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State University of New York Press Ethics and Selfhood
Book SynopsisArgues that a coherent theory of ethics requires an account of selfhood.According to James R. Mensch, a minimal requirement for ethics is that of guarding against genocide. In deciding which races are to live and which to die, genocide takes up a standpoint outside of humanity. To guard against this, Mensch argues that we must attain the critical distance required for ethical judgment without assuming a superhuman position. His description of how to attain this distance constitutes a genuinely new reading of the possibility of a phenomenological ethics, one that involves reassessing what it means to be a self. Selfhood, according to Mensch, involves both embodiment and the self-separation brought about by our encounter with others-the very others who provide us with the experiential context needed for moral judgment. Buttressing his position with documented accounts of those who hid Jews during the Holocaust, Mensch shows how the self-separation that occurs in empathy opens the space within which moral judgment can occur and obligation can find its expression. He includes a reading of the major moral philosophers-Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Mill, Arendt, Levinas-even as he develops a phenomenological account of the necessity of reading literature to understand the full extent of ethical responsibility. Mensch''s work offers an original and provocative approach to a topic of fundamental importance.
£24.23
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.
£63.00
Penn State University Postfoundational Phenomenology Husserlian
Book SynopsisA study of Edmund Husserl's philosophy as a non-foundational approach to understanding the self as an embodied presence. It demonstrates how Husserl, anticipating the investigations of Merleau-Ponty, explored how the body functions to determine our self-presence, freedom, and sense of time.Trade Review“This is a significant and original book. It offers insightful phenomenological investigations of important issues. It makes available in an English-language context a large amount of Husserl’s own work that is available only in unpublished manuscripts at the Husserl Archive. It challenges reigning orthodoxy concerning the validity of Heideggerian, Levinasian, and Derridean critiques of the ‘metaphysics of presence.’ And it points toward fruitful avenues for further exploration.”—Steven Crowell,Rice University“In this insightful book, James R. Mensch sets out to move beyond modern as well as postmodern endeavors, attempts that, he claims are both variations of a foundationalist enterprise. Leaving behind these unproductive oppositions. Mensch turns to the ‘things themselves’ and explores the rich accounts Husserl has given in his mature genetic phenomenology, drawing extensively from unpublished material. Displaying a sovereign mastery over these intricate analyses, Mensch connects these with a wide variety of issues discussed by philosophers from the Continental as well as the Analytic tradition, ranging from embodiment and instincts to ethics and artificial intelligence. He is thus able to bring phenomenology into the arena of current philosophical debate. A highly creative and original approach.”—Sebastian Luft,Emory Universtiy
£32.25
Penn State University Knowing and Being A Postmodern Reversal
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£999.99
Pennsylvania State University Press Postfoundational Phenomenology Husserlian
Book SynopsisA study of Edmund Husserl's philosophy as a non-foundational approach to understanding the self as an embodied presence. It demonstrates how Husserl, anticipating the investigations of Merleau-Ponty, explored how the body functions to determine our self-presence, freedom, and sense of time.Trade Review“This is a significant and original book. It offers insightful phenomenological investigations of important issues. It makes available in an English-language context a large amount of Husserl’s own work that is available only in unpublished manuscripts at the Husserl Archive. It challenges reigning orthodoxy concerning the validity of Heideggerian, Levinasian, and Derridean critiques of the ‘metaphysics of presence.’ And it points toward fruitful avenues for further exploration.”—Steven Crowell,Rice University“In this insightful book, James R. Mensch sets out to move beyond modern as well as postmodern endeavors, attempts that, he claims are both variations of a foundationalist enterprise. Leaving behind these unproductive oppositions. Mensch turns to the ‘things themselves’ and explores the rich accounts Husserl has given in his mature genetic phenomenology, drawing extensively from unpublished material. Displaying a sovereign mastery over these intricate analyses, Mensch connects these with a wide variety of issues discussed by philosophers from the Continental as well as the Analytic tradition, ranging from embodiment and instincts to ethics and artificial intelligence. He is thus able to bring phenomenology into the arena of current philosophical debate. A highly creative and original approach.”—Sebastian Luft,Emory Universtiy
£59.36
