Phenomenology and Existentialism Books
Rlpg/Galleys In Defense of Things
Book SynopsisThis important work of archaeological theory challenges us to reconsider our ideas about the nature of things, past and present, arguing that objects themselves possess a dynamic presence that we must take into account if we are to understand the world we and they inhabit.Trade ReviewIt is delightful to read an archaeological work that is so fluent with the history and uses of philosophical traditions and their effects on archaeological debates. Equally refreshing is Olsen’s decision to abstain from creating a cavalcade of case studies, although the number of examples and their analyses increase towards the end of the book. The conventional way of writing archaeological theory as a series of case studies is often tedious for readers as well as restrictive for theoretical discussion. In fact, the absence of case studies could be seen as an implication of Olsen’s position: at its best, writing about things makes the neat distinction between an ‘abstract’, theoretical introduction and the subsequent, ‘concrete’ case study questionable. Olsen’s book is an imperative call for new ways of making archaeological theory relevant for other disciplines and is a reminder of the importance of ontological difference in thinking about things. * European Journal of Archaeology *Much recent theoretical discourse in archaeology is focused on active, relational objects conceived as entanglements,assemblages, and bundles of things. In Defense of Things is a timely, highly readable explication of the ideas and philosophy behind this turn towards object ontologies. Social scientists and particularly archaeologists interested in materiality studies could not ask for a more lucid introduction to the issues in play. Olsen’s central thesis is echoed in recent works by Nicole Boivin, Ian Hodder, Chris Webmoor and Tim Witmore, and Carl Knappett and Lambros Malafouris, among others. Inspired by Merleau-Ponty as well as by Latour, Olsen argues that it is time for social scientists to transcend the material/ideal split that is the heritage of Cartesian philosophy, and to give things their proper due as central to human existence. His self-avowed ‘bricolage’ approach to the topic contains very clear, concise discussions of key literature and ideas, thankfully without the hubristic language that distracts from the writings of some of his colleagues. . . I highly recommend this book as an elegant, well-written, well-reasoned introduction to the recent turn toward object ontologies in archaeology. * Journal of Design History *This excellent book by Bjornar Olsen provides us with the best critical survey of material culture studies currently available. He also shows how writing about 'things' from an archaeological perspective makes new theoretical contributions. -- Michael Rowlands, University College LondonSince the emergence of 'material culture studies' in the 1980s, there has been a growing need for a more fundamental rethinking of the nature of material things. This excellent book is one of the most sustained and sophisticated attempts that has been made to grapple with the problems of the tangible world, and it is to be unreservedly recommended. -- Julian Thomas, University of ManchesterIn Defense of Things is both an unequivocal sign of paradigm change and of the maturity achieved by archaeological thinking. As one of the three most important books in archaeology over the last decade, it deserves to become the reference book of archaeological theory for the next two, at least. Moreover, it places archaeology on an equal footing with other social sciences: this, in itself, is a profound contribution. * Archaeolog *Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Brothers in Arms? Archaeology and Material Culture Studies Chapter 3. Material Culture as Text: Scenes from a Troubled Engagement Chapter 4. The Phenomenology of Things Chapter 5. Tacit Matter: The Silencing of Things Chapter 6. Temporality and Memory: How Things Remember Chapter 7. Living with Things - Matter in Place Chapter 8. In Defense of Things Chapter 9 Bibliography
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University Press of America The Limits of Influence
Book SynopsisThe Limits of Influence is a detailed examination and defense of the evidence for largescale-psychokinesis (PK). It examines the reasons why experimental evidence has not, and perhaps cannot, convince most skeptics that PK is genuine, and it considers why traditional experimental procedures are important to reveal interesting facts about the phenomena. It then examines why PK does not pose a clear threat to the very fabric of science, as many have proposed. The major skeptical challenges to taking large-scale PK seriously and the reason why those challenges are all unsatisfactory are considered. The evidence examined most closely is the turn-of-the-century evidence for physical mediumship, with special attention given to the cases of D.D. Home and Eusapio Palladino. The author compares and evaluates the leading theories of apparitions and considers the extent to which the evidence for collective apparitions can be interpreted as a further type of psychokinetic phenomenon. Finally, theTrade ReviewPraise for the Original Edition: I'm delighted to see it in print. Braude is surely one of the best-informed and most readable philosophical guides, and his book offers the most orderly entry into the inevitable quarrels. The anecdotal material is absolutely fascinating. But Braude's careful speculation about its bearing on causality and empirical confirmation are even more intriguing and much more important. -- Joseph Margolis, Temple University * CHOICE *Rigorous and well written—highly recommended. -- Joseph Margolis, Temple University * The Scientific and Medical Network Review *...this work is the only comparable work of sophisticated philosophical analysis. Fine scholarship on the reports of mediums and apparitions is combined with careful philosophical reasoning...The subject itself, with lively discussion of historical examples, will appeal to a wide audience. The careful argumentation should especially provoke philosophers and parapsychologists. Recommended for college and university collections. * CHOICE *...this work is the only comparable work of sophisticated philosophical analysis. Fine scholarship on the reports of mediums and apparitions is combined with careful philosophical reasoning...The subject itself, with lively discussion of historical examples, will appeal to a wide audience. The careful argumentation should especially provoke philosophers and parapsychologists. Recommended for college and university collections. * CHOICE *Praise for the Original Edition: I'm delighted to see it in print. Braude is surely one of the best-informed and most readable philosophical guides, and his book offers the most orderly entry into the inevitable quarrels. The anecdotal material is absolutely fascinating. But Braude's careful speculation about its bearing on causality and empirical confirmation are even more intriguing and much more important. -- Joseph Margolis, Temple University * CHOICE *Rigorous and well written—highly recommended. -- Joseph Margolis, Temple University * The Scientific and Medical Network Review *
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University Press of America Faith Hope and Charity as Character Traits in
Book SynopsisIn Part One, Sheldon Nicholl offers an outline of Adler''s life and the basics of his Individual Psychology. Allan Savage examines the relationship between Individual Psychology and Pastoral Theology. Special attention is given to the role of cognitive therapy. The cardinal virtues of faith, hope and charity are explored, in some detail, in the context of Adler''s Individual Psychology. As character traits they are found to be in accord with the development of Adler''s notion of Gemeinschaftsgefühl. Part Two is a compilation of previously published essays in American and British journals. One section consists of a set of six exchanges between Erik Mansager and Allan Savage over the concept of critical collaboration. Other previously published essays by Savage incorporate Adlerian themes. However, chapter eight is not specifically Adlerian in content. Since the root of Adler''s Individual Psychology is anchored in German philosophical thought of the early 1900''s this chapter explores notions derived from the later Heidegger and the thought of Husserl.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Preface Chapter 3 Acknowledgements Chapter 4 Part One: Faith, Hope and Charity as Character Traits in Adler's Individual Psychology: Alfred Adler: His Life, a Model of the Theory; The Individual Psychology of Alfred Adler; Individual Psychology and Pastoral Theology; Cognitive Therapy and Pastoral T Chapter 5 Part Two: Related Essays in Phenomenology and Spirituality: Exercise in Critical Collaboration Between Erik Mansager and Allan Savage: Adlerian Psychology and Spirituality in Critical Collaboration (Mansager); Remarks Concerning Erik Mansager's Article: A Chapter 6 Glossary of Terms Chapter 7 Bibliographical Information Chapter 8 Index Chapter 9 Index of Names
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University Press of America A Fools Phenomenology
Book SynopsisFool''s Phenomenology gives an original metaphysics approach to, as well as an in-depth account of, the structures of spiritual evolution. Using a wide range of references to philosophical and literary sources, the author adumbrates a surprisingly complex and complete view of the spiritual condition of our species as it struggles in conditions of late modernity.Table of ContentsPart 1 Apology Part 2 Argument Part 3 Index
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University Press of America The Conduct of Life
Book SynopsisRalph Waldo Emerson''s 1860 book, The Conduct of Life is among the gems of his mature works. First published in the year of Abraham Lincoln''s election as President, this work poses the questions of human freedom and fate. This new edition emphasizes Emerson''s philosophy and thoughts on such issues as freedom and fate; creativity and established culture; faith, experience, and evidence; the individual, God, and the world; unity and dualism; moral law, grace, and compensation; and wealth and success. Emerson''s text has been fully annotated to explain difficult words and to clarify his references. The Introduction, Notes, Bibliography, Index, and Chronology of Emerson''s life help the reader understand his distinctive outlook, his contributions to philosophy, and his place in American culture and society.Trade ReviewThis well-organized editorial material is useful especially for students and general educated readers coming to study these works for the first time, but also for the specialist who wants to check details or keep up with central literature. The editor's notes offer historical contextualization, terminological and etymological clarifications, and information on both the well-known and the relatively unknown authors cited by Emerson.... Callaway has modernized the spelling of the prose, but otherwise the editions follow the originals. -- Sami Pihlström, University of HelsinkiAlthough the works of Emerson are studied in the departments of literature in the United States, we encounter on this occasion—as suggested by the subtitle—a genuinely philosophical reading, as reflected in the thoughtful Introduction by the editor...and especially in the patient provision of annotation of the nine chapters...Fortunately for us, this work...makes the original text much more readable and understandable...In sum, it is a good moment to return to to reading Ralph Waldo Emerson. -- Jaime Nubiola, University of Navarra * Anurario Filosófico *
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Rlpg/Galleys The Conduct of Life
Book SynopsisRalph Waldo Emerson''s 1860 book, The Conduct of Life is among the gems of his mature works. First published in the year of Abraham Lincoln''s election as President, this work poses the questions of human freedom and fate. This new edition emphasizes Emerson''s philosophy and thoughts on such issues as freedom and fate; creativity and established culture; faith, experience, and evidence; the individual, God, and the world; unity and dualism; moral law, grace, and compensation; and wealth and success. Emerson''s text has been fully annotated to explain difficult words and to clarify his references. The Introduction, Notes, Bibliography, Index, and Chronology of Emerson''s life help the reader understand his distinctive outlook, his contributions to philosophy, and his place in American culture and society.Trade ReviewThis well-organized editorial material is useful especially for students and general educated readers coming to study these works for the first time, but also for the specialist who wants to check details or keep up with central literature. The editor's notes offer historical contextualization, terminological and etymological clarifications, and information on both the well-known and the relatively unknown authors cited by Emerson.... Callaway has modernized the spelling of the prose, but otherwise the editions follow the originals. -- Sami Pihlström, University of HelsinkiAlthough the works of Emerson are studied in the departments of literature in the United States, we encounter on this occasion—as suggested by the subtitle—a genuinely philosophical reading, as reflected in the thoughtful Introduction by the editor...and especially in the patient provision of annotation of the nine chapters...Fortunately for us, this work...makes the original text much more readable and understandable...In sum, it is a good moment to return to to reading Ralph Waldo Emerson. -- Jaime Nubiola, University of Navarra * Anurario Filosófico *
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University Press of America The Existentialist Legacy and Other Essays on
Book SynopsisThe Existentialistist Legacy and Other Essays on Philosophy and Religion is a collection of ten essays on topics in the two primary areas of the author''s research and teaching: existentialist philosophy and the philosophy of religion. The common thread running through the essays is a way of approaching issues in philosophy and religion that reflects the author''s career-long indebtedness to the methods and emphases of the existentialist movement in philosophy. Among the essay topics are studies of the existentialist legacy in the context of the contemporary situation in the sciences and humanities; Iris Murdoch''s sympathetic but narrowly Sartrian interpretation of existentialism; the congeniality of existentialism and feminism; the problem with high existentialist doctrines of freedom; three philosophical autobiographies; a new look at Pascal''s Wager as a description of the situation of the modern believer; theistic evolutionism including a Christian existentialism; and Walter KaufmTrade ReviewWoelfel provides a wonderful set of essays written in a clear and forceful style critiquing the existentialist legacy and the study of philosophy and religion. Some of the strongest work comes forth in a fair but withering critique of I. Murdoch...By illuminating some misinterpretations of existentialism that Murdoch perpetuated...the essays are very well written and come from many years of teaching, reading, and writing on the subject at the University of Kansas. -- Eric B. Berg, MacMurray College * Religious Studies Review *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 The Existentialist Legacy Chapter 3 Existentialism Today Chapter 4 Existentialist (Mis)Interpretation: Iris Murdoch Chapter 5 Existentialism and Feminism: Simone de Beauvoir and Mary Daly Chapter 6 Existentialism and the Problem of Freedom: Viktor Frankl Chapter 7 Three Philosophical Autobiographies: Rousseau, Mill, Camus Chapter 8 Pascal's Wager, Past and Present Chapter 9 Evolution, Theism, and Naturalism Chapter 10 The Faith of a Heretic: Walter Kaufmann Chapter 11 Two Types of Religious and Secular World-Orientation
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University Press of America The Arrow that Flies by Day
Book SynopsisThis study contends that existentialism is the perennial philosophy thus going against the assumption that it is a school of more recent provenance. Anthologies or introductory texts used begin with Kierkegaard (the so-called father of existentialism) and go on to emphasize Nietzsche, Sartre, and Heidegger. This book reflects a more catholic mapping, including three thinkers from the classical period (Socrates, Augustine, and the Stoics), who are argued to be just as ''existential'' as more modern thinkers (who are also treated) and indeed influence the latter in important ways. Also included are three Americans (Thoreau, James, and Hannah Arendt) who are rarely considered existentialists. Furthermore, the book has a pedagogical emphasis, reflecting students'' points-of-view: what they learn, how they react, questions they have, and how in general existentialism meets their education needs and expectations. It is, therefore, necessarily interdisciplinary in character, pointing out implTrade ReviewBernard Murchland takes readers on a learned journey into a land of important questions and accessible answers. -- George Cotkin, author of Existential America...Throughout he writes with a Graham Greene-like clarity of style. His book is informative, enjoyable to read and convincing. He makes the case that existentialism is indeed a perennial philosophy and one best suited to guide us through these dark times. -- Robert Flanagan, Poet and Novelist, author of Maggot and Naked to Naked GoesAll in all a fine piece of work, very well written and structured. Murchland's chapters on Socrates and the Stoics demonstrate that existentialism has deep historical roots. -- William McBride, Department of Philosophy, Purdue UniversityA rich foundation for understanding later existentialist movements....Mindful of the distinction between studies of subjectivity versus mere relativistic forms of subjectivism....Recommended. Two-star review. * CHOICE, March 2009 *Murchland presents his book in a style that is both beautifully written and personally engaging... His chapter on Albert Camus is excellent—well written, appropriately personal and right on target, especially his handling of the North African connection with Augustine and Plotinus. That adds a dimension to the study of Camus that is almost always missing. -- David Spritzen, author of Camus: A Critical ExaminationTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction: Remembering the Sixties Chapter 2 Seeking the Good Life: Socrates' Erotic Revolution Chapter 3 At Home in the Universe: The Stoics as Existentialists Chapter 4 Senses of the Self: Augustine and the Ascent of the Soul Chapter 5 Overcoming Alienation: Rousseau's Search for Authenticity Chapter 6 Becoming Who We Are: Kierkegaard Against His Age (and Ours) Chapter 7 Single in the Crowd: Thoreau's Existential Experiment at Walden Pond Chapter 8 No Short Cut to Paradise: The Lonely Passion of William James Chapter 9 Beyond Nihilism: Nietzsche and the Ethics of Utopia Chapter 10 Between Solitude and Solidarity: The Two Worlds of Albert Camus Chapter 11 The Desire to Be God: Sartre and the Winding Roads of Freedom Chapter 12 Dramatist of a Broken World: The Soft Theism of Gabriel Marcel Chapter 13 Thinking without Banisters: Hannah Arendt and the Face of Radical Evil Chapter 14 Some After Words: A Message of Hope Part 15 Bibliography
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University Press of America The Arrow that Flies by Day
Book SynopsisThis study contends that existentialism is the perennial philosophy thus going against the assumption that it is a school of more recent provenance. Anthologies or introductory texts used begin with Kierkegaard (the so-called father of existentialism) and go on to emphasize Nietzsche, Sartre, and Heidegger. This book reflects a more catholic mapping, including three thinkers from the classical period (Socrates, Augustine, and the Stoics), who are argued to be just as ''existential'' as more modern thinkers (who are also treated) and indeed influence the latter in important ways. Also included are three Americans (Thoreau, James, and Hannah Arendt) who are rarely considered existentialists. Furthermore, the book has a pedagogical emphasis, reflecting students'' points-of-view: what they learn, how they react, questions they have, and how in general existentialism meets their education needs and expectations. It is, therefore, necessarily interdisciplinary in character, pointing out implTrade ReviewBernard Murchland takes readers on a learned journey into a land of important questions and accessible answers. -- George Cotkin, author of Existential America...Throughout he writes with a Graham Greene-like clarity of style. His book is informative, enjoyable to read and convincing. He makes the case that existentialism is indeed a perennial philosophy and one best suited to guide us through these dark times. -- Robert Flanagan, Poet and Novelist, author of Maggot and Naked to Naked GoesAll in all a fine piece of work, very well written and structured. Murchland's chapters on Socrates and the Stoics demonstrate that existentialism has deep historical roots. -- William McBride, Department of Philosophy, Purdue UniversityA rich foundation for understanding later existentialist movements....Mindful of the distinction between studies of subjectivity versus mere relativistic forms of subjectivism....Recommended. Two-star review. * CHOICE, March 2009 *Murchland presents his book in a style that is both beautifully written and personally engaging... His chapter on Albert Camus is excellent—well written, appropriately personal and right on target, especially his handling of the North African connection with Augustine and Plotinus. That adds a dimension to the study of Camus that is almost always missing. -- David Spritzen, author of Camus: A Critical ExaminationTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction: Remembering the Sixties Chapter 2 Seeking the Good Life: Socrates' Erotic Revolution Chapter 3 At Home in the Universe: The Stoics as Existentialists Chapter 4 Senses of the Self: Augustine and the Ascent of the Soul Chapter 5 Overcoming Alienation: Rousseau's Search for Authenticity Chapter 6 Becoming Who We Are: Kierkegaard Against His Age (and Ours) Chapter 7 Single in the Crowd: Thoreau's Existential Experiment at Walden Pond Chapter 8 No Short Cut to Paradise: The Lonely Passion of William James Chapter 9 Beyond Nihilism: Nietzsche and the Ethics of Utopia Chapter 10 Between Solitude and Solidarity: The Two Worlds of Albert Camus Chapter 11 The Desire to Be God: Sartre and the Winding Roads of Freedom Chapter 12 Dramatist of a Broken World: The Soft Theism of Gabriel Marcel Chapter 13 Thinking without Banisters: Hannah Arendt and the Face of Radical Evil Chapter 14 Some After Words: A Message of Hope Part 15 Bibliography
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University Press of America Natural Novelty The Newness Manifest in Existence
Book SynopsisWhy do new things happen? Boyle answers through consideration of a conceptual history of the new, logical formalization of how novelty occurs, discussion of the relevance of novelty to scientific questions surrounding Earth, life and consciousness, and integrative reading of the respective philosophies of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Martin Heidegger.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Chapter Summaries Prelude: Recurrence and Recombination A Formal Abstract Scheme for Novelty Theoretical Considerations Relating To Real Instances of Novelty during the History of Life on Earth Novelty, Meaningful Language Subjectivity and Time: A Comparative Reading of Selected Works by Ludwig Wittgenstein and Martin Heidegger
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University Press of America Essays on Aesthetic Genesis
Book SynopsisEssays on Aesthetic Genesis is a collection of essays written on Jeff Mitscherling's work in realist phenomenology, Aesthetic Genesis: The Origin of Consciousness in the Intentional Being of Nature. The authors explicate, expand, contextualize and apply the concepts of intentional being, the New Copernican Hypothesis (a reversal of the fundamental tenet of phenomenology that all consciousness is intentionalintentionality, rather, gives rise to consciousness), the idea of intentional structures in nature, and the foundational concepts of Aesthetic Genesis as they appear in the work of Aristotle, Ingarden and Gadamer amongst others. This book takes as its focus Mitscherling's comprehensive phenomenological analysis of embodiment, aesthetic experience, the interpretation of texts, moral behavior, and cognition, and exemplifies subsequent work in the field of realist phenomenology being conducted by an international collection of active scholars influenced by Aesthetic Genesis.Trade ReviewThe collection’s twelve essays aim and succeed in providing valuable analyses and further developments of Mitscherling’s key arguments. Essays on Aesthetic Genesis will be of greatest interest to phenomenologists, but also makes noteworthy contributions to central debates in the history of philosophy, current considerations in the philosophy of mind, and to contemporary readings of Continental philosophers such as Husserl, Heidegger, and Gadamer.... It explores and develops with scholarly integrity ideas presented in Mitscherling’s earlier book that seem both commonplace and commonly denied. * The European Legacy – Toward New Paradigms *Table of ContentsForeword Introduction Charlene Elsby and Aaron Massecar Major Concepts 1. On the Concept of Aesthetic Genesis Charlene Elsby, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne 2. The Copernican Turn of Intentional Being Charles Rodger, University of Alberta Historical Considerations 3. Cartesian Soul: Embodiment and Phenomenology in the Wake of Descartes Felix ÓMurchadha, National University of Ireland, Galway and Ane Faugstad Aarø, University of Bergen 4. The Intentional Being of Justice and the Foreseen Kimberly Baltzer-Jaray, Wilfrid Laurier University 5. Mitscherling’s Reading of Ingarden Robert Luzecky, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne 6. Being that Can be Understood is (Not Just) Language: On Linguisticality and Intentionality Jason C. Robinson, Wilfrid Laurier University Contemporary Discussion 7. Overcoming Husserl’s Mind-World Split: Jeff Mitscherling’s Aesthetic Genesis and the Birth of Consciousness Through Intentionality Antonio Calcagno, King’s University College 8. Artistic Creation: On Mitscherling and Dylan Paul Fairfield, Queen’s University 9. Our Connection to Nature Siby K. George, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay 10. Intentionality and the New Copernican Revolution: Realist Phenomenology and the Extended Mind Hypothesis Aaron Massecar, Independent Scholar 11. Perfect Empiricism: Mitscherling’s Aristotelian Phenomenology, the Logos, and The Problem of Ideal Objects Conrad Hamilton, Université Paris VIII Saint-Denis 12. A Relational Theory of Truth Joshua Boyce, University of Toronto Afterword The Problem with Being that Can be Understood Jeff Mitscherling, University of Guelph
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McGill-Queen's University Press Externalism Putting Mind and World Back Together
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McGill-Queen's University Press Hegels Phenomenology
Book SynopsisHegel''s philosophy depends on the answer to a fundamental question: why assume that the abstract structures and necessities of pure thought reveal anything at all about the varied and mutable realm of real life experience? In her study of Hegel''s Phenomenology, Ardis Collins examines the way Hegel interprets the Phenomenology of Spirit as an answer to this question and in the process invents a proof procedure that does not depend on unquestioned philosophical principles, cherished social norms, or established prejudices for or against certain ways of thinking or acting. Employing close readings and innovative analysis, this groundbreaking study challenges current interpretations of the Phenomenology. Collins demonstrates that the way Hegel interprets the role of the Phenomenology remains consistent throughout his career, that he claims for the demonstration developed in it the strict necessity of a proof, and that the beginning of philosophy cannot be justified without this proof. In
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State University Press of New York (SUNY) Phenomenology Suny Series in Contemporary
Book SynopsisThis translation of Lyotard''s first book, La Phenomenologie, supplies an important link to Lyotard''s more recent works. Phenomenology presents a commentary on the phenomenological movement. From the dual perspectives of a work on, and of, phenomenology, Lyotard''s text profiles the different aspects of phenomenology, focusing particularly on the writings of Hegel, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, and Tran Duc Thao. Phenomenology marks a particular episode in Lyotard''s reflections on the philosophical project and is emblematic of his critical reflections on philosophy''s involvements in routine, daily commitments. Like Merleau-Ponty, in this work Lyotard eliminates philosophy as a separate existence. Beyond offering an account of certain phenomenological themes, Lyotard''s commentary explicates phenomenology''s relevance to psychology, sociology, and history.
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State University of New York Press The Phenomenology of Spirit Reader Critical and
Book SynopsisThe most complete collection of essays on Hegel''s Phenomenology of Spirit available in any language, with essays by distinguished international Hegel scholars.The Phenomenology of Spirit was Hegel''s first major philosophical work and is considered by many to be his masterpiece. Its several hundred pages treat topics as diverse as Greek drama, religion, medieval court culture, natural science, Romanticism, and the Enlightenment. Hegel regarded it as the introduction to his philosophical system as a whole, and it is often thought to be the most accessible work in his otherwise difficult philosophical corpus.This anthology represents the most complete collection of essays on the Phenomenology in any language. It follows Hegel''s table of contents, and all of the major sections of the work are covered. The main goal guiding the selection of essays was to collect the best articles written on the Phenomenology by distinguished international Hegel scholars and at the same time to provide systematic coverage. Although the essays are all by leading Hegel scholars, none of them presupposes any particular in-depth knowledge of Hegel or German philosophy. The object of the book is thus to make the Phenomenology more accessible for students while serving as an impetus for further Anglo-American Hegel research.Among the contributors to the book are Howard Adelman, John W. Burbidge, Martin De Nys, Kenley R. Dove, Katharina Dulckeit, Joseph C. Flay, Moltke S. Gram, Daniel P. Jamros, George Armstrong Kelly, Alasdair MacIntyre, Mitchell H. Miller, Jr., Patricia Jagentowicz Mills, Karlheinz Nusser, David W. Price, John Sallis, Harald Schondorf, Gary Shapiro, Jean-Louis Vieillard-Baron, Kenneth R. Westphal, and Merold Westphal.
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State University Press of New York (SUNY) Beyond Romance
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State University Press of New York (SUNY) Nietzsche and the Gods
Book SynopsisExamines Nietzsche''s complex attitudes toward religion and his understanding of how particular religions and deities affect the intellectual, moral, and spiritual lives of their various proselytes and adherents.I have slain all gods-for the sake of morality! - Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheAlthough often regarded as an atheist who did not take religion seriously, Nietzsche in fact thought deeply about the gods and how they functioned in the human psyche. The son of a Lutheran pastor who dropped theology in college after only one semester, Nietzsche was a profound religious thinker who devoted much of his writing to reevaluating the concept of god that prevailed in nineteenth-century Germany. As this volume demonstrates, Nietzsche sharply discerned between the positive and negative aspects of various gods, including the Christian God, the Jewish God (Yahweh), the Greek gods (especially Apollo and Dionysus), and the Buddha. The essays further touch upon Nietzsche''s relationship to prominent religious thinkers of his time, as well as his influence on later religious thinkers, such as Martin Buber and Paul Tillich. Wide-ranging and diverse, Nietzsche and the Gods will be indispensable to our continuing understanding of Nietzsche''s thought and to the broader study of philosophy and religion.
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State University Press of New York (SUNY) Heidegger and Aristotle
Book SynopsisInterprets Heidegger''s phenomenological reading of Aristotle''s philosophy.Walter A. Brogan''s long-awaited book exploring Heidegger''s phenomenological reading of Aristotle''s philosophy places particular emphasis on the Physics, Metaphysics, Ethics, and Rhetoric. Controversial and challenging, Heidegger and Aristotle claims that it is Heidegger''s sustained thematic focus and insight that governs his overall reading of Aristotle, namely, that Aristotle, while attempting to remain faithful to the Parmenidean dictum regarding the oneness and unity of being, nevertheless thinks of being as twofold. Brogan offers a careful and detailed analysis of several of the most important of Heidegger''s treatises on Aristotle, including his assertion that Aristotle''s twofoldness of being has been ignored or misread in the traditional substance-oriented readings of Aristotle. This groundbreaking study contributes immensely to the scholarship of a growing community of ancient Greek scholars engaged in phenomenological approaches to the reading and understanding of Aristotle.
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Univ of Chicago Behalf Northwestern Univ Pres The Genesis and Structure of Hegels Phenomenology
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Northwestern University Press The Theory of Intuition in Husserls Phenomenology
Book SynopsisA study that discusses the aspects and function of intuition in Husserl's thought and its meaning for philosophical self-reflection. It focuses on the role of intuition in Husserl, demonstrating how his theory of intuition follows directly from his new conception of being.Table of ContentsThe naturalistic theory of being and the method of philosophy; the phenomenological theory of being - the absolute existence of consciousness; the phenomenological theory of being - the intentionality of consciousness; theoretical consiciousness; intuition; the intuition of essences; philosophical intuition.
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Northwestern University Press Phenomenology and Skepticism A Reconsideration
Book SynopsisGrounded in Edie's emphasis on Husserl's confrontation with sceptism, this collection of essays provide analysis of Husserlian and neo-Husserlian responses to scepticism and relativism.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The shipwreck of apodicticity? phenomenology's journey ""beyond"" scepticism, Brice R. Wachterhauser; On confronting species-specific scepticism as we near the end of the twentieth century, James Edie; Thoughts on phenomenology and scepticism, Robert Sokolowski; The epistemological significance of Husserl's theory of intentionality, Harrison Hall; Association in Husserl's phenomenology, Joseph Kockelmans; On Derrida's reading of Husserl, J.N. Mohanty; Husserl's critique of relativism, David detmer; The constitutional problematics of non-relativity or how to dump garbage in nobody's backyard, Lester Embree; To the things themselves: a plea for a ""practical"" response to scepticism, Brice R. Watchterhauster; Meditations of a Russian neo-Husserlian: Gustav Shpet's ""The sceptic and his soul"", George L. Kline; Scepticism and dialectic, Errol E. Harris; The phenomenological tradition and the end of history, William McBride; A crisis of reason? Husserl, Heidegger, and national socialism, Tom Rockmore; Edie's hard-nosed James and the retrieval of the sacred, Bruce Wilshire; Biographical sketch and bibliography of James M. Edie.
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Northwestern University Press La Nature Notes Cours du College de France
Book SynopsisCollected in this text are the written notes of courses on the concept of nature give by Merleau-Ponty at the College de France in the 1950s. The ideas that animated the philosopher's lectures emerge in an early, fluid form in the process of being elaborated, negotiated, critiqued and reconsidered.
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Northwestern University Press The Disinterested Witness A Fragment of Advaita
Book SynopsisA study of the concept of saksin (or that which directly or immediately perceives) in Advaita Vedanta, and a comparison of the philosophies of the East and West. Central is its comparison of the Advaita notion of the witness-consciousness with similar notions in Western phenomenology.
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Northwestern University Press MerleauPontys Last Vision A Proposal for the
Book SynopsisWhat exists of The Visible and the Invisible is just a beginning, published posthumously, but it is considered to have opened the path from modernism to postmodernism in philosophy. This text is an account of how Marleau-Ponty's book would have looked had it been completed.
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Northwestern University Press The Wild Region in Lifehistory Studies in
Book SynopsisThis work outlines a phenomenological approach to some of the main topics of theoretical philosophy, such as meaning, sense, temporality, unity of life, narrative history, self-identity and intersubjectivity, as well as an ethics of alterity.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements Prelude Self-Identity and Life-History I. Self-Identity as Narrated Life-Story II. Dispossessed Sense in Life-History Chapter One: Experiential Sense in Life-History I. The Sense of Experience II. Experience and Expression Chapter Two: The Temporality of Experience in Life-History I. Temporal Modification and Primal Impression II. The Temporality of a Radical Turn in Life-History Chapter Three: Self-Identity and the Experience of Alterity I. Narrative Identity and Alterity II. intersubjectivity and Wild Alterity III. The Experience of Alien Alterity Chapter Four: Elements for an Ethic of Alterity I. Moral Law and Wild Responsibility II. Moral Autonomy and Narrative Identity III. The Philosophical Discovery of Desire IV. Guilt as a Refusal of Response
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Northwestern University Press Calvin O Schrag and the Task of Philosophy After
Book SynopsisDevoted to the most important American Continental philosopher of his generation and one of the discipline's founding fathers, this anthology constitutes a critical document in Continental philosphy, refecting its history, its present state, and its debt to Calvin O. Schrag.Table of ContentsPreface William L McBride and Martin Beck Matustik Section One: An Overview Bringing Philosophy into the Twenty-first Century: Calvin Schrag and the Phenomenological Movement Gary B. Madison Section Two: Transversal Rationality ""Where Are You Standing...?"": Descartes and the Question of Historicity Robert Scharff ""Catch Me if You Can"": Foucault on the Repressive Hypothesis Sandra Bartky Transversality and Geophilosophy in the Age of Globalization Hwa-Yol Jung The Ethics of the Glance Edward Casey Decentered Subjectivity, Transversal Rationality, and Genocide Bruce Wilshire Section Three: The Self after Postmodernity Transversal Llaisons: Calvin Schrag on Selfhood Fred Dallmayr Schrag and the Self Bernard Deuenhauer Calvin O. Schrag and Postmodern Selves, or Calvin Heers a Who Linda Bell Romantic Love Martin C. Dillon Section Four: The Fourth Cultural Value Sphere Transcendence, Heteronomy, and the Birth of the Responsible Self Merold Wastphal In Search of a Sacred Anarchy: An Experiment in Danish Deconstruction John A. Caputo Section Five: Communicative Praxis The Interruptive Nature of the Cell of Conscience: Rethinking Heidagger on the Question of Rhetoric Michael Hyde Structure, Deconstruction, and the Future of Meaning David Crownfield In Defense of Poiesis: The Performance of Self in Communicative Praxis Leonor Langsdorf The Professions, the Humanities, and Transfiguration Victor Kestenbaum Response to Contributors Calvin O. Schrag
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Northwestern University Press Bakhtin and the Classics Rethinking Theory
Book SynopsisMikhail Bakhtin's critical and theoretical experiments have inspired little work in the realm of classical studies. This text focuses on the relationship between Bakhtin and the study of classical antiquity and demonstrates the importance of classical literature in his work.
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Northwestern University Press God as Otherwise Than Being Towards a Semantics
Book SynopsisA discussion of a complex question: whether and how the death of the god conceived as a highest being in Western and modern traditions might open a new space within which to rethink God in terms of a gift or giving that would stand beyond the usual spate of metaphysical categories.Table of ContentsPart 1 God and Being: the Problem of Being and the Question about God - Metaphysics and Theism, the Epistemological and Linguistic Turns, Language, Being and God; Beyond Theism and Atheism - the Concept of God after Post-modernity, Reactive Atheism, Alterity and Transcendence. Part 2 God and the Gift: from Ontology to Ethics - the Delimitation of Presence, the Ethical and the Sacramental, Presence and Praxis; from Ethics to the Gift - the Gift and Transcendence, the Gift as Logos and Kairos, the Gift and the Fitting Response.
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Northwestern University Press The First Person Singular Studies in
Book SynopsisAlphonso Lingis' singular works of philosophy are not so much written as performed. This book looks at how Lingis elaborates on the subject of fantasy, of obsessive commitment, of noble actions, with the subject enacting itself through an engagement with others, including animals and natural forces.
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Northwestern University Press Embodiments From the Body to the Body Politic
Book SynopsisHow does the body politic reflect the nature of human embodiment? This book uses Merleau-Ponty's concept of 'intertwining' - the presence of one's self in the world and of the world in one's self - to understand the ideas that define political life.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments; Introduction; I. The Intertwining: The Recursion of the Seer and the Seen; II. Artificial Intelligence and the Phenomenology of Flesh; III. Aesthetic Education and the Project of Being Human; IV. The Intertwining of Incommensurables: Yann Martel's Life of Pi; V. Flesh and the Limits of Self-Making; VI. Violence and Embodiment; VII. Excessive Presence and the Image; VIII. Politics and Freedom; IX. Sovereignty and Alterity; X. Political Violence; XI. Public Space; XII. Sustaining the Other: Tolerance as a Positive Ideal; XIII. Forgiveness and Incarnation; End Notes; Bibliography; Index of Names.
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Northwestern University Press MerleauPontys Philosophy of Nature Studies in
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Northwestern University Press Violence and Splendor Studies in Phenomenology
Book SynopsisIn subject and method, Alphonso Lingis's work has always defied easy categorization, largely owing to the interplay of theory and praxis inherent in his research. This book presents a series of reflections grouped into five areas of inquiry: Spaces Within Spaces'; Snares for the Eyes'; The Sacred'; Violence'; and Splendor'.
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Northwestern University Press Phenomenology of the Alien Basic Concepts Studies
Book SynopsisThis elegant translation of Bernhard Waldenfels’s Phenomenology of the Alien (Grundmotive einer Phänomenologie des Fremden) introduces an English readership to the philosophy of alien-experience, a multifaceted and multidimensional phenomenon that permeates our everyday experiences of the life-world with immediate implications for the ways we conduct our social, political, and ethical affairs.
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Northwestern University Press The Child as Natural Phenomenologist Primal and
Book SynopsisMaurice Merleau-Ponty (19081961) is well known for his work in phenomenology, but his lectures in child psychology and pedagogy have received little attention. The Child as Natural Phenomenologist summarises Merleau-Ponty's work in child psychology, shows its relationship to his philosophical work, and argues for its continued relevance in contemporary theory and practice.Table of ContentsTable of Contents Preface A philosopher who is willing to observe The child as natural phenomenologist Chapter One: Early Work in Child Psychology Consciousness and action Nascent perception Development Chapter Two: Phenomenology, Gestalt theory, and Psychoanalysis Phenomenology Gestalt theory Psychoanalysis Chapter Three: Syncretic Sociability and the Birth of the Self Syncretic sociability The birth of self and other-awareness Chapter Four: Contemporary Research in Psychology and Phenomenology Neonatal imitation Theory of mind Interaction theory and dialogical relatedness Chapter Five: Exploration and Learning Magic and scientific thinking Child Drawing and adult oculocentrism Chapter Six: Culture, Development, and Gender Development and the case of menstruation Pregnancy and gender Contemporary feminist views Conclusion: An incomparable childhood References Notes Index
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Northwestern University Press Time and the Shared World Heidegger on Social
Book SynopsisTime and the Shared World challenges the common view that Heidegger offers few resources for understanding humanity's social nature. The book demonstrates that Heidegger's reformulation of traditional notions of subjectivity has wide-ranging implications for understanding the nature of human relationships. Contrary to entrenched critiques, Irene McMullin shows that Heidegger's characterisation of selfhood as fundamentally social presupposes the responsive acknowledgment of each person's particularity and otherness. In doing so, McMullin argues that Heidegger's work on the social nature of the self must be located within a philosophical continuum that builds on Kant and Husserl's work regarding the nature of the a priori and the fundamental structures of human temporality, while also pointing forward to developments of these themes to be found in Heidegger's later work and in such thinkers as Sartre and Levinas. By developing unrecognised resources in Heidegger's work, Time and the Shar
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Northwestern University Press Phenomenology and Embodiment
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Northwestern University Press God the Flesh and the Other From Irenaeus to Duns
Book SynopsisIn God, the Flesh, and the Other, the philosopher Emmanuel Falque joins the ongoing debate about the role of theology in phenomenology. An important voice in the second generation of French philosophy's theological turn, Falque examines philosophically the fathers of the Church and the medieval theologians on the nature of theology and the objects comprising it. Falque works phenomenology itself into the corpus of theology. Theological concepts thus translate into philosophical terms that phenomenology should legitimately question: concepts from contemporary phenomenology such as onto-theology, appearance, reduction, body/flesh, inter-corporeity, the genesis of community, intersubjectivity, and the singularity of the other find penetrating analogues in patristic and medieval thought forged through millennia of Christological and Trinitarian debate, mystical discourses, and speculative reflection. Through Falque's wide-ranging interpretive path, phenomenology finds itself interrogated
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Northwestern University Press Fourfold Reading the Late Heidegger Studies in
Book SynopsisHeidegger's later thought is a thinking of things, so argues Andrew J. Mitchell in The Fourfold. Heidegger understands these things in terms of what he names the fourfold - a convergence of relationships bringing together the earth, the sky, divinities, and mortals. Mitchell's book is the first detailed exegesis of this neglected aspect of Heidegger's later thought.
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Northwestern University Press Incarnation A Philosophy of Flesh Studies in
Book SynopsisMichel Henry defends the illuminating thesis that Incarnation is not existence in a body, but existence in the flesh. It is not in a body that flesh appears originally, but being in the flesh that comes first. For only in flesh can one see or touch, feel joy or sorrow, hunger or thirstand undergo each of these impressions as one's own.
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Northwestern University Press At the Heart of Reason SPEP
Book SynopsisCalls for a reformulation of the phenomenological project. Claude Romano contends that the main concern of phenomenology, and its originality with respect to other philosophical movements of the last century, such as logical empiricism, the grammatical philosophy of Wittgenstein, and varieties of neo-Kantianism, was to provide a “new image of Reason”.
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Northwestern University Press Feminist Experiences Foucauldian and
Book SynopsisDevelops and defends a distinctive understanding of feminist philosophy as social critique. Feminist philosophy is essentially a political endeavor, Johanna Oksala argues, aiming to expose, analyse, and ultimately change gendered power relations. However, such an understanding of feminist philosophy raises a host of theoretical problems and paradoxes.
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Northwestern University Press Feminist Experiences Foucauldian and
Book SynopsisDevelops and defends a distinctive understanding of feminist philosophy as social critique. Feminist philosophy is essentially a political endeavor, Johanna Oksala argues, aiming to expose, analyse, and ultimately change gendered power relations. However, such an understanding of feminist philosophy raises a host of theoretical problems and paradoxes.
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Northwestern University Press Land and the Given Economy
Book SynopsisAlarming environmental degradation makes ever more urgent the reconciliation of political economy and sustainability. Landand the Given Economy examines how the landed basis of human existence converges with economics, and it offers a persuasive new conception of land that transcends the flawed and inadequate accounts in classical and neoclassical economics.
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Northwestern University Press Turned Inside Out Reading the Russian Novel in
Book SynopsisSteven Shankman reflects on his remarkable experience teaching texts by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Vasily Grossman, and Emmanuel Levinas in prison to a mix of university students and inmates. These persecuted writers describe ethical obligation as an experience of being turned inside out by the face-to-face encounter.
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Northwestern University Press The Logic of Being Realism Truth and Time
Book SynopsisIn The Logic of Being, Paul Livingston examines the relationship of truth and time from a perspective that draws on Martin Heidegger's inquiry into the question of being, as well as twentieth-century analytic philosophy of language and logic. In his influential earlier work The Politics of Logic, Livingston elaborated an innovative formal or metaformal realism. In the Logic of Being, he now extends this concept into a temporal realism that accounts for the reality of temporal change and becoming while also preserving realism about logic and truth. Livingston employs a formal and phenomenological method of analysis to articulate and defend a position of realism about being, time, and their relationship, on which all of these are understood as structured and constituted in a way that does not depend on the human mind, consciousness, or subjectivity. This approach provides a basis for new logically and phenomenologically based accounts of the structure of linguistic truth in relation tTrade ReviewLivingston’s work stands out as highly original and daring. Rather than providing primarily an exegesis of Heidegger’s text, The Logic of Being uses his philosophy to open up a much wider ontological horizon while nonetheless succeeding in carrying out a rigorous close reading. With specific regard to Heidegger, Livingston provides thorough and thought-provoking accounts of the different stages of his oeuvre."—Lorenzo Chiesa, author of The Virtual Point of Freedom: Essays on Politics, Aesthetics, and Religion""
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Univ of Chicago Behalf Northwestern Univ Pres 50 Concepts for a Critical Phenomenology
Book SynopsisPresents fresh readings of classic phenomenological topics and introduces newer concepts developed by feminist theorists, critical race theorists, disability theorists, and queer and trans theorists that capture aspects of lived experience that have traditionally been neglected.Trade Review50 Concepts for a Critical Phenomenology is an invaluable resource. Not only does it offer a clear overview of key texts and figures both within the center and the periphery of the phenomenological tradition, but it stands as a crucial critical intervention in the practice of phenomenology itself. It challenges us take seriously the ‘infinite task' of better understanding the very ways and means whereby we understand the world and our role in it. It shows, in other words, that rigorous phenomenology must be ‘critical,' and that critical phenomenology demands that we leave behind the comfort of tradition. "" - Michael J. Monahan, author of The Creolizing Subject: Race, Reason, and the Politics of Purity
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Northwestern University Press The Michel Henry Reader
Book SynopsisFrom beginning to end, the philosophy of Michel Henry offers an original and profound reflection on life. The Michel Henry Reader provides broad coverage of the major themes in his philosophy and new translations of Henry’s most important essays.
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Northwestern University Press SelfAwareness and Alterity A Phenomenological
Book SynopsisIn the rigorous and highly original Self-Awareness and Alterity, Dan Zahavi provides a sustained argument that phenomenology, especially in its Husserlian version, can make a decisive contribution to discussions of self-awareness.Trade Review“The first edition of Self-Awareness and Alterity was ahead of its time; twenty years later, the second edition is timely indeed. The arguments in Zahavi’s book, which have been updated and revised throughout, are as fresh and provocative as ever, and the book remains a ‘must read’ for anyone interested in the way phenomenological and analytic approaches to the philosophy of mind can enrich one another.” —Steven Crowell, author of Normativity and Phenomenology in Husserl and Heidegger "This book has quickly become a classic. Authored by one of today’s most influential phenomenologists, it can be read both as an introduction to Husserl’s mature thought and as an original contribution to the current philosophical debate on the nature of the human self. Extraordinarily well informed, carefully argued, and written in clear and accessible language, Zahavi’s book masterfully defends Husserl against his prejudiced critics and breaks new ground in contemporary philosophy of mind and metaphysics. The work will be of equal benefit readers in the analytic and the continental traditions. —Rudolf Bernet, author of Force, Drive, Desire: A Philosophy of Psychoanalysis and coauthor of An Introduction to Husserlian Phenomenology.PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITIONSelf-Awareness and Alterity "is well organized, clear, and evenhanded, and it advances a thesis that is highly original and convincing, one that should command attention not only from phenomenologists but from any philosopher interested in the topic of self-awareness... There simply is no other work in phenomenology that goes at the problem of self-awareness in such detail and in such a systematic and illuminating way." —Steven Crowell, author of Husserl, Heidegger, and the Space of Meaning "This book, significant in its phenomenological detail, shows how phenomenology can contribute important insights that are easily overlooked in both analytic and scientific accounts of human experience." —Shaun Gallagher, author of The Inordinance of Time "An ambitious and original discussion of subjectivity and self-consciousness...accessible, rigorous, and engaging." —Robert Piercey, author of The Uses of the Past From Heidegger to Rorty
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