Phenomenology category: 832 books
Dwelling, Place and Environment
Towards a Phenomenology of Person and World
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
themes among the essays resurface and resonate. Though our request for essays was broad and open-ended, we found that topics such as seeing, authenticity, interpretation, wholeness, care, and dwelling ran as undercur rents throughout. Our major hope is that each essay plays a part in revealing a...
Derrida/Searle
Deconstruction and Ordinary Language
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Raoul Moati intervenes in the critical debate that divided two prominent philosophers in the mid-twentieth century. In the 1950s, the British philosopher J. L. Austin advanced a theory of speech acts, or the "performative," that Jacques Derrida and John R. Searle interpreted in fundamentally...
Alterity and Criticism
Tracing Time in Modern Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
How does the theme of the other–-as person, experience or alternative conceptual scheme—allow us to reassess the role of the self in literary texts? This book employs phenomenology and semiotics to argue that modern literature is strongly concerned with the role of time in the construction of...
Listening to Edith Stein: Wisdom for a New Century
A Collection of Essays
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2018
In addition to exploring and dialoging with others in the history of philosophy as well as her contemporaries, Edith Stein—Teresa Benedicta of the Cross— (1891-1942) has added her own voice to some of the fundamental questions that have been taken up by great minds over the centuries, from Aristotle...
Sociology, Phenomenology and Marxian Analysis
A Critical Discussion of the Theory and Practice of a Science of Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Sociology is an established academic discipline but there has been continuing debate over its status as a science and the nature of its subject matter. This led to the emergence of a phenomenological sociology and to critiques of positivist sociology. This critical reappraisal of the relevance of...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Idealism and Corporeity
An Essay on the Problem of the Body in Husserl’s Phenomenology
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In a way, the problem of the body in Husserl' s writings is relatively straightfo r ward: it is an exercise in faithful description and elaboration of a sense or mean ing, that of the "lived body," using the tools and methods of intentional analysis. What is to be described is nothing...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Philosophers contributing new ideas are commonly caught within a received philosophical vocabulary and will often coin new, technical terms. Husserl understood himself as advancing a new theory of intentionality, and he fashioned the new vocabulary of `noesis' and `noema'. But Husserl's own statements...
The Dual Vision
Alfred Schutz and the Myth of Phenomenological Social Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
This study, originally published in 1977, focuses on a critical examination of the life-work of Alfred Schutz, the most important and influential ‘father’ of several recent schools of empirical social research.
The author shows why Shutz and his followers fail in their attempts to ‘humanize’...
by Søren Overgaard
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2004
It is a study of the phenomenological philosophies of Husserl and Heidegger.
Through a critical discussion including practically all previously published English and German literature on the subject, the aim is to present a thorough and evenhanded account of the relation between the two. The book...
Poetry and Revelation
For a Phenomenology of Religious Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Religious poetry has often been regarded as minor poetry and dismissed in large part because poetry is taken to require direct experience; whereas religious poetry is taken to be based on faith, that is, on second or third hand experience. The best methods of thinking about "experience"...
Why Do We Go to the Zoo?
Communication, Animals, and the Cultural-Historical Experience of Zoos
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Despite hundreds of millions of visitors each year, zoos have remained outside of the realm of philosophical analysis. This lack of theoretical examination is interesting considering the paradoxical position within which a zoo is situated, being a space of animal confinement as well as a site that...
The Philosophy of Perception
Phenomenology and Image Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Lambert Wiesing's The Philosophy of Perception challenges current theories of perception. Instead of attempting to understand how a subject perceives the world, Wiesing starts by taking perception to be real. He then asks what this reality means for a subject. In his original approach, the question...
The Poet as Phenomenologist
Rilke and the New Poems
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
The Poet as Phenomenologist: Rilke and the New Poems opens up new perspectives on the relation between Rilke's poetry and phenomenological philosophy, illustrating the ways in which poetry can offer an exceptional response to the philosophical problem of dualism. Drawing on the work of Husserl, Heidegger...