Phenomenology category: 832 books
by Casey Rentmeester
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
In the past few decades, it has become clear that the Western world’s relation to nature has led to environmental degradation so wide-ranging that it threatens the existence of human civilizations as we have come to know them. The onset of anthropogenic climate change and the increasing threats...
Identity And Difference
John Locke And The Invention Of Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
John Locke’s foundational place in the history of British empiricism and liberal political thought is well established. So, in what sense can Locke be considered a modern European philosopher? Identity and Difference argues for reassessing this canonical figure. Closely examining the "treatise...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
In the second half of the 20th century, the body has become a central theme of intellectual debate. How should we perceive the human body? Is it best understood biologically, experientially, culturally? How do social institutions exercise power over the body and determine norms of health and behavior?...
Mobile Media Technologies and Poiēsis
Rediscovering How We Use Technology to Cultivate Meaning in a Nihilistic World
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
This book intertwines phenomenological fieldwork with a wide range of Heidegger’s writings to explore how our everyday uses of mobile media technologies permit a unique avenue to rediscover poiēsis, our creative cultivation that is simultaneously a bringing forth, a revealing. Shining a light on...
by Lester Embree
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
This work is devoted to developing as well as expounding the theory of the cultural sciences of the philosopher Alfred Schutz (1899-1959). Drawing on all of Schutz’s seven volumes in English, the book shows how his philosophical theory consists of the reflective clarifications of the disciplinary...
The Rigor of a Certain Inhumanity
Toward a Wider Suffrage
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
Focusing on the idea of universal suffrage, John Llewelyn accepts the challenge of Derrida's later thought to renew his focus on the ethical, political, and religious dimensions of what makes us uniquely human. Llewelyn builds this concern on issues of representation, language, meaning, and logic...
by G. Soffer
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The question of relativism is a perennial one, and as fundamental and far reaching as the question of truth itself. Is truth absolute and universal, the same everywhere and for everyone? Or is truth historically, culturally, biologically, or otherwise relative, varying from one epoch or species...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
by Bernard Freydberg
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
Delving beneath the principal discourses of philosophy from Descartes through Kant, Bernard Freydberg plumbs the previously concealed dark forces that ignite the inner power of modern thought. He contends that reason itself issues from an implicit and unconscious suppression of the nonrational. Even...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2011
Philosophy's Moods is a collection of original essays interrogating the inseparable bond between mood and philosophical thinking. What is the relationship between mood and thinking in philosophy? In what sense are we always already philosophizing from within a mood? What kinds of mood are central...
The Essence of Truth
On Plato's Cave Allegory and Theaetetus
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
MartinHeidegger is one of thetwentieth century's most important philosophers, renowned for his explorationof "the question of being". He was Professor of Philosophy at the Universitiesof Marburg and Freiburg and his influence is felt in such diverse subjects asphilosophy, theology, literary...
The Question Concerning the Thing
On Kant's Doctrine of the Transcendental Principles
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
The Question Concerning the Thing presents a full English translation of a lecture course first delivered by Heidegger at Freiburg University during the Winter Semester of 1935-36 (originally published in German as volume 41 of the Gesamtausgabe).
The text presents with particular clarity Heidegger’s...
Heraclitus
The Inception of Occidental Thinking and Logic: Heraclitus’s Doctrine of the Logos
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
Heraclitus is the first English translation of Volume 55 of Martin Heidegger's Gesamtausgabe. This important volume consists of two lecture courses given by Heidegger at the University of Freiburg over the Summers of 1943 and 1944 on the thought of Heraclitus. These lectures shed important light on...