Phenomenology and Existentialism Books
Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Phenomenology and the Extreme Sport Experience
Book SynopsisUnderstanding the motivations behind those who partake in extreme sports can be difficult for some. If the popular conception holds that the incentive behind extreme sports participation is entirely to do with risking oneâs life, then this confusion will continue to exist. However, an in-depth examination of the phenomenology of the extreme sport experience yields a much more complex picture.This book revisits the definition of extreme sports as those activities where a mismanaged mistake or accident would most likely result in death. Extreme sports are not necessarily synonymous with risk and participation may not be about risk-taking. Participants report deep inner transformations that influence world views and meaningfulness, feelings of coming home and authentic integration as well as a freedom beyond the everyday. Phenomenologically, these experiences have been interpreted as transcendent of time, other, space and body. Extreme sport participation therefore points to a more potent, life-enhancing endeavour worthy of further investigation. This book adopts a broad hermeneutic phenomenological approach to critique the assumed relationship to risk-taking, the death wish and the concept of No Fear in extreme sports, and repositions the experience in a previously unexplored manner.This is valuable reading for students and academics interested in Sports Psychology, Social Psychology, Health Psychology, Tourism, Leisure Studies and the practical applications of phenomenology.Table of Contents1. Extreme Sports 2. Principals of Phenomenology 3. Translating Principles into Practice4. Phenomenology and Extreme Sports: An Hermeneutic Phenomenological Methodology 5. The Risk Hypothesis6. The Death-Wish Hypothesis7. The ‘No Fear’ Hypothesis 8. Experience of Transformation9. Becoming Who You Are10. Experience of Freedom11. Evoking the Ineffable12. Returning to the Life-World of Extreme Sport
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Taylor & Francis Structural Existential Analysis
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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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Phenomenology Reader
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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Taylor & Francis Ltd Buddhist Phenomenology
Book SynopsisA richly complex study of the Yogacara tradition of Buddhism, divided into five parts: the first on Buddhism and phenomenology, the second on the four basic models of Indian Buddhist thought, the third on karma, meditation and epistemology, the fourth on the Trimsika and its translations, and finally the fifth on the Ch''eng Wei-shih Lun and Yogacara in China.Trade Review'A well-researched and lucid exposition of an old Buddhist school of thought that is usually seen as hopelessly complex and difficult' - Bibliographia Missionaria'His unique approach ... both in content and style, may be the most formidable aspect of this discursive, incisive, often brilliant, 600 page work.' - H-Buddhism, H-Net Reviews'[Lusthaus's] weighty book certainly succeeds in raising our awareness of this complex tradition. This is no small achievement, and it is one for which we should be extremely grateful.' - The Journal of Asian Studies'A well-researched and lucid exposition of an old Buddhist school of thought that is usually seen as hopelessly complex and difficult' - Bibliographia Missionaria'His unique approach ... both in content and style, may be the most formidable aspect of this discursive, incisive, often brilliant, 600 page work.' - H-Buddhism, H-Net ReviewsTable of ContentsPrefacePart One Buddhism and Phenomenology Ch.1Buddhism and Phenomenology Ch.2 Husserl and Merleau-PontyPart Two The Four Basic Buddhist Models in India Introduction Ch.3 Model One: The Five Skandhas Ch.4 Model Two: Pratïtya-samutpada Ch.5 Model Three: Tridhatu Ch.6 Model Four: Sila-Samadhi-Prajna Ch.7 Asamjni-samapatti and Nirodha-samapatti Ch.8 Summary of the Four ModelsPart Three Karma, Meditation, and Epistemology Ch.9 Karma Ch.10 Madhyamikan Issues Ch.11 The Privilaging of Prajna-paramitaPart Four Trimsika and Translations Ch.12 Texts and TranslationsPart Five The Ch'eng Wei-Shih Lun and the Problem of Psychosophical Closure: Yogacara in China Ch.13 Ch.14 Seven Trajectories Ch.15 The Legend of the Transmission of the Ch'eng Wei-Shih Lun Ch.16 Alterity: Parinama Ch.17 Why Consciousness in Not Empty Ch.18 On Rupa Ch.19 Externality Ch.20 The Four Conditions Ch.21 Mirror Knowing: Soteric Alterations Ch.22 Language, Avijnapti-Rupa and Vijnapti-Rupa Ch.23 Is What is Ultimately Real Itself Ultimately Real?ConclusionsAppendicesBibliographyIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Guidebook to Nietzsches Thus Spoke
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Guidebook to Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra is an engaging introduction to this rich and provocative philosophical text. Nietzsche is arguably one of the most influential and yet least understood philosophers of the nineteenth century. The same can be said of his self-proclaimed magnum opus, Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The work has influenced everything from poetry, literature, and music to philosophy, psychoanalysis, and soldiers on the battlefields of World War I. Its contents, however, are still far from being understood. On the one hand, the principal aims and even the genre of Zarathustra remain unclear. On the other hand, the work expresses, in poetic fashion, some of Nietzsche's most important, controversial, and enigmatic doctrines: the Üebermensch, the eternal recurrence of the same, and the will to power.The Routledge Guidebook to Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra is essential
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Lexington Books Postphenomenological Investigations
Book SynopsisPostphenomenological Investigations: Essays on HumanTechnology Relations provides an introduction to the school of thought called postphenomenology and showcases projects at the cutting edge of this perspective. Postphenomenology presents a unique blend of insights from the philosophical traditions of phenomenology and American pragmatism, and applies them to studies of user relations to technologies. These studies provide deep descriptions of the ways technologies transform our abilities, augment our experience, and shape the world around us. This book proceeds with a preface by Don Ihde, postphenomenology's founder, and a detailed review of the main ideas of this perspective by the editors Robert Rosenberger and Peter-Paul Verbeek. The body of this volume is composed of twelve postphenomenological essays which reflect the expansive range, detail-orientation, and interdisciplinarity of this school of thought. These essays confront a broad assortment of topics, both abstract and concreTrade ReviewThis collection provides an excellent overview of current work in one of the most important current approaches to the philosophy of technology. . . .The editors' summaries of the sixteen essays provide the reader with a helpful roadmap of the book's organization and content. . . .This is a well-conceived and articulated book and certainly one that both advances studies in the philosophy of technology and contributes to new ways of thinking about phenomenology. * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *[The book] is well referenced, and key texts are well signposting, meaning that a lateral rather than linear read may be more productive for newcomers to postphenomenology. * Centre for Medical Humanities *This book is a major contribution to the sparse body of knowledge in the Western philosophical tradition dealing with the foundations of a field of scholarly research. Here the case is so-called postphenomenology, which owes so much to Don Ihde, who provides a brilliant introduction. The two co-editors are equally important, and represent researchers in both the United States and Europe, whose contributions constitute much of the volume. -- Paul Durbin, University of DelawareThis anthology is an absolute must for newcomers as well as those versed in the field and its discussions. The book shows how far the burgeoning field of postphenomenological analysis has come since the broader and largely technology-deterministic approaches made by the phenomenological predecessors, most prominently Martin Heidegger. Both novices and those already acquainted with this philosophical style of analysis get plenty of new food for thought in essays addressing technological agency, speed, ethics, humanoid robots, bodies, science fiction, politics, philosophy of design, and scientific practice, as well as a number of brilliantly executed and informative case studies. -- Cathrine Hasse, University of AarhusTable of Contents1. A Field Guide to Postphenomenology, Robert Rosenberger & Peter-Paul Verbeek 2. Why Postphenomenology Needs a Metaphysics, Lenore Langsdorf 3. What Robotic Re-embodiment Reveals about Virtual Re-embodiment: A Note on the Extension Thesis, Kirk M. Besmer 4. Thinking Technology With Merleau-Ponty, Aud Sissel Hoel & Annamaria Carusi 5. Movies and Bodies: Variations of the Embodied Self in Science-Fiction Techno Fantasies, Marie-Christine Nizzi 6. Bodies as Technology: How Can Postphenomenologists Deal with the Matter of Human Technique?, Fernando Secomandi 7. Four Dimensions of Technological Mediation, Asle H. Kiran 8. Tracing the Tracker: A Postphenomenological Inquiry into Self-Tracking Technologies, Yoni Van Den Eede 9. A Century on Speed: Reflections on Movement and Mobility in the 20th Century, Søren Riis 10. Searching for Alterity: What Can We Learn From Interviewing Humanoid Robots? Frances Bottenberg 11. Postphenomenology of the Robot Medical Student, Chris Kaposy 12. Mediating Multiplicity: Brain-Dead Bodies and Organ Transplant Protocols, Adam M. Rosenfeld 13. Towards a Hermeneutics of Unveiling, Jan Kyrre Berg Friis 14. Making the Gestalt Switch, Andrew Feenberg 15. Postphenomenology with an Eye to the Future, Diane Michelfelder 16. Stability, Instability, and Phenomenology, Albert Borgmann
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Northwestern University Press 50 Concepts for a Critical Phenomenology
Book SynopsisPresents fresh readings of classic phenomenological topics and introduces newer concepts developed by feminist theorists, critical race theorists, disability theorists, and queer and trans theorists that capture aspects of lived experience that have traditionally been neglected.Trade Review50 Concepts for a Critical Phenomenology is an invaluable resource. Not only does it offer a clear overview of key texts and figures both within the center and the periphery of the phenomenological tradition, but it stands as a crucial critical intervention in the practice of phenomenology itself. It challenges us take seriously the ‘infinite task' of better understanding the very ways and means whereby we understand the world and our role in it. It shows, in other words, that rigorous phenomenology must be ‘critical,' and that critical phenomenology demands that we leave behind the comfort of tradition. "" - Michael J. Monahan, author of The Creolizing Subject: Race, Reason, and the Politics of PurityTable of Contents Introduction: Transformative Descriptions — Gail Weiss, Ann V. Murphy, and Gayle Salamon Part I 1. The Phenomenological Method — Duane Davis 2. Critical Phenomenology — Lisa Guenther Part II 3. Bad Faith — Lewis R. Gordon 4. Being and beings: the Ontological/Ontic Distinction — John D. Caputo 5. Being-in-itself, Being-for-itself, and Being-for-Others — Kris Sealey 6. Being-toward-Death — Mark Ralkowski 7. Borderlands and Border Crossing — Natalie Cisneros 8. Collective Continuance — Kyle Whyte 9. Compulsory Able-Bodiedness — Robert McRuer 10. Confiscated Bodies — George Yancy 11. Controlling Images — Patricia Hill Collins 12. Corporeal Generosity — Rosalyn Diprose 13. Decolonial Imaginary — Eduardo Mendieta 14. Durée — Alia Al-Saji 15. Epistemological Ignorance — Charles W. Mills 16. Eros — Tamsin Kimoto and Cynthia Willett 17. Eternal Feminine — Debra Bergoffen 18. Ethical Freedom — Shannon M. Mussett 19. The Face — Diane Perpich 20. The Flesh of the World — Donald A. Landes 21. Geomateriality — Ted Toadvine 22. The Habit Body — Helen A. Fielding 23. Heteronormativity — Megan Burke 24. Hometactics — Mariana Ortega 25. Horizons — David Morris 26. Imaginaries — Moira Gatens 27. Immanence and Transcendence — Shiloh Whitney 28. Intercorporeality — Scott Marratto 29. The Körper/Leib Distinction — Jenny Slatman 30. The Look — William McBride 31. Mestiza Consciousness — Elena Ruíz 32. Misfitting — Rosemarie Garland-Thomson 33. Model Minority — Emily S. Lee 34. The Natural Attitude — Lanei M. Rodemeyer 35. The Normate — Joel Michael Reynolds 36. Ontological Expansiveness — Shannon Sullivan 37. Operative Intentionality — Jennifer McWeeny 38. Perceptual Faith — Jack Reynolds 39. Public Self/Lived Subjectivity — Linda Martín Alcoff 40. Queer Orientations — Lauren Guilmette 41. Queer Performativity — Sarah Hansen 42. The Racial Epidermal Schema — Axelle Karera 43. Racist Love — David Haekwon Kim 44. Sens/Sense — Keith Whitmoyer 45. Social Death — Perry Zurn 46. The "They" — Nancy J. Holland 47. Time/Temporality — Dorothea Olkowski 48. Trans Phenomena — Talia Mae Bettcher 49. Witnessing — Kelly Oliver 50. World-traveling — Andrea J. Pitts
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Cambridge University Press Rethinking Death in and after Heidegger
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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Cambridge University Press Husserls Philosophy of Mathematical Practice
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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Taylor & Francis Ltd Trauma and Its Impacts on Temporal Experience
Book SynopsisThis unique text develops an original theoretical framework for understanding the relationship between trauma and time by combining phenomenological and psychoanalytical traditions. Moving beyond Western psychoanalytical and phenomenological traditions, this volume presents new perspectives on the assessment and treatment of trauma patients. Powerfully illustrating how the temporal dimension of a patient's symptoms has until now been overlooked, the text presents a wealth of research literature to deepen our understanding of how trauma disrupts individual temporal experience. Ultimately, the resulting phenomena that occur (including dissociation and cognitive distortions) position time as a transdiagnostic psychological dimension, closely connected to the subject's sense of self.This text will benefit researchers, academics, and educators with an interest in psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and trauma and dissociation studies more broadly. Those specifically interTrade Review"While Mezzalira’s book is only 156 pages, it is an extensive compilation and summary of theory and research, past and present, on time and trauma. She includes perspectives from philosophy (especially phenomenology), psychoanalysis, neuroscience, and cognitive science. This book explores many, many useful concepts and research findings and is a valuable reference source for clinicians and researchers."-Michael Stadter, Psychodynamic PracticeTable of ContentsAbout the Author Introduction: Trauma and the Elusive Nature of Psychic Time1: Time and the Nature of Psychological Trauma2. The Concept of Nachträglichkeit and the Traumatic Disruption of Linear Time3. Time, Trauma, and the Unconscious Mind4. Trauma, Time, and Psychopathology5. Dissociation and Traumatic Temporality6. Time, Trauma, and Memory7. Time, Trauma, and Neural (Dis-)Integration8. Time, Trauma, and Therapeutic ChangeConclusion: Healing From TraumaIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary
Book SynopsisOf the philosophical movements of the twentieth century existentialism is one of the most powerful and thought-provoking. Its engagement with the themes of authenticity, freedom, bad faith, nihilism, and the death of God captured the imagination of millions. However, in the twenty-first century existentialism is grappling with fresh questions and debates that move far beyond traditional existential preoccupations, ranging from the lived experience of the embodied self, intersectionality, and feminist theory to comparative philosophy, digital existentialism, disability studies, and philosophy of race.The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Existentialism explores these topics and more, connecting the ideas and insights of existentialism with some of the most urgent debates and challenges in philosophy today. Eight clear sections explore the following topics: methodology and technology social and political perspectives environment and place affectivity and emotion death and freedom value existentialism and Asian philosophy aging and disability. As well as chapters on key figures such as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, and Beauvoir, the Handbook includes chapters on topics as diverse as Chicana feminism, ecophilosophy and the environment, Latina existentialism, Black nihilism, the Kyoto school and southeast Asian existentialism, and the experiences of aging, disability, and death.Essential reading for students and researchers in the areas of existentialism and phenomenology, The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Existentialism will also be of interest to those studying ethics, philosophy and gender, philosophy of race, the emotions and philosophical issues in health and illness as well as related disciplines such as Literature, Sociology, and Political Theory.
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Taylor & Francis Eight Domains of Phenomenology and Research
Book SynopsisEight Domains of Phenomenology and Research Methods is a unique text that explains how the foundational literature representing our lifeworld experience aligns theory with research methods.Maintaining focus on the core problem of phenomenological investigations, the author strives to bridge theory with applied research by critically reviewing examples from the applied literature. With the extensive use of the foundational literatureâs original voices, the book elaborates on how renowned scholars such as Husserl, Heidegger, and Sartre argued their ideas. A range of diverse voices is also explored through the perspectives of feminist and Black phenomenologists. The text then goes on to unpack the phenomenological methodologies with detailed explanations of signature techniques, hereunder the epochà and reduction from the perspectives of transcendental phenomenology, phenomenological psychology, and genetic (generative) phenomenology. Finally, it addresses the problem of articulating phenomenological research questions as well as interview questions that align with the different domains and methodologies.This book is a must read for postgraduate students, dissertation students, and qualitative researchers interested in conducting phenomenological research within social psychology, sociology, and education.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Psyche Culture World
Book SynopsisAcross the array of topics explored in this comprehensive volume, philosopher and psychoanalyst Jon Mills argues for a fundamental return to the question and meaning of existence. Drawing on the traditions of German Idealism, existentialism, and onto-phenomenology, he offers a rich tapestry of insight and critique into the foundations of psyche, human nature, and society. As a philosophy of mind and culture, psychoanalysis offers us a promising perspective to reengage our being in the world in meaningful ways that illuminate human existence, the mysteriousness of unconscious processes, our relation to transcendence, ethical obligations towards social collectives, and the wonder of logos for our present-day consciousness. After examining the unconscious origins of psychic reality and the contradictory nature of our internal lives, Mills examines the scope of existentialism from antiquity to postmodernism, the question of authenticity, paranoiac epistemology, the essence of eviTrade Review"Jon Mills’ Psyche, Culture, World is one of the most ambitious attempts yet to synthesize philosophy and psychoanalysis. In particular, Mills offers readers a sophisticated contemporary reactivation of the tradition of existential psychoanalysis bringing together analytic metapsychology with the insights of phenomenology and existentialism. Against those who would dismiss psychoanalysis and/or existentialist thought as passé, Mills convincingly demonstrates that a combination of these two orientations provides the best cognitive mapping available of our present set of psychical and social conundrums, of the human condition in the twenty-first century." Adrian Johnston, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of New Mexico; author of Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism (3 Vols)"Once again, Jon Mills has regaled us with yet another example of the breadth and depth of his subtle understanding of the relationship between philosophy and psychoanalysis. In this important work, Mills deftly demonstrates the philosophical underpinnings of psychoanalysis while bringing heretofore neglected aspects of phenomenology and existential philosophy to bear in illuminating the existential basis of psychoanalytic practice. His exegesis of the unconscious, myth, truth, freedom, and evil are both impressive and original. A true tour de force and cogent exploration of the role that existence plays in our lives."M. Guy Thompson, PhD, author of The Death of Desire: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness"Jon Mills views psychoanalysis as essentially an existential enterprise about human beings as agents. He combines psychoanalysis with a rich philosophical tradition to confront key conundrums of human existence. Novel and illuminating ideas leap from the pages of this brilliant scholarly yet accessible magnum opus."Douglas Kirsner, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Psychoanalytic Studies, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia; author of Unfree AssociationsJon Mills is a rare breed. . . . Mills himself is extraordinarily prolific, and his work is extremely wide-ranging. Dr. Mills newest book, Psyche, Culture, World: Excursions in Existentialism and Psychoanalytic Philosophy tackles many diverse topics from relational psychoanalysis to the future of human life. Firmly rooted in psychoanalysis and European philosophy, Mills brings a unique sensibility to the most central issues in and outside psychoanalysis. His ambitious goal is to move towards a psychology of existence.Ken Fuchsman, International Psychohistorical AssociationTable of ContentsProlegomenon: Towards a Psychology of Existence About the Texts 1. On the Origins of Psychic Reality 2. Psyche as Inner Contradiction 3. Existentialism and Psychoanalysis: From Antiquity to Postmodernism 4. The False Dasein: From Heidegger to Sartre and Psychoanalysis 5. Lacan on Paranoiac Knowledge 6. The Essence of Evil 7. Recognition and Pathos 8. God: The Invention of an Idea 9. Towards a Theory of Myth 10. Deconstructing Hermes: A Critique of the Hermeneutic and Phenomenological Turn in Psychoanalysis 11. Psychoanalysis and the Ideologies of Science 12. Truth 13. Freedom and Determinism 14. Civilization and its Fate
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Taylor & Francis Art Animals and Experience
Book SynopsisElizabeth Sutton, using a phenomenological approach, investigates how animals in art invite viewers to contemplate human relationships to the natural world. Using Rembrandt van Rijnâs etching of The Presentation in the Temple (c. 1640), Joseph Beuysâs social sculpture I Like America and America Likes Me (1974), archaic rock paintings at Horseshoe Canyon, Canyonlands National Park, and examples from contemporary art, this book demonstrates how artists across time and cultures employed animals to draw attention to the sensory experience of the composition and reflect upon the shared sensory awareness of the world.Trade Review"This book asks readers to take another look at the ways in which animals are represented in art and, in so doing, raises some important ethical and aesthetic considerations." – J. Keri Cronin, Brock University"Phenomenology has taught us much about how artworks trigger our perceptual capacities, but its ability to teach us about the possible ethical relationships between viewer and artwork has been less explored. In this original and thought-provoking study, Sutton explores such a possibility through the framework of the representation of dogs in art. Through such exploration, Sutton shows that our empathy with animals—and their empathy with us—has much to tell us about our empathy with artworks."- Matthew Bowman, University of Suffolk Table of ContentsTable of ContentsChapter 1. Relational Ethics and AestheticsBeing and Thinking With Art and AnimalsBetween Presence and Absence An Ethical Art HistoryChapter 2. Dogged Flesh: Rembrandt’s Presentation in the Temple, c. 1640 Real and Represented DogsRembrandt’s Three R’s: Radical, Reflective, RevelatoryThe Rhetoric of EtchingFleshly Experience Past Made PresentChapter 3. Glances with Wolves: Encounters with Little John and Joseph Beuys Entangled EncountersSeeing and Being with Little JohnPresencing Other WorldsImaginative EmpathyGathering Together in the GapChapter 4. Glimpses into the Unknown: Contemporary Taxidermy and Photography Spaces Between: Yellow and Taza Respecting UnknownsDominance, Submission, and Freedom: Inert and Progression of Regression Death and the Object (Ars longa vita brevis EST)From Hierarchy to HorizontalityChapter 5. "We Are All Connected": Experiencing Art and Nature at Horseshoe Canyon Guided by Dogs and Children"We Are All Connected"Dwelling with Dogs and Earth Accessing Histories with Attentive CareArt and Earth as Places of EmergenceChapter 6. Caring for Art and Animals
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Heideggerian Existential Therapy
Book SynopsisHeideggerian Existential Therapy focuses on Martin Heidegger's philosophy in order to provide both a wider accessibility as well as understanding of its relevance to therapeutic practice.This book unveils in great depth the core tenets of Heidegger's thinking, without presuming any philosophical background. It attends to the manner in which we inevitably undergo disruptions, disturbances, perturbations, breakdowns, and collapses in the course of our lives, and on the way in which they can be addressed and understood from an existential therapeutic perspective. The text covers Heidegger's ideas with illustrations and examples, in order to free them from the confines of philosophy in a way that then enables them to be brought directly into the therapy room. Each chapter takes the reader from an initial philosophical grounding of this approach towards a clear and concrete way of working existentially with clients.The text is primarily intended for trainee and practTrade Review‘This remarkable book by Mo Mandić is a major contribution to existential therapy from a Heideggerian perspective in its difference to other forms of therapy and an important further extension of Heidegger´s philosophy into the field of therapy. The book makes understandable the basic ideas of Heidegger´s existential analytic of Dasein, which inspired the work of both Binswanger and Boss in the last century, in their relevance for psychotherapy today. For Heidegger scholars, it is an important contribution to research into the relation of Heidegger´s thinking and its practical relevance. The author writes in a clear and accessible style which helps the reader to grasp also the more difficult topics in Heidegger´s understanding of the human being.’Alfred Denker, PhD, Director of the Martin-Heidegger-Archive, Messkirch; co-director of the Archivo-Heidegger, Seville.‘Martin Heidegger's impact upon the theory and practice of existential therapy is both wide-ranging and — for many therapists — close to inaccessible due to the originality (and complexity) of his radical philosophical arguments. Thankfully, Dr. Mo Mandić's Heideggerian Existential Therapy succeeds in teasing out key ideas and concerns in a highly accessible account that, nonetheless, retains a genuine Heideggerian spirit of enquiry. This is a book that calls into question many of the most foundational assumptions regarding both the aims and practice of therapy. Although of particular pertinence to existential therapists, I have no doubt that practitioners and trainees allied to any of the current approaches to psychotherapy and counselling will be both challenged and enlightened by Dr. Mandić's exposition.’Ernesto Spinelli, PhD, Professor, author of Practising Existential Therapy: The Relational World (2nd ed).‘Mo Mandić’s Heideggerian Existential Therapy: Philosophical Ideas in Practice is a welcome and important addition to the growing literature on Heideggerian therapy. However, rather than tread familiar ground, Mandić’s book advances our understanding of existential therapy on several fronts. Alongside serving an accessible overview of Heideggerian concepts, Heideggerian Existential Therapy also articulates in vivid clarity how these concepts can be situated in the centre of therapeutic practice. Interspersed with rich vignettes from a diverse range of case studies, the book sheds light on key issues such as breakdowns, identity, and dreaming. Destined to be a formative work within the genre, Heideggerian Existential Therapy is a must read for those interested and working within the existential tradition of therapy.’Dylan Trigg, PhD, FWF Senior Researcher at the University of Vienna, Department of Philosophy.Table of ContentsPART I: Introduction 1. The World of Therapy 2. Why Heidegger? 3. The Question of Human Existence 4. Human Existence and Existential Therapy 5. Methodological Considerations PART II: Dasein 6. Dasein 7. Dasein’s Way of Being PART II: Dasein’s Challenges 8. Disruptions, Ruptures, Disturbances, Breakdowns, Collapses 9. Existentiales and Breakdowns 10. Some Breakdowns in Therapy 11. Transitioning Breakdowns 12. A Cartesian Breakdown: Winnicott PART IV: Heideggerian Existential Therapy 13. Working Phenomenologically 14. Formal Indication as a Therapeutic Approach 15. Working Hermeneutically 16. Working Existentially 17. Working Existentially with Dreams
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Heart of Therapy
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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Taylor & Francis Ltd Essays in Existential Psychoanalysis
Book SynopsisIn this brilliant and revolutionary collection of 14 major essays that draw from more than 25 years of painstaking research, M. Guy Thompson regales us with a stunning revisioning of conventional psychoanalysis that deepens our understanding of the human condition.Integrating the most seminal existentialist philosophers, including Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre, with the most forward-thinking psychoanalysts over the past century, including Freud, Laing, Bion, Winnicott, and Lacan, Thompson offers a profound yet deeply personal vision of what psychoanalysis can be in the 21st century. In this fascinating volume, Thompson explores such concepts as experience, authenticity, will, happiness, and agency by utilizing a wide range of thinkers, including the ancient Greeks, but always in his singular voice. Exquisitely lucid and engaging to read, Thompson deftly lures us into thoughtful and enlightening territory typically inaccessible to the general reader.This coTrade Review'Essays in Existential Psychoanalysis: On the Primacy of Authenticity draws together 14 major papers written by Michael Guy Thompson. Their aim is to reconsider various foundational themes and assumptions within psychoanalysis from the focus point of existential theory. Always exciting to read, they are uniformly and clearly argued and presented. Thompson is rightfully renowned as an original theorist whose writing is both accessible and challenging, as well as to the point and passionate. These essays are intended to provoke and illuminate. Not only do they achieve this aim, in my view they surpass it thanks to the author's mastery of the material under discussion and, not least, his genuine enthusiasm in offering fresh perspectives on both psychoanalysis and existentialism.'Professor Ernesto Spinelli, PhD, author of Practising Existential Therapy: The Relational World'A unqiue and absorbing development of key commonalities between existential and psychoanalytic apporaches to understanding clinical issues and the human condition. This book is a unique integration of existential philosophy and psychoanalysis, comprising Dr Thompson's nearly thirty years of painstaking publications that have developed this perspective. As an existential psychoanalyst, Thompson explores concepts such as experience, authenticity, will, and agency by utilizing a wide range of thinkers from the ancient Greeks through to Nietzche, Freud, Heidegger, Sartre, and Laing. His thought-provoking existential perspective on psychoanalytic concepts such as free association, neutrality and working through makes this an invaluable and distinctive contribution to existential psychoanalysis.'Douglas Kirsner, PhD, Emeritus Professor, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia; author of The Schizoid World of Jean-Paul Satre and R.D. Laing and Unfree Associations: Inside Psychoanalytic Institutes 'M. Guy Thompson knew and worked with some of the greats from the 20th century. Among these were R.D. Laing and Ernest Hemingway no less! And their influence is palpable. In this volume, Thompson's excursion through the interiors of existential psychoanalysis is exquisitely lucid and engaging—a revelation even to those of us schooled in its principles. Any reader wishing to understand the basis and importance of existential analysis in contemporary theory and practice simply must read this volume. With both passion and intimate experience, Thompson shows precisely why existential analysis still informs the bedrock of depth psychotherapy.'Kirk. J. Schneider, PhD, author of Life-Enhancing Anxiety: Key to a Sane World, The Psychology of Existence (with Rollo May), and Existential-Integrative Psychotherapy 'A fascinating, enlightening and stimulating exploration of the interface and intertwining of existential and psychoanalytic thinking. This book is strong in both its detailed analysis and overall vision and co-nourishing vistas of existential-psychoanalytic theory and practice, in support of our appreciative sense of lived experience.Michael Eigen, PhD, author of Contact with the Depths, The Sensitive Self, The Psychoanalytic Mystic, and Flames from the Unconscious 'The beauty of Thompson's approach, which he exemplifies throughout his book, lies in an emotional sensibility rather than just a theoretical doctrine. This rich text brings the existential sensibility to life in a manner that will be highly valuable to psychoanalytic therapists of all persusasions, as well as those who officially advocate existentialist thought.'Robert D. Stolorow, PhD, author of Trauma and Human Existence and The Power of Phenomenology: Psychoanalytic and Philosophical Perspectives'I know I am not alone in considering Michael Guy Thompson to be perhaps the best living exponent of existential psychoanalysis. Michael uniquely develops for us in the 21st century an unprecedented and compelling integration of continental philosophy and psychoanalysis. We are very fortunate to have so many of Thompson's key writings in one volume.'Professor Del Loewenthal, University of Roehampton and Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling (SAFPAC), UK, author of Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling After PostmodernismTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface: What Is the Existentialist Sensibility? 1. Sartre and Psychoanalysis: The Role of Freedom in the Clinical Encounter 2. Nietzsche and Psychoanalysis: The Fate of Authenticity in a Postmodernist World 3. Logos and Psychoanalysis: The Role of Truth and Creativity in Heidegger's Conception of Language 4. What Is the Will? On the Role of Desire in Psychoanalysis 5. Vicissitudes of Authenticity in the Psychoanalytic Situation 6. The Crisis of Experience in Contemporary Psychoanalysis 7. The Sceptic Dimension to Psychoanalysis 8. Happiness and Chance 9. Is the Unconscious Really all that Unconscious? 10. The Demise of the Person in the Psychoanalytic Situation 11. Deception, Mystification, Trauma: Laing and Freud 12. Free Association: A Technical Principle or Model for Psychoanalytic Education? 13. The Rule of Neutrality 14. The Existential Dimension to Working Through Index
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Taylor & Francis The Dialectic of Philosophical Education
Book SynopsisThis book provides an account, both theoretical and phenomenological, of the education offered by philosophy. Specifically, it examines the three distinct moments that make up the practice of philosophical study: reading, writing, and discussion. By considering each moment in turn, the author explores how philosophical learning creates opportunities for what Hannah Arendt described as âœthe gift of thinking poeticallyâ and suggests that the dynamic and nonlinear relationship between these moments is what constitutes the dialectic of a philosophical education.Grounded in years of practice and offering scholarly commentary throughout, this shortform book will appeal to students and philosophers of education, as well as those with interests in teaching and learning more broadly.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Beyond Nihilism
Book SynopsisMartin Heidegger's (1889-1976) criticism of Friedrich Nietzsche's nihilism represented a turn' in his thought. In this new and perceptive book, Dominic Kelly explores nihilism through the work of two relatively modern and much studied philosophers; Heidegger and Nietzsche and shows how Heidegger began to think in a way that was not solely philosophical and instead used poetry to achieve a new relation to being. In doing so, Heidegger was able to move past Nietzsche's concepts and thus, nihilism itself. Through his exploration of Heidegger's journey to a form of thinking beyond the philosophical then, Kelly exposes nihilism's crucial place in Continental philosophy and has written a book that is essential for students and academics working in Heidegger studies. Kelly's engagement with Heidegger's more poetic philosophy also benefits students of metaphysics, the philosophy of art and aesthetics, and visual culture more widely. By putting nihilism into its historical context and examiningTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Nietzsche and the Threat of Nihilism 2. The Possibility of an Other Beginning 3. Language as the House of Being 4. Hölderlin and the Possibility of Poetry Conclusion Endnotes Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Michel Henrys Practical Philosophy
Book SynopsisProviding theoretical and applied analyses of Michel Henry's practical philosophy in light of his guiding idea of Life, this is the first sustained exploration of Henry's practical thought in anglophone literature, reaffirming his centrality to contemporary continental thought. This book ranges from the tension between his methodological insistence on life as non-intentional and worldly activities to Henry's engagement with the practical philosophy of intellectuals such as Marx, Freud, and Kandisky to topics of application such as labor, abstract art, education, political liberalism, and spiritual life. An international team of leading Henry scholars examine a vital dimension of Henry's thinking that has remained under-explored for too long.Trade ReviewCombining careful readings of Michel Henry’s phenomenology with intriguing applications of his philosophy in the areas of psychoanalysis, pedagogy, economics, politics, spirituality, aesthetics, and socio-cultural engagement, this important collection helps us see the relevance of Henry’s complex thought for various fields of practical philosophy and for concrete action today. * Christina M. Gschwandtner, Professor of Philosophy, Fordham University, USA *This book gathers leading Michel Henry scholars to ponder and parse the implications of the French philosopher’s ideas about action, creation, and dwelling in community. The volume’s contributors convincingly show how Henry’s work can come to inform and shape our ethical, aesthetic, social, psychological, and political lives, both as individuals and as a society, in terms of our understanding and praxis. Readers will be impressed by the original scholarly analysis and application of Henry’s thought to various aspects of human life and interactions. * Antonio Calcagno, Professor of Philosophy and Chair, King’s University College at Western University, Canada *Michel Henry's philosophy of action is as momentous as his philosophy of life, but less well understood. He wants to uncover the real motivation of human action, where pathos and freedom coincide, where the fate of democracy, culture, and life itself, all hang in the balance. The essays in this book help bring to light this important dimension of Henry’s thought. * Karl Hefty, Associate Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology, Saint Paul University, Canada *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Interpretations 1. From Affect to Action to Interpretation: On Michel Henry’s Theoria of Immanent Praxis (Frédéric Seyler, de Paul University, USA) 2. Affective Labor and the Henry-Ricoeur Debate over Marx (Scott Davidson, West Virginia University, USA) 3. Spiritual Life and Cultural Discernment: Thinking Spirituality through Michel Henry (Neal DeRoo, Kings University, Canada) 4. Working in the “World of Life”: Michel Henry’s Philosophy of Subjective Labor (Jeffrey Hanson, Havard University, USA) 5. Freud after Henry (Ruud Welten, Tilburg University, The Netherlands) 6. The World or Life’s Fragility: A New Critical Reading of Henry’s Phenomenology of Life (Paula Lorelle, Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique, France) Part 2: Applications 7. The Liberal Subject: The Politics of Life in Michel Henry (Joseph Rivera, Dublin City University, Ireland) 8. Michel Henry’s Barbarism and the practices of education (Brian Harding, Texas Women's University, USA) 9. Russian Avant-Garde and Michel Henry’s Radical Phenomenology (Ioulia Podoroga, Geneva University, Switzerland) 10. Affectivity and its Effects: Social Prospects for the Pathetic Community (Aaron Simmons, Furman University, USA and Maia Wellborn, Fordham University, USA) Conclusion Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Hans Jonas
Book SynopsisHans Jonas (19031993) was one of the most important German-Jewish philosophers of the 20th century. A student of Martin Heidegger and close friend of Hannah Arendt, Jonas advanced the fields of phenomenology and practical ethics in ways that are just beginning to be appreciated in the English-speaking world. Drawing here on unpublished and newly translated material, Lewis Coyne brings together for the first time in English Jonas's philosophy of life, ethic of responsibility, political theory, philosophy of technology and bioethics. In Hans Jonas: Life, Technology and the Horizons of Responsibility, Coyne argues that the aim of Jonas's philosophy is to confront three critical issues inherent to modernity: nihilism, the ecological crisis and the transhumanist drive to biotechnologically enhance human beings. While these might at first appear disparate, for Jonas all follow from the materialist turn taken by Western thought from the 17th century onwards, and he thereforeTrade ReviewCoyne has delivered an ambitious account of the multiple strains of Jonas’s thinking. While it is clear that Coyne deems several portions of Jonas’s thought as offering less than satisfactory answers, he also demonstrates that Jonas’s thinking does impressively counteract the most dangerous tendencies of modern Gnosticism by reminding us of the fateful balance we hold with nature. * Review of Metaphysics *Well known within the areas of environmental philosophy, theology and bioethics, Jonas's overall contribution to philosophy has been somewhat overlooked in the English speaking world. Coyne offers an excellent comprehensive analysis of Jonas's contribution to philosophy, presenting his philosophy as a systematic and unified corpus of thought. A much welcome addition to the literature on this fascinating thinker, Coyne's book is essential reading for students and scholars wishing to familiarise themselves with Hans Jonas’s philosophy. * Darian Meacham, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Maastricht University, The Netherlands *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Introduction I. Jonas’s Philosophical Project II. The Man and His Work 1. The Gnosticism of Modernity I. The Gnostic Principle II. Nihilism, Ancient and Modern III. The Scientific Revolution IV. The Age of Technology V. The Baconian Ideal 2. The Philosophy of Life I: The Organism I. Dualism, Materialism, Integral Monism II. The Phenomenological Approach to Organismic Being III. Self-Organization IV. Behaviour V. The Nisus of Being 3. The Philosophy of Life II: The Scala Naturae I. Aristotle After Darwin II. Plants III. Animals IV. Humans V. Being is One 4. Values and the Good I. The Axiological Dimension of Teleology II. Species and the Biosphere III. The Good of Being IV. Moral Traditions 5. New Dimensions of Responsibility I. Ethics, Old and New II. The Temporal Horizon III. Responsibility for the ‘Idea of Man’ IV. Global and Intergenerational Ethics V. Duties to Non-Human Life 6. The Politics of Nature I. The Nature of Politics II. New Rules for Collective Action III. Farewell to Utopia? IV. Rival Interpretations of Jonas’s Politics V. Freedom and the Republic 7. Toward a Richer Bioethics I. The Dignity of the Person II. Human Beings as Means III. The Threshold of Life and Death IV. The Future of the Human Condition Conclusion I. Humanity: The Shepherd of Beings II. Carrying the Fire Notes Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Phenomenology of Virtual Technology
Book SynopsisThe digital age we now live in is fundamentally changing how we relate to our perceptions and images. Daniel O''Shiel provides the first comprehensive phenomenology of virtual technology in order to show how the previously well-established experiential lines and structures between three basic categories of phenomenal experience our everyday perceptions of reality; our everyday fantasies of irreality; and our everyday engagements with external images, not least digital ones are becoming blurred, inverted or are even collapsing in a new era where a specific type of virtuality is coming to the fore. O'Shiel examines in depth just what this means for the phenomenology behind it, as well as the concrete practical consequences going forward. The work is divided into two main parts. In the first O'Shiel fully investigates the phenomenological natures of perception and imagination through close textual analyses of the relevant works by Edmund Husserl, Eugen Fink and Jean-Paul Sartre. In eachTrade ReviewHow to interpret the relation between the infinite of our actual and real world, and the infinite of the digital and virtual world of social media? Not in terms of “transition”, but in terms of transformation. Daniel O’Shiel describes meticulously the very nature of it: i.e. as form of “irrealization”. This loss of the “real”, he shows, is at the core of the passions and experiences generated by virtual reality. Is this a problem? Read the book, and judge for yourself. * Roland Breeur, Professor of Philosophy, KU Leuven, Belgium *We live in a world dominated by the power of the image, wherein the boundaries between the real and the virtual are increasingly blurred. What happens to the self, to the other, and to values in such a situation? Mining crucial insights of classical phenomenology and applying his findings to a variety of contemporary virtual technologies, O’Shiel has produced a valuable monograph not only for scholars of phenomenology, but also for anyone who wishes to think seriously about what it means to perceive and to imagine in the digital age—and about how to do so with greater discernment. * Ian Alexander Moore, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Loyola Marymount University, USA *O’Shiel’s book is a major achievement. It offers a masterful survey of the contributions of major phenomenological thinkers to the conceptualisation and analysis of the virtual which could serve equally well as a point of entry for a phenomenologist curious about the virtual, or a researcher of the virtual seeking to grasp phenomenology. Ultimately O’Shiel’s project is a syncretic one, and this overview of phenomenological contributions to the understanding of the virtual serves as a springboard to the production of his own framework. The fecundity of which is amply demonstrated by its application to various forms of virtual technology, such as social media, online gaming, and virtual reality. This book is a treasure trove of phenomenological insights into the virtual. It is engagingly written, conversational without being superficial. The author has made a major contribution to contemporary phenomenology, and this book will undoubtedly become the go to text for those teaching and researching the phenomenology of the virtual. * Gregory Swer, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction PART I. PERCEPTION, IMAGE AND THE CHALLENGE OF VIRTUALITY 1. Husserl 1.1. Husserl’s Perception 1.2. Presentation, Presentification and Phantasy 1.3. The Problem of Image-Consciousness 2. Fink 2.1. Fink’s ‘Presentification and Image’ 2.2. Presentation, Depresentation and the Types of Presentification 2.3. Image-Consciousness, Again 3. Sartre 3.1. Perception and the Imaginary 3.1.1. Experiencing and Evoking Absence: Perception, Imagination and the Analogon 3.1.2. Sartre’s Imaginary: Between Perception and Concept 3.1.3. An Ambiguity in Sartre’s Conclusion? 3.2. Sartre’s Answer for Image-Consciousness .. 3.3. Recapitulation and Discussion 4. The Challenge of Virtuality 4.1. Heidegger and Our Forked Being 4.2. Bergson and Deleuze 4.3. Perception and Image: a Difference in Kind or Degree? 4.4. Real Virtualities: Self, World, Others and Values PART II. IRREAL VIRTUALITY: THE CASE OF VIRTUAL TECHNOLOGY 5. Social Media 5.1. The Significance and Influence of Social Media 5.2. Changed Selves, Worlds, Others and Values in Social Media 5.3. Breeur’s Challenge: A Possibility for Real Engagement On or Through Social Media? 6. Online Gaming 6.1. Games Are Not (Straightforward) Perceptions 6.2. The Online Gaming Experience 6.3. Changed Selves, Worlds, Others and Values in Games 6.4. Reality, Irreality, Superreality and Addiction 7. VR, AR and MR Technologies 7.1. A Summary of VR, AR and MR Technologies 7.2. Changed Selves, Worlds, Others and Values in VR, AR and MR Technologies 7.3. ‘Pure’ MR and the Case of Holograms 8. Considerations and Consequences 8.1. Virtual Technology: Its Current Status and Scope 8.2. Blurrings, Inversions and Collapses? Current Trends and Future Possibilities Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Structure Phenomenology
Book SynopsisThis is the first English translation of Herbert Witzenmann's seminal work, Strukturphänomenologie, which departs from the traditional phenomenological methods of Husserl, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty to introduce a fresh approach to the nexus of consciousness and reality. In Structure Phenomenology, published open access, Witzenmann argues for the active mental, yet mostly pre-reflective, participation of humans in the emergence of individual consciousness of all kinds and the basic structure that determines it. While Witzenmann ascribes a derivative or memorative status to habitual states of phenomenal consciousness, even if they seem to refer to present objectivity, he proposes that the underlying formative processes be unveiled and explored through systematic first-person observation. Through his logically grounded and experience-based approach, he contends that it is not neural processes that produce consciousness, but rather one's own preconscious rootedness in realitTrade ReviewThis book is a wide-ranging analysis and synthesis of how the principles and first-person methods of structural phenomenology cast light on conceptual and non-conceptual content of experience and enable insights into the constitution of intentional content and the formation of reality. It is a highly welcome addition and foundation for the growing interest in epistemological and phenomenological issues concerning the constitution of subjectivity and the world among scientists and laymen alike. * Christian Tewes, Adjunct Professor (Privatdozent) of Philosophy, University of Jena, Germany *Table of ContentsForeword, Johannes Wagemann (Alanus University, Germany) Introduction to Structure Phenomenology, Johannes Wagemann (Alanus University, Germany) 1. Biographical Notes on Herbert Witzenmann 2. The Role of Introspection 3. Intentionality and the Basic Structure 4. The Deposited Memorative Layer 5. Reality Access and Ontological Stratification 6. Reception and Further Development of Witzenmann’s Structure Phenomenology Structure Phenomenology, Herbert Witzenmann Foreword Introduction Part 1: The Basic Structure 1.1 Mistaken Conceptions Of The Relation Between Consciousness And Object 1.2 The Basic Structure In The Light Of Rudolf Steiner’s Epistemology 1.3 Explanatory Remarks Part 2: The Crucial Difficulty. The Problem of Generation 2.1 Self-giving. Temporalization. Depresentification 2.2. A Seemingly Resultant Infinite Regress 2.3 The Problem of Continuity Part 3: The Proposed Solution 3.1 Thinking Act and Thought Content (Evidence) 3.2 Further Elucidation on this Approach to a Solution 3.3 Formation of Reality and Beings 3.4 The Sub-temporal and Super-temporal 3.5 Thinking Act and Self-consciousness (the “I”). The Concept of Observation 3.6 The Solution to the Problem of Memory 3.7 The Deposited Memorative Layer. The Concept of Objectivity. The Gaze Behind the Veil 3.8 The Concept of Presence 3.9 Structural and Functional Remembering 3.10 The Paradox of Self-giving. The Self-forgetfulness of Supposing 3.11 Results of the Structure-phenomenological Exploration of the Contents of Consciousness Part 4: The Significance Of Structure Phenomenology Advice for the Reader References
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Kierkegaard and Possibility
Book SynopsisHow does our conception of possibility contribute to our understanding of self and world? In what sense does the possible differ from the merely probable, and what would it mean to treat possibility as part of the real? This book is an opportunity to see Kierkegaard as contributing to a distinctive phenomenology, ontology, and psychology of possibility that addresses the question of our existential relationship to the possible.The term possibility' (Mulighed) and its variants occur with curious frequency across Kierkegaard's writings. Key to Kierkegaard's understanding of the self, possibility is linked to a number of core concepts in his works: from imagination, anxiety, despair, and the moment' to the idea in The Sickness Unto Death that God is that all things are possible. Responding to what he sees as a Hegelian and Aristotelian misunderstanding of possibility, Kierkegaard offers a novel reading of the possible that, in turn, directly influences 20th-century philosophTable of ContentsForeword, George Pattison (University of Glasgow, UK) Introduction: Existence and possibility, Erin Plunkett (University of Hertfordshire, UK) Part I: Possibility and the Philosophical Tradition 1. From Possibility to Actuality and Back Again: Kierkegaard’s Ontology of the Possible and the Actually Ideal, Jeff Hanson (Harvard University, USA) 2. ‘What Our Age Needs Most’: Kierkegaard's Metaphysics of Virkelighed and the Crisis of Identity of Philosophy, Gabriel Ferreira (UNISINOS, Brazil) Part II: Possibility and Experience 3. Possibility, Meaning, and Truth: Kierkegaardian Themes in Proust, Rick Anthony Furtak (Colorado College, USA) 4. The Secrecy of Possibility in Kierkegaard’s “Pattern”, Frances Maughan-Brown (College of the Holy Cross, USA) 5. Kierkegaard and Deleuze: Anxiety, Possibility and A World Without Others, Henry Somers-Hall (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) Part III: Possibility and Freedom 6. On Being Educated for the Possibility by The Concept of Anxiety, Jakub Marek (Charles University, Czech Republic) 7. Isaac I cannot Understand: Sacrifice and the Possibility of Radical Intersubjectivity, Tatiana Chavalková Badurová (Charles University, Czech Republic)) Part IV: Possibility and Hope 8. Just a Glance! Kierkegaard’s Eschatology of the Possible, Saitya Brata Das (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India) 9. Climate Despair from a Kierkegaardian Perspective: Asceticism, Possibility and Eschatological Hope, Hjördis Becker-Lindenthal (Cambridge University, UK) 10. Hope in the Task of Forgiveness, John Lippitt (Institute for Ethics & Society at Notre Dame, Australia) Bibliography Index
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Palibrio Fenomenología: Filosofía moderna
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Akasha Classics Beyond Good and Evil
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Books on Demand Propos sur le bonheur: Nouvelle édition 2022
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Heidegger on Affect
Book SynopsisThis book offers the first comprehensive assessment of Heidegger’s account of affective phenomena. Affective phenomena play a significant role in Heidegger’s philosophy — his analyses of mood significantly influenced diverse fields of research such as existentialism, hermeneutics, phenomenology, theology and cultural studies. Despite this, no single collection of essays has been exclusively dedicated to this theme. Comprising twelve innovative essays by leading Heidegger scholars, this volume skilfully explores the role that not only Angst plays in Heidegger’s work, but also love and boredom. Exploring the nature of affective phenomena in Heidegger, as well as the role they play in wider philosophical debates, the volume is a valuable addition to Heideggerian scholarship and beyond, enriching current debates across disciplines on the nature of human agency.Trade Review“This collection can be considered a major contribution to its own field, one that simultaneously invites further productive engagement with the theme from anyone interested in what Heidegger brings to bear on affects (be it from within the field or from without). The volume’s efficacy lies in seriously considering how affects are existentially pertinent to human beings, deepening the widely-held intuition that they are. For that reason, it is of considerable merit and should be of interest to many.” (Tijmen Lansdaal, Phenomenological Reviews, December 10, 2019)Table of ContentsChapter 1. Being, Nothingness and Anxiety. Mahon O'Brien.- Chapter 2. Heidegger: πάθος as the thing itself. Thomas Sheehan.- Chapter 3. The Affects of Rhetoric and Reconceiving the Nature of Possibility. Niall Keane.- Chapter 4. Angst and evidence: Shifting phenomenology's measure. Christos Hadjioannou.- Chapter 5. Missing in Action: Affectivity in Being and Time, Daniel O. Dahlstrom.- Chapter 6. Affect and Authenticity: Three Heideggerian Models of Owned Emotion. Denis McManus.- Chapter 7. Finding Oneself, Called. Katherine Withy.- Chapter 8. Is Profound Boredom Boredom?. Andreas Elpidorou & Lauren Freeman.- Chapter 9. Truth, Errancy, and Bodily Dispositions in Heidegger's Thought. Daniela Vallega-New.- Chapter 10. Love as Passion: epistemic and existential aspects of Heidegger's unknown concept. Tatjana Noemi Tömmel.- Chapter 11. The Ethics of Moods. Francois Raffoul.- Chapter 12. Heidegger and the Affective (un)grounding of Politics. Jan Slaby & Gerhard Thonhauser.
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De Gruyter The Severed Self: The Doctrine of Sin in the
Book SynopsisThe concept of sin permeates Søren Kierkegaard’s writing. This study looks at the entirety of his works in order to systematize his doctrine of sin. It demonstrates four key aspects: sin as misrelation, sin as untruth, sin as an existence state, and sin as redoubling in the crowd. Upon categorizing Kierkegaard’s doctrine of sin, his writings are examined to determine if his hamartiology is consistent across his numerous pseudonyms. To conclude, the study places Kierkegaard’s doctrine of sin within the broader theological discussion.
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ISOLARII How to Build a Universe That Doesnt Fall Apart
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The University of Chicago Press Phenomenology and Deconstruction Volume Three
Book SynopsisThis text argues that the differences between Husserl and Heidegger involve differences in method; whereas Husserl follows a method of clarification, that eliminates ambiguities, Heidegger rejects the criterion of clarity and embraces ambiguities as exhibiting overlapping relations.
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University of Chicago Press Sartre Foucault and Historical Reason Volume One
Book SynopsisSartre and Foucault were two of the most prominent and at times mutually antagonistic philosophical figures of the twentieth century. And nowhere are the antithetical natures of their existentialist and poststructuralist philosophies more apparent than in their disparate approaches to historical understanding. A history, thought Foucault, should be a kind of map, a comparative charting of structural transformations and displacements. But for Sartre, authentic historical understanding demanded a much more personal and committed narrative, a kind of interpretive diary of moral choices and risks compelled by critical necessity and an exacting reality. Sartre's history, a rational history of individual lives and their intrinsic social worlds, was in essence immersed in biography. In Volume One of this authoritative two-volume work, Thomas R. Flynn conducts a pivotal and comprehensive reconstruction of Sartrean historical theory, and provocatively anticipates the Foucauldian counterpoint to come in Volume Two.
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The University of Chicago Press No Exit Arab Existentialism JeanPaul Sartre and
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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University of Chicago Press Kant and Phenomenology
Book SynopsisPhenomenology, together with Marxism, pragmatism, and analytic philosophy, dominated philosophy in the twentieth century - and Edmund Husserl is usually thought to have been the first to develop the concept. The author argues for a return to phenomenology's origins in epistemology and does so by locating its roots in the work of Immanuel Kant.Trade Review"This is a clear, concise, and enjoyable read by a senior scholar who is an expert on all aspects of German idealism. Tom Rockmore is uniquely qualified to establish clearly the phenomenological-epistemological narrative extending from Kant to Husserl, Heidegger, and beyond. His constructivist reading of Kant along with his contrast of Kant with Husserl makes his case convincingly in a work of exceptional clarity and rigorous documentation." - Alan Olson, Boston University"
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Manchester University Press Time and World Politics
Book SynopsisThis book offers the first authoratitive guide to, and critical evaluation of, assumptions about time in theories of world politics. It develops a new way of making sense of the 'present' times of world politics. -- .Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsPart One: Theories of world political time1. Introduction to the question of world political time2. From fortune to history3. Against historicismPart Two: diagnosing the times4. Prophecies and predictions5. Time for democracy6. Apocalyptic times7. Thinking the presentBibliographyIndex
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Lexington Books Dancing Souls
Book SynopsisThis new book by Ermanno Bencivenga expands upon his earlier work, which explores the issue of the multiplicity of the subject in contemporary philosophy. In Dancing Souls Bencivenga addresses the crucial question of how the subject can be one and multiple at the same time. Without reducing multiplicity to juxtaposition (or phenomenological schizophrenia), or simple unity to objectivity, Bencivenga locates the subject''s unity between various existential positions. He finds that this phenomenon is like the disciplined movement of the dancer through space. Bencivenga explores the structure of this ontological betweenness in its various levels of complexity from the most intimately personal to the communal and the political. Written in a style that is at once highly informed by scholarship while also remaining very personal and honest, Bencivenga does not provide easy answers but struggles with the reader. The novel and engaging form of this book, along with its unique treatment of somTrade ReviewGiven the perennial nature of the issues discussed, and the originality of the positions taken, this work can only be regarded as highly important. This is a book of wide interest to both scholars and general readers. -- Kent Baldner, Western Michigan UniversityDancing Souls is a genuine piece of philosophy that deals with difficult philosophical matters, and will be given serious consideration by all serious contemporary philosophers. It offers novel, provocative thoughts in areas which are interesting in their own right and which have been neglected by the philosophical mainstream. -- Achille Varzi, Columbia University
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Lexington Books Encounters with Alphonso Lingis
Book SynopsisThis is an extensive study of this American philosopher who is gaining an international reputation to augment his national one. The distinguished contributors to this volume address most of the central themes found in Lingis's books.Trade ReviewThe studies gathered here, written by some of the leading philosophers on both sides of the Atlantic, bear witness to the importance of Alphonso Lingis as one of the most original voices in contemporary American philosophy. For more than three decades he has been jolting American academicians out of their settled ways of thinking and writing with a series of brilliant, provocative, and original studies of phenomena of elemental importance. As the contributors to this volume remind us, Lingis has impressed on us a renewed sense of our impassioned and embodied existence and he has taught an entire generation of American philosophers how to think for themselves while maintaining a dialogue with the great masters of European philosophy. -- John D. Caputo, David R. Cook Professor of Philosophy, Villanova UniversityTable of ContentsPart 1 Locating Lingis in Traditions of Thought Chapter 2 Far from the Pallid Float Chapter 3 Seeing the Named, Naming the Seen: Relations to the Tradition Chapter 4 Reflections Since Dangerous Emotions: Interview with Alphonso Lingis, 2002 Chapter 5 The Sacred Vision of a Solitary Voyager Chapter 6 Encounter the World, Keep a Clear Eye Chapter 7 Silent Communities: Foucault and Lingis on the End of Philosophy Chapter 8 Foreign Bodies: Interview with Alphonso Lingis (1996) Part 9 Departures: Singular and Common Realities Chapter 10 Limits, Borders, and Shores of Singularity Chapter 11 Dream of a Blind Sculptress Chapter 12 Naked Chapter 13 There is Always Another Island Chapter 14 Mapping the Earth Otherwise Chapter 15 Grief Suspended: Lingis, Cavell, Emerson Part 16 The Return Home Chapter 17 Trust
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Lexington Books Encounters with Alphonso Lingis
Book SynopsisEncounters with Alphonso Lingis is the first extensive study of this American philosopher who is gaining an international reputation to augment his national one. Lingis''s books have already been translated into nearly a dozen languages, and writers from many disciplines are finding his works a source for fresh philosophical and scholarly inquiries. The distinguished contributors to this volume reflect on their own encounters with this unique American thinker as they engage his work from their various critical perspectives. They address most of the central themes found in his writingsincluding singularity and otherness, death and eroticism, emotions and rationality, embodiment and the face, excess and the sacred. In the book''s first section, the contributors discuss Lingis''s significance as a contemporary philosopher, particularly with regard to such renowned figures as Dante, Kant, Nietzsche, Foucault, and the major existential and phenomenological thinkers of the past century. InTrade ReviewThe studies gathered here, written by some of the leading philosophers on both sides of the Atlantic, bear witness to the importance of Alphonso Lingis as one of the most original voices in contemporary American philosophy. For more than three decades he has been jolting American academicians out of their settled ways of thinking and writing with a series of brilliant, provocative, and original studies of phenomena of elemental importance. As the contributors to this volume remind us, Lingis has impressed on us a renewed sense of our impassioned and embodied existence and he has taught an entire generation of American philosophers how to think for themselves while maintaining a dialogue with the great masters of European philosophy. -- John D. Caputo, David R. Cook Professor of Philosophy, Villanova UniversityTable of ContentsPart 1 Locating Lingis in Traditions of Thought Chapter 2 Far from the Pallid Float Chapter 3 Seeing the Named, Naming the Seen: Relations to the Tradition Chapter 4 Reflections Since Dangerous Emotions: Interview with Alphonso Lingis, 2002 Chapter 5 The Sacred Vision of a Solitary Voyager Chapter 6 Encounter the World, Keep a Clear Eye Chapter 7 Silent Communities: Foucault and Lingis on the End of Philosophy Chapter 8 Foreign Bodies: Interview with Alphonso Lingis (1996) Part 9 Departures: Singular and Common Realities Chapter 10 Limits, Borders, and Shores of Singularity Chapter 11 Dream of a Blind Sculptress Chapter 12 Naked Chapter 13 There is Always Another Island Chapter 14 Mapping the Earth Otherwise Chapter 15 Grief Suspended: Lingis, Cavell, Emerson Part 16 The Return Home Chapter 17 Trust
£79.20
Rlpg/Galleys The Promise of Phenomenology
Book SynopsisThe Promise of Phenomenology: Posthumous Papers of John Wild includes articles that remained unpublished during Wild''s lifetime, a journal, wherein he recorded conversations with major British and Continental philosophers during 1957-8, as well as a masterful exposition and commentary on Emmanuel Levinas''s book Totality and Infinity. It also contains a complete bibliography of all of Wild''s unpublished writings open for research at the Beinecke Rare Book Library at Yale University. More personal and less reserved than Wild''s published scholarship, yet containing Wild''s characteristic clarity and rigor, the writings in this book cover such subjects as a phenomenological approach to moral relativism, an exploration of lived time, and reflections on the other and religious transcendence. The Promise of Phenomenology gives a lively picture of a master philosopher at work conveying the vitality and importance of philosophy to everyday life.Trade ReviewThis book contains a landmark collection of essays on the foundational issues of existential phenomenology. It displays the depth and versatility of one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. These posthumous papers of John Wild are a treasure trove of erudition, cogent argumentation, and a jargon-free exploration of timeless philosophical questions. Wild confronts the phenomenological tradition with his own vast knowledge of the history of philosophy. His approach is fresh, surprising, and exciting. A final bonus is Wild's introduction to the thought of Emmanuel Levinas which marks the very first American recognition of Levinas' overall importance. This book is not only an invaluable look at a key historical moment in contemporary philosophy; it is also a challenge to continental thought, calling for a renewed examination of its most basic points of departure. -- Robert J. Anderson, Washington CollegeWith unusual clarity and insight, the American philosopher John Wild used his phenomenological approach to explore what he called "lived experience," which never grasps the world completely but grants us opportunities to glimpse truth and to give meaning to our lives in positive ways if we learn to use our freedom well. Retrieved through the careful attention that Richard Sugarman and Roger Duncan have paid to the posthumous papers of this major twentieth-century philosopher, John Wild's much-needed wisdom shines again in the twenty-first century—sane and sensible, profound and yet down to earth, illuminating and helpful. -- John K. Roth, Edward J. Sexton Professor of Philosophy and director, Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights, Claremont McKenna CollegeIn this volume of carefully selected previously unpublished texts, each perceptively introduced, contextualized and annotated, Professors Sugarman and Duncan masterfully bring to life yet more of the penetrating insights of a rightfully distinguished American philosopher, or as John Wild might have said, they have retrieved and renewed his intellectual inquiries into and for our unfolding “life world.” -- Richard A. Cohen, author of Out of Control: Confrontations between Spinoza and LevinasThis book offers an excellent introduction to phenomenology! It provides the most penetrating critique of relativism even as it constructs a perspectival realism not indifferent to transcendence. More than any other thinker, Wild understands the dissolution of the self wrought by abandoning the world or sinking into nihilism. In his writings, Wild both lives and explains the imperative and the dread of communicating the self in its individuality, its style, by projecting it into writing. I really enjoyed every page and 'studying' with Wild... -- Anne Ashbaugh, Colgate UniversityThe philosophical world stands in debt to Professors Richard Sugarman and Roger Duncan for making available a representative portion of the unpublished works of an internationally eminent twentieth century American philosopher. John Wild, a member of the philosophy faculty at Harvard University over a span of thirty-four years, was the consummate teacher/scholar who in the course of his career influenced generations of instructors and researchers and helped shape the direction of philosophy in the United States as it moved toward a new century. With a veritable mastery of the history of philosophy and a rigor in analysis and argumentation, Professor Wild remained in the forefront of critical assessments of the contributions of twentieth century continental phenomenology and existentialism and became a pioneer in the recovery and revitalization of indigenous American pragmatism. -- Calvin O. Schrag, Purdue UniversityBringing together writings from John Wild's later life, this carefully annotated posthumous collection attests his significance not only as a premier interpreter of phenomenology but as a major original thinker. Juxtaposed against a still unrivalled section by section reading of Emmanuel Levinas's major work, Totality and Infinity, are essays on guilt, responsibility, God, the quest for meaning and a phenomenological response to relativism. Drawing upon realist and pragmatist traditions, Wild reinforces and criticizes an ethics of otherness in which rights and other social issues do not play a key role. His suggestive 1957-58 journals, fragments recounting conversations with analytic philosophers Gilbert Ryle and J. L. Austin among others offer not only engaging portraits but philosophical insights into what unites and ultimately separates these traditions. As its title hints, this work is a remarkable fulfillment of phenomenology's promise. -- Edith Wyschogrod, Rice UniversityThis book offers an excellent introduction to phenomenology! It provides the most penetrating critique of relativism even as it constructs a perspectival realism not indifferent to transcendence. More than any other thinker, Wild understands the dissolution of the self wrought by abandoning the world or sinking into nihilism. In his writings, Wild both lives and explains the imperative and the dread of communicating the self in its individuality, its style, by projecting it into writing. I really enjoyed every page and 'studying' with Wild. -- Anne Ashbaugh, Colgate UniversityTable of ContentsPart 1 Explorations of the Human Life-World Part 2 Conversations, Reflections, and Beliefs Part 3 Toward a Phenomenology of Transcendence Part 4 New Directions, A Philosopher at Work: Toward a Phenomenology of the Other Part 5 Letter to John Wild Part 6 Bibliography of John Wild's Posthumous Papers
£94.50
Lexington Books Becoming Nietzsche
Book SynopsisBecoming Nietzsche is an essential book for understanding Nietzsche''s philosophical genealogy from 1866 to 1868, a phase that is punctuated by the influence of Friedrich Lange and a surprising rejection of Schopenhauer''s theory of the will. During this phase, Nietzsche focuses on the scientific and artistic status of teleological judgments and their relevance for thinking about organic life and representation. Paul A. Swift deftly connects Nietzsche''s philology with the development of his theory of human understanding by providing scholarly analysis and short original translations of Nietzsche''s early work on Democritus, Schopenhauer, and Kant. A first of its kind study suitable for Nietzsche specialists, historians of philosophy, and newcomers who have broad interests in the humanities, Becoming Nietzsche investigates how Democritus''s rejection of teleology and Kant''s analysis of reflective judgment directly influenced Nietzsche''s aesthetic perspectivism in the 1860s.Trade ReviewPaul Swift's Becoming Nietzsche is an important contribution to Nietzsche studies, emphasizing his earliest encounter with Democritus, Schopenhauer, and Kant. Swift ably discusses Nietzsche's response to many of their ideas and concepts relating to, for example, teleology and metaphysics. Swift brings to the fore problems and texts by the early Nietzsche which have received far too little attention previously. -- Thomas H. Brobjer, Uppsala University, SwedenSwift's monograph makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of Nietzsche's philosophical genealogy tout court. Swift demonstrates beyond reasonable doubt the importance to Nietzsche's later philosophical campaigns of this early period in his development. -- October 2006 * H-German *Swift focuses much welcome and needed attention on the still much neglected earliest philosophical writings by Nietzsche. -- James I. Porter, author of The Invention of Dionysus: An Essay on the Birth of Tragedy and Nietzsche and the Philology of the FutureTable of ContentsChapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Introduction: How One Becomes What One Is Chapter 3 Teleology and the Legend of Democritus Chapter 4 Nietzsche on Schopenhauer in 1867 Chapter 5 The End of Teleology Chapter 6 Conclusion: Aesthetic of Becoming
£74.70
Lexington Books Unamuno and Kierkegaard Paths to Selfhood in
Book SynopsisMiguel de Unamuno was profoundly influenced by Søren Kierkegaard''s pseudonymous works at a time when Kierkegaard was virtually unknown in Southern Europe. This book explores the scope and character of that influence, clarifies misconceptions in the relationship between the authors, and offers an original, Kierkegaardian reading of three of Unamuno''s best known novels: Niebla, San Manuel Bueno, mártir, and Abel Sánchez. Both authors hold a self as achievement view in which the authentic self is seen as the result of the choices one makes over a lifetime. For Kierkegaard, the spheres of existence-the esthetic, the ethical, and the religious-are stages on life''s way to becoming an authentic self before God. Unamuno, however, holds that the same spheres of existence offer equally valid modes of authentic existence as long as one chooses them freely and passionately. This book will be of great interest to scholars of existentialism, Unamuno, and Kierkegaard.Trade ReviewSupported by archival research on what works by Kierkegaard Unamuno actually read, Jan Evans is the first scholar to take seriously the distinction between Kierkegaard and his pseudonyms in exploring similarities and differences between these two authors on the theme of becoming a self. The result is a fresh and more discerning look at three of Unamuno's most popular novels utilizing Kierkegaard's theory of the stages of existence to show how the Spaniard portrays multiple forms of authentic existence. -- Sylvia Walsh, Stetson UniversityA fascinating read, Jan Evans' unusual expertise in both authors gives us original insight into the amazing affinities and fundamental divergence between them, as well as into the extent and limits of Unamuno's use of Kierkegaard. Readers at all levels of familiarity with these authors can benefit. -- M. J. Ferreira, University of VirginiaThis is the first study of Unamuno and Kierkegaard that focuses attention on the latter's writerly heteronyms, a focus with immense implications for the study of Unamuno's narratives with multiple internal writers, that is, for practically all of his fictional work. The book also corrects many well-traveled misconceptions about what Unamuno read in Kierkegaard and clarifies how Unamuno's major thought diverges—often significantly—from that of the Dane with whom he has been compared. -- Thomas R. Franz, Ohio UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 The Importance of Indirect Communication Chapter 3 The Formation of the Self in Kierkegaard and Unamuno Chapter 4 Niebla: A Study in Kierkegaard's Esthetic Stage Chapter 5 San Manuel Bueno, Mártit: A Study in the Ethical Life Chapter 6 Abel Sánchez: A Study in the Possibilities for Religious Existence Chapter 7 Conclusion
£78.85
Lexington Books Husserls Criticism of Reason With
Book SynopsisHusserl''s Criticism of Reason, With Ethnomethodological Specifications marshals some of the central ideas of phenomenology for use in empirical studies of naturally occurring ordinary interaction. At the same time, Liberman outlines ways that concrete ethnomethodological studies of philosophical thinking and philosophers'' work can extend Edmund Husserl''s criticism of reasoning by providing specificities that Husserl never furnished. Liberman develops and applies such phenomenological ideas as the limits of apophantic reasoning and logocentrism, the benefits of aporias and negative dialectics, and theLebenswelt origins of meaning. For phenomenologists, he offers clear summaries of the most vital notions that ethnomethodologists use to locate and describe the implicit intricacies of the thinking philosophical practitioners who are actively and collaboratively engaged in formal reflections. Liberman not only engages in a dialogue and debate with the major thinkers of the phenomenological and post-phenomenological tradition, including Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas, Merleau-Ponty, and Derrida, he poses some ethnomethodological challenges to contemporary phenomenological thought. These notions are not only developed theoretically, but also illustrated practically with abundant demonstrations and detailed analyses.Husserl''s Criticism of Reason is situated within a philosophical anthropological vision of how human beings have been learning how to use the tools of formal analytic reasoning to serve their thinking without suffocating it.Trade ReviewLiberman provides many detailed examples....[He]keeps his promise of showing how thinking reason lives with, and actively uses, sophistry and formal tools of reasoning....Liberman's well-planned foray into the borderlands between phenomenology and ethnomethodology may have re-awakened a slumbering giant....Bringing together two methodologically different disciplines is itself an impressive achievement....Liberman succeeds in attaining his stated goal....He displays the fluidity of thinking reason, and, even more important, shows that it must remain dynamic instead of getting trapped in its own logical aporias and contradictions....Liberman has created an exciting fusion that has the potential to reinvigorate thinking reason. * Husserl Studies, July 2008 *'To reason,' Ken Liberman proposes at the start of this book, 'is to work with other humans in applying some discipline to our thinking.' He goes on to show us, with great patience, persistence, and insight (and by using Garfinkel's ethnomethodology) just how 'people achieve sense in their mundane lives,' as exhibited in 'occasions where thinking reason' is at work in re-connecting our logic with our lifeworld experience–whether those occasions are enacted by Tibetan Buddhist monks or Australian Aboriginal people. -- Lenore Langsdorf, Professor Emerita, Southern Illinois University CarbondaleTable of ContentsPart 1 Foreword by George Psathas Chapter 2 Preface Part 3 Part One - Phenomenological Investigations Chapter 4 Chapter 1. Husserl's "Criticism of Reason" Chapter 5 Chapter 2. Thinking with Categorical Forms Chapter 6 Chapter 3. Levinas's Critique of Apophantic Reason Chapter 7 Chapter 4. Heidegger's Respecification of Thinking Chapter 8 Chapter 5. Garfinkel's Uncompromising Intellectual Rigor Part 9 Part Two - Ethnomethodological Specifications Chapter 10 Chapter 6. Brief Introduction to the Tibetan's Criticism of Reason Chapter 11 Chapter 7. Recognizing the Limits of Apophansis Chapter 12 Chapter 8. Philosophy as Its Lived Work Chapter 13 Conclusion: Philosophers' Work
£82.80
Lexington Books The Promise of Phenomenology
Book SynopsisThe Promise of Phenomenology: Posthumous Papers of John Wild includes articles that remained unpublished during Wild''s lifetime, a journal, wherein he recorded conversations with major British and Continental philosophers during 1957-8, as well as a masterful exposition and commentary on Emmanuel Levinas''s book Totality and Infinity. It also contains a complete bibliography of all of Wild''s unpublished writings open for research at the Beinecke Rare Book Library at Yale University. More personal and less reserved than Wild''s published scholarship, yet containing Wild''s characteristic clarity and rigor, the writings in this book cover such subjects as a phenomenological approach to moral relativism, an exploration of lived time, and reflections on the other and religious transcendence. The Promise of Phenomenology gives a lively picture of a master philosopher at work conveying the vitality and importance of philosophy to everyday life.Trade ReviewThis book contains a landmark collection of essays on the foundational issues of existential phenomenology. It displays the depth and versatility of one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. These posthumous papers of John Wild are a treasure trove of erudition, cogent argumentation, and a jargon-free exploration of timeless philosophical questions. Wild confronts the phenomenological tradition with his own vast knowledge of the history of philosophy. His approach is fresh, surprising, and exciting. A final bonus is Wild's introduction to the thought of Emmanuel Levinas which marks the very first American recognition of Levinas' overall importance. This book is not only an invaluable look at a key historical moment in contemporary philosophy; it is also a challenge to continental thought, calling for a renewed examination of its most basic points of departure. -- Robert J. Anderson, Washington CollegeWith unusual clarity and insight, the American philosopher John Wild used his phenomenological approach to explore what he called "lived experience," which never grasps the world completely but grants us opportunities to glimpse truth and to give meaning to our lives in positive ways if we learn to use our freedom well. Retrieved through the careful attention that Richard Sugarman and Roger Duncan have paid to the posthumous papers of this major twentieth-century philosopher, John Wild's much-needed wisdom shines again in the twenty-first century—sane and sensible, profound and yet down to earth, illuminating and helpful. -- John K. Roth, Edward J. Sexton Professor of Philosophy and director, Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights, Claremont McKenna CollegeIn this volume of carefully selected previously unpublished texts, each perceptively introduced, contextualized and annotated, Professors Sugarman and Duncan masterfully bring to life yet more of the penetrating insights of a rightfully distinguished American philosopher, or as John Wild might have said, they have retrieved and renewed his intellectual inquiries into and for our unfolding “life world.” -- Richard A. Cohen, author of Out of Control: Confrontations between Spinoza and LevinasThis book offers an excellent introduction to phenomenology! It provides the most penetrating critique of relativism even as it constructs a perspectival realism not indifferent to transcendence. More than any other thinker, Wild understands the dissolution of the self wrought by abandoning the world or sinking into nihilism. In his writings, Wild both lives and explains the imperative and the dread of communicating the self in its individuality, its style, by projecting it into writing. I really enjoyed every page and 'studying' with Wild... -- Anne Ashbaugh, Colgate UniversityThe philosophical world stands in debt to Professors Richard Sugarman and Roger Duncan for making available a representative portion of the unpublished works of an internationally eminent twentieth century American philosopher. John Wild, a member of the philosophy faculty at Harvard University over a span of thirty-four years, was the consummate teacher/scholar who in the course of his career influenced generations of instructors and researchers and helped shape the direction of philosophy in the United States as it moved toward a new century. With a veritable mastery of the history of philosophy and a rigor in analysis and argumentation, Professor Wild remained in the forefront of critical assessments of the contributions of twentieth century continental phenomenology and existentialism and became a pioneer in the recovery and revitalization of indigenous American pragmatism. -- Calvin O. Schrag, Purdue UniversityBringing together writings from John Wild's later life, this carefully annotated posthumous collection attests his significance not only as a premier interpreter of phenomenology but as a major original thinker. Juxtaposed against a still unrivalled section by section reading of Emmanuel Levinas's major work, Totality and Infinity, are essays on guilt, responsibility, God, the quest for meaning and a phenomenological response to relativism. Drawing upon realist and pragmatist traditions, Wild reinforces and criticizes an ethics of otherness in which rights and other social issues do not play a key role. His suggestive 1957-58 journals, fragments recounting conversations with analytic philosophers Gilbert Ryle and J. L. Austin among others offer not only engaging portraits but philosophical insights into what unites and ultimately separates these traditions. As its title hints, this work is a remarkable fulfillment of phenomenology's promise. -- Edith Wyschogrod, Rice UniversityThis book offers an excellent introduction to phenomenology! It provides the most penetrating critique of relativism even as it constructs a perspectival realism not indifferent to transcendence. More than any other thinker, Wild understands the dissolution of the self wrought by abandoning the world or sinking into nihilism. In his writings, Wild both lives and explains the imperative and the dread of communicating the self in its individuality, its style, by projecting it into writing. I really enjoyed every page and 'studying' with Wild. -- Anne Ashbaugh, Colgate UniversityTable of ContentsPart 1 Explorations of the Human Life-World Part 2 Conversations, Reflections, and Beliefs Part 3 Toward a Phenomenology of Transcendence Part 4 New Directions, A Philosopher at Work: Toward a Phenomenology of the Other Part 5 Letter to John Wild Part 6 Bibliography of John Wild's Posthumous Papers
£39.60
Lexington Books MerleauPonty and Buddhism
Book SynopsisJin Y. Park is associate professor of philosophy and religion at American University.Gereon Kopf is associate professor of religion at Luther College.Trade ReviewMerleau-Ponty and Buddhism is comparative philosophy at its best. The chapter authors clearly and insightfully draw out the resonances (as well as the often equally illuminating contrasts) between this key 20th century phenomenologist and a rich variety of Buddhist figures and schools of thought. Going beyond a simple demarcation of similarities and differences, however, the authors take advantage of the dialogical space opened up as an opportunity to engage in the practice of philosophizing itself, which in this case includes questioning the very nature (and limits) of philosophy as such. Jin Y. Park and Gereon Kopf have done scholars of phenomenology as well as those of Buddhist thought a great service in assembling and co-authoring this volume, which is bound to leave a positive and lasting impact on both fields. -- Bret W. Davis, Professor of Philosophy, Loyola University MarylandThe French phenomenologist Merleau-Ponty independently rediscovered something that has long been articulated in many of the various strains of Mahayana Buddhist practice, namely the ambiguous interpenetration and dependent becoming of the self and its world. These two sites of thinking have much to say to each other and in this important and provocative volume they are brought into dialogue. In these strong and diverse essays, we do not merely learn what is the same and what is different in these two interlocutors. The intermediary nature of both becomes a model for comparative thinking itself. -- Jason Wirth, Professor of Philosophy, Seattle UniversityFinally, the much-needed book on Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology and Buddhist philosophy-something many of us have glimpsed at is now skillfully put together in a single volume by two outstanding scholars who are anchored in both traditions. This edited volume includes chapters by solid scholars and thinkers who attempt to bridge the gap between the unrelated traditions of Buddhism and Continental thought while seeing a "third space" for philosophical resonance that advances our discourses on the body, its space, and life-world. Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism is a valuable contribution to comparative philosophy. -- David Jones, Kennesaw State UniversityThis volume as a whole is a highly thought-provoking joint-project of comparative studies on some of the most fundamental questions in philosophy. Strongly recommended to anyone who is interested in Merleau-Ponty or/and Buddhism. * Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy *Table of ContentsPart 1 Introduction: Philosophy, Non-Philosophy, and Comparative Philosophy Part 2 Part One: Body: Self in the Flesh of the World Chapter 3 Chapter 1. Merleau-Pontean "Flesh" and its Buddhist Interpretation Chapter 4 Chapter 2. Merleau-Pontean Body and the Buddhist Theory of Five Skandhas: Yasuo Yuasa's Philosophy of the Body Chapter 5 Chapter 3. How the Tree Sees Me: Sentience and Insentience in Tiantai and Merleau-Ponty Chapter 6 Chapter 4. The Human Body as a Boundary Symbol: A Comparison of Merleau-Ponty and Dogen Part 7 Part Two: Space: Thinking and Being in the Chiasm of Visibility Chapter 8 Chapter 5. The Double: Merleau-Ponty and Chinul on Thinking and Questioning Chapter 9 Chapter 6. The Notion of the "Words that Speak the Truth" in Merleau-Ponty and Shinran Chapter 10 Chapter 7. Self in Space: Nishida Philosophy and Phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty Chapter 11 Chapter 8. Merleau-Ponty, Cézanne, and the Basho of the Visible Chapter 12 Chapter 9. "Place of Nothingness" and the Dimension of Visibility: Nishida, Merleau-Ponty, and Huineng Part 13 Part Three: The World: Ethics of Emptiness, Ethics of the Flesh Chapter 14 Chapter 10. The Flesh of the World is Emptiness and Emptiness is the Flesh of the World, and their Ethical Implications Chapter 15 Chapter 11. Merleau-Ponty and Nagarjuna: Enlightenment, Ethics, and Politics Chapter 16 Chapter 12. Ki-Energy: Underpinning Religion and Ethics Chapter 17 Chapter 13. Merleau-Ponty and Asian Philosophy: The Double Walk of Buddhism and Daoism
£41.40
Lexington Books MerleauPonty and Buddhism
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMerleau-Ponty and Buddhism is comparative philosophy at its best. The chapter authors clearly and insightfully draw out the resonances (as well as the often equally illuminating contrasts) between this key 20th century phenomenologist and a rich variety of Buddhist figures and schools of thought. Going beyond a simple demarcation of similarities and differences, however, the authors take advantage of the dialogical space opened up as an opportunity to engage in the practice of philosophizing itself, which in this case includes questioning the very nature (and limits) of philosophy as such. Jin Y. Park and Gereon Kopf have done scholars of phenomenology as well as those of Buddhist thought a great service in assembling and co-authoring this volume, which is bound to leave a positive and lasting impact on both fields. -- Bret W. Davis, Professor of Philosophy, Loyola University MarylandThe French phenomenologist Merleau-Ponty independently rediscovered something that has long been articulated in many of the various strains of Mahayana Buddhist practice, namely the ambiguous interpenetration and dependent becoming of the self and its world. These two sites of thinking have much to say to each other and in this important and provocative volume they are brought into dialogue. In these strong and diverse essays, we do not merely learn what is the same and what is different in these two interlocutors. The intermediary nature of both becomes a model for comparative thinking itself. -- Jason Wirth, Professor of Philosophy, Seattle UniversityFinally, the much-needed book on Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology and Buddhist philosophy-something many of us have glimpsed at is now skillfully put together in a single volume by two outstanding scholars who are anchored in both traditions. This edited volume includes chapters by solid scholars and thinkers who attempt to bridge the gap between the unrelated traditions of Buddhism and Continental thought while seeing a "third space" for philosophical resonance that advances our discourses on the body, its space, and life-world. Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism is a valuable contribution to comparative philosophy. -- David Jones, Kennesaw State UniversityThis volume as a whole is a highly thought-provoking joint-project of comparative studies on some of the most fundamental questions in philosophy. Strongly recommended to anyone who is interested in Merleau-Ponty or/and Buddhism. * Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy *Table of ContentsPart 1 Introduction: Philosophy, Non-Philosophy, and Comparative Philosophy Part 2 Part One: Body: Self in the Flesh of the World Chapter 3 Chapter 1. Merleau-Pontean "Flesh" and its Buddhist Interpretation Chapter 4 Chapter 2. Merleau-Pontean Body and the Buddhist Theory of Five Skandhas: Yasuo Yuasa's Philosophy of the Body Chapter 5 Chapter 3. How the Tree Sees Me: Sentience and Insentience in Tiantai and Merleau-Ponty Chapter 6 Chapter 4. The Human Body as a Boundary Symbol: A Comparison of Merleau-Ponty and Dogen Part 7 Part Two: Space: Thinking and Being in the Chiasm of Visibility Chapter 8 Chapter 5. The Double: Merleau-Ponty and Chinul on Thinking and Questioning Chapter 9 Chapter 6. The Notion of the "Words that Speak the Truth" in Merleau-Ponty and Shinran Chapter 10 Chapter 7. Self in Space: Nishida Philosophy and Phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty Chapter 11 Chapter 8. Merleau-Ponty, Cézanne, and the Basho of the Visible Chapter 12 Chapter 9. "Place of Nothingness" and the Dimension of Visibility: Nishida, Merleau-Ponty, and Huineng Part 13 Part Three: The World: Ethics of Emptiness, Ethics of the Flesh Chapter 14 Chapter 10. The Flesh of the World is Emptiness and Emptiness is the Flesh of the World, and their Ethical Implications Chapter 15 Chapter 11. Merleau-Ponty and Nagarjuna: Enlightenment, Ethics, and Politics Chapter 16 Chapter 12. Ki-Energy: Underpinning Religion and Ethics Chapter 17 Chapter 13. Merleau-Ponty and Asian Philosophy: The Double Walk of Buddhism and Daoism
£101.70
Lexington Books The Sociology of Radical Commitment Kurt H Wolffs
Book SynopsisThis edited volume presents the life and thought of Kurt H. Wolff, a Jewish refugee from Darmstadt, a student of Karl Mannheim, practitioner of the sociology of knowledge, translator of the classic works of Simmel, Durkheim, and Mannheim, and creator of the radical existential sociology of surrender-and-catch, through multiple modalities. Two interviews provide an autobiographical portrait. Testimonies by close family members, friends, and colleagues allow the reader a more intimate insight into his subjectivity. Excerpts from a travelogue journal kept by his spouse, Carla E. Wolff provide an understanding of how the Wolff''s interpreted their situation and times. Several chapters devoted to explicating Wolff''s place in the sociological tradition, especially in light of his work in the sociology of knowledge. Several chapters exhibit creative work in the further development of his thought, especially concerning his surrender-and-catch. The thrust of the book is to explicate Wolff''s relation to the tradition and to the orientation to which he belongs while at the same time to exhibit how he develops a sociology of radical commitment. This commitment can demand great existential risk in the quest to uncover the universal in the uniquethe creation of new meaning (the catch) though the surrender. Wolff''s hope is to find possibilities for humankind that lead us out of the crises, to which traditional scientia has been disappointingly ineffective.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Biographical Profiles: Testimonies from the Heart Chapter 2 Places and Continents Chapter 3 How I came to Sociology and Who I Am: A Conversation with Kurt H. Wolff Chapter 4 The Intellectuals' Context: Wolff's Diagnosis and Response Chapter 5 Substantive Reason Versus Instrumental Reason: Wolff's Rejection of Modern Scientia Chapter 6 Karl Mannheim in America: The Loyalty of Kurt H. Wolff Chapter 7 Existential Truths as Prerequisites for a Globalizing Discourse Theory Chapter 8 Scope and Limits of Kurt H. Wolff's World of Surrender Chapter 9 It's the Body that Matters Chapter 10 Surrender-and-Catch and Modern Political Power Chapter 11 Presuppositional Surrender-To: Theoretical Explication and a Case Study Chapter 12 Life After Kurt H. Wolff: A Case Study of Surrendering-to-Surrender
£40.50
Lexington Books Becoming Nietzsche
Book SynopsisBecoming Nietzsche is an essential book for understanding Nietzsche''s philosophical genealogy from 1866 to 1868, a phase that is punctuated by the influence of Friedrich Lange and a surprising rejection of Schopenhauer''s theory of the will. During this phase, Nietzsche focuses on the scientific and artistic status of teleological judgments and their relevance for thinking about organic life and representation. Paul A. Swift deftly connects Nietzsche''s philology with the development of his theory of human understanding by providing scholarly analysis and short original translations of Nietzsche''s early work on Democritus, Schopenhauer, and Kant. A first of its kind study suitable for Nietzsche specialists, historians of philosophy, and newcomers who have broad interests in the humanities, Becoming Nietzsche investigates how Democritus''s rejection of teleology and Kant''s analysis of reflective judgment directly influenced Nietzsche''s aesthetic perspectivism in the 1860s.Trade ReviewPaul Swift's Becoming Nietzsche is an important contribution to Nietzsche studies, emphasizing his earliest encounter with Democritus, Schopenhauer, and Kant. Swift ably discusses Nietzsche's response to many of their ideas and concepts relating to, for example, teleology and metaphysics. Swift brings to the fore problems and texts by the early Nietzsche which have received far too little attention previously. -- Thomas H. Brobjer, Uppsala University, SwedenSwift's monograph makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of Nietzsche's philosophical genealogy tout court. Swift demonstrates beyond reasonable doubt the importance to Nietzsche's later philosophical campaigns of this early period in his development. -- October 2006 * H-German *Swift focuses much welcome and needed attention on the still much neglected earliest philosophical writings by Nietzsche. -- James I. Porter, author of The Invention of Dionysus: An Essay on the Birth of Tragedy and Nietzsche and the Philology of the FutureTable of ContentsChapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Introduction: How One Becomes What One Is Chapter 3 Teleology and the Legend of Democritus Chapter 4 Nietzsche on Schopenhauer in 1867 Chapter 5 The End of Teleology Chapter 6 Conclusion: Aesthetic of Becoming
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Lexington Books Phenomenology of Religion
Book SynopsisArchana Barua is an associate professor in the Department of Humanities at the Indian Institute of Technology.Trade ReviewPhenomenology of Religion presents the ordinarily complex integrated field of religious studies and beliefs on the one hand and the philosophy of phenomenology on the other, in an elegant and highly readable fashion without detracting from the essence of the field—that is, what it means to experience spirituality and the important influence that such an experience plays in the lives of ordinary everyday folk. Thoroughly recommended for the serious scholar as well as for anyone who is curious about what it means to have a religious experience or who wishes to better understand this fundamental human experience. -- Christopher R. Stones, Indo-Pacific Journal of PhenomenologyIt is Barua's insight into the width and the comprehensiveness of the concept of 'Noema' that helps her encompass, within the phenomenology of religion, the meaning structures in their existential variety and plot those structures on to some commonalities. It is in this important respect that I consider Barua's sensitive research to be not only a genuine contribution to the phenomenology of religion but also a pointer to the understanding of faiths in their variety. Barua's work is indeed topical. I am sure Barua's work will find its deserved place in the literature on phenomenology. -- Kalyan Kumar Bagchi, former professor, Visva-Bharati UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Introduction: Opening Words Chapter 3 1. What is Phenomenology? Chapter 4 2. What is Phenomenology of Religion? Chapter 5 3. The Structure of Religious Experience Chapter 6 4. Deciphering the Signs of the Sacred: A Phenomenological Approach to Religious World Chapter 7 5. Religious Meaning Chapter 8 6. Conclusion
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