Description
Book SynopsisHow do human beings become human? This question lies behind the so-called human sciences. But these disciplines are scattered among many different departments and hold up a cracked mirror to humankind.
Table of ContentsI. Phenomenology of the Will
1. Attention: A Phenomenological Study of Attention and its Philosophical Connections
2. The Unity of the Voluntary and the Involuntary as a Limit-Idea
3. The Problem of the Will and Philosophical Discourse
4. The Phenomenology of the Will and the Approach through Ordinary Language
II. Semantics of Action
5. The Symbol Gives Rise to Thought
6. Freedom
7. Myth
8. The Symbolic Structure of Action
9. Human Beings as the Subject of Philosophy
III. Hermeneutics of the Self
10. Individual and Personal Identity
11. Narrative Identity
12. The Paradoxes of Identity
13. Strangeness Many Times Over
14. The Addressee of Religion: The Capable Human Being
