Phenomenology category: 832 books
The World of Freedom
Heidegger, Foucault, and the Politics of Historical Ontology
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Martin Heidegger and Michel Foucault are two of the most important and influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Each has spawned volumes of secondary literature and sparked fierce, polarizing debates, particularly about the relationship between philosophy and politics. And yet, to date there...
The Fellowship of Being
An Essay on the Concept of Person in the Philosophy of Gabriel Marcel
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book is the fruit of a critical inquiry into the nature and scope of Marcel's philosophie achievement. As such, it is concerned less with affixing the appropriate label (personalist or existentialist) to Marcel's thought -and with it making it stick - than with discovering the precise impulse...
Spatial Justice
Body, Lawscape, Atmosphere
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
There can be no justice that is not spatial. Against a recent tendency to despatialise law, matter, bodies and even space itself, this book insists on spatialising them, arguing that there can be neither law nor justice that are not articulated through and in space.
Spatial Justice presents...
by Jean-Luc Amalric, Jakub Čapek, Scott Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
Paul Ricoeur’s first book, Freedom and Nature, introduces many themes that resurface in various ways throughout his later work, but its significance has been mostly overlooked in the field of Ricoeur studies. Gathering together an international group of scholars, A Companion to Freedom and Nature...
The Nature of Melancholy
From Aristotle to Kristeva
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2002
Spanning 24 centuries, this anthology collects over thirty selections of important Western writing about melancholy and its related conditions by philosophers, doctors, religious and literary figures, and modern psychologists. Truly interdisciplinary, it is the first such anthology. As it traces Western...
Spatio-temporal Intertwining
Husserl’s Transcendental Aesthetic
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
This volume explores Husserl’s theory of sensibility and his conceptualization of spatial and temporal constitution. The author maps the linkages between Husserl’s ‘transcendental aesthetic’, the theory of pure experience in empirio-criticism, as well as Immanuel Kant’s transcendental philosophy....
Kant and the Subject of Critique
On the Regulative Role of the Psychological Idea
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
Immanuel Kant is strict about the limits of self-knowledge: our inner sense gives us only appearances, never the reality, of ourselves. Kant may seem to begin his inquiries with an uncritical conception of cognitive limits, but in Kant and the Subject of Critique, Avery Goldman argues that, even for...
Childlike Peace in Merleau-Ponty and Levinas
Intersubjectivity as Dialectical Spiral
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Childlike Peace in Merleau-Ponty and Levinas argues that the primordial structure of our personal encounters with others should be understood as a dialectical spiral. Drawing on the work of twentieth-century philosophers Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Emmanuel Levinas, and informed by recent advances in...
The Incorporeal
Ontology, Ethics, and the Limits of Materialism
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Philosophy has inherited a powerful impulse to embrace either dualism or a reductive monism—either a radical separation of mind and body or the reduction of mind to body. But from its origins in the writings of the Stoics, the first thoroughgoing materialists, another view has acknowledged that...
Language as Calculus vs. Language as Universal Medium
A Study in Husserl, Heidegger and Gadamer
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
I first became interested in Husserl and Heidegger as long ago as 1980, when as an undergraduate at the Freie Universitat Berlin I studied the books by Professor Ernst Tugendhat. Tugendhat's at tempt to bring together analytical and continental philosophy has never ceased to fascinate me, and even...
Reason and World
Between Tradition and Another Beginning
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
At a time when the traditional principles of many fields have lost their power and validity, the task of philosophy may well be to look back at these traditional principles and at their inherent determinations and basic problems, while heeding every indi cation of a transition to something new,...
by Remo Bodei
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
From prehistoric stone tools, to machines, to computers, things have traveled a long road along with human beings. Changing with the times, places, and methods of their production, emerging from diverse histories, and enveloped in multiple layers of meaning, things embody ideas, emotions, and symbols...
How to Be an Existentialist
or How to Get Real, Get a Grip and Stop Making Excuses
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
H**ow to Be an Existentialist is a witty and entertaining book about the philosophy of existentialism. It is also a genuine self-help book offering clear advice on how to live according to the principles of existentialism formulated by Nietzsche, Sartre, Camus, and the other great existentialist philosophers....