Phenomenology category: 832 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
Although the creative impulse surges in revolt against everyday reality, breaking through its confines, it makes pacts with that reality’s essential laws and returns to it to modulate its sense. In fact, it is through praxis that imagination and artistic inventiveness transmute the vital concerns...
The Return of Nature
On the Beyond of Sense
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
John Sallis dismantles the traditional conception of nature in this book of imagination and the cosmos. In the thought of Emerson, Hegel, and Schelling, Sallis discerns the seeds of an understanding of nature that goes against the modern technological assault on natural things and opens a space for...
by George Shaffner
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
Whether you realize it or not, numbers are everywhere--and integral to almost every facet of your life . . . from your next raise in pay to the inevitable rise of inflation, your weekly family budget to your end of the national debt. And as George Shaffner amazingly reveals, there are discerning answers...
Content and Object
Husserl, Twardowski and Psychologism
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
This study is a revised version ofa book, published in February 1990 under the same title, as my Ph.D. thesis at the University of Stockholm. Revision of an earlier work poses specific problems, some of which deserve mentioning. After the appearance of the first version of this book new literature...
by J. Lampert
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
In the sixth Logical Investigation, Husserl defines meaning, objectivity, and knowledge by appealing to "syntheses of fulfilment": each act of conscious ness has a meaning-intention whereby it anticipates a range of fulfilling intuitions, whose ongoing synthesis would identify intended...
A Postphenomenological Inquiry of Cell Phones
Genealogies, Meanings, and Becoming
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
Why does the announcement of a new cellphone model ignite excitement and passion? Why do most people return home when they forget their cellphones, while only few would return for their wallets? How did the cellphone technology become so dominant for many of us? This book offers an analysis of the...
Hermeneutics of the Film World
A Ricœurian Method for Film Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
This book identifies a new methodological strategy for the interpretation of film philosophizing. Many recent works in film philosophy, adopting the approach identified with the term film as philosophy, have considered film as capable of doing philosophy. Focused on the basic relationship between...
The Logic of the Living Present
Experience, Ordering, Onto-Poiesis of Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Some might ask "Why Locke's theory of knowledge now?" Though appreciated for his social philosophy, Locke has been criticized for his work in the field of epistemology ever since the publication of the Essay. It is even as if Locke serves only as an example of how not to think. When people...
by J.K. Cooper-Wiele
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Origins of Husserl's Totalizing Act At noon on Monday, October 24th, 1887, Dr. Edmund G. Husserl defended the dissertation that would qualify him as a university lecturer at Halle. Entitled "On the Concept of Number," it was written under Carl Stumpf who, like Husserl, had been a student...
Between Philosophy and Literature
Bakhtin and the Question of the Subject
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
This is an original reading of Mikhail Bakhtin in the context of Western philosophical traditions and counter-traditions. The book portrays Bakhtin as a Modernist thinker torn between an ideological secularity and a profound religious sensibility, invariably concerned with questions of ethics and...
Prophetic Politics
Emmanuel Levinas and the Sanctification of Suffering
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
In Prophetic Politics, Philip J. Harold offers an original interpretation of the political dimension of Emmanuel Levinas's thought. Harold argues that Levinas’s mature position in Otherwise Than Being breaks radically with the dialogical inclinations of his earlier Totality and Infinity and that...
by Laurent Perreau
Language: French
Release Date: February 2, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: February 2, 2013
Cette étude est consacrée à l'examen de la théorie du monde social qui se découvre dans la phénoménologie d’Edmund Husserl : est-elle à même de dire les phénomènes sociaux, sur quel mode et avec quels résultats ?
Dans un premier moment, nous reconstituons le propos des deux «...
Heidegger et le problème de la mort
existentialité, authenticité, temporalité
Language: French
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Cet ouvrage est la première monographie systématique d’expression française dédiée exclusivement au problème heideggérien de la mort. Il se donne pour tâche de clarifier tout l’enjeu de cette question capitale de la pensée de Martin Heidegger. La nouveauté de cette étude réside dans...
Dialectics Beyond Dialectics
Translated by Cain Elliott and Jan Burzyński
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Dialectics beyond Dialectics is a study of contemporary French philosophy from Bataille to Derrida. It analyses, on the first level of generalization, the decomposition of Hegelianism understood as philosophy of totality. Many French philosophers of the 20th century deconstruct Hegelian dialectics...