Phenomenology category: 832 books
Alfred Schutz's Sociological Aspect of Literature
Construction and Complementary Essays
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
The maintext in the present volume has beenconstructed out of passages found scattered aboutin thirty-five years of Alfred Schutz's writings, and it has been constructed by following a pageof notes for a lecture that he gave in 1955 under the title "Sociological Aspect of Literature. " The...
Existentialism and Sociology
Contribution of Jean-Paul Sartre
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Existentialism and Sociology (originally published under the title The Existential Sociology of Jean-Paul Sartre) is the first work to systematically and critically analyze the existential ideas of Jean-Paul Sartre and to demonstrate their importance and connection to central sociological categories...
by Mark Zuss
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
The desire for knowledge is an abiding facet of human experience and cultural development. This work documents curiosity as a sociohistorical force initiating research across the disciplines. Projects generated by theoretical curiosity are presented as historical and material practices emerging as...
by Dimitri Ginev
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
In The Tenets of Cognitive Existentialism, Dimitri Ginev draws on developments in hermeneutic phenomenology and other programs in hermeneutic philosophy to inform an interpretative approach to scientific practices. At stake is the question of whether it is possible to integrate forms of reflection...
Metaphysics, Facticity, Interpretation
Phenomenology in the Nordic Countries
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The essays collected in the present volume introduce the reader to the phenomenological work done in the Nordic countries today. The material is organized under three general headings: metaphysics, facticity, and interpretation. The volume is of interest to researchers and students working in the...
On the Boundary
A Life Remembered
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
The book records the author’s personal and intellectual maturation over a period of nine decades. This maturation was never purely self-propelled, but always occurred in response to teachings and experiences. Situated as a “being-in-the-world”, the author’s experiences reach from World War...
Transformation in the Writing
A Case of Surrender-and-Catch
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Kurt Wolff has written principally in two veins (in English) for the last fifty years, 1) on sociology, epistemology (sociology of knowledge) and the philosophy of sociology; and 2) on the relevance of his formulation of "surrender and catch" to human experience, particularly in its cogni...
Life in the Glory of Its Radiating Manifestations
25th Anniversary Publication Book I
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Western thought is surging, on the rebound from centuries of a merely background interest. Life is presenting crucial challenges to the human mind in science, technology, culture and social existence; challenges which reach the core of existence, human destiny, and the very meaningfulness - the human...
by A. Schutz
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Following the thematic divisions of the first three volumes of Alfred Schutz's Collected Papers into The Problem of Social Reality, Studies in Social Theory and Phenomenological Philosophy, this fourth volume contains drafts of unfinished writings, drafts of published writings, translations of essays...
Phenomenological Reflections on Violence
A Skeptical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Following up on his previous book, Violence and Phenomenology, James Dodd presents here an expanded and deepened reflection on the problem of violence. The book’s six essays are guided by a skeptical philosophical attitude about the meaning of violence that refuses to conform to the exigencies of...
Conscience in Moral Life
Rethinking How Our Convictions Structure Self and Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
The notion of conscience remains one of the most widely used moral concepts and a cornerstone of ordinary moral thinking. This book explores where this widespread confidence in conscience stems from, examining the history of conscience as a moral concept and its characteristic moral phenomenology.
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by Alfred Schutz
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
This volume contains a translation of four early manuscripts by Alfred Schutz, unpublished at the time, written between 1924 and 1928. The publication of these four essays adds much to our knowledge and appreciation of the wide range of Schutz’s phenomenological and sociological interests. Originally...
Life the Human Being between Life and Death
A Dialogue between Medicine and Philosophy: Recurrent Issues and New Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Medicine's crucial concern with health is perennial, but its reflection, concepts, means change with the advance of science and social life. We present here a fascinating panorama of current medical discussions with their philosophical underpinnings, and queries as they have evolved from the past....
Founding Community
A Phenomenological-Ethical Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Phenomenology, in its traditional encounters with ethics, has commonly aimed at a more descriptive rather than prescriptive goal. The direction of this project, however, is both phenomenological and prescriptive as I attempt to provide a phenomenological foundation for communitarian ethical theory....