Phenomenology category: 832 books
Self-Awareness, Temporality, and Alterity
Central Topics in Phenomenology
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Focusing on the topics of self-awareness, temporality, and alterity, this anthology contains contributions by prominent phenomenologists from Germany, Belgium, France, Japan, USA, Canada and Denmark, all addressing questions very much in the center of current phenomenological debate. What is the relation...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
The twelve original studies collected in this volume examine different aspects of Edmund Husserl's Logical Investigations. They are authored by scholars and specialists internationally recognized for their expertise in the fields of logic, phenomenology, history of philosophy and philosophy of mind....
Emotional Experiences
Ethical and Social Significance
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Emotions are among the most fundamental human capacities. They help us to adequately and quickly respond to environmental affordances of all kinds. Being capable of emotional responses we are inextricably attached to our natural and social environment. These tight emotional bonds to the world we inhabit...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Ludwig Wittgenstein are two of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, yet their work is generally regarded as standing in contrast to one another. However, as this outstanding collection demonstrates they both reject a Cartesian picture of the mind and...
History as a Science and the System of the Sciences
Phenomenological Investigations
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
This volume goes beyond presently available phenomenological analyses based on the structures and constitution of the lifeworld. It shows how the science of history is the mediator between the human and the natural sciences. It demonstrates that the distinction between interpretation and explanation...
Imagination and Social Perspectives
Approaches from Phenomenology and Psychopathology
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Our experience of other individuals as minded beings goes hand in hand with the awareness that they have a unique epistemic and emotional perspective on the experienced objects and situations. The same object can be seen from many different points of view, an event can awaken different emotional reactions...
Morality within the Life- and Social World
Interdisciplinary Phenomenology of the Authentic Life in the “Moral Sense”
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Beckett's Words
The Promise of Happiness in a Time of Mourning
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
At stake in this book is a struggle with language in a time when our old faith in the redeeming of the word-and the word's power to redeem-has almost been destroyed. Drawing on Benjamin's political theology, his interpretation of the German Baroque mourning play, and Adorno's critical aesthetic theory,...
Husserl and the Sciences
Selected Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2004
Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) is one of the previous century's most important thinkers. Often regarded as the "Father of phenomenology," this collection of essays reveals that he is indeed much more than that. The breadth of Husserl's thought is considerable and much remains unexplored. An...
Literature, Philosophy, and the Social Sciences
Essays in Existentialism and Phenomenology
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
A collection of one man's essays in book form tends to be viewed today with some suspicion, if not hostility, by philosophical critics. It would seem that the author is guilty of an academic sin of pride: causing or helping to cause separately conceived articles to surpass their original station and...
The Sense of Things
Toward a Phenomenological Realism
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
This book proposes a new interpretative key for reading and overcoming the binary of idealism and realism. It takes as its central issue for exploration the way in which human consciousness unfolds, i.e., through the relationship between the I and the world—a field of phenomenological investigation...
George Santayana's Philosophy of Religion
His Roman Catholic Influences and Phenomenology
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
George 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...
by R.P. Buckley
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The guiding dictum of phenomenology is "to the things themselves. " This saying conveys a sense that the "things," the "phenomena" with which we are confronted and into which we seek some insight are not as immediately accessible as may be imagined. Phenomena, however,...
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A Phenomenological Foundation for Classical Realism
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
In an enlightening dialogue with Descartes, Kant, Husserl and Gadamer, Professor Seifert argues that the original inspiration of phenomenology was nothing other than the primordial insight of philosophy itself, the foundation of philosophia perennis. His radical rethinking of the phenomenological...