, and yet we still lack a clear understanding of its aims. Providing a fresh perspective on Hegel's preface, Andrew Davis contends that it should be read as an overview of what philosophy is not. Contesting previous investigations that have assumed Hegel's purpose in the preface is to introduce the reader to his own philosophical method, Davis moves Hegel's positive comments about the nature of philosophy to the background. This is, after all, where they belong in a preface, according to Hegelian philosophy, as Hegel contends that the actual nature of philosophy cannot be presented in advance of specific inquiries. Examining the nature of philosophy through negation, each chapter in the book explores a different form of pseudo-philosophy that Hegel addresses in his preface. Together, they allow Hegelian philosophy to appear in relief as precisely what cannot be aTrade ReviewMany consider the Preface to Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit his greatest philosophical masterpiece, but it is also famously difficult. In Hegel on Pseudo-Philosophy, Andrew Davis shows that it is not just a marvelous introduction to Hegel’s philosophy, but to philosophy as such, one that guards us against its many simulacra. * Mark Alznauer, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Northwestern University, USA *Andrew Davis’s study provides a highly original guiding thread through one of the most challenging texts in modern philosophy. Its laser-like focus on Hegel’s contribution to the age-old task of distinguishing philosophy from pseudo-philosophies manages to maintain high scholarly standards, while also reminding us at every turn of our contemporary pseudo-thinking practices. * Allegra de Laurentiis, Professor of Philosophy, Stony Brook University, USA *What Hegelian philosophy does not want to be? This book captures the reader's attention in an original way, describing Hegel's philosophy from what it is not. An ex negativo route through which one of the most complex works of Western philosophy, the Phenomenology of Spirit, becomes comprehensible even to those who are not specialists in philosophy. * Stefania Achella, Associate Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Philosophy is not Explanation 2. Philosophy is not Edification 3. Philosophy is not Formalism 4. Philosophy is not Phenomenology 5. Philosophy is not Mathematical 6. Philosophy is not Propositional 7. Philosophy is not Personal Conclusion: Notes Toward Negation Appendix: Short Paragraph by Paragraph Commentary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisJeffrey Bell offers a novel approach to longstanding problems in metaphysics by highlighting the shared history of the analytic and continental traditions.

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Book SynopsisA study of the relationship between Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and Black Thought from Frederick Douglass to Angela Davis, which explodes the western canon of philosophy.Trade Review"Thinking about Blackness historically as a manifestation of the deliberate self-conscious efforts of Black people is not only a worthwhile project but a necessary philosophical and conceptual grounding of Black theory and thought. Phenomenology of the Black Spirit is a commendable effort towards establishing a groundwork for the study of Black Spirit as a revelation of time and civilization. ?" -Tommy J. Curry, University of Edinburgh

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Book SynopsisThe Edinburgh Critical History of Philosophy is a seven-volume reference work on the history of philosophy. This volume surveys the key issues and debates distinct to nineteenth-century philosophy.

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Book SynopsisHow do we perdure when we and everything around us are caught up in incessant change? But the course of this change does not seem to be haphazard and we may seek the modalities of its Logos in the transformations in which it occurs. The classic term Metamorphosis focuses upon the proportions between the transformed and the retained, the principles of sameness and otherness. Applied to life and its becoming, metamorphosis pinpoints the proportions between the vital and the aesthetic significance of life. Where could this metaphysical in-between territory come better to light than in the Fine Arts? In this collection are investigated the various proportions between the vital significance of the constructivism of life and a specifically human contribution made by the creative imagination to the transformatory search for beauty and aesthetic values. Papers Table of ContentsThe Theme; A.-T. Tymieniecka. 'Everything Flows': The Poetics of Transformation; L. Kimmell. I: The Metaphoric Modes of Human Existence: Space, Dwelling. Rustic Architecture: The Metamorphosis of Nature and Architecture in Eighteenth-Century Britain; M.L. Brack. 'Mystic Physicality' in the Work of Luis Barragan; S. Tucker de Vazquez. Saint-Amant, Holland House, and the Queen of England; W. Roberts. Defining Boundaries in Theatrical and Ceremonial Space in the Middle Ages; J.S. Smith. Life and Human Struggle in Moby Dick; V.G. Rivas. II: For the Sake of Beauty in Human Life. Fiery Purification: Artaud's Theater of Metamorphoses; M. Statkiewicz. Bel Esprit. An Essay in Depth-aesthetics; M. Itkonen. Fly Thought on Golden Wings: The Transforming Power of Music in Verdi's Nabucco; G.R. Tibbetts. Challenge to a National School at Risk: Mikel Dufrenne's The Phenomenology of Aesthetic Experience (1953); L. Stratford. Painterly Transubstantiations / Political Change; J. Andrews. III: Reality in Artistic Transformation. Fugitive Realities: Konrad Fiedler; I.M. Rocker. The Primacy of Gesture: Phenomenology and the Art of Chinese Calligraphy; S.J. Goldberg. Gestural Abstraction and the Fleshiness of Paint; L. Durner. Flesh of the World: The Art and Practice of Dunya McPherson; D. Dox. IV: Form, Matter and Experience: The Transformative Media of the Aesthetic Sense. The Genesis of Clay Figurative Sculpture in California, 1955-1974: Potter and Pot, and Intersubjective Encounter in the Work of Peter Voulkos; C. Schear. Between Canvas and Celluloid; S.H. Krukowski. A Sense of Direction: The Phenomenon of the Authentic Artistic Choice; G. Maciag. The Image Made Flesh: A Photographic Re-reading of the Pygmalion Myth; K. Dennis. Perception, Phenomenology and the Object as Actor: The Evidence of Form in Redmoon Theater's Hunchback; W. Strukus. Playing with the Void: Dance Macabre of Object and Subject in the Bio-objects of Kantor's Theater of Death; M. Romanska. V: The Ascent of Human Experience in Imaginative Metamorphosis. St. Francis's Canticle of the Creatures: The Metamorphic Effect of Poverty on Writing Poetry; P. Trutty-Coohill, E. Burns. The Dance of the Angels, the Mysteries of Pseudo-Dionysius and the Architecture of Gothic Cathedrals; T. Morrison. A Portrait of the Artist as a Sophist - Plato and Iris Murdoch's Art of Fiction; S. Coelsch-Foisner. Interpreting Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde on the Basis of Tymieniecka's Socio-communal Psychiatric Therapeutics; G. Backhaus. The Restitution of the Terrestrial Iconography of St. Francis in the Post Trent Era: Annibale Carracci's St. Francis in Penitence; D.M. Unger. The Dream of Ascent and the Noise of Earth: Paradoxical Inclinations in Euripides' 'Bacchae', and Shakespeare's 'The Tempest', and Stevens' 'Of Modern Poetry'; H. Pearce. Index of Names.

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Book SynopsisCombines phenomenology with the "enactivist" approach to consciousness theory and recent emotion research to explore the way self-motivated action plans shape selective attention, exploration, and ultimately the mind''s interpretation of reality - in philosophy, psychology, cultural awareness, and our personal lives.Action, Embodied Mind, and Life World combines embodied consciousness research, existential phenomenology, Gendlin''s "focusing" concept, and recent self-organizational work on basic emotions (e.g., Panksepp, Frijda), to explore the way patterns of motivated action shape our interpretations of reality-personally, biologically, and within a sociopolitical community. Like a bat projecting sonar, we understand our world by sensing patterns of resistance against our own self-initiated actions. If hammering is the action, we find "nails" and "non-nails." Actions in turn express a self-organizing process rooted in motivational structures that presuppose values. These patterns of motivation therefore prefigure the shape of what we think or perceive. But the emotions, feelings, "sensings" through which we discern motivation are never just about what they seem, especially given ample incentives to distortion and self-deception. The "trigger" is the tip of an iceberg. This book works toward a coherent method for getting at the basement level of the action trajectories that motivate exploration, selective attention, and thus interpretations of reality-a crucial question in an age of motivated disinformation.

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Book SynopsisThe history of Continental philosophy is often conceived as being represented by two major schools: German idealism and phenomenology/existentialism. These two schools are frequently juxtaposed so as to highlight their purported radical differences. There is a commonly held view that an abrupt break occurred in the nineteenth century, resulting in a disdainful rejection of idealism in all its forms. This break is often located in the transition from Hegel to Kierkegaard. The history of philosophy in the first half of the nineteenth century has thus been read as a grand confrontation between the overambitious rationalistic system of Hegel and the devastating criticisms of it by Kierkegaard's philosophy of existence. This work aims to undermine this popular view of the radical break between idealism and existentialism by means of a series of detailed studies in specific episodes of European thought. As a whole, this book represents an important attempt to demonstrate the long shadow castTrade Review"Stewart's fresh approach to the so-called 'antagonism' between idealism and existentialism is both welcome and edifying. His careful, nuanced scholarship encourages the reader to re-consider and re-evaluate the major debates that shaped the development of European philosophy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries." - Daniel Conway, Texas A&M University, USATable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Abbreviations of Primary Texts; Preface; Introduction; Part I: Hegel and German Idealism; 1. Hegel and the Myth of Reason; 2. Hegel's Phenomenology as a Systematic Fragment; 3. The Architectonic of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit; Part II: Between Idealism and Existentialism; 4. Points of Contact in the Philosophy of Religion of Hegel and Schopenhauer; 5. Kierkegaard's Criticism of the Absence of Ethics in Hegel's System; 6. Kierkegaard's Criticism of Abstraction and His Proposed Solution: Appropriation; 7. Kierkegaard's Recurring Criticism of Hegel's "The Good and Conscience"; 8. Hegel and Nietzsche on the Death of Tragedy and Greek Ethical Life III. Existentialism; 9. Existentialist Ethics; 10. Merleau-Ponty's Criticisms of Sartre's Theory of Freedom; 11. Sartre and Merleau-Ponty on Consciousness and Bad Faith; Bibliography; Index of Persons; Subject Index.

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Book SynopsisJames Bahoh proposes a new methodology for explaining Heidegger's philosophy that solves a set of interpretive problems in his difficult later work and led to substantial inconsistencies in the scholarship. Bahoh reconstructs Heidegger's concept of event in relation to his theories of history, truth, difference, ground and time-space.

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Book SynopsisDrawing on examples of things that happen to us but are nonetheless excluded from experience, as well as critical phenomenology, genealogy, and feminist theory, Cressida J. Heyes shows how and why experience has edges, and analyzes phenomena that press against them.Trade Review“‘Anaesthetics of Existence,’ writes Cressida J. Heyes, ‘is a book about refusal, exclusion and liminality.’ More than this, it is a book about the unevenness of attention, about the tendency of bodies to flicker in and out of consciousness, and about extreme ordinariness and the increasing ordinariness of the extreme. This book is timely, original, and offers new insights within the philosophy of experience.” -- Jack Halberstam, author of * The Queer Art of Failure *“Incredibly smart, wide ranging, inventive, and timely, Cressida J. Heyes's Anaesthetics of Existence offers a detailed and philosophically rigorous phenomenological exploration of experience. Heyes does not merely report on phenomenology, she does it with an aliveness to her prose and an expansiveness to her thinking that feels fresh, original, and exciting. A marvelous book.” -- Gayle Salamon, author of * The Life and Death of Latisha King: A Critical Phenomenology of Transphobia *“Without a doubt, Heyes’ Anaesthetics of Existence is a marvelously written, timely, and exciting book. It is both a scholarly feat—impeccably researched and persuasively argued—and a pleasurable read that offers some respite and solace amidst the chaos of postdisciplinary time.” -- Corinne Lajoie * Contemporary Political Theory *“Anaesthetics of Existence is delivered with impressive brevity and wit. . . . Anaesthetics of Existence is a remarkably timely text because, as we desperately hope for an end to pandemic time, we must also critically consider the prepandemic world we’ve missed and how, in light of this disruption, we might establish different habits.” -- Lauren Guilmette * Political Theory *“Anaesthetics of Existence exudes a prescience for our current era unmatched by monographs composed in the period immediately preceding the COVID-19 pandemic. Heyes, a philosopher, undertakes poignant phenomenological case studies into urgent feminist issues, including date rape, the pressures of parenting, and childbirth.” -- Evangeline Holtz-Schramek * Humanities *

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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 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 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 SynopsisExperimental Dining examines the work of four of the world’s leading creative restaurants: Noma, elBulli, The Fat Duck and Alinea. Using ideas from performance studies, cultural studies, philosophy and economics, the book explores the creation of the dining experience as a form of multisensory performance. It examines the construction of the world of the restaurants and their creative methods, the experience of dining and the broader ideological frames within which the work takes place. Experimental Dining brings together ideas around food, philosophy, performance and cultural politics to offer an interdisciplinary understanding of the practice and experience of creative restaurants. The author contends that the work of the experimental restaurant, while operating explicitly within an economy of experiences, is not absolutely determined by that political or economic context. Its practice has the potential to appeal to more than idle curiosity for novelty. It can be unsettling and revealing, provocative and evocative, personal and political, experimental and considered, thoughtful and sensual. Or in other words, that the food event can be art. Primary readership will be academics, researchers and scholars in the fields of food studies, performance studies and those with interests in the philosophy of everyday life, cognitive science and sensory studies. It will be a useful resource as supplementary reading on courses on Food and Performance. It may also have interest for chefs, gastronomes, restaurateurs and artistsTable of ContentsIntroduction The Restaurants: elBulli, The Fat Duck, Noma and Alinea Philosophical Approach Food, Art and Performance Arguments and Structure of the Book Chapter 1 Preparation: The Creative World of the Restaurants 1.1 Restaurant Philosophy 1.2 Constructing the World 1.3 Creative Methods and Approaches 1.4 Technoemotional Cuisine Interlude 1 Progression: Italian Futurism and Technoemotional Cuisine Chapter 2 Presentation: Performances of the Restaurants 2.1 Performing Front of House 2.2 Reading the Menu 2.3 Food Forms Interlude 2 Produced: Mediated Dining Chapter 3 Perception: Sensory and Sensual Experiences 3.1 Immediacy 3.2 Orality: Language 3.3 Orality: Sex 3.4 Culinary Deconstruction Interlude 3 Pop-Up: Food, Performance, Philosophy Chapter 4 Processing: Making Sense 4.1 Making Sense 4.2 Food Narratives 4.3 Aesthetic Processing Interlude 4 Posterity: Documenting Experiences Chapter 5 Payoff: Political and Economic Frames of Experience 5.1 Enjoyment and Excess 5.2 Politics of the Seasonal and the Local 5.3 Experiences Conclusion References

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Book SynopsisThis is an introduction to one of Nietzsche's most important works - a key text in nineteenth-century philosophy. Friedrich Nietzsche was arguably the most important and influential thinker of the nineteenth century. "The Birth of Tragedy", his first published work, is a classic text that remains an essential read for those seeking to understand the development of Nietzsche's ideas. Indeed, it is difficult to make sense of Nietzsche as a philosopher and writer without a thorough understanding of "The Birth of Tragedy", without doubt one of his most influential texts. "Nietzsche's 'The Birth of Tragedy': A Reader's Guide" offers a concise and accessible introduction to this hugely important and yet challenging work. Written specifically to meet the needs of students coming to Nietzsche for the first time, the book offers guidance on: philosophical and historical context; key themes; reading the text; reception and influence; and, further reading. "Continuum Reader's Guides" are clear, concise and accessible introductions to key texts in literature and philosophy. Each book explores the themes, context, criticism and influence of key works, providing a practical introduction to close reading, guiding students towards a thorough understanding of the text. They provide an essential, up-to-date resource, ideal for undergraduate students.Trade ReviewThis superb commentary lives up fully to its promise to explain and explicate Nietzsche's text, and it is a genuinely useful aid to understanding the ‘magic' of this seminal work. -- Journal of European StudiesTable of Contents1. Context; 2. Overview of Themes; 3. Reading the Text; 4. Reception and Influence; 5. Notes for Further Reading; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book to explore the relationship between Martin Heideggers work and modern anthropology. Heidegger attracts much scholarly interest among social scientists, but few have explored his ideas in relation to current anthropological debates. The disciplines modernist foundations, the nature of cultural constructionism and of art even what an anthropology of art must include are all informed and illuminated by Heideggers work. The author argues that many contemporary anthropologists, in their concern to return subjectivity and voice to their interlocutors, neglect to recognize that language and other representational practices conceal the world and human subjectivity as much as reveal it. The author also suggests that Heideggers critique of western technology provides the basis for a return to anthropologys sociological foundations. Emerging from over ten years of original research, and drawing on a rich knowledge of Australian and Melanesian ethnography, this book reassesses the underlying framework of modern and, particularly, visual anthropology. Innovative and provocative, it will be of interest to all anthropologists, philosophers and students of art and culture.Trade Review'What are the limits of relationship? What bounds the scope of imagination? Blending his ethnographic experience among the Foi of Papua New Guinea with his personal reading of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, Weiner seeks the wellsprings of art and social life in the tension between revelation and concealment. In a world bedazzled by the glitz and speed of telecommunications, bathed in a phantasmagoria of ephemeral images, it is easy to think that reality can be whatever we choose to make of it. In the fashionable doctrine of social constructionism, anthropology has succumbed to this temptation. Tree Leaf Talk bursts the constructionist bubble. The book is a passionate appeal for a rigorously down-to-earth anthropology, rooted in the slow, pedestrian rhythms of day-to-day activity through which experience, history and meaning are sedimented in the land.'Tim Ingold, University of Aberdeen'Freed from the descriptor, 'A heideggerian Anthropology', Tree leaf talk can then be reaTable of Contents1 Introduction: Heidegger and Anthropology's Nihilism Part I: Place, Death and Voice in Foi 2 Space and Naming: The Inscriptive Effects of Foi Life Activity 3 Being and Striving: Death, Gender and Temporality among the Poi 4 To Be At Home with Others in an Empty Place 51 Part Il: The Limits of Human Relationship 5 The Limit of Relationship 6 Technology and Techne in Trobriand and Yolngu Art Part III: The Aestheticization of Social Relations 7 The Community as a Work of Art 8 Prelude: Light and Language 9 On Televisualist Anthropology: Representation, Aesthetics, Politics, 10 The Scale of Human Life

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Book SynopsisCritically evaluating and synthesizing all the previous research on the phenomenology of Czech philosopher Jan Patočka, the book brings a new voice into contemporary philosophical discussions. It elucidates the development of Patočka’s phenomenology and offers a critical appropriation of his work by connecting it with non-phenomenological approaches.The first half of the book offers a succinct, and systematizing, overview of Patočka’s phenomenology throughout its development to help readers appreciate the motives behind and grounds for its transformations. The second half systematically explicates, critically examines and creatively develops Patočka’s concept of the movement of existence as the most promising part of his asubjective phenomenology.The book appeals to new readers of Patočka as well as his scholars, and to students and researchers of contemporary philosophy concerned with topics such as embodiment, personal identity, intersubjectivity, sociality, or historicity. By re-assessing Patočka’s philosophy of history and his civilizational analysis, it also helps to better articulate the question of the place of Europe in the post-European world.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Seeking Evidence: With Husserl Beyond Husserl.- Chapter 3. The Hubris of Transcendental Idealism.- Chapter 4. The Life of Inwardness. Asubjectivity in Patočka’s War Manuscripts.- Chapter 5. The Protester: The Basically Negative Being in the World.- Chapter 6. The Call of Transcendence.- Chapter 7. At the Heart of Space.- Chapter 8. Being Turned (to) Appearing.- Chapter 9. The Movement of Existence.- Chapter 10. (Dis)Appropriating (the) Body.- Chapter 11. Performing the Soul through Movement.- Chapter 12. Passing Through the World (as) Crisis.- Chapter 13. Supercivilization.- Chapter 14. From Asubjectivity to Mediality.- Chapter 15. Omnia Vincit Amor.

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Book SynopsisDer vorliegende Band enthält den Text der zweistündigen Vorlesung, die Husserl im Sommersemester 1912 unter dem Titel „Einleitung in die Phänomenologie“ in Göttingen gehalten hat. Das Thema der ursprünglich als „Urteilstheorie“ angekündigten Vorlesung wurde kurzfristig geändert, da es nicht möglich sei, wie Husserl zu Beginn der Vorlesung erläutert, „eine Urteilstheorie darzustellen, ohne weitgehende Kenntnis in Betreff gewisser allgemeiner Bewusstseinsgestaltungen vorauszusetzen“. Neben einer Untersuchung von Bewusstseinsphänomenen wie „äußere und innere Wahrnehmung, Erlebnis- und Zeitbewusstsein, Erinnerung, Erwartung, Aufmerksamkeit, Erfassung, Explikation und dergleichen” liegt das Hauptaugenmerk der Vorlesung auf der Erläuterung der beiden Grundpfeiler der phänomenologischen Methode: der Wesensschau und der phänomenologischen Reduktion. Die Vorlesung vom Sommersemester 1912 diente Husserl als Vorlage bei der Niederschrift seines transzendental-phänomenologischen Hauptwerkes, der „Ideen I“ (Husserliana Bd. III/1), mit der er während der Vorlesungszeit, nämlich Ende Mai oder Anfang Juni 1912, begann. Inhaltliche Übereinstimmungen mit dem Vorlesungstext weisen der Erste Abschnitt der “Ideen I” („Tatsache und Wesen“), der Zweite Abschnitt („Die phänomenologische Fundamentalbetrachtung“) und teilweise der Dritte Abschnitt („Zur Methodik und Problematik der reinen Phänomenologie“) auf. – Die hier erstmals veröffentlichte Vorlesung „Einleitung in die Phänomenologie“ aus dem Sommersemester 1912 bietet Forschern und Studenten interessante Einblicke in Entwicklung und Thematik von Husserls transzendentaler Phänomenologie.Table of Contents- Kapitel 1. Einleitung des Herausgebers - Kapitel 2. Einleitung- Kapitel 3. Empirische und eidetische Forschung. Phänomenologische Forschung als eidetische- Kapitel 4. Die Phänomenologie als eidetische Wissenschaft und ihr Verhältnis zur empirischen Psychologie- Kapitel 5. Phänomenologie als Eidetik des reinen Bewusstseins- Kapitel 6. Die phänomenologische Reduktion als die für die Phänomenologie konstitutive Methode und ihre Bedeutung für die Erkenntnistheorie- Kapitel 7. Das Forschungsfeld der Phänomenologie. Die für ihre Methode leitenden Unterscheidungen und die Hauptrichtungen phänomenologischer Arbeit- Kapitel 8. Nachweis der Originalseiten- Kapitel 9. Namenregister

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Book SynopsisPhenomenology of the Cultural Disciplines is an interdisciplinary study, reflecting the recent emergence of various particular forms of `phenomenological philosophy of ...'. Included are such fields as psychology, social sciences and history, as well as environmental philosophy, ethnic studies, religion and even more practical disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, politics, and technology. The Introduction provides a way of understanding how these various developments are integrated. On the basis of a Husserlian notion of culture, it proposes a generic concept of `cultural disciplines' (which is broader than but inclusive of `human sciences') which subsumes the more specific concepts of `cultural sciences', `axiotic disciplines' (e.g. architecture), and `practical disciplines'. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Reflection on the Cultural Disciplines; L. Embree. 1. Phenomenology and the Clinical Event; R. Zaner. 2. Phenomenology and Cognitive Science; O. Wiggins. 3. The Body as Cultural Object/The Body as Pan-Cultural Universal; M. Sheets-Johnstone. 4. Connectionism and Phenomenology; T. Nenon. 5. The Other Culture; J.N. Mohanty. 6. Cultural Logics and the Search for National Identities; A. Mickunas. 7. Philosophy and Ecological Crisis; U. Melle. 8. Phenomenology and Ecofeminism; D. Marietta. 9. Ethnic Studies as Multi-Discipline and Phenomenology; S.M. Lyman, L. Embree. 10. Technology and Cultural Revenge; D. Ihde. 11. The Study of Religion in Husserl's Writings; J. Hart. 12. Biography as a Cultural Discipline; M. Daniel. 13. Alfred Schutz and the Project of Phenomenological Social Theory; D. Carr. Index of Names. Index of Topics.

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Book SynopsisAlthough a key aspect of the phenomenological movement is its contribution to value theory (axiology) and value perception (almost all the major figures devoted a great part of their labors to these topics), there has been relatively little attention paid to these themes. This volume in part makes up for this lacuna by being the first anthology on value-theory in the phenomenological movement. It indicates the scope of the issues by discussing, e.g., the distinctive acts of valuing, openness to value, the objectivity of values, the summation and combination of values, the deconstruction of values, the value of absence, and the value of nature. It also contains discussions of most of the major representative figures not only in their own right but also in relationship to one another: Von Ehrenfels, Brentano, Scheler, Hartmann, Husserl, Heidegger, Schutz, and Derrida.Table of ContentsPreface. Introduction: Value-Theory and Phenomenology; J.G. Hart. 1. The Concept of Objective Value; D.E. Marietta, Jr. 2. Image and Artistic Value; J.B. Brough. 3. Problems of the Value of Nature in Phenomenological Perspective or What to do About Snakes in the Grass; L. Embree. 4. The Value of Absence; S.W. Laycock. 5. The Part Played by Value in the Modification of Open into Attractive Possibilities; R.W. Jordan. 6. The Notion of Value in Christian von Ehrenfels; K. Schuhmann. 7. Values, Reasons for Actions and Reflexivity; T. Nenon. 8. Values as Ontological Difference; K.W. Stikkers. 9. Scheler's Theory of Values Reconsidered; P. Blosser. 10. Husserl's Phenomenology of Willing; U. Melle. 11. The Summum Bonum and Value-Wholes: Aspects of a Husserlian Axiology and Theology; J.G. Hart. 12. A Bibliography of Axiology and Phenomenology; H.P. Steeves. Notes on Contributors. Index of Names. Index of Topics.

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Book SynopsisThe story of a successful professional woman and a reflection on the meaning of existentialism, this autobiography is an account of a woman's psychological liberation and the development of a personal philosophy. A translator of Sartre, Barnes recounts her battles with publishers and critics.

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Book SynopsisPhilosophy as . . . a rigorous science . . . the dream is over, Edward Husserl once declared. Heidegger (Husserl's successor), Derrida, and Rorty have propounded versions of the end of philosophy. Cumming argues that what would count as philosophy's coming to an end can only be determined with some attention to disruptions which have previously punctuated the history of philosophy. He arrives at categories for interpreting what is at issue in such disruptions by analyzing Heidegger's and Husserl's break with each other, Heidegger's break with Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty's break with Sartre. In this analysis Cumming deals with how a philosophy can be vulgarized (as Heidegger's was by Nazism but in Heidegger's own view by Sartre), with problems of periodization, with how the history of philosophy can be disinguished as a philosophical discipline from intellectual history. Cumming also elaborates an analogy between a philosophical method and style.

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Book SynopsisHegel's Phenomenology of Spirit has acquired a paradoxical reputation as one of the most important and most impenetrable and inconsistent philosophical works. In this study Michael N. Forster advances his own reading of Hegel's text and sees it as a coherent meditation.

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Book SynopsisPresents a fresh perspective on Merleau-Ponty's philosophy. The author offers fresh contexts to approach art, philosophy and the resonance between them.Trade Review"In this pioneering and original study, Wiskus shows how Merleau-Ponty leads philosophy to a creative threshold-the place where thought and music merge.... A captivating experiment in thought and expression." (Richard Kearney, Boston College)

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Book SynopsisAn analysis of the major role played by Sartre as both figure and philosopher in the development of political thought in post-colonial Arab countries.

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Book SynopsisThe history of phenomenology, and its absence, in American philosophy. Phenomenology and so-called continental philosophy receive scant attention in most American philosophy departments, despite their foundational influence on intellectual movements such as existentialism, post-structuralism, and deconstruction. In Inventing Philosophy's Other, Jonathan Strassfeld explores this absence, revealing how everyday institutional practices played a determinative role in the development of twentieth-century academic discourse. Conventional wisdom holds that phenomenology's absence from the philosophical mainstream in the United States reflects its obscurity or even irrelevance to America's philosophical traditions. Strassfeld refutes this story as he traces phenomenology's reception in America, delivering the first systematic historical study of the movement in the United States. He examines the lives and works of Marjorie Grene, Alfred Schütz, Hubert Dreyfus, and Iris Marion Young, amonTrade Review“Inventing Philosophy’s Other is an ambitious, important, and exceptional . . . first-rate history of American philosophy that reminds us that the ‘best’ ideas don’t simply win out on their merits. Rather, they often come to be labeled as such after their influence is established through the vagaries of institutional contingency. At a time when the line dividing the continental and analytic traditions appears to be wearing thin, we would do well to heed this injunction for historical reflection.” * Los Angeles Review of Books *“Strassfeld is one of the most talented young scholars writing about the history of academic thought. Ambitious and comprehensive, Inventing Philosophy’s Other suggests that the triumph of analytic philosophy in America was neither preordained nor determined strictly on the basis of the quality of thought.” -- Bruce Kuklick, University of Pennsylvania“Strassfeld offers the fullest account yet of phenomenology’s fate in the United States. Revisiting a rich intellectual tradition inspired by the works of Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Inventing Philosophy’s Other restores some of the dynamic pluralism of American philosophy, even as it exposes the forces—intellectual as well as institutional—that have railed against it.” -- Martin Woessner, City College of New YorkTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Understanding Phenomenology 2 First Encounters A Marjorie Glicksman Grene 3 Philosophy in Conflict B Alfred Schütz 4 Who Rules Philosophy? C Hubert Dreyfus 5 Becoming Continental D Iris Marion Young 6 Flanking Maneuvers Conclusion Acknowledgments Appendix: Quantitative Sources and Methods List of Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewEngaging with a broad range of audiences, Salamon makes a convincing case that the lens offered by transgendered embodiment and subjectivity reconfigures entrenched theoretical positions in gender studies, psychoanalysis, and continental philosophy. -- Penelope Deutscher, Northwestern University Assuming a Body makes a stunning intervention, by way of phenomenology, into contemporary theories of the body. Situating transgenderism within 'rhetorics of materiality,' Gayle Salamon crafts a supple theoretical framework capable of accounting for both the theory and the lived experience of alternative genders. This book will undoubtedly bridge the gap between transgender studies and critical theory, and, in the process, will open up new ways of understanding what it means to be embodied. -- J. Halberstam, author of Female Masculinity and In A Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives The 'next big thing' for anyone interested in critically theorizing about contemporary transgender phenomena, Assuming a Body squarely addresses the debates and polemics thrown up during the field's fiery formative decade in the 1990s-the relationships between trans, queer, and feminist theories; performativity, discursivity, and materiality; and psychoanalysis and its discontents-and powerfully hits these balls back across the net. Salamon's next-generation (re)iteration of these intellectually vital arguments forges stronger connections between trans studies and current reappraisals of affective or phenomenological approaches to embodiment, as well as to the post-9/11 turn toward political economy and the critique of neoliberal governmentality. Scholars across a wide range of disciplines will be citing, siding with, and taking aim at this important book for years to come. -- Susan Stryker, Indiana University For those who enjoy a challenge, this book rewards with its timely, thought-provoking examination of the body, and the intersection of transgender psychology and critical theory. -- Rachel Pepper Curve Salomon's book achieves to be theoretically rigorous on issues of gender and embodiment and to acknowledge the specificity and reality of transgender experience in a way that challenges the reader to rethink conceptions of sex and gender at their cutting edge. Metapsychology ...this original contribution reconfigures old questions and issues and engages with new ones, ultimately inviting us all to reconsider what it means to be embodied. Somatechnics ...an important resource and instigation for future work along some very promising lines of thought. -- Tamsin Lorraine PhiloSOPHIATable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 What Is a Body? 1. The Bodily Ego and the Contested Domain of the Material 2. The Sexual Schema: Transposition and Transgenderism in Phenomenology of Perception 2 Homoerratics 3. Boys of the Lex: Transgenderism and Social Construction 4. Transfeminism and the Future of Gender 3 Transcending Sexual Difference 5. An Ethics of Transsexual Difference: Luce Irigaray and the Place of Sexual Undecidability 6. Sexual Indifference and the Problem of the Limit 4 Beyond the Law 7. Withholding the Letter: Sex as State Property Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA new resolution of the mind-body problem that reconciles materialism and idealism.Trade ReviewThe Incorporeal might seem to be a departure for Elizabeth Grosz, whose work has provided one of the most profound and sustained theorizations of matter, embodiment and sexual difference. Rather than a refusal of corporeal feminism, this book is a powerful exploration of corporeality and its possibilities. A remarkable and groundbreaking work, The Incorporeal intensifies Grosz's already complex and nuanced account of bodies and difference: incorporeality is not to be equated with mind, ideality or the disembodied. It is, rather, part of the volatility that Grosz has always discerned in bodies, human and nonhuman. -- Claire Colebrook, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, Pennsylvania State University In this new book, Elizabeth Grosz continues her investigations of role of the body in thinking in art and science, as in politics and philosophy. Through a fresh engagement with the work of Deleuze and the thinkers he admired, she extracts a vital new ethics, itself part of a philosophy of nature beyond the limits of 'the new materialism'. A stimulating and rigorous journey towards a new philosophy for our times. -- John Rajchman, author of The Deleuze Connections In this rich and deeply rewarding book, Elizabeth Grosz traces the hidden genealogy-centered on but not reducible to Gilles Deleuze-of a philosophy that makes room for both body and mind, without reductionism, but also without mysticism. -- Steven Shaviro, DeRoy Professor of English, Wayne State University Philosophy, and in its wake cultural theory, has long made periodic pendulum swings between two poles, the materialist and the idealist. What is needed is a move through the middle: an incorporeal materialism, or a materialist idealism. This is the important and timely project Elizabeth Grosz undertakes in this book, with the help of judiciously chosen philosophical guides, from the Stoics to Simondon. -- Brian Massumi, University of Montreal This is a bold, brilliant, and fascinating study of an alternative philosophical tradition. The treatments of Simondon and Ruyer are especially welcome, and a new and highly challenging conception of materialism is offered. -- Keith Ansell-Pearson, University of WarwickTable of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Stoics, Materialism, and the Incorporeal 2. Spinoza, Substance, and Attributes 3. Nietzsche and Amor Fati 4. Deleuze and the Plane of Immanence 5. Simondon and the Preindividual 6. Ruyer and an Embryogenesis of the World Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisJudith Butler shows how COVID-19 and all its consequences—political, social, ecological, economic—challenge 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 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 SynopsisPlants in Place is a collaborative study of vegetal phenomenology at the intersection of Edward S. Casey’s phenomenology of place and Michael Marder’s plant-thinking.Trade ReviewBrilliant and astounding. Casey and Marder revolutionize our notion of place through a meditation on the being of plants. Place becomes a dynamic symbiosis with vegetal life such that it cannot be measured, quantified, or mastered. Nothing short of a paradigm shift in the way we think about both plants and place. -- Kelly Oliver, author of Earth and World: Philosophy After the Apollo MissionsThis singular work is not only timely but also vitally important in this age of planetary environmental crisis and existential estrangement from the Earth itself. The product of a unique collaboration between two prominent philosophers, Casey and Marder's Plants in Place enables us to reimagine our natural interconnectedness, spurring us on to be more actively engaged with not only the preservation of plant-beings and the myriad other entities that depend on them for their very life, but also with the immense pleasure that attends our interaction with the vegetal world. -- Brian Schroeder, Rochester Institute of TechnologyIn this extraordinary book, two of our most respected and inspiring contemporary philosophers invite us to new paths of thought regarding the mystery of places. In their phytophenomenology, they disclose how places are plants, multidirectional flourishing, upward and downward branching, spreading in the open air and in the night of the underground. Traditional distinctions between mobility and immobility, place and time, measure and the measureless lose their evidence. From the viewpoint of the placiality of plants, of the mysterious ways a plant shows the taking place of places, this book shakes dominant presuppositions about what it means to be in places and to be a place. Discovering how places are plants and planted rather than occupied and planned, how they are emergences and not only constructions, this book asks humans to learn to be with plant places and to find new modes of coexistence: an urgent task. -- Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback, Södertörn University, SwedenPlants in Place is a philosophically exciting book that provokes and inspires. Casey and Marder explore the relation between plants and place, and the interconnection of plants with places, in the process articulating an innovative philosophical vision that offers a new way of seeing and thinking about the world. -- Jeff Malpas, author of In the Brightness of Place: Topological Thinking In and After HeideggerTable of ContentsPreface: Walking Among PlantsAcknowledgments1. The Placial Basis of Plant Sessility and Mobility2. Peripheral Power: Structural Dynamics at the Edges of PlantsInterlude I. How Plants Think3. Taking Trees Over the EdgeInterlude II. Plants Up-Close: The Case of Moss4. The Shared Sociality of Trees, with Implications for PlaceInterlude III. Plants from Afar: As Seen in Landscape Painting5. Attachment and Detachment in the Place of PlantsConclusion: The Fate of Places, the Fate of PlantsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade 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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