Phenomenology category: 832 books
The Rhythm of Thought
Art, Literature, and Music after Merleau-Ponty
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Between present and past, visible and invisible, and sensation and idea, there is resonance—so philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty argued and so Jessica Wiskus explores in The Rhythm of Thought. Holding the poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé, the paintings of Paul Cézanne, the prose of Marcel Proust,...
by Vilém Flusser
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Throughout his career, the influential new media theorist Vilém Flusser kept the idea of gesture in mind: that people express their being in the world through a sweeping range of movements. He reconsiders familiar actions—from speaking and painting to smoking and telephoning—in terms of particular...
Reading Descartes Otherwise
Blind, Mad, Dreamy, and Bad
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Focusing on the first four images of the Other mobilized in Descartes’ Meditations—namely, the blind, the mad, the dreamy, and the bad—Reading Descartes Otherwise casts light on what have heretofore been the phenomenological shadows of “Cartesian rationality.” In doing so, it discovers dynamic...
The Art of Philosophy
Wisdom as a Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
In his best-selling book You Must Change Your Life, Peter Sloterdijk argued exercise and practice were crucial to the human condition. In The Art of Philosophy, he extends this critique to academic science and scholarship, casting the training processes of academic study as key to the production of...
Pre-reflective Consciousness
Sartre and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Pre-reflective Consciousness: Sartre and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind delves into the relationship between the current analytical debates on consciousness and the debates that took place within continental philosophy in the twentieth century and in particular around the time of Sartre and within...
by Paul Horwich
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 1998
What is meaning? Paul Horwich presents an original philosophical theory, demonstrates its richness, and defends it against all comers. At the core of his theory is the idea, made famous by Wittgenstein, that the meaning of a word derives from its use; Horwich articulates this idea in a new way that...
Introducing Existentialism
A Graphic Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
Richard Appignanesi goes on a personal quest of Existentialism in its original state. He begins with Camus' question of suicide: 'Must life have a meaning to be lived?' Is absurdity at the heart of Existentialism? Or is Sartre right: is Existentialism 'the least scandalous, most technically austere'...
Gadamer
A Philosophical Portrait
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002), one of the towering figures of contemporary Continental philosophy, is best known for Truth and Method, where he elaborated the concept of "philosophical hermeneutics," a programmatic way to get to what we do when we engage in interpretation. Donatella Di Cesare highlights...
by Paul North
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
We live in an age of distraction. Contemporary analyses of culture, politics, techno-science, and psychology insist on this. They often suggest remedies for it, or ways to capitalize on it. Yet they almost never investigate the meaning and history of distraction itself. This book corrects this lack...
Bremen and Freiburg Lectures
Insight Into That Which Is and Basic Principles of Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
This volume consists of two lecture series given by Heidegger in the 1940s and 1950s. The lectures given in Bremen constitute the first public lectures Heidegger delivered after World War II, when he was officially banned from teaching. Here, Heidegger openly resumes thinking that deeply engaged him...
The Duplicity of Philosophy's Shadow
Heidegger, Nazism, and the Jewish Other
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) is considered one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century in spite of his well-known transgressions—his complicity with National Socialism and his inability to show remorse or compassion for its victims. In The Duplicity of Philosophy’s Shadow,...
Heidegger's Poietic Writings
From Contributions to Philosophy to The Event
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Engaging the development of Heidegger’s non-public writings on the event between 1936 and 1941, Daniela Vallega-Neu reveals what Heidegger's private writings kept hidden. Vallega-Neu takes readers on a journey through these volumes, which are not philosophical works in the traditional sense as they...
The Life of Understanding
A Contemporary Hermeneutics
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
In Gadamer’s hermeneutics, interpretation is inseparable from the broader concern of making one’s way in life. In this book, James Risser builds on this insight about the juxtaposition of human living and the act of understanding by tracing hermeneutics back to the basic experience of philosophy...
Introduction to the Logical Investigations
A Draft of a Preface to the Logical Investigations (1913)
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
TO THE LOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS A DRAFT OF A PREFACE TO THE LOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS ( 1913) Edited by EUGEN FINK Translated with Introductions by PHILIP J. BOSSERT and CURTIS H. PETERS • MARTINUS NIJHOFF THE HAGUE 1975 © I975 by Martinus Nijhoff. The Hague. Netherlands All rights reserved. including...