Phenomenology and Existentialism Books

Book SynopsisHoward Kainz addresses several areas of Hegel's Phenomenology that are often overlooked in the interest of ensuring that readers do not "miss the trees for the forest." He argues that these "trees" are of interest in their own right, and keys to the ongoing appreciation of Hegel's work.Trade ReviewHegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit: Not Missing the Trees for the Forest is the work of a well-known Hegel scholar who has already published many books on Hegel. [Kainz's] approach allows us to see the figures in Hegel’s Phenomenology not only as steps towards the Absolute, but also as subjective positions in the sense of Melanie Klein and thus of psychoanalysis. Not only people interested in Hegel, but also people interested in understanding the psychic structure of regularly appearing characters will find in this work a goldmine. -- Wilfried Ver Eecke, Georgetown UniversityKainz provides an entertaining study of the ideas of one of the nineteenth century's most influential philosophers. * Book News, Inc., August 2008 *Howard Kainz, the most important specialist and commentator of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, presents here in clear English not only all of Hegel's central concepts in that pivotal book of 1807, but also their dialectical evolvement out of self-negating contradictions within thought and reality in a way that discloses their objective truth. Virtually all concepts within the Phenomenology and hence within the modern objective scientific and cultural world come to life in this book: from the cause of the Zerissenheit, the distraughtfulness of the modern world and its apprehension, to the emergence of a new, subjectively seated and hence relative morality, together with the necessarily inadequate spirit of tolerance, to the reconciliation of the daseienden Geist, the existent spirit, which is God appearing in and through externalized forms as reconciled self- and other-recognition and affirmation. -- Rolf Ahlers, the Sage CollegesTable of ContentsChapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 1. The Phenomenon of Language in Hegel's Phenomenology Chapter 3 2. Character Types in the Phenomenology Chapter 4 3. Phenomenological Themes Chapter 5 4. Kierkegaard and the Phenomenology Chapter 6 5. Hegel's Unsystematic Systematization Chapter 7 6. The Phenomenology and Literature Chapter 8 7. "Absolute Knowledge" and the History of Modern Philosophy

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Book SynopsisFollowing the core principle of phenomenology as a return to the things themselves, Body Matters attends to the phenomena of bodily afflictions and examines them from three different standpoints: from society in general that interprets them as sicknesses, from the medical professions that interpret them as diseases, and from the patients themselves who interpret them as illnesses. By drawing on a crucial distinction in German phenomenology between two senses of the bodythe quantifiable, material body (Körper) and the lived-body(Leib)the authors explore the ways in which sickness, disease, and illness are socially and historically experienced and constructed. To make their case, they draw on examples from a multiplicity of disciplines and cultures as well as a number of cases from Euro-American history. The intent is to unsettle taken-for-granted assumptions that readers may have about body troubles. These are assumptions widely held as well by medical and allied health professionals,Trade ReviewBody Matters is a unique and fascinating account of human afflictions in a world dominated by biomedical notions of disease and illness. In a truly interdisciplinary collaboration between philosophy and sociology, James and Kevin Aho use the insights of phenomenology to help us see ourselves and our afflictions in a more thoughtful way. -- Gesine Hearn, Idaho State UniversityJames and Kevin Aho have written an important book. * Metapsychology Online, March 2010 *The Ahos accomplish a remarkable feat. Their writing is lively and engaging while their observations are deep and important. This is the most insightful study of today's experience of health matters I have yet seen. -- Charles Guignon, University of South FloridaThe book is a great contribution to the critical literature on health and illnesses. It is unique in its attempt to apply Husserl and Heidegger to health and illness….It is elegantly written and filled with numerous examples illustrating the argumentation. * Springer Science and Business Media, August 3, 2010 *This book should be especially welcomed by those working within medical humanities, though not so much by philosophers and others interested in phenomenology...It brings together, even if in a much simplified way, a set of intuitions originating mainly in Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology, neatly synthesizes and applies them to modern biomedicine with a critical intent. The outcome is comprehensive as far as the phenomenologically inspired divergent conceptualizations of pathological states of mind and body are concerned, and it is also often thought-provoking, well written and accessible to newcomers to the field. * The European Legacy – Toward New Paradigms *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 1. Foundations Chapter 3 2. The Lived-Body Chapter 4 3. The Accelerated Body and Its Pathologies Chapter 5 4. The Sicknesses of Society Chapter 6 5. The Diseases of Medicine Chapter 7 6. The Agonies of Illness Chapter 8 7. Medicine and Phenomenology Chapter 9 8. Recovering Therapy Chapter 10 9. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisFollowing the core principle of phenomenology as a return ''to the things themselves,'' Body Matters attends to the phenomena of bodily afflictions and examines them from three different standpoints: from society in general that interprets them as ''sicknesses,'' from the medical professions that interpret them as ''diseases,'' and from the patients themselves who interpret them as ''illnesses.'' By drawing on a crucial distinction in German phenomenology between two senses of the body_the quantifiable, material body (Ksrper) and the lived-body(Leib)_the authors explore the ways in which sickness, disease, and illness are socially and historically experienced and constructed. To make their case, they draw on examples from a multiplicity of disciplines and cultures as well as a number of cases from Euro-American history. The intent is to unsettle taken-for-granted assumptions that readers may have about body troubles. These are assumptions widely held as well by medical and allied heaTrade ReviewBody Matters is a unique and fascinating account of human afflictions in a world dominated by biomedical notions of disease and illness. In a truly interdisciplinary collaboration between philosophy and sociology, James and Kevin Aho use the insights of phenomenology to help us see ourselves and our afflictions in a more thoughtful way. -- Gesine Hearn, Idaho State UniversityJames and Kevin Aho have written an important book. * Metapsychology Online, March 2010 *The Ahos accomplish a remarkable feat. Their writing is lively and engaging while their observations are deep and important. This is the most insightful study of today's experience of health matters I have yet seen. -- Charles Guignon, University of South FloridaThe book is a great contribution to the critical literature on health and illnesses. It is unique in its attempt to apply Husserl and Heidegger to health and illness….It is elegantly written and filled with numerous examples illustrating the argumentation. * Springer Science and Business Media, August 3, 2010 *This book should be especially welcomed by those working within medical humanities, though not so much by philosophers and others interested in phenomenology...It brings together, even if in a much simplified way, a set of intuitions originating mainly in Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology, neatly synthesizes and applies them to modern biomedicine with a critical intent. The outcome is comprehensive as far as the phenomenologically inspired divergent conceptualizations of pathological states of mind and body are concerned, and it is also often thought-provoking, well written and accessible to newcomers to the field. * The European Legacy – Toward New Paradigms *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 1. Foundations Chapter 3 2. The Lived-Body Chapter 4 3. The Accelerated Body and Its Pathologies Chapter 5 4. The Sicknesses of Society Chapter 6 5. The Diseases of Medicine Chapter 7 6. The Agonies of Illness Chapter 8 7. Medicine and Phenomenology Chapter 9 8. Recovering Therapy Chapter 10 9. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisWestern civilization is founded upon the assumption that there exists a natural order to the world, an embedded principle of justice with which human reason is aligned. The imagery is seductive. However, Emil Fackenheim raises a troubling fact in his To Mend the World when he names the Holocaust the rupture that ruptures philosophy. The Holocaust and countless other horrors over thousands of years of eager philosophical pursuit could not order the troublesome human soul to that state of justice that the Plato claims to be the most natural and happy state of human beings, if they can simply know their best interests. The philosopher, physician to the human soul, has proven impotent in healing the open ethical wound of human inhumanity; worse, the grand ontological and epistemological structures that philosophers have constructed may be linked to the ethical failures of the planet, to colonial and imperial worldviews. The work of post-Holocaust phenomenologist, Emmanuel Levinas, is written under the somber backdrop of the Holocaust. Levinas, by his own admission, stages a return to Plato. He shares Plato''s sense of ethical urgency in the philosophical task, but he sets course for a new Platonism that thinks the difference separating (rather than the unity gathering) being. Levinas, more than Plato, appreciates that the exigencies and labor of everyday life can eclipse the needs of others and waylay the ethical life. Levinas too holds out more hope than Plato that the worst human beings can simply forget themselves and their self-interested projects, and become their brothers'' keepers. Levinas quests for the good beyond being as he challenges the tradition of Western thought and the post-Holocaust world to a new ethos: we must decide between the starry skies above (the ordered ontologies of the Western tradition) and the moral law within. The Lesser Good represents a timely consideration of the ethical exigencies of human life, politics, and justice, demonstrating that philosophy''s faTable of ContentsChapter 1 1. Introduction Chapter 2 2. Ethics as "First Philosophy" Chapter 3 3. The Time of Ethics and Justice Chapter 4 4. Ethics and the Places of Justice Chapter 5 5. The Nature of Subjectivity Chapter 6 6. The Nurture of Ethics and Justice Chapter 7 7. Justice Misplaced and Out of Time Chapter 8 8. Resolving the Mystery of Unethical Justice Chapter 9 9. Between Ethics and Justice

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Book SynopsisMarilyn Nissim-Sabat is professor emeritus of philosophy at Lewis University.Trade ReviewWith compassion and rigor, Marilyn Nissim-Sabat offers unprecedented insight into victim blaming. By intervening in postmodern philosophical trends and inaugurating a paradigm shift in psychoanalytic theory, she shows that even liberal theoreticians, clinicians, and activists confine the victims of history to mere survival and undermine the humanistic and transcendental ideal of human flourishing. This book is a must-read for philosophers, psychoanalysts and therapists, feminists and critical race theorists. -- Patricia Huntington, Arizona State UniversityThe slow, careful, and committed reader will be rewarded by thoughtful arguments that add to the debate and address very real and important issues in the care we give to others. * Metapsychology Online *Neither Victim nor Survivor is useful particularly as an intervention into the discourse about the concepts of victim and survivor, and is of special interest to those who may share Nissim-Sabat's passionate commitment to developing phenomenological psychoanalysis. * Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 Chapter 1: What is a Victim? Chapter 4 Chapter 2: Freud, Gender, and the Epigenesis of Morality: A Critique Chapter 5 Chapter 3: The Crisis in Psychoanalysis: Resolution Through Husserlian Phenomenology and Feminism Chapter 6 Chapter 4: Addictions, Akrasia, and Self Psychology: A Socratic and Psychoanalytic View of Akrasia as Victim Blaming. Chapter 7 Chapter 5: Fanon, Phenomenology, And the Decentering Of Philosophy: Lewis Gordon's Her Majesty's Other Children: Sketches of Racism From a Neocolonial Age Chapter 8 Chapter 6: Race And Culture: Victim Blaming in Psychology, Psychiatry, and Psychoanalysis Chapter 9 Chapter 7: Autonomy, Empathy, and Transcendence in Sophocles' Antigone, with an Epilogue: On Lacan's Antigone Chapter 10 Chapter 8: Neither Victim Nor Survivor Be: Who Is Beloved's Baby?

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWith compassion and rigor, Marilyn Nissim-Sabat offers unprecedented insight into victim blaming. By intervening in postmodern philosophical trends and inaugurating a paradigm shift in psychoanalytic theory, she shows that even liberal theoreticians, clinicians, and activists confine the victims of history to mere survival and undermine the humanistic and transcendental ideal of human flourishing. This book is a must-read for philosophers, psychoanalysts and therapists, feminists and critical race theorists. -- Patricia Huntington, Arizona State UniversityThe slow, careful, and committed reader will be rewarded by thoughtful arguments that add to the debate and address very real and important issues in the care we give to others. * Metapsychology Online *Neither Victim nor Survivor is useful particularly as an intervention into the discourse about the concepts of victim and survivor, and is of special interest to those who may share Nissim-Sabat's passionate commitment to developing phenomenological psychoanalysis. * Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 Chapter 1: What is a Victim? Chapter 4 Chapter 2: Freud, Gender, and the Epigenesis of Morality: A Critique Chapter 5 Chapter 3: The Crisis in Psychoanalysis: Resolution Through Husserlian Phenomenology and Feminism Chapter 6 Chapter 4: Addictions, Akrasia, and Self Psychology: A Socratic and Psychoanalytic View of Akrasia as Victim Blaming. Chapter 7 Chapter 5: Fanon, Phenomenology, And the Decentering Of Philosophy: Lewis Gordon's Her Majesty's Other Children: Sketches of Racism From a Neocolonial Age Chapter 8 Chapter 6: Race And Culture: Victim Blaming in Psychology, Psychiatry, and Psychoanalysis Chapter 9 Chapter 7: Autonomy, Empathy, and Transcendence in Sophocles' Antigone, with an Epilogue: On Lacan's Antigone Chapter 10 Chapter 8: Neither Victim Nor Survivor Be: Who Is Beloved's Baby?

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Book SynopsisIn his uncompleted last work, The Visible and the Invisible, Maurice Merleau-Ponty wrote of the thesis of interanimality, a project that was to make explicit the connections between humans and other creatures. David Dillard-Wright uses the suggestions in the Working Notes to re-read Merleau-Ponty''s textual corpus through the lens of animality. The wild meanings that result suggest new directions for philosophical anthropology as well as environmental ethics and animal philosophy. The fact that humans know the world through a fleshly engagement with other animals and non-sentient entities means that reason is unseated from its throne as the ruling attribute of human nature and that consciousness can no longer be viewed as something interior to an individual self. The human cultural world is constituted through contact with extra-human nature, such that everything held to be distinctively human traces its origins back to the Earth, the source of human rationality.Trade ReviewArk of the Possible knits together the philosophic traditions of phenomenology and pragmatism to weave a wonderful tapestry of intellectual reflection on animals, nature, and humankind. Dillard-Wright bridges the oft-contested divide between inter-species morality and environmental ethics, and what's more he develops a profound exploration of animality into a full-blown philosophy of life and world. Students of animal studies will find his essay an enlightening enquiry indeed. -- Ralph R. Acampora, Hofstra UniversityAdding to the burgeoning literature on animal issues from the tradition of Continental thought, Dillard-Wright provides a careful exegesis and innovative extension of Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy of the lived-body/lived- world. Common to humans and other animals, bodily knowledge of the immediately given sense of our physical capabilities and vulnerability provides the ground of a proto-ethic that encompasses the treatment of individual animals and species preservation. 'When species disappear, words disappear, worlds disappear.' Individuals suffer and we are all impoverished. -- Kenneth Shapiro, Animals and Society InstituteTable of ContentsPart 1 Introduction: Imagining Animals Chapter 2 1. God is World: Merleau-Ponty's Implicit Theology Chapter 3 2. The Animal World in Merleau-Ponty Chapter 4 3. Habits of the World: Phenomenological Pragmatism as the Basis for an Animal Ethic Chapter 5 4. Thinking Across Species Boundaries: General Sociality and Embodied Meaning Chapter 6 5. Ark of the Possible: The Earth as Ground in Merleau-Ponty Part 7 Conclusion: A Proto-Ethics of Incarnation

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis is a very thorough, substantive, and readable discussion of the issue of individual freedom and the community in Hegel’s thought. It is centered on his Philosophy of Right, but in the double context of his philosophy of history and the post-Hegelian history of European modernity. What makes the book most interesting and relevant is the author’s Hegelian reflections on contemporary globalization, whose economic consequences we are now beginning to suffer due to individualism gone mad. I would heartily recommend it to educated readers, Hegel scholars, and political philosophers alike. -- Anselm K. Min, Claremont Graduate UniversityIt is a sign of [Luther's] achievement that he is able to provide clear explanations of the dialectic and ofGeist; ...Luther has done us a great service by indicating the pressing need to think about the tension between the individual good and the common good, especially in light of our current economic woes. He has drawn up a detailed map of the Hegelian territory and marked the locations of buried treasure. We should be grateful for his exegetical and philosophic labors. * Perspectives on Politics *Luther provides a thoroughly clear presentation of Hegel?s political philosophy. But more importantly, through the use of concrete examples, he demonstrates connections between Hegel?s philosophy and contemporary political issues. The result is that Luther makes Hegel much more accessible to undergraduate students, an impressive achievement given Hegel's notorious reputation. -- Patrick Horn, Claremont Graduate UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: His Philosophy and Context Chapter 3. Hegel's Philosophy of History: The Odyssey of Liberty Chapter 4. Hegel's Sittlichkeit: Individual Freedom in Ethical Life Chapter 5. The Family and Bürgerliche Gesellschaft: Hegel's Realm of Particular Freedom Chapter 6. Autonomy and Solidarity: Hegel's Rechtsstaat Chapter 7. The Emergence of Hegelianism: Right and Left Movements Chapter 8. Nineteenth-Century Rejections of Hegelianism Chapter 9. Hegel and Postmodernism Chapter 10. Hegel Today

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Book SynopsisHegel''s enduring importance lies in the fact that his philosophy sheds light on many contemporary problems; his conception of freedom enables us to reconcile many of the differences that divide liberalism and communitarianism. While liberalism tends to overemphasize the individual and devalue the community, communitarianism tends to do the reverse. One of his central aims is to integrate liberalism''s concern for the political rights and interests of individuals within the framework of a community. He tries to reconcile the individual and community in a way that creates the proper mix of liberty and authority. One of Hegel''s goals is to discover social structures that will allow individuals to escape the alienation that characterizes contemporary life. He sought a method of reconciling his contemporaries to the modern world by overcoming the things that split the self from the social world; that is, a place where people are at home in the social world. A sense of estrangement is all too common, even for those who enjoy more personal freedom and material abundance than ever thought possible. While Hegel is speaking directly to and about his contemporaries, their social world bears much in common with ours. Consequently, his attempt to reconcile philosophical and social contradictions can elucidate our own condition. While the modern world reflects important contributions, the advent of modern liberalism leads to excessive individualism that fragments social life, leaving individuals disconnected and adrift from meaningful social life. The major goal of Hegel''s political philosophy is to reconcile the individual with his or her political community in a way that overcomes the alienation of modern life.Trade ReviewThis is a very thorough, substantive, and readable discussion of the issue of individual freedom and the community in Hegel’s thought. It is centered on his Philosophy of Right, but in the double context of his philosophy of history and the post-Hegelian history of European modernity. What makes the book most interesting and relevant is the author’s Hegelian reflections on contemporary globalization, whose economic consequences we are now beginning to suffer due to individualism gone mad. I would heartily recommend it to educated readers, Hegel scholars, and political philosophers alike. -- Anselm K. Min, Claremont Graduate UniversityIt is a sign of [Luther's] achievement that he is able to provide clear explanations of the dialectic and ofGeist; ...Luther has done us a great service by indicating the pressing need to think about the tension between the individual good and the common good, especially in light of our current economic woes. He has drawn up a detailed map of the Hegelian territory and marked the locations of buried treasure. We should be grateful for his exegetical and philosophic labors. * Perspectives on Politics *Luther provides a thoroughly clear presentation of Hegel?s political philosophy. But more importantly, through the use of concrete examples, he demonstrates connections between Hegel?s philosophy and contemporary political issues. The result is that Luther makes Hegel much more accessible to undergraduate students, an impressive achievement given Hegel's notorious reputation. -- Patrick Horn, Claremont Graduate UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: His Philosophy and Context Chapter 3. Hegel's Philosophy of History: The Odyssey of Liberty Chapter 4. Hegel's Sittlichkeit: Individual Freedom in Ethical Life Chapter 5. The Family and Bürgerliche Gesellschaft: Hegel's Realm of Particular Freedom Chapter 6. Autonomy and Solidarity: Hegel's Rechtsstaat Chapter 7. The Emergence of Hegelianism: Right and Left Movements Chapter 8. Nineteenth-Century Rejections of Hegelianism Chapter 9. Hegel and Postmodernism Chapter 10. Hegel Today

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Book SynopsisA battle over the politics (and philosophy) of time is a major part of what is at stake in the differences between three competing currents of contemporary philosophy: analytic philosophy, post-structuralist philosophy, and phenomenological philosophy. Avowed or tacit philosophies of time define representatives of each of these groups and also guard against their potential interlocutors. However, by bringing the temporal differences between these philosophical trajectories to the fore, and showing both their methodological presuppositions and their ethico-political implications, this book begins a long overdue dialogue on their respective strengths and weaknesses. It argues that there are systemic temporal problems (chronopathologies) that afflict each, but especially the post-structuralist tradition (focusing on Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida and their prophetic future politics) and the analytic tradition (focusing on John Rawls and philosophical methodology in general, particularTrade ReviewReynolds is at the forefront of a return: the rebirth of phenomenology after successive burials by analytic philosophy, post-structuralism and naturalism. It returns, critically and controversially, through a philosophy of time setting lived time alongside contemporary scientific theories and ideas taken from Derrida and Deleuze. Reynolds has made believable phantoms of Heidegger, Levinas and, above all, Merleau-Ponty. It matters not whether you wish to dispel them or make them flesh, his book is an essential discussion of debates around time at the cross-over of different philosophical traditions. -- James Williams, University of DundeeJack Reynolds has undertaken the monumental task of defining philosophy as it stands today. Unlike any other book of which I know, Reynolds has approached all the major strains of contemporary philosophy with an even hand and a depth of insight, from analytic philosophy to post-structuralism, to phenomenology. Reynolds shows us that the primary philosophical problem remains that of time but now it is time connected to ethics and politics. The value of Chronopathologies cannot be underestimated. -- Leonard Lawlor, Sparks Professor of Philosophy, Penn State UniversityJack Reynolds’ insightful essays demonstrate the importance as well as the difficulty of thinking across the metaphilosophical borders that separate phenomenology, poststructuralism and analytic philosophy. They develop a compelling case for the deficiencies of each, from the perspective of the others, in relation to their respective approaches to time and suggest ways in which each can learn from the others. This book both calls for and exemplifies genuine conversation between analytic and continental philosophy. -- Paul Patton, Hongyi Chair Professor of Philosophy, Wuhan UniversityIn Chronopathologies, the Australian philosopher Jack Reynolds gives an exciting analysis of the intimate connection between time and politics in three trajectories of contemporary philosophy: analytic philosophy, poststructuralism and phenomenology. Reynolds makes an important contribution to the philosophical study of time. He convincingly shows that the analytic and continental branches of philosophy need each other to become aware of the temporal and normative biases that bedevil them. * International Journal of Philosophical Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Chronopathologies: The Politics of Time Part I. Analytic Philosophy, Atemporality, and Presentism: Some Encounters Across the Chunnel Chapter 1: Analytic and Continental Philosophy: A Contretemps? Chapter 2: Common Sense and Philosophical Methodology: Some Metaphilosophical Reflections on Analytic Philosophy via Deleuze Chapter 3: Negotiating the Non-negotiable: Rawls, Derrida, and the Intertwining of Political Calculation and Ultra-politics Part II. Poststructuralism, Time Out of Joint, and Future Politics Chapter 4: The Politics of Futurity in Derrida and Deleuze Chapter 5: Wounds and Scars: Deleuze on the Time and the Ethic of the Event Chapter 6: Deleuze's Perverse-structure: Beyond the Other-structure and the Struggle for Recognition Chapter 7: Derrida, Friendship, and the Transcendental Priority of the "Untimely" Part III. Phenomenology, Embodiment, and Pragmatic Temporality: An Anachronistic Dialogue Chapter 8: Time Out of Joint: Between Phenomenology and Post-structuralism Chapter 9: Dreyfus, Merleau-Ponty, and Deleuze on l'Habitude, Coping, and Trauma in Morality and Skill Acquisition Chapter 10: Touched by Time: Some Critical Reflections on Derrida's Reading of Merleau-Ponty in Le Toucher. Chapter 11: Heidegger and Derrida on Being-towards-death and Philosophy's Untimely Future Conclusion: Beyond Chronopathologies

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Book SynopsisGadamer''s Ethics of Play: Hermeneutics and the Other examines the ethical dimensions of understanding by focusing on Gadamer''s concept of play as it is developed in his magnum opus Truth and Method. Monica Vilhauer argues for the global relevance of play in Gadamer''s philosophical hermeneutics by revealing play as the key concept that depicts the process of all understandingthat is, the dynamic, dialogical, and interpretive process by which interlocutors come to grasp a common subject matter together. Through the lens of dialogue-play, the book focuses on openness toward one''s dialogue partner, respect for his differing point of view, and a willingness to learn from him in conversation as crucial ethical conditions of genuine understanding. The book aims to revive the ethical heart of philosophical hermeneutics and reveal the transforming power of the Other in Gadamer''s hermeneutics. While Gadamer''s Ethics of Play develops his philosophical hermeneutics as an ethical philosophy,Trade ReviewIn this engaging and lucid journey to the heart of Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics, Vilhauer probes the concept of play and elucidates its rich ethical significance. She forcefully answers critics who claim that hermeneutics does not do justice to alterity, and she offers a fresh interpretation of the 'fusion of horizons.' She pursues the limits of hermeneutics and shows how we can break through the barriers of those who refuse to open themselves to genuine dialogue. This is at once an excellent introduction to hermeneutics and a strong defense of Gadamer. -- Richard J. Bernstein, Professor of Philosophy, New School for Social ResearchInterpreters of Gadamer’s account of play have typically considered it only a part of his view of aesthetic understanding. Vilhauer shows us the central role it possesses in his hermeneutics as a whole. In doing so, she puts paid to criticisms that accuse Gadamer of being insufficiently attentive to the otherness of the Other and she delineates a new ethics of openness. This is a lovely book. -- Georgia Warnke, University of California, RiversideTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction: An Invitation to "Play" Part 2 Part I. Gadamer's Hermeneutic Problem Chapter 3 Chapter 1. Facing the Inadequate Model of Modern Science Part 4 Part II. Gadamer's Concept of Play: Re-Conceiving the Process of Understanding Chapter 5 Chapter 2. Introducing the Key of Play Chapter 6 Chapter 3. Understanding Art: The Play of Work and Spectator Chapter 7 Chapter 4. Understanding Tradition: Full Shift to Understanding in the Human Sciences Part 8 Part III. The Ethical Dimensions of Play Chapter 9 Chapter 5. The Ethical Conditions of Dialogic Play: Between I and Thou Chapter 10 Chapter 6. Genuine Play in Action: The Model of the Philosopher Chapter 11 Chapter 7. The Value of Play: Transition to Play as a Guide to Life Chapter 12 Chapter 8. Play and Practical Philosophy: Play as a Guide to Life Part 13 Part IV. When Ethical Conditions are Lacking Chapter 14 Chapter 9. The Problem of Closedness Chapter 15 Chapter 10. Cultivating an Opening to Dialogue

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Book SynopsisThis book shows that a concept of activity timespace drawn from the work of Martin Heidegger provides new insights into the nature of activity, society, and history. Although the book is a work of theory, it has significant implications for the determination and course, not just of activity, but of sociohistorical change as well. Drawing on empirical examples, the book argues (1) that timespace is a key component of the overall space and time of social life, (2) that interwoven timespaces form an essential infrastructure of important social phenomena such as power, coordinated actions, social organizations, and social systems, and (3) that history encompasses constellations of indeterminate temporalspatial events. The latter conception of history in turn yields a propitious account of how the past exists in the present. In addition, because the concept of activity timespace highlights the teleological character of human action, the book contains an extensive defense of the teleological character of such allegedly ateleological forms of activity as emotional and ceremonial actions. Since, finally, the book''s ideas about timespace and activity as an indeterminate event derive from an interpretation of Heidegger, the work furthers understanding of the relevance of his thought for social and historical theory. The book combines textual interpretation, theoretical argumentation, and empirical substantiation. Many of its empirical examples are taken from the Blue Grass Horse Country around Lexington, Kentucky, where the author resides.Trade ReviewWith this book, Ted Schatzki provides a remarkable synthesis and expansion of his past work. By adding considerations of time and space, practice, and the role of performance, the ceremonial, and teleological in human action to a Heideggerian starting point, he gives us a novel approach to the philosophy of action that gets beyond formalism and meaningfully connects with substantive problems. -- Stephen Turner, University of South FloridaIn this exciting and inspiring book, Schatzki turns previous accounts of social practice inside-out to reveal the timespace of human activity. With each chapter new lines of enquiry come tumbling forth, challenging and at the same time invigorating established agendas across sociology, psychology, history, and geography. -- Elizabeth Shove, Lancaster UniversityTed Schatzki is a leading figure in the philosophy of the social sciences. The Timespace of Human Activity represents a major development of the philosophy of practice, articulated in his previous books. Drawing principally on the work of Martin Heidegger, Ted Schatzki explores the way in which the world is constituted through human activity activity and how that world influences the very possibility of our existence. Schatzki builds his analysis through careful exegesis of the works of Heidegger, Lefebvre, Bergson, and others, interspersing his interpretations with vivid examples from everyday life. The book speaks to existential issues which have become central to contemporary debates in the social sciences and philosophy and will be required reading for all those interested in what it is to be human. -- Anthony King, University of ExeterTable of ContentsChapter 1 Preface Part 2 Chapter 1. The Timespace of Human Activity Chapter 3 Objective Time and Space Chapter 4 Social Space-time Chapter 5 The Timespace of Human Activity Chapter 6 On the Intellectual Contexts of Activity Timespace Chapter 7 The Social Character of Activity Timespace Part 8 Chapter 2. Activity Timespace and Social Life Chapter 9 Human Coexistence Chapter 10 The Coordination of Actions Chapter 11 Social Organizations, Events, and Systems Chapter 12 Harvey on Space-Time and Space-Time Compression Chapter 13 Conflict and Power Chapter 14 Landscapes Part 15 Chapter 3. The Dominion of Teleology Chapter 16 Outline of a Theory of Human Activity Chapter 17 Emotional Activity Chapter 18 Ceremony and Ritual Chapter 19 Sacred Worlds Part 20 Chapter 4. Activity and History as Indeterminate Temporalspatial Events Chapter 21 Human Activity as Event Chapter 22 The Indeterminacy of Activity Chapter 23 Human Activity as Flowing Chapter 24 On History and Historicity

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Book SynopsisThis is a book about the body and its amazing contribution to the moral mind. The author focuses on the important roles the body plays in moral cognition. What happens to us when we observe moral violations, make moral judgments and engage in moral actions? How does the body affect our moral decisions and shape our moral dispositions? Can embodied moral psychology be consistently pursued as a viable alternative to disembodied traditions of moral philosophy? Is there any school of philosophy where the body is discussed as the underlying foundation of moral judgment and action? To answer these questions, the author analyzes Confucian philosophy as an intriguing and insightful example of embodied moral psychology.Trade ReviewA revival of Confucian ideas is taking place. . . .Seok’s book is a fine example from this trend. . . .Seok makes a convincing case for the importance of what he calls situated Confucian virtue. . . .[this book] is an outstanding example of how a philosopher well-versed in the literature of both the East and the West can bring them together in order to advance the field overall. * Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy *There is a movement underway in philosophy that takes advantage of both advanced research in cognitive neuroscience and the latest developments in pre-modern Chinese philosophy with the goal of producing better-founded theories in philosophy more generally. In this book, Bongrae Seok demonstrates why he is among the leaders of this movement. Drawing from a wide range of scientific, interpretive, and philosophical sources, Seok draws a detailed and persuasive argument for understanding Confucian moral philosophy as a middle ground between virtue ethics and situationist ethics, and as an important alternative to prevailing hyper-rationalist theories of moral agency. -- Brian Bruya, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy at Eastern Michigan University and editor of The Philosophical Challenge from ChinaThe main strengths of this study lie in a substantive statement of an embodied cognition approach to Confucian moral psychology, particularly the Mencian wing of the tradition. Seok outlines an alternative to existing rationalist and sentimentalist accounts of Confucian moral psychology, drawing extensively from a wide range of research programs across the cognitive sciences in ways accessible to the non-specialist. Along the way, he applies this new framework to a number of important issues in the corpus, including the nature of moral judgment, virtue, and emotion. The book provides a new and fruitful vantage point from which to evaluate some of the core assumptions of the classical Confucian thinkers. -- Hagop Sarkissian, The City University of New York, Baruch CollegeTable of ContentsPreface List of Figures and Tables Part I: Embodied Cognition and Confucian Philosophy Chapter 1: What is Embodied Cognition and why is it an exciting way to understand the mind? Chapter 2: Embodied Moral Psychology and Confucian Human Heart Part II: Aspects of Embodied Confucian Moral Psychology Chapter 3: Moral Psychology of Confucian Philosophy Chapter 4: Qing, the Embodied Emotion Chapter 5: Character or Solution? Situated Confucian Virtue Glossary of Key Terms Confucian Philosophers Bibliography Subject Index Author Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisEthics and Phenomenology is a collection of essays that explore the relationship between moral philosophy and the phenomenological tradition. Phenomenology is a vast and rich philosophical tradition which seeks to explain how we perceive the world. This, in turn, involves questions about one's relationship to the world and how one both acts and should act in the world. For this reason phenomenology entails an ethics, even if such an ethics is not always apparent in the work of phenomenological thinkers. The book is devoted to two central tasks: Section One offers essays exploring the resources available to moral philosophy in the work of the major phenomenologists of the 20th-century, including Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, and others. Part Two consists of essays demonstrating the way that the phenomenological method can facilitate advances in our thinking through the exploration of contemporary ethical issues, including environmentalism, intellectual property, parenting aTrade ReviewEthics and Phenomenology is an uncommonly interesting and well-integrated collection of essays. Beginning with new insights into the ethical thought of an array of phenomenological figures, the volume ends with a set of original ideas inspired by them. The collection provides illuminating connections between both well-known and less well-known philosophers and it delves into an important range of contemporary issues including medical care, good parenting, intellectual property law, the environment, war, evil, and the status of women. Reminding us again of the richness of the phenomenological tradition, this collection also helps us to think better about our ethical aspirations. -- Georgia Warnke, University of California, RiversideThis fresh and engaging collection fills a gap in our thinking about the relationship between ethics and phenomenology. The range of phenomenologists covered and explained in reader-accessible ways is enormous. Most importantly, the volume addresses ethical issues of major importance: for example, parenthood, the environment, and the digital revolution. This book is worth reading cover to cover and would make a superior text for a thorough course in phenomenology. -- Rosemarie Tong, Distinguished Professor in Health Care Ethics and director of the Center for Professional and Applied Ethics, University of NortEthics and Phenomenology contains original, productive work on ethics. Part I of this book contains critical evaluations of the contributions to ethics made by the founding phenomenological thinkers, and Part II contains studies of contemporary ethical issues inspired by phenomenological methods. This book brings new understanding of classical authors and new insight in contemporary ethical debates. -- Al Lingis, Penn State UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Ethics and the Classical Phenomenologists Chapter 1: A Phenomenological Ethics of the Absolute Ought: Investigating Husserl’s Unpublished Ethical Writings Sophie Loidolt Chapter 2: Between Scheler and Hartmann: Problems of a Material Value-Ethics Eugene Kelly Chapter 3: Heidegger’s Aristotelian Ethics J. Jeremy Wisnewski Chapter 4: Metaphysics after ‘the End of Metaphysics’: Recovering ‘the Good’ from Heidegger Lawrence Vogel Chapter 5: Merleau-Ponty and the Ethics of Engagement Mark Sanders Chapter 6: The Hell of Our Choosing: Sartre’s Ethics and the Impossibility of Interpersonal Conversion Ed Grippe Chapter 7: Levinasian Autonomy: How to Free a Hostage Dwight Furrow and Mark Wheeler Part II: Phenomenological Approaches to Issues in Ethics Chapter 8: Hands-On Care: Tactility and Ethical Performance Maurice Hamington Chapter 9: The Phenomenological Shift of Parenthood Janet Donohoe Chapter 10: Coding the Dictatorship of ‘the They:’ A Phenomenological Critique of Digital Rights Management Gordon Hull Chapter 11: Person and Environment: Vital Sympathy and the Roots of Environmental Ethics John White Chapter 12: Husserl and the Responsibility and Sacrifice of Derrida Janet Donohoe Chapter 13: War as katharsis? Scheler’s Phenomenological Analysis Susan Gottlöber Chapter 14: Eichmann in Athens: Hannah Arendt, Emmanuel Levinas and the New Problem of Evil Lawrence Vogel Chapter 15: From the Other to the Subject: Simone de Beauvoir and Judith Butler Leah McClimans Chapter 16: Phenomenology as an Ascetic Practice Paul Gyllenhammer

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Book SynopsisOn the one hand, Creation and Discovery, Lacan and Klein: An Essay of Reintroduction seeks to disclose the often suppressed or unacknowledged proximity, even intimacy, between Lacan and Klein, and thereby to facilitate a re-introduction between Lacan and Klein such that their works can read anew, both independently and together. On the other hand, by reconstructing the highly divergent metapsychological theories and clinical orientations of Jacques Lacan and Melanie Klein from their discussions of the same case material, the text seeks to demonstrate the irreducible plurality of psychoanalysis and the ethico-political significance of this plurality. Siding with neither Lacan nor Klein''s perspective, Adam Rosen-Carole argues that within and between these exaggerated positions, a dialectic of creation and discovery emerges that affords the reader unique insights into the nature and status of psychoanalytic knowing and its particular objects. Special attention is paid to the indelible exTrade ReviewThis book makes an incredible contribution to our understanding of Lacan and Klein, as well as what psychoanalysis means and does more generally. Rosen-Carole puts Lacan into conversation with Klein, and shows how Lacan offers tools to read Klein in much more productive ways. It is truly breathtaking in its accomplishment, a remarkable achievement. -- Clayton Crockett, Professor and Director of Religious Studies, University of Central ArkansasTable of ContentsChapter 1 Preface Part 2 I. A Re-beginning Through Logos Part 3 II. Controversy: Creation or Discovery Part 4 III. The Treatment Part 5 IV. How to Read Melanie Klein (A Few Comments) Part 6 V. Lacan Visits the Butcher Chapter 7 The Imaginary Chapter 8 The Ego (and the object) Chapter 9 The Subject Chapter 10 Desire Chapter 11 Objet a Chapter 12 Truth Part 13 VI. From the Imaginary to the Symbolic Part 14 VII. Back on the Case Chapter 15 The Symbolic Chapter 16 The Signifier Chapter 17 The Real Chapter 18 Reality Part 19 VIII. Summation Part 20 IX. How to Read Lacan Part 21 X. Once More Unto the Breach, Dear Friends (How to Read Lacan, Part II)

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a sustained engagement with the political philosophy of Paul Ricoeur and demonstrates both the significance of the political in his own thinking throughout his career, and how his understanding of the political offers something valuable to current discussions of issues in political philosophy.Trade ReviewThese essays highlight the potential of this philosophy to take up today’s political questions, as well as with long-standing political questions which characterize political thought. Commenting dialogs between Ricœur and Kant, H. Arendt, and Agamben and Honneth show philosophical dialog as a method which enables us to think better. Therefore, it is not surprising that Ricœur is used throughout these pages to analyze contemporary stakes, such as capitalism or post-colonialism, nor to discover, beyond the diversity of the topics, that we might find in their unity the political importance of recognition. -- Clifford G. Christians, Ph.D.Inaugurating the new "Series on Thought of Paul Ricoeur," this excellent edited collection explores aspects of the renowned thinker's political philosophy. Bringing together both the efforts of established scholars and newer ones, editors Johnson and Stiver sculpt an expansive work that systematically applies Ricoeur's interdisciplinary ideas to some of the most pressing issues in contemporary politics. Among the topics probed are citizenship, justice, recognition, judgment, violence, hope, legitimacy, and forgiveness. A piece by Ricoeur himself examines the nexus between the moral, the ethical, and the political. In combination with a biographical sketch that maps the contours of the subject's life and late reflections, it rounds out the volume. Also noteworthy is the introduction, which usefully contextualizes Ricoeur, summarizes the contributions, and highlights the dialogical nature of a voluminous oeuvre that evolved over a 70-year period. From another angle, the volume is a fitting companion to the recently published From Ricoeur to Action, edited by T. S. Mei and D. Lewin (CH, Apr'13, 50-4367)--a thematic collection that surveys the sociopolitical significance of Ricoeur's thinking. If this is a representative sample of what is to come, Ricoeur devotees have much to be thankful for. Summing Up: Highly recommended. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: The Moral, the Ethical, and the Political. Translated by Alison Scott-Baumann Chapter 2: Paul Ricoeur: His Life and His Work the Last 15 Years Chapter 3: Ricoeur on Citizenship: A Picture of Dries a Personalist Republicanism Chapter 4: Looking for the Just Chapter 5: Ricoeur Economicus: Can Economic Exchange Involve Mutual Recognition? Chapter 6: The Capacity to Judge and the Contours of a Theory of Political Judgment Chapter 7: The Gift and Mutual Recognition: Paul Ricoeur as a Reader of Marcel Hénaff Chapter 8: The Guises of Violence: Paul Ricoeur and Giorgio Agamben on the Transition from Metaphor to Politics Chapter 9: Recognition, Legitimization, and the Suggestion of Tacit Slave-Ideology Today: A Ricoeurian Investigation Chapter 10: Developing Ricoeur’s Concept of Political Legitimacy Chapter 11: Unconditional Forgiveness: A Defense Chapter 12: Colonialist Ruinations and the Logic of Hope

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Book SynopsisSteve Sherlock is a professor of sociology as Saginaw Valley State University.Table of ContentsSection I. Toward a Poststructuralist Theory of Value: Development of the Theoretical Approach Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Reported Speech and Citationality Section II. The Performativity of Value: Description of the Contemporary U.S. Cultural Economy Chapter 3: Citational Practices and the Performativity of Subcultural Values Ideology and Normative Citational Practice The Performativity of Subcultural Values Conclusion: Critique of the Presence of Subcultural Values Chapter 4: Citational Practices and the Performativity of Exchange Value The Citation of Cultural Commodities The Temporality of Exchange Value Conclusion Chapter 5: The Marketing of Citational Resources Markets, Measures, and the Performativity of Exchange Value The Co-Performativity of Value Conclusion Section III. Toward a Poststructuralist Critique of the Commodification of Language in the U.S. Cultural Economy Chapter 6: The Promise of Value Breaking Frame: Unsettling Exchange Value Aesthetic Negativity and Citationality The Futurity of Value Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisZachary Simpson has a B.A. in biology from Colorado College and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in philosophy of religion from Claremont Graduate University. He also completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard University in the Evolution and Theology of Cooperation Project, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma. Zachary has worked in an editorial capacity on seven different volumes, including The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science (associate editor; Oxford University Press, 2006) and Adventures in the Spirit: New Forays in Philosophical Theology (Fortress Press, 2008). He has published articles related to phenomenology, deconstruction, and science and religion.Trade ReviewSimpson argues persuasively that the concept of “life as art” offers a “coherent ethical position” responsive to the ethical challenges of the contemporary situation. By presenting an original reading of the history of modern thought and developing a theoretical understanding of its conceptual framework, Simpson demonstrates how life as art strives to affirm the beauty, meaning, and value of life after the “death of God.” And he shows that by “intensifying the relationship between thinking and aesthetics” life as art can function as a form of resistance to the forces of domination and normalization that threaten freedom and solidarity in contemporary societies. This book makes an original contribution to our understanding of the history of modern and post-modern philosophy and it is a valuable addition to the growing field of works that seek to locate the point of intersection between philosophical thinking and life as it is, or could be, lived. -- Edward F. McGushin, Stonehill CollegeTable of ContentsPart I: Introducing Life as Art Chapter 1: The Path Ahead Chapter 2: Dandyism and Life is Art Chapter 3: Nietzsche’s Ideal Types Part II: Resistant Chapter 4: Theodor Adorno on Negative Thinking and Utopia Chapter 5: Herbert Marcuse and the Artful Individual Part III: Affirmation Chapter 6: Martin Heidegger and Poetic Thinking Chapter 7: Merleau-Ponty and Marion on the Thought of Being Part IV: Creation Chapter 8: Albert Camus on the Life Artist Chapter 9: Foucault’s Aesthetics of Existence Chapter 10: Conclusion: Life as Art

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Book SynopsisOver the course of the last four decades, William Leon McBride has distinguished himself as a teacher, mentor, and scholar without peer. The author of seven books and more than two hundred book chapters, articles, and reviews, he is a world-renowned expert on the philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre and a leader in the international community of philosophers. This volumewhich celebrates the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthdayincludes contributions from colleagues, friends, and formers students. Together, they pay tribute to the intellectual, philosophical, and professional achievements of one of the most esteemed and accomplished scholars of his generation.Trade ReviewWilliam McBride has been a tireless advocate for Sartre studies. In fact it was due to his efforts that the North American Sartre Society came into existence: a society that has been thriving ever since and will in 2013 be organizing its twentieth conference. His knowledge of philosophy is encyclopedic and his awareness of trends knows no bounds. He is an indefatigable traveler and he is usually on his way to some faraway city to organize or attend a conference, give a paper or sit on a committee. Everyone knows Bill for his carefully pondered insights and clearly articulated comments and, as a consequence, this tribute should find an appreciative audience worldwide. -- Adrian van den Hoven, University of WindsorTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: William L. McBridge and the Enduring Commitment to Intellectual Freedom Chapter 2: Intimations of a New Socioecological Imaginary Chapter 3: William L. McBride: His Life and Works Chapter 4: The Humanism of Jean-Paul Sartre Chapter 5: A Philosopher’s Journey: Philosophical Reflections For and On Uncle Bill Chapter 6: Friendship and Liberation: Paradoxes Chapter 7: “Spaces of Freedom”: Materiality, Mediation, and Direct Political Participation in the Work of Sartre and Arendt Chapter 8: The Consolations of Philosophy After 1989 Chapter 9: Sartre’s Socialist Democracy and Global Feminism Chapter 10: God, Creation, and Rebellion in Camus: Ambivalent? Inconsistent? Or, Finally, Incoherent? Chapter 11: ‘Globalization’ as Anti-Feminist Ideology: An Essay in Honor of William L. McBride Chapter 12: Toward a Transvaluation of the Doctrine of Human Rights Chapter 13: Sartre and McBride: Overcoming the Spirit of Serious Through Revolutionary Hope About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisAn introduction to Heideggerâs philosophy through a specific elucidation of the problems of the world-concept and death through his early and later thought as well as the connection of these problems with all the other important issues in this thinkerâs system, such as existence, ground, art and artworks, language, and dwelling.Trade ReviewHeidegger is often considered a hopelessly abstract, esoteric and somehow wordless thinker—a treatment which sharply conflicts with his depiction of human existence as 'being-in-the-world.' At the same time, he is sometimes seen as a morose existentialist due to his concern with 'being-toward-death.' Raj Singh's capable study corrects these misreadings by showing the constitutive role of 'world' in all of Heidegger's writings and also the crucial role of death-contemplation and anticipation as a sustaining penumbra of human life. An additional accomplishment is the demonstration of the continuity of Heidegger's work notwithstanding important 'turns' and transformations. -- Fred Dallmayr, University of Notre DameTable of ContentsPreface Chapter 1: Dasein and the World Chapter 2: Existence and the World Chapter 3: World, Ground and Being Chapter 4: Art and the World Chapter 5: World and Language Chapter 6: Dwelling in the World Chapter 7: Death and Authenticity Chapter 8: Death in Later Works

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Book SynopsisSocial Phenomenology offers an account of collective intentionality informed by the tradition of Husserlian phenomenology. The account argues that if consciousness and intentionality are only intrinsic to individuals, denying collectivism, that it does not follow that one endorses an atomistic conception of the subject.Trade ReviewThe question of intersubjectivity was perhaps one of the most debated and attended-to philosophical problems of the last century. But what is really interesting about it is the fact that the same question seems to play a pivotal role in both analytical and continental (phenomenological) traditions which otherwise appear to continually drift away from each other, or try to sever all connections to one another in their attempt to assert their self-sufficiency. And this alleged self-sufficiency is precisely what Eric Chelstrom is trying to overcome in his clear and well-argued work on intersubjectivity and collective intentionality, which attempts to develop a solid and productive dialogue between the two philosophical perspectives. ... By successfully using the compass of clear-cut Husserlian terminology, Chelstrom succeeds in finding his way through the dangerous and murky waters of social phenomenology, not only avoiding the hazards of the established analytical perspectives on the same matter, but also constructing a bridge between the two antagonistic traditions which invites other thinkers belonging to the said traditions of thought to cross it for the sake of "the things themselves". * Metapsychology Online *Social Phenomenology is a valuable addition to recent literature that juxtaposes the traditions of Phenomenology and Analytic philosophy. Chelstrom develops a Husserlian approach to issues of collective intentionality and social ontology, defending the view from critics within the Phenomenological tradition (such as Sartre and Heidegger) and presenting it as a viable alternative to prominent analytic accounts. The book provides a clear introduction to central elements of phenomenology while also showing how dialogue between different traditions can shed new light on shared problems. It will be of interest to scholars working on issues related to social ontology and collective intentionality, and also to those looking for an advanced introduction to phenomenology as it applies to the social domain. -- Andrew D. Spear, Grand Valley State UniversityIn this well-researched and clearly written book, Chelstom provides a model for showing how Continental philosophers can contribute to debates in analytic philosophy. Chelstom expertly walks the line between the irreducibility of we-intentions and the denial of plural subjects, presenting an account of collective intentionality more plausible than rival accounts. -- David Vessey, Grand Valley State UniversityTable of ContentsTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: That Experience Does Not Motivate a Robust Claim for Collective Consciousness Chapter 2: A Metaphysical Critique of the Notion of Collective Consciousness Chapter 3: Plural Subjects: Phenomenology and Collective Intentionality Chapter 4: Responding to Criticisms: Phenomenological Evidence and Horizon Intentionality Chapter 5: The Phenomenology of the Social World and Gilbert’s Plural Subject Theory Chapter 6: Responses to Two Criticisms Motivated by Realist Concerns Chapter 7: Responding to Sokolowski’s Criticism of Husserlian Individualism Bibliography About the Author

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Book SynopsisGeorge Santayana (1862-1952) of Spanish descent, and generally claimed to be in the canon of American philosophers, was substantially influenced by his Roman Catholic origins in his philosophical disposition toward the value of tradition, religious symbols and dogma. His philosophical project sustained a respectful attitude toward the spiritual value of orthodox religion while the thrust of his philosophy was naturalistic and materialistic throughout. There is a perception by some scholars that Santayana's philosophy evolved from a humanistic perspective to a more spiritual one in his later years. It is the position of this thesis that his philosophy, at the core depicting a harmonious striving toward individual happiness, remained essentially consistent from his earliest publication of Interpretations of Poetry and Religion and The Life of Reason through his later works of Scepticism and Animal Faith, Realms of Being, Dominations and Powers and The Idea of Christ in the Gospels. SantaTrade ReviewGeorge Santayana’s Philosophy of Religion is a useful work for the philosophic scholar, as it brings together a wide range of references and material that could easily serve as the impetus for further study. * International Journal for Philosophy of Religion *It is striking that despite Santayana’s extensive consideration of religious themes scholars have generally abstained from attributing to him a philosophy of religion. Edward W. Lovely’s new book boldly bucks this trend. The author makes a compelling case that Santayana’s thinking delivers an un-proclaimed but evident 'phenomenological method,' and further suggests that Santayana’s uniquely naturalistic account of spirituality speaks more than ever to today’s religiously inclined. This book ought to invite vigorous debate about how a self-proclaimed 'materialist' can have so much to offer, across aisles of devotion, to religious debate. -- Matthew Caleb Flamm, Rockford CollegeOne of the most compelling pieces of evidence for the great value of Edward Lovely’s approach to Santayana through his philosophy of religion is the way Lovely’s work ties together the main areas of Santayana’s thought and addresses key interpretative disputes. In demonstrating the significance of Catholicism for Santayana’s philosophy, Lovely relates in mutually enlightening ways Santayana’s ontology, moral philosophy, and cultural critique…Lovely’s inquiry confronts head-on the seeming contradiction between Santayana’s materialism and his embrace of conservative Catholic ideals while also showing Santayana innovative reconceptions of prayer, immortality, and salvation in ways relevant to the European cultural bequest in the twenty-first century. The book is profitable for both student and scholar, and it signals the continuing fertility of Santayana’s philosophy. -- Martin A. Coleman, Director and Editor, The Santayana Edition, Indiana University-Purdue University IndianapolisThe past twenty years have seen a remarkable renaissance of interest in Santayana's philosophy. This book is a thoughtful and detailed study of Santayana's views on religion. Lovely is sensitive to the full complexity of Santayana's ideas and explores their connections to the tradition of phenomenology. The research is comprehensive and Lovely makes significant contributions to the existing literature. -- John Lachs, Vanderbilt UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: A Paradoxical “Catholic” Naturalist Chapter 2: The Philosophical Basis For Santayana’s Philosophy Of Religion Chapter 3: The Phenomenological Character of Santayana’s Philosophy Of The Spirit Chapter 4: The Coherent Nature of Santayana’s Philosophy Of Religion Chapter 5: Aspects Of Santayana’s Legacy to Religious studies In the Third Millennium

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Book SynopsisPhenomenological sociology and ethnomethodology have many adherents and practitioners throughout the world. The international character of interest in these two areas is exemplified by the scholars from Canada, France, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Switzerland, and the United States who contributed to this collection. Together they exemplify the kinds of theoretical and research issues that arise in seeking to explore the social world in ways that respect what Edmund Husserl referred to as the original right of all data. These chapters were inspired in various ways by the work of George Psathas, professor emeritus of Boston University, a renowned phenomenological sociologist and ethnomethodologist as well as a fundamental contributor to phenomenological sociology and ethnomethodology movements both in the United States and throughout the world. The collection consists of three parts: phenomenological sociology as an intellectual movement, phenomenological considerations, and ethnomethodological explorations, all areas to which Professor Psathas has made significant contributions. A phenomenological sociology movement in the US is examined as an intellectual movement in itself and as it is influenced by a leader's participation as both scholar and teacher. Phenomenological sociology's efficacy and potential are discussed in terms of a broad range of theoretical and empirical issues: methodology, similarities and differences between phenomenological sociology and ethnomethodology, embodied sociality, power, trust, friendship, face-to-face interaction, and interactions between children and adults. Theoretical articles addressing fundamental features of ethnomethodology, its development, and its relation to process-relational philosophy are balanced by empirical articles founded on authors' original ethnomethodological researchactivities of direction-giving and direction-following, accounts for organizational deviance, garden lessons, doing being friends, and the crafting of musical time. Through these chapters readers can come to understand the theoretical development of phenomenological sociology and ethnomethodology, appreciate their achievements and their promise, and find inspiration to pursue their own work in these areas.Trade ReviewThis book of essays in honor of George Psathas, beyond recognizing and celebrating the teaching and research of this worthy scholar, provides a wide-ranging set of inquiries that span the substantive domains of phenomenological sociology, ethnomethodology, and conversation analysis. Anyone interested in one or more of these domains will not want to miss the inquiries that are assembled in this tome. They are thoughtful, readable, contemporary, and, thereby, give access to current thinking in the areas that Professor Psathas brought forward for sociological appreciation and to which he mightily contributed. -- Douglas W. Maynard, University of Wisconsin—MadisonIn this book the reader will find the widest range of expressions and positions on phenomenological sociology. Numerous valuable contributions contained in this volume are focused on exploring the interface between phenomenology and ethnomethodology; however, its main accomplishment is to illustrate that phenomenological sociology is made by people (men of flesh and blood who live, act and think in the life-world) and that, if it has a meaning and significance for us today, it’s because throughout his life and work George Psathas has started and led the way of this intellectual movement. -- Carlos Belvedere, University of Buenos AiresThe sheer range of material that this book covers makes it a very interesting read. There is much of interest in this collection, for students of phenomenology, students of EM, or those who seek to combine the two. * Symbolic Interaction *Table of ContentsPreface Part I. Phenomenological Sociology as an Intellectual Movement Chapter 1: Phenomenological Sociology in the United States: The Developmental Process of an Intellectual Movement Hisashi Nasu Chapter 2: Experiencing a Phenomenological Teacher: A Reflection Christina Papadimitriou Chapter 3: Revisiting Psathas: A Personal and Hermeneutic Reappraisal David Rehorick Part II. Phenomenological Considerations Chapter 4: In the Beginning was Embodied Sociality: A Tribute to George Psathas’ Phenomenological Sociology Hwa Yol Jung Chapter 5.:Why Ethnomethodology Needs the Transcendental Ego Michael Barber Chapter 6: A Problem in Alfred Schutz’s Methodology of the Cultural Sciences Lester Embree Chapter 7: Where is Power?: An Investigation into the Formation of Political Semantics Ilja Srubar Chapter 8: Trust and the Dialectic of the Familiar and Unfamiliar within the Life-World Martin Endress Chapter 9: Phenomenology and Sociology: Divergent Interpretations of a Complex Relationship Thomas Eberle Chapter 10: Investigating Friendship: A Prospective Dispute between Protosociology and Phenomenological Sociology Jochen Dreher Chapter 11: Face-to-Face Interaction, Kirogi Papa (Wild Goose Dad), and the Stranger: A Social-Phenomenological Study of Changing Intimacy in the Family Kwang-ki Kim Chapter 12: Children as Interactional Partners for Adults Frances Chaput Waksler Part III. Ethnomethodological Explorations Chapter 13: Classical Ethnomethodology, The Radical Program, and Conversation Analysis Thomas Wilson Chapter 14: To the Activities Themselves: A Philosophical Interpretation of the Complexities of Experience Lenore Langsdorf Chapter 15: The Intelligibility of Directions: The Psathas Corpus Kenneth Liberman Chapter 16: Collective Action, Collective Reaction: Inspecting Bad Apples in Accounts for Organizational Deviance and Discrimination Tim Berard Chapter 17: Garden Lessons: Embodied Action and Joint Attention in Extended Sequences Lorenza Mondada Chapter 18: Doing “Being Friends” in Japanese Telephone Conversations Aug Nishizaka Chapter 19. From Phenomenology to Ethnomethodology: The Crafting of Musical Time Peter Weeks Appendix: George Psathas’ Books, Edited Volumes, Articles, and Book Reviews

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Book SynopsisThis book shows that a concept of activity timespace drawn from the work of Martin Heidegger provides new insights into the nature of activity, society, and history. Although the book is a work of theory, it has significant implications for the determination and course, not just of activity, but of sociohistorical change as well. Drawing on empirical examples, the book argues (1) that timespace is a key component of the overall space and time of social life, (2) that interwoven timespaces form an essential infrastructure of important social phenomena such as power, coordinated actions, social organizations, and social systems, and (3) that history encompasses constellations of indeterminate temporalspatial events. The latter conception of history in turn yields a propitious account of how the past exists in the present. In addition, because the concept of activity timespace highlights the teleological character of human action, the book contains an extensive defense of the teleological character of such allegedly ateleological forms of activity as emotional and ceremonial actions. Since, finally, the book's ideas about timespace and activity as an indeterminate event derive from an interpretation of Heidegger, the work furthers understanding of the relevance of his thought for social and historical theory. The book combines textual interpretation, theoretical argumentation, and empirical substantiation. Many of its empirical examples are taken from the Blue Grass Horse Country around Lexington, Kentucky, where the author resides.Trade ReviewTed Schatzki is a leading figure in the philosophy of the social sciences. The Timespace of Human Activity represents a major development of the philosophy of practice, articulated in his previous books. Drawing principally on the work of Martin Heidegger, Ted Schatzki explores the way in which the world is constituted through human activity activity and how that world influences the very possibility of our existence. Schatzki builds his analysis through careful exegesis of the works of Heidegger, Lefebvre, Bergson, and others, interspersing his interpretations with vivid examples from everyday life. The book speaks to existential issues which have become central to contemporary debates in the social sciences and philosophy and will be required reading for all those interested in what it is to be human. -- Anthony King, University of ExeterIn this exciting and inspiring book, Schatzki turns previous accounts of social practice inside-out to reveal the timespace of human activity. With each chapter new lines of enquiry come tumbling forth, challenging and at the same time invigorating established agendas across sociology, psychology, history, and geography. -- Elizabeth Shove, Lancaster UniversityWith this book, Ted Schatzki provides a remarkable synthesis and expansion of his past work. By adding considerations of time and space, practice, and the role of performance, the ceremonial, and teleological in human action to a Heideggerian starting point, he gives us a novel approach to the philosophy of action that gets beyond formalism and meaningfully connects with substantive problems. -- Stephen Turner, University of South FloridaTable of ContentsChapter 1 Preface Part 2 Chapter 1. The Timespace of Human Activity Chapter 3 Objective Time and Space Chapter 4 Social Space-time Chapter 5 The Timespace of Human Activity Chapter 6 On the Intellectual Contexts of Activity Timespace Chapter 7 The Social Character of Activity Timespace Part 8 Chapter 2. Activity Timespace and Social Life Chapter 9 Human Coexistence Chapter 10 The Coordination of Actions Chapter 11 Social Organizations, Events, and Systems Chapter 12 Harvey on Space-Time and Space-Time Compression Chapter 13 Conflict and Power Chapter 14 Landscapes Part 15 Chapter 3. The Dominion of Teleology Chapter 16 Outline of a Theory of Human Activity Chapter 17 Emotional Activity Chapter 18 Ceremony and Ritual Chapter 19 Sacred Worlds Part 20 Chapter 4. Activity and History as Indeterminate Temporalspatial Events Chapter 21 Human Activity as Event Chapter 22 The Indeterminacy of Activity Chapter 23 Human Activity as Flowing Chapter 24 On History and Historicity

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Book SynopsisThis book demonstrates that Albert Camus' concept of absurdity is best understood when decoupled from what might be called its ontological aspirations. Rather than pretend that absurdity usefully describes the human condition,' the silence of god,' the deprivation of transcendence,' or metaphysical revolt,' I argue that, for absurdity to be a fruitful idea, it must be approached as a psychological disposition and its basic tenets must be translated into phenomenal and psychological language. The book defines the particular psychological disposition of absurdity by analogizing it with the constructs of ambivalence, integration, conscious resistance, and creativity. Its central contention is that absurdity may be interpreted as a kind of ambivalence and, thus, as an aspect of psychological experience that demands a creative and mature response. Absurdists' cries of spiritual anguish need not persuade us that the conditions of loss, terror, alienation, and deprivation they describe are obTrade ReviewBowker recasts the Camusian theme of absurdity in pursuit of a distinct moral and political philosophy. . . .He disentangles the absurd from Camus's biography and codifies an independent ethic of the absurd. Beginning with a historical overview of the absurd, the author details the doctrine of absurdity directly through close analysis of Camus's works and indirectly through the lens of the concept of ambivalence. Both The Stranger and The Rebel function as loci in Bowker's analysis, and the exegetical chapters examining each book offer subtle reappraisals of traditional scholarship. Bowker wraps up with two chapters arguing for the relevance of absurd morality in the political sphere, and he ends with a turn back to Camus's biography and views on political assassinations and Algerian independence. In the end, Bowker posits that a political morality of the absurd arises through acknowledgment that all political systems and acts are fraught with injustice and that one need not necessarily rebel against them. Only by embracing the absurd can one develop a creative and mature ethical space for political deliberation. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty. * CHOICE *Matthew H. Bowker’s study, Albert Camus and the Political Philosophy of the Absurd: Ambivalence, Resistance, and Creativity, is arguably the most insightful, thoughtful, and well-researched book on Camus studies to appear in recent years. . . .Every once-in-a-great-while there comes a book that is so engaging, so thorough, and so enjoyable to read and comprehend that it becomes a classic and a necessity for all academics in that particular field to own, study, and know. Bowker’s Albert Camus and the Political Philosophy of the Absurd is that book. There is no doubt that it will indelibly shift and change the foci of Camus’s political thought in addition to offering a fantastic and clarified understanding of the Absurd. Without reservation, every serious scholar of Camus studies needs to have this book in his or her library. It is invaluable. * Journal of Camus Studies *Bowker’s approach . . . opens the way, he suggests, to advances in contemporary psychosocial understandings of moral and creative action and interaction. . . .This book is a cogent and thought-provoking reappraisal of Camus and key aspects of political philosophy. * French Studies *All things considered, this is a book that will probably be of most interest to those in fields such as philosophy or political science. * French Review *Bowker’s book examines Camus’ notion of the absurd in relation to the findings of modern psychoanalytic theory of ambivalence. His reading sets aside the 'ontological' questions most often associated with the absurd—the ‘human condition,’ ‘the silence of god,’ ‘the deprivation of transcendence,’ ‘metaphysical revolt’—in favor of an analysis that treats the experience as a ‘psychological disposition.’ By means of this approach, Bowker succeeds both in overcoming the fruitless logical and epistemological debates about Camus’ achievement that have dominated the literature for decades and in opening up a space in which the anthropological and experiential depth of Camus’ analysis might be regained. Paradoxically, he also restores the ontological realities he initially sets aside to their rightful place in Camus’ thought—‘more as overpowering love-object[s] than an unthinkable ‘is-ness’.’ A thoughtful and engaging book. -- Ron Srigley, Laurentian University of SudburyTable of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Albert Camus’ Absurd Absurdity in Moral and Political Philosophy Absurd Confusion An Absurd and Ambivalent World The Organization of this Work Chapter 2: Absurdity in Context Nietzsche’s Tragic Ethos Kierkegaard’s Absurd Faith Sartre’s Existential Approach Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Absurd Thomas Nagel’s Attitudinal Approach Chapter 3: The Meaning of Absurdity: Albert Camus and his Critics The Meaning of Camus’ Absurd The Status of Camus’ Absurd Absurd Facts, Data, and Values Chapter 4: Absurdity and Ambivalence Ambivalence in the Early Psychoanalytic Tradition: Bleuler and Freud Ambivalence and Splitting in the Work of Melanie Klein Ambivalence and the Borderline Personality Absurdity as Ambivalence Camus’ Absurd Ambivalence, Part 1: Merger Clarity and Unity Loving Mother Nature Jean Grenier’s Influence Camus’ Absurd Ambivalence, Part II: Selfhood and Autonomy The Three Refusals Chapter 5: Absurdity and Ambivalence in The Stranger The Modern Subject and Kant’s Kingdom of Ends Meursault’s Taboo Critical Absurdities Chapter 6: Revolt, Resistance, or Rebellion? The Road to Révolte The Is and Ought of the Absurd Revolt and Rebellion in The Rebel Metaphysical Rebellion and the Origins of the Absurd Ideal When Good Rebellions Go Bad: Revolution Chapter 7: A Grounding for an Absurd Political Morality Absurd Borderlands Absurd Responses Splitting Into All or Nothing Ambivalence and the Limitation of Rebellion La Mesure and Moderation Plagues Within and Without Rebellion and Creativity Bad Faith, Good Revolt Chapter 8: Political Theoretical Conclusions Kaliayev and the ‘Just’ Assassins Camus’ Algeria Conclusion References About the Author

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Book SynopsisThe Body and Shame: Phenomenology, Feminism, and the Socially Shaped Body investigates the concept of body shame and explores its significance when considering philosophical accounts of embodied subjectivity. Body shame only finds its full articulation in the presence (actual or imagined) of others within a rule and norm governed milieu. As such, it bridges our personal, individual and embodied experience with the social, cultural and political world that contains us. Luna Dolezal argues that understanding body shame can shed light on how the social is embodied, that is, how the bodyexperienced in its phenomenological primacy by the subjectbecomes a social and cultural artifact, shaped by external forces and demands.The Body and Shame introduces leading twentieth-century phenomenological and sociological accounts of embodied subjectivity through the work of Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Paul Sartre, Michel Foucault and Norbert Elias. Dolezal examines the embodied, socialTrade ReviewGuiding the reader carefully through a huge variety of philosophical and sociological theory, and providing a clear review of contemporary feminist analyses of cosmetic surgery, Dolezal has composed a well-informed, convincing, and highly accessible book. The book teaches us a great deal about the relation between body shame, our image-saturated consumerist society, and appearance-improving behavior. * Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy *In The Body and Shame: Phenomenology, Feminism, and the Socially Shaped Body, Luna Dolezal provides a clearly-written discussion of the key philosophical approaches to shame arising from the body. . . .Students and scholars in the humanities and social sciences who are beginning to study philosophical views of the body and shame will find this a useful introduction to the topic and overview of key arguments. Luna Dolezal’s The Body and Shame provides scholars across the medical humanities with a well-written introduction to key philosophical interventions into body shame, and the book will also be of interest to those studying social issues around plastic surgery. * Centre for Medical Humanities *In this very well written and eminently readable book, Dolezal deftly explores the concept of body shame from both the phenomenological and the social constructionist points of view, finding a tension between the phenomenological emphasis on constitution and the social constructionist emphasis on social constraint. The author expertly presents and evaluates the contributions to the analysis of embodiment and intercorporeality in Husserl, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Foucault and Norbert Elias. This is a deeply original and instructive work, a genuine contribution to the study of embodiment and to the understanding of human social encounters. -- Dermot Moran, Professor of Philosophy, University College DublinEvery woman – indeed every member of an oppressed group – will find this topic resonant. Dolezal argues that, while ‘acute’ body shame is necessary to socialization (what Norbert Elias called ‘the civilising process’), ‘chronic’ body shame is undermining; its destructive potential is exemplified in the case of cosmetic surgery. Dolezal skilfully weaves together social theory (Elias, Foucault, Goffman) with phenomenology (Sartre, Merleau-Ponty) to outline a theory of the socially shaped body that will be required reading for feminists and social theorists alike. -- Katherine Morris, Oxford UniversityTable of ContentsChapter One: Shame and Philosophy: Introducing the Philosophical Significance of Body Shame Chapter Two: Phenomenology of the Body and Shame: Visibility, Invisibility and the Seen Body Chapter Three: Shame and the Socially Shaped Body: Michel Foucault and Norbert Elias 000 Chapter Four: The Politics of Shame: Phenomenology of Self-Presentation and Social (In)visibility Chapter Five: Body Shame and Female Experience Chapter Six: The Case of Cosmetic Surgery: The Body Shaped by Shame

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Book SynopsisThis book, focusing on the central role of the imagination in contemporary philosophy, addresses challenges and problems that emerge today in conflicting positions, including a concentration on the role of the imagination in the work of Paul Ricoeur in contrast and in opposition to its role in such postmodern thinkers as Derrida and Lyotard.Trade ReviewBourgeois proposes a trenchant rethinking of the postmodern imagination, guided by Ricoeur but also passing through a diverse post-Kantian landscape of German idealism, pragmatism, phenomenology, and deconstructionism. The result is an ambitious new philosophy of the imagination at the boundary-limits of reason and an opening to the possibility of an invigorated postmodern humanism. -- John Wall, Rutgers UniversityTable of ContentsPreface Chapter 1: The Imagination: Its Challenge to Philosophy Today Chapter 2: The Transcendental Productive Imagination Chapter 3: The Imagination at the Boundary: Phenomenological Variations and Pragmatism Chapter 4: Imagination and Postmodernity Chapter 5: Imagination and Postmodernity II: Narrative Bibliography

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Book SynopsisAt certain moments in his political essays, Kant conceives of socio-historical emancipation as a process of working ourselves out of pathological legacies, suggesting that emancipation would involve a process of working through our affective attachments to entrenched, regressive social arrangements. Jackson shows how Freud's analyses of melancholia, mania and the work of mourning can contribute to an understanding of key dimensions of such pathological social fixations, as well as the possibility of working through the past. This book argues that bringing Freud's provocative analyses of loss to bear on particular philosophical treatments of history leads to a more coherent, psychoanalytically informed understanding of history. Although Freud does not himself integrate these themes into a theory of socio-political emancipation, his thinking nonetheless can be read as contributing to such a theory. To develop this idea the book draws on thinkers such as Karl Marx, Theodor Adorno, Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Axel Honneth, and Judith Butler. The book engages students and scholars of contemporary continental philosophy by arguing for connections between psychoanalysis, philosophy, and critical theory.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Freud: Sociality, Fixation, and Working-through Chapter 2: Working-through the Past in Kant, Marx and Freud Chapter 3: Loss and Recognition: Axel Honneth’s reading of psychoanalysis Chapter 4: Freud’s Critique of Philosophy: Animism in Husserl’s Crisis Chapter 5: Melancholic Da-sein: Lossless Existence in Being and Time Chapter 6: Ideological Subjection, Panic, and Subversion

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Book SynopsisThis study explores the increasingly troubled relationship between humankind and the Earth, with the help of a simple example and a complicated interlocutor. The example is a pond, which, it turns out, is not so simple as it seems. The interlocutor is Jean-Paul Sartre, novelist, playwright, biographer, philosopher, and, despite his several disavowals, doyen of twentieth-century existentialism. Standing with the great humanist at the edge of the pond, the author examines contemporary experience in the light of several familiar conceptual pairs: nature and culture, fact and value, reality and imagination, human and nonhuman, society and ecology, Earth and world. The theoretical challenge is to reveal the critical complementarity and experiential unity of this family of ideas. The practical task is to discern the heuristic implications of this lived unity-in-diversity in these times of social and ecological crisis. Interdisciplinary in its aspirations, the study draws upon recent developmTrade ReviewThis book is truly unique: at once brilliant, timely, often amusing, and exceptionally rich in its references to contemporary thinking in philosophy, history, and science. Professor Ally engages Jean-Paul Sartre as his Virgil in a revealing trek through nature, from a sylvan pond to the outer rings of the global ecological crisis. In the end, while not concealing the hellish aspect of our current situation, he argues strongly and convincingly against abandoning hope. -- William L. McBride, Purdue UniversityIn ‘bringing Sartre to the water’s edge,’ Matthew Ally demonstrates the surprising relevance of existentialism to the growing environmental crisis, and gives us a new and holistic way of understanding that crisis. There is nothing quite like this work of ecology and philosophy focusing on a single pond in upstate New York and ending with the urgent call to transform the geoculture of capitalism, consumerism, and colonialism. Deeply considered, beautifully written, and powerfully felt, it is a book to be lived with, enjoyed, savored, and pondered. Ecology and Existence is a masterwork by a mature and confident thinker. -- Ronald Aronson, author of We: Reviving Social HopeIn a brilliant tour de force Matthew Ally brings Sartre to bear on environmental thought. His masterfully structured work reads like a nimble essay. He captures our imagination, bringing the conceptual toolbox of humanist thought into play at a pond. Sartre at the water’s edge never turns into a Narcissus reflecting upon himself, rather, he finds his 'integrative and open-ended philosophical method' in a newly found freedom of water. Contingency, freedom, responsibility, solidarity, and liberation, are revived in the experiential lack of gravity the pond provides. Ally is a story teller and a scientifically informed philosopher with an exquisite literary sensibility. He brings natural history writing back into philosophy, contemporizing a rich tradition of Thoreau and Rachel Carson. -- Irene J. Klaver, University of North TexasThe pond! Does it exist, or not exist? Matthew Ally has brought Jean-Paul Sartre finally out from the café and into the woods, writing a major work of existential ecophilosophy that is the climax of years of careful thinking. The field, like the pond, will be changed forever. -- David Rothenberg, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, New Jersey Institute of TechnologyThe pond is the place where many an American philosopher have skipped their philosophical stones, and by throwing some of his own Matthew Ally has placed himself within this important American tradition of ecological/environmental writing. This is a very original contribution to existentialism, existentialist ethics, environmental ethics, continental philosophy, and Sartre scholarship. This is not a book on Sartre, but a book that works with Sartre. It is not exegetical, although there is plenty of that. It is what the author calls 'reconstructive philosophy,' which is a wonderful genre: what philosophers could and should have said, but never did, even if it was bubbling off the pages they wrote. This is also not an apologia, but rather a constructive and prospective work: what we can and should do with one of the most inspiring philosophers of the twentieth century. Ally confronts directly five main evident liabilities with Sartre’s existentialism in relationship to the pressing issue of global climate change and environmental justice in the Anthropocene: reflexive anthropocentrism, heuristic exceptionalism, naïve instrumentalism, clannish exclusivism, and philosophical machismo. Follow Ally along his trekking to find out how he unravels Sartre’s inchoate existentialist environmental ethics. -- Eduardo Mendieta, Professor of Philosophy, Pennsylvania State UniversityTable of ContentsPrelude – Many Ways to Wonder confessions of a lifelong pond watcher PART I – ENVIRONMENTALISM AND HUMANISM SHIPS PASSING IN THE LIGHT Chapter 1 – Toward an Existential Ecology water, water, everywhere Chapter 2 – Bringing Sartre to the Biosphere the truth of a pond PART II – NATURE AND CULTURE WHAT CAN WE KNOW ABOUT A POND? 1st Interval – On Method and Substance phenomenology Chapter 3 – A Phenomenological Exploration to the pond itself 2nd Interval – On Method and Substance dialectics Chapter 4 – A Dialectical Investigation everything is in this pond PART III – FACT AND VALUE ONE POND, RIGHT OR WRONG Chapter 5 – Order and Autonomy in Nature and History what ponds do 3rd Interval – On Method and Substance praxis Chapter 6 – From Integral Humanity to Participatory Belonging wet feet and a helping hand PART IV – REALITY AND IMAGINATION PONDS ON EARTH AND OTHER WORLDS Chapter 7 – A Global Crisis in Planetary Perspective stirring up a sea of troubles 4th Interval – On Method and Substance imagination Chapter 8 – Intimations of a New Socioecological Imaginary eddies, bubbles, and ripples PART V – EARTH AND WORLD FROM HABITABILITY TO LIVEABILITY Chapter 9 – To the Far Side of Anthropocentrism safely through the straits 5th Interval – On Method and Substance ecology Chapter 10 – On the Near Side of Ecocentrism running waters, deeper still Coda – Bringing Earth and world together again sketch of an existential ecology

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Book SynopsisIn this book Michael Strawser argues that Kierkegaard should be interpreted primarily as a philosopher of love who ultimately presents readers with a first phenomenology of love.Trade ReviewMichael Strawser’s book. . . is an important contribution to understanding the universal human experience of love. . . . Strawser’s phenomenological exploration of love in the writings of Søren Kierkegaard offers valuable insights into the philosopher’s life’s work. . . Strawser’s book is an approachable and engaging discussion that conveys the relevance of Kierkegaard for a contemporary world very much in need of more love. * Reading Religion *Power, prominence, or wealth can’t give real meaning to life—only love can. This is a vivid account of love and the story of how love becomes the lodestone of Kierkegaard’s varied and voluminous writing. In this fine and comprehensive book, Strawser shows how love stitches a self together and threads out to gently pull in friends and loved ones, giving verve and traction to a life. -- Edward F. Mooney, Syracuse UniversityAccording to Michael Strawser, the topic of love has become the central focus of Kierkegaard research in the early twenty-first century. Interpreting Kierkegaard as a phenomenological thinker, Strawser brings the ideas of a nineteenth-century author usefully into dialogue with recent and contemporary philosophers of love and emotion. His discussion is thus aimed at readers who wish to understand Kierkegaard, or love, or both. -- Rick Anthony Furtak, Colorado CollegeTable of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Love’s Incitement Chapter 3. Love’s Immediacy Chapter 4. Love’s Intentionality Chapter 5. Love’s Eternity Chapter 6. Love’s Fall Chapter 7. Love’s Fear Chapter 8. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisProlegomena to a Carnal Hermeneutics introduces body politics from both Eastern and Western perspectives. Hwa Yol Jung explores Giambattista Vico's anti-Cartesiansim and covers the carnal landscapes of Martin Heidegger, Mikhail Bakhtin, Hannah Arendt, Emmanuel Levinas, Luce Irigaray, Marshall McLuhan, and transversal geophilosophy. Trade ReviewHwa Yol Jung creatively works through the historical shifts from Vico to McLuhan and onto Baktin, Arendt and Levinas that have revised the acts of reading and interpretation through which we enlarge our own cultural identities. -- John O'Neill, York UniversityHwa Yol Jung is a leading pioneer of intercultural understanding and engagement. Undercutting the Western supremacy of the ego cogito, his long string of publications has made room for complex and surprising networks of transversality. Prolegomena to a Carnal Hermeneutics constitutes the pinnacle of his life-long quest. Casting the net wide and deep, his book yields a treasure trove of transversal geophilosophy: from Vico to Heidegger, from Merleau-Ponty and Bakhtin to Kyoto's Hoshi and China's yin/yang, and much, much more. -- Fred Dallmayr, University of Notre DameTable of ContentsChapter 1. Giambattista Vico and the Genesis of Carnal Hermeneutics Appendix 1. Vico, Hermeneutical Phenomenology, and the Human Sciences: Appendix 2. Embodiment and Political Action Chapter 2. Martin Heidegger and the Homecoming of Oral Poetry Chapter 3. Mikhail Bakhtin’s Dialogical Body Politics Chapter 4. The Making of Body Politics: Arendt, Levinas, and Irigaray Chapter 5. Carnal Hermeneutics and Marshall McLuhan’s Philosophy of Global Chapter 6. Embodiment inTransversal Geophilosophy, East and West

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Book SynopsisAaron Fehir is assistant professor of philosophy at Saint Leo University.Table of ContentsPart I. Objections to Pluralism Chapter 1. The Problem of Conflicting-Truth Claims Chapter 2. The Problem of the Criterion Chapter 3. The Problem of the Incarnation Part II. Interreligious Dialogues Chapter 4. The Problem of Sin Chapter 5. The Jewish Problem Chapter 6. The Problem of Pantheism

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Book SynopsisThis book is a phenomenological investigation of the interrelations of tradition, memory, place and the body. Drawing upon philosophers such as Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Gadamer, and Ricoeur, Janet Donohoe uses the idea of a palimpsest to argue that layers of the past are carried along as traditions, through places and bodies, such that we can speak of memory as being written upon place and place as being written upon memory. In dialogue with theorists such as Jeff Malpas and Ed Casey, Donohoe focuses on analysis of monuments and memorials to investigate how such deliberate places of collective memory can be ideological, or can open us to the past and different traditions. The insights in this book will be of particular value to place theorists and phenomenologists in disciplines such as philosophy, geography, memory studies, public history, and environmental studies.Trade ReviewPhenomenology is distinctive in that it attends not only to the everyday, ordinary, and mundane dimensions of existence, but also specifically considers such dimensions as they are experienced. Donohoe argues that the complicated relationship between memory, tradition, and place is fundamentally important to all lived experience. Place is what allows for collective memory, and such memory is what constitutes the traditions by which one finds oneself attached to specific places. Working in light of Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and in conversation with the phenomenological accounts of place and memory offered by Ed Casey and Gaston Bachelard, Donohoe offers a compelling account of place as a palimpsest—a form of writing that allows what has been erased to remain visible. Suggesting that memory works in the same way, Donohoe opens productive ways to think about lived experience by considering how such experience always occurs somewhere. By focusing on location and then reflecting on the meaning generated by it, Donohoe enables phenomenology to be even more careful concerning the task of philosophizing. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through researchers/faculty. * CHOICE *The book offers a couple of original insights to the field. . . . [and] succeeds in shedding light on a number of important questions that still remain unresolved in the field. * Nature and Human Life *True to its title, Janet Donohoe’s Remembering Places, is an eloquent and evocative recollection of the intimate connection of place with memory and of memory with place. Beginning with the phenomenon of home, and moving on to explore questions concerning tradition, mourning, forgetting, memorial and monument, and even contemporary virtuality, Donohoe deftly combines phenomenological and hermeneutic analysis with personal experience and reflection. Perhaps the most intriguing element in the work is the implicit suggestion that time is itself only to be found in place and in our engagement with place. This is a book that will reward careful and thoughtful reading. It makes a significant contribution to contemporary philosophical topography at the same time as it also enacts the very task that it enjoins us towards. -- Jeff Malpas, Distinguished Professor, University of TasmaniaJanet Donohoe’s reflections on collective memory and tradition bring an important new dimension to discussions of the phenomenology of place. Thoughtful and readable, the work reminds us that places are more than static containers but themselves are the material embodiment and conditions of the possibility of experience. -- Ingrid Leman Stefanovic, University of TorontoFocusing largely on the lived dimensions of monuments and memorials, Janet Donohoe draws on phenomenological and hermeneutic perspectives to explore the complex relationship between place, memory, and history. The study includes a helpful overview of phenomenological research on place; particularly valuable is Donohoe’s perceptive clarification of phenomenologist Edmund Husserl’s co-constituted concepts of homeworld and alienworld. She examines how places provide not only settings for human life but also help shape memory, tradition, and a lived sense of history. Lastly, Donohoe offers a thoughtful philosophical discussion of the personal and collective value of monuments and memorials as they evoke existential and historical meanings through an intensified ambience of place. Donohoe’s book is an important phenomenological contribution to the growing interdisciplinary literature on place studies. -- David Seamon, Kansas State UniversityTable of ContentsChapter One: A Phenomenology of Memory and Place Chapter Two: From Individual to Collective Memory Chapter Three: Collective Memory, Place, and Mourning Chapter Four: A Hermeneutics of Monuments Chapter Five: Conclusions

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Book SynopsisSteven A. Burr has developed and taught courses in the Theology Department at Georgetown University and the graduate liberal studies program at Loyola University, Maryland.Trade ReviewFinite Transcendence: Existential Exile and the Myth of Home is a readable and moving analysis of Camus's absurdity in terms of exile. -- Julian Young, Wake Forest UniversityIn this dark yet optimistic book, Steven Burr demonstrates that exile is more than simply a condition of bodily displacement; it is also something basic to the ontological structure of all human existence. Every one of us is in existential exile, longing to find “home” in a world that rebuffs our desires. Burr not only challenges us to confront this ontological truth but also draws on the work of Albert Camus in order to suggest a strategy to find happiness within the limits of our finitude. Penetrating, thorough and clearly argued, Finite Transcendence will be of interest to readers concerned with existential issues related to nihilism, human alienation and the religious quest for wholeness. -- John Marmysz, College of MarinTable of ContentsPart I. The Ontological Situation Chapter One: Finitude Chapter Two: Existential Exile Part II. Betwixt and Between Chapter Three: Absurdity and Exile Chapter Four: Revolt and [Re-]Union Part III. Home Chapter Five: Finitude and Faith, Exile and [Re-]Union

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Book SynopsisEditors Sarah Tyson and Joshua M. Hall convene an international group of philosophical thinkersâfrom both inside and outside prison wallsâwho draw on a variety of historical figures and critical perspectives to think about prisons in our new historical era.Trade ReviewThe essays were written by faculty, undergraduate philosophy majors, and graduate students who have taught or led discussions on philosophy in prison; the essays also represent the personal reflections of incarcerated men who have studied philosophy in prison. . . .The varied essays may be organized into the following groups: theoretical reflections on the contributions of certain philosophers (Hegel, Foucault, Kant, and Davis), proposals for reforming the system of mass incarceration in the US, reflections by imprisoned men, critiques of the extreme misogyny in men’s prisons, and the role of philosophy in prison. Of all of the essays, the personal reflections concerning the impact of philosophy on the lives and experiences of incarcerated men were the most moving and powerful. Though the book considers the important transformative role of philosophy in prison, other studies point to the greater importance of college in prison programs in reducing recidivism rates. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through researchers/faculty. * CHOICE *Philosophy Imprisoned is a unique and often startling reflection on the importance of philosophy and teaching philosophy in prisons. Incorporating essays from prisoners and professional philosophers, this volume shows what philosophy can do even in the direst of circumstances. -- Kelly Oliver, SUNY, Stony BrookSarah Tyson and Joshua M. Hall have compiled a diverse collection of writing by philosophers behind bars and beyond them. The book offers important insights into the meaning of thought and action in a world shaped by mass incarceration. By connecting the personal and the theoretical, these reflections on teaching and learning philosophy in prison affirm the importance of the examined life as a practice of freedom and of mutual transformation. -- Lisa Noelle Guenther, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt UniversityPhilosophy Imprisoned is a disturbing and moving collection of diverse philosophical engagements. Critical prison scholars and educators who teach across prison walls will find much common cause here, but also much to question their complacencies. Philosophers will find nothing less than a radical challenge to academic philosophy and a powerful endorsement of the power of philosophy to transform the world. -- Michael Hames-Garcia, University of OregonTable of ContentsPart I: Identity 1. Reforming Me, Philosophy, Timothy Greenlee 2. What’s Wrong with Us?: Outsider Ethics and Mass Incarceration, Chris Lenn 3. Emancipating the Carceral Subject: A Propaedeutic to an Integrated Prison Pedagogy, John Douglas Macready 4. Women Haters Club: Maximized Misogyny in Men’s Prisons and Its Tie to the Patriarchy, Anders “Andy” Benander, III 5. Criminal Masculinity: Male Prisons and the Construction of Gender, Natalie Cisneros 6. Du Bois, Foucault, and Self-Torsion: Criterion of Imprisoned Art, Joshua M. Hall 7. One Foot in Darkness, Spoon Jackson Part Two: Community 8. A Prisoner’s Perspective on Prison, Arlando “Tray” Jones III 9. Awakenings and Seductions: Text, Literacy and the Lived Experience of Fathers in Prison, William Muth and Ginger Walker 10. Hegel Goes to Prison: Punishment, Education, and Mutual Recognition, Eric Anthamatten 11. Unchained Melody: Philosophical Reflections from the Working Classics Program, Michael DeWilde with students Abigail DeHart, Katie Stefanek and Emily Stroka 12. Just Visiting: Epistemic Obstacles to Justice on Death Row, Lisa McLeod 13. Prisoners: “They’re Animals” and Their Animals, Drew Leder with Vincent Greco 14. Organizing Dead Matter into Effective Energy, Andre Pierce 15. Re-humanizing the Inmate: Wacquant on Race-making, Sequestered Spaces, and the Quest for a “We” Narrative, Cynthia Nielsen 16. Free Spirit in the House of the Dead, Atif Rafay 17. Cartesian Meditations: Voice, Body, Mind and Prison, Aislinn O’Donnell and Anonymous Contributors

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Book SynopsisRobert P. Crease is professor in the Department of Philosophy at Stony Brook University.Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen Friis is associate professor of philosophy of science and technology at Copenhagen University.Table of Contents1.Postphenomenology’s North American Future, Robert C. Scharff 2.Beyond Originary Givenness? Postphenomenology, Digital Imaging and Evidentiary Responsibility, Shannon Vallor 3.Historical Variations and the Cellular Age, Galit Wellner 4.On Postphenomenology and the Postcolonial, Srikanth Mallavarapu 5.What is Multistability? A Theory of the Keystone Concept of Postphenomenological Research, Kyle Powys Whyte 6.Hospital Architecture and Design in Post-Phenomenological Perspective, Lars Botin 7.Post-Telescope-Postphenomenology? …and a little Locomotive History, Michael Funk 8.The Dubstep Mashup, Stacy O. Irwin 9.Postphenomenology: What’s New? What’s Next? Robert Rosenberger 10.An Introduction to Hyperology: The Age of the Chimera, Roisin Lally 11.Nursing’s Nightingale needed a lamp! Anette Forss 12.Multistable roboethics, Cathrine Hasse 13.Towards a Theory of Technological Mediation: A Program for Postphenomenological Research, Peter-Paul Verbeek 14.Don Ihde’s Relevance to the Gun Debates, Evan Selinger 15.Technology and the Environment: Lessons from Fukushima, Junichi Murata 16.How Does Technology Alter Sports: Body, Space, and Ethics, Shoji Nagataki 17.Somatology of Aurality: The Voice of the Material World, Eduardo Mendieta

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an introduction to postphenomenology, an emerging school of thought in the philosophy of technology and science and technology studies, which addresses the relationships users develop with the devices they use.Trade ReviewThis 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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Book SynopsisThis book is the first postphenomenological analysis of the important roles the cellphone plays in contemporary everydayness. It is an example of a new methodology to study everyday technologies that combines historical research with a philosophical investigation.Trade ReviewA quick scan of the comprehensive bibliography points toward only six female authors who have made interventions into (post)phenomenology; evidence that Wellner’s work is both a rarity and a necessity in such a burgeoning field. This book reflects and demonstrates an expanding reach in the philosophy of technology. Robust and layered, Wellner’s A Postphenomenological Inquiry of Cell Phones could serve as a critical text for expanding the intersection of phenomenology and mobile media, highlighting a relationship between cell phones, users, and the environment. * Mobile Media & Communication *How did the cell phone come to be the multitalented and indispensable object it is today? Galit Wellner, in a technologically well-informed account, has singled out three major steps taken in the development of this artifact.... Wellner’s three-step development model gives a fine overview of a very recent history of technology. * Icon *Do not be fooled by the name “cell phone,” or by its modest size and weight. This device is a networked supercomputer, whose effect on the world’s economy and culture is a great as that of the Personal Computer in the 1980s, the Mainframe computer in the 1960s, or broadcast television in the 1950s. It may even be more: a cybernetic appendage to the human body and mind, beyond the imaginings of even the most far-seeing science fiction writers. Galit Wellner’s book tells us how this came to be, why this device is so game-changing, and into what strange new worlds it might be taking us. -- Paul E. Ceruzzi, curator, Aerospace Computing and Electronics, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian InstitutionGalit Wellner has written a book that uses cell phones as an exemplary case for presenting a very clearly structured and excellently presented postphenomenological methodology of how to analysis technology. Through a well thought out use of Don Ihde’s I-technology-world triad the author present an analysis of four historical variations of cell phones and their impacts (concerning voice, texts, multimedia applications and perhaps most interesting how cell phones move into a future realm of sensory exploration). From these variations the author extracts three invariances which in an innovative way add to our general understanding of philosophy of technology (the cell phone as wall-window, quasi-face and memory prosthesis). This is a book I will recommend to all with an interest in postphenomenological methodology and philosophy of technology. -- Cathrine Hasse, University of AarhusTable of ContentsPart I - Historical Variations - First Historical Variation: Talking Heads - Second Historical Variation: Texting-at-Hand - Third Historical Variation: The Kingdom of Multi-media Applications - Fourth Historical Variation: Sensory Exploration Interlude: Transforming "I," Technology and World Part II – Invariants - First Invariant: Wall-Window-Screen - Second Invariant: The Quasi-Face of the Cellphone - Third Invariant: Memory Prosthesis Summary: Becoming-Mobile

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Book SynopsisJames Connelly is assistant professor at Trent University.Table of ContentsPart one: The Semantic Problematic of Early Analytic Philosophy Chapter 1: Frege: Logicism and the Laws of Truth Chapter 2: Russell: From the Principles of Mathematics to the Theory of Knowledge Chapter 3: Normativity and Method in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Part two: Normativity and Method in Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations Chapter 4: Wittgenstein’s Critique of Early Analytic Semantics Chapter 5: Wittgenstein on Private Language and Following a Rule Chapter 6: Subjectivity and the Living Human Body

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Book SynopsisA reprint of the popular 1972 Harper and Row collection of essays in phenomenology and existential phenomenology. Contributions from a range of scholars are included - Husserl, Frege, Chisholm, Merleau-Ponty, Schmitt, Tillman, Gendlin, Sellers, Linsky, Dreyfus, Ryle, Solomon, Schlick and more.Trade ReviewRobert C. Solomon's second edition of Phenomenology and Existentialism is an excellent introduction to the difficult concepts and authors of the phenomenological movement and 20th-century existentialism. * Metapsychology Online *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Preface to the 2001 Edition Chapter 2 Introduction Part 3 The Phenomenology of Edmund Husserl Chapter 4 The Attack on Psychologism Chapter 5 The Phenomenological Reductions Chapter 6 Phenomena and Phenomenological Reflection Chapter 7 Intentionality Chapter 8 Meaning and Constitution Chapter 9 Essences and Necessary Truth Part 10 Existential Phenomenology Chapter 11 Phenomenology and Ontology Chapter 12 Existence Chapter 13 The Life World Part 14 Self and Others Chapter 15 Consciousness and the Ego Chapter 16 Intersubjectivity Chapter 17 Freedom Chapter 18 Existentialist Ethics Chapter 19 Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe subject of ''time'' is currently experiencing a revival in the most diverse areas of academic discourse. Contemporary time theory attempts to relate theoretical time concepts both to one another and to everyday experience of time. This book deals with the philosopher Martin Heidegger and the chemo-physicist Iyla Prigogine (Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1977), two prominent advocates of pioneering time concepts in the 20th century. The author not only provides a transdisciplinary introduction to modern debate on the problem of time, but suggests how the basic tendencies in this debate might be pragmatically interlinked with each other.Trade ReviewThis book is of interest for everybody interested in the problem of time. It puts forward some of the main aspects of this difficult problem..... -- Ilya Prigogine, 1977 Nobel Prize awardeeThe Temporalization of Time captures the enormous philosophical importance of a seemingly obscure turning point in the history of physics. What Sandbothe manages to make splendidly clear is the common-sense equivalence of physics' failure to reduce technical thermodynamics to classical mechanics (Boltzmann's project), and the conceptual difference between the reversibility of time (in classical physics) and the irreversibility of time (in the process of human life end reflection). He shows, by reviewing Prigogine's account of 'open systems' and Heidegger's account of temporality as the very meaning of Sein or Dasein, how the 'objective' and subjective treatments of irreversibility now invite us to acheive their reconciliation. Very helpful! -- Joseph Margolis, Temple UniversityThis book is of interest for everybody interested in the problem of time. It puts forward some of the main aspects of this difficult problem. -- Ilya Prigogine, 1977 Nobel Prize awardee

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Book SynopsisThis astonishingly rich volume collects the work of an international group of scholars, including some of the best known in academia. Experts in ethics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, political theory, aesthetics, history, critical theory, and hermeneutics bring to light the best philosophical scholarship what is arguably Friedrich Nietzsche''s most rewarding but most challenging text. Including essays that were commissioned specifically for the volume as well as essays revised and edited by their authors, this collection showcases definitive works that have shaped Nietzsche studies alongside new works of interest to students and experts alike. Sections are devoted to the topic of genealogy generally, numerous essays on specific passages, applications of genealogy in later thinkers, and the import of Nietzsche''s Genealogy in contemporary politics, ethics, and aesthetics. A lengthy introduction, annotated bibliography, and index make this an extremely useful guide for the classrooTrade ReviewThis volume is an excellent collection of essays. It offers the right mix of perspectives, topics, and settings that will help any reader of theGeneology, students and scholars alike, in navigating one of Nietzsche's most important and challenging texts. Highly recommended. -- Lawrence J. Hatab, Louis I. Jaffe Professor of Philosophy, Old Dominion UniversityThis is an exceptionally strong collection, gathering together some of the most insightful commentary on Nietzsche's most important book, of leading scholars in North America, Europe and beyond over the last twenty years. This substantial new volume is a very welcome contribution to the literature and ought to occupy a prominent place on any list of recommended reading for students of Nietzsche's text. -- Duncan Large, University of Wales at SwanseaNietzsche's Genealogy of Morals looms larger in the Nietzsche canon with each passing year. Something about this work speaks to the ethical predicament of modernity in a way that seems to be full of promise and is yet deeply unsettling and enigmatic; hence the continuing, and increasing discussion of this work by philosophers. Christa Acampora's collection brings together an impressive group of writers who have been at the forefront of contemporary debates on the Genealogy, and will for the near future be the standard work of reference on the topic. -- Henry Staten, professor of English, University of WashingtonTable of ContentsPart 1 Introduction: In the Beginning: Reading Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals from the Start Part 2 Part I: On Genealogy Chapter 3 1. A "Dionysian drama on the 'fate of the soul'": An Introduction to Reading On the Genealogy of Morality Chapter 4 2. Nietzsche, Re-evaluation and the Turn to Genealogy Chapter 5 3. The Genealogy of Genealogy: Interpretation in Nietzsche's Second Untimely Meditation and in On the Genealogy of Morals Chapter 6 4. Nietzsche's Style of Affirmation: The Metaphors of Genealogy Chapter 7 5. Nietzsche and the Re-evaluation of Values Chapter 8 6. Genealogy, the Will to Power, and the Problem of a Past Part 9 Part II: Reading the Genealogy : Focused analyses of parts and passages Chapter 10 7. Slave morality, Socrates, and the Bushmen: A Reading of the First Essay of On the Genealogy of Morals Chapter 11 8. Lightning and Flash, Agent and Deed Chapter 12 9. On Sovereignty and Overhumanity: Why It Matters How We Read Nietzsche's Genealogy II:2 Chapter 13 10. Finding the Übermensch in Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality Chapter 14 11. The Genealogy of Morals and Right Reading: On the Nietzschean Aphorism and the Art of the Polemic Chapter 15 12. We Remain of Necessity Strangers to Ourselves: The key message of Nietzsche's Genealogy Chapter 16 13. Nihilism as Will to Nothingness Part 17 Part III: Critiquing Genealogy Chapter 18 14. The Entwinement of Myth and Enlightenment: Re-reading the Dialectic of Enlightenment Chapter 19 15. Translating, Repeating, Naming: Foucault, Derrida, and The Genealogy of Morals Chapter 20 16. Nietzsche, Deleuze and the Genealogical Critique of Psychoanalysis: Between Church and State Part 21 Part IV: On Politics and Community Chapter 22 17. Nietzsche's Genealogy: Of Beauty and Community Chapter 23 18. Nietzsche and the Jews: The Structure of Ambivalence Chapter 24 19. Nietzschean Viture Ethics Chapter 25 How We Become What We Are: Tracking the "Beasts of Prey"

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Book SynopsisThis astonishingly rich volume collects the work of an international group of scholars, including some of the best known in academia. Experts in ethics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, political theory, aesthetics, history, critical theory, and hermeneutics bring to light the best philosophical scholarship what is arguably Friedrich Nietzsche''s most rewarding but most challenging text. Including essays that were commissioned specifically for the volume as well as essays revised and edited by their authors, this collection showcases definitive works that have shaped Nietzsche studies alongside new works of interest to students and experts alike. Sections are devoted to the topic of genealogy generally, numerous essays on specific passages, applications of genealogy in later thinkers, and the import of Nietzsche''s Genealogy in contemporary politics, ethics, and aesthetics. A lengthy introduction, annotated bibliography, and index make this an extremely useful guide for the classrooTrade ReviewThis volume is an excellent collection of essays. It offers the right mix of perspectives, topics, and settings that will help any reader of theGeneology, students and scholars alike, in navigating one of Nietzsche's most important and challenging texts. Highly recommended. -- Lawrence J. Hatab, Louis I. Jaffe Professor of Philosophy, Old Dominion UniversityThis is an exceptionally strong collection, gathering together some of the most insightful commentary on Nietzsche's most important book, of leading scholars in North America, Europe and beyond over the last twenty years. This substantial new volume is a very welcome contribution to the literature and ought to occupy a prominent place on any list of recommended reading for students of Nietzsche's text. -- Duncan Large, University of Wales at SwanseaNietzsche's Genealogy of Morals looms larger in the Nietzsche canon with each passing year. Something about this work speaks to the ethical predicament of modernity in a way that seems to be full of promise and is yet deeply unsettling and enigmatic; hence the continuing, and increasing discussion of this work by philosophers. Christa Acampora's collection brings together an impressive group of writers who have been at the forefront of contemporary debates on the Genealogy, and will for the near future be the standard work of reference on the topic. -- Henry Staten, professor of English, University of WashingtonTable of ContentsPart 1 Introduction: In the Beginning: Reading Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals from the Start Part 2 Part I: On Genealogy Chapter 3 1. A "Dionysian drama on the 'fate of the soul'": An Introduction to Reading On the Genealogy of Morality Chapter 4 2. Nietzsche, Re-evaluation and the Turn to Genealogy Chapter 5 3. The Genealogy of Genealogy: Interpretation in Nietzsche's Second Untimely Meditation and in On the Genealogy of Morals Chapter 6 4. Nietzsche's Style of Affirmation: The Metaphors of Genealogy Chapter 7 5. Nietzsche and the Re-evaluation of Values Chapter 8 6. Genealogy, the Will to Power, and the Problem of a Past Part 9 Part II: Reading the Genealogy : Focused analyses of parts and passages Chapter 10 7. Slave morality, Socrates, and the Bushmen: A Reading of the First Essay of On the Genealogy of Morals Chapter 11 8. Lightning and Flash, Agent and Deed Chapter 12 9. On Sovereignty and Overhumanity: Why It Matters How We Read Nietzsche's Genealogy II:2 Chapter 13 10. Finding the Übermensch in Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality Chapter 14 11. The Genealogy of Morals and Right Reading: On the Nietzschean Aphorism and the Art of the Polemic Chapter 15 12. We Remain of Necessity Strangers to Ourselves: The key message of Nietzsche's Genealogy Chapter 16 13. Nihilism as Will to Nothingness Part 17 Part III: Critiquing Genealogy Chapter 18 14. The Entwinement of Myth and Enlightenment: Re-reading the Dialectic of Enlightenment Chapter 19 15. Translating, Repeating, Naming: Foucault, Derrida, and The Genealogy of Morals Chapter 20 16. Nietzsche, Deleuze and the Genealogical Critique of Psychoanalysis: Between Church and State Part 21 Part IV: On Politics and Community Chapter 22 17. Nietzsche's Genealogy: Of Beauty and Community Chapter 23 18. Nietzsche and the Jews: The Structure of Ambivalence Chapter 24 19. Nietzschean Viture Ethics Chapter 25 How We Become What We Are: Tracking the "Beasts of Prey"

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Book SynopsisThe Nietzsche Disappointment confronts Nietzsche's recurrent, symptomatic struggles with causal accounts. His explanations of past and future raise high hopes; when they fail they are responsible for profound disappointment.Trade ReviewNickolas Pappas reads Nietzsche's books with care, giving nuanced, critical attention to the causal explanations they propose, while insightfully emphasizing the agonistic posture they adopt in relation to various other books (Plato's Symposium, the Gospel of John and so forth). His fresh and illuminating interpretations recall us to the seductive power of Nietzsche's writing, even as they insist on Nietzsche's failure to deliver on his ambitious philosophical promises. The Nietzsche Disappointment is no disappointment, but an original, first-rate, and welcome contribution to Nietzsche scholarship. -- Robert Gooding-Williams, Northwestern UniversityPappas has put his finger on the problem—Nietzsche's repeated failure to deliver a complete history, an entire causal explanation, to keep his appointments—and explains how this failure is at the root of a learned disappointment that most of us have after studying Nietzsche. I can easily imagine this work becoming to future Nietzsche studies what Walter Kaufmann's Nietzsche has been to scholarship so far. -- Brian Domino, Editor, Journal of Nietzsche StudiesNick Pappas has not only written his book in a manner that does not betray Nietzsche, he has written one that makes much of the fact that Nietzsche was in constant and fruitful critical dialogue with the philosophical tradition. Thus Pappas reads texts of Nietzsche against and with those of Descartes, Plato, the New Testament, and Saint Augustine, among others. The result is a richer understanding both of Nietzsche and of those texts. -- Tracy B. Strong, Professor of Political Thought and Philosophy, University of SouthamptonTable of ContentsPart 1 Abbreviations and Principal References Part 2 Preface Part 3 Introduction Part 4 Chapter 1: "On the Use and Disadvantage of History for Life": First Temporalizing, Then Temporizing Chapter 5 Four Thoughts between Chapters Part 6 Chapter 2: The Birth of Tragedy: The First Philosopher Chapter 7 Initial Objections Part 8 Chapter 3: On the Genealogy of Morals: The Problem of "Evil" Chapter 9 Some Remarks on the Causal Sequence Part 10 Chapter 4: Beyond Good and Evil: The Philosopher of the Future Part 11 Conclusion: To Finish with Nietzsche Part 12 Bibliography Part 13 Index

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