Phenomenology category: 832 books
by Dr Donald A. Landes
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) is one of the central figures of 20th-century Continental philosophy, and his work has been hugely influential in a wide range of fields. His writings engage in the study of perception, language, politics, aesthetics, history and ontology, and represent a rich and...
Heidegger and Jaspers on Nietzsche
A Critical Examination of Heidegger’s and Jaspers’ Interpretations of Nietzsche
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
GENERAL PROBLEMS IN NIETZSCHE INTERPRETATION Every philosopher presents special problems of interpretation. With Nietzsche these problems are especially crucial. The very richness of Nietzsche's thought and expression becomes a trap for the incautious or imaginative mind. Perhaps the greatest temptation...
The Creative Matrix of the Origins
Dynamisms, Forces and the Shaping of Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
by Hwa Yol Jung
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Prolegomena to a Carnal Hermeneutics introduces the importance of body politics from both Eastern and Western perspectives. Hwa Yol Jung begins with Giambattista Vico’s anti-Cartesianism as the birth of the discipline. He then explores the homecoming of Greek mousike (performing arts), which included...
Phenomenological Psychology
The Dutch School
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Over the past decades many books and essays have been written on phenomeno logical psychology. Some of these publications are historical in character and were designed to give the reader an idea of the origin, meaning, and function of phenom enological psychology and its most important trends....
The Phenomenon of Mental Disorder
Perspectives of Heidegger’s Thought in Psychopathology
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
This book provides a critical introduction to Heidegger’s impact on psychiatry and psychology, and has a focus on the application of his philosophy to psychiatry. This is a complete revision of Heidegger’s existential philosophy in the light of psychopathological phenomena. Readers will find here...
Life the Human Quest for an Ideal
25th Anniversary Publication Book II
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
by Joseph Libertson
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The problematic reality of an alterity implicit in the concept of communication has been a consistent attestation in formal discourse. The rapport of thought to this alterity has been consistently described as a radical inadequation. By virtue of the communicational economy which produces discontinuity...
Human Being @ Risk
Enhancement, Technology, and the Evaluation of Vulnerability Transformations
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Whereas standard approaches to risk and vulnerability presuppose a strict separation between humans and their world, this book develops an existential-phenomenological approach according to which we are always already beings-at-risk. Moreover, it is argued that in our struggle against vulnerability,...
Plato's Cratylus
The Comedy of Language
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Plato’s dialogue Cratylus focuses on being and human dependence on words, or the essential truths about the human condition. Arguing that comedy is an essential part of Plato's concept of language, S. Montgomery Ewegen asserts that understanding the comedic is key to an understanding of Plato's...
Persuasion, Reflection, Judgment
Ancillae Vitae
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
As one of the most respected voices of Continental philosophy today, Rodolphe Gasché pulls together Aristotle's conception of rhetoric, Martin Heidegger's debate with theory, and Hannah Arendt's conception of judgment in a single work on the centrality of these themes as fundamental to human flourishing...
The Timespace of Human Activity
On Performance, Society, and History as Indeterminate Teleological Events
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
This book shows that a concept of activity timespace drawn from the work of Martin Heidegger provides new insights into the nature of activity, society, and history. Although the book is a work of theory, it has significant implications for the determination and course, not just of activity, but of...
by Patrick L. Bourgeois
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Imagination and Postmodernity addresses the role of the imagination in philosophy today. By focusing on philosophy at the boundary of reason with constant reference to Kant’s view of the boundary-limit, it is possible to advance a viable alternative to deconstructing the imagination. Patrick L....
by Morten S. Thaning
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
This book reassesses Gadamer’s hermeneutics by bringing it into a dialogue with John McDowell’s minimal empiricism. It employs the resources of McDowell’s minimal empiricism to address the transcendental and ontological presuppositions for objective experience and understanding, while retaining...