Phenomenology category: 832 books
Quiet Powers of the Possible
Interviews in Contemporary French Phenomenology
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Quiet Powers of the Possible offers an excellent introduction to contemporary French phenomenology through a series of interviews with its most prominent figures.
Guided by rigorous questions that push into the most important aspects of the latest phenomenological research, the book gives readers...
Proto-Phenomenology and the Nature of Language
Dwelling in Speech I
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
How is it that sounds from the mouth or marks on a page—which by themselves are nothing like things or events in the world—can be world-disclosive in an automatic manner? In this fascinating and important book, Lawrence J. Hatab presents a new vocabulary for Heidegger’s early phenomenology of...
Phenomenology and Intersubjectivity
Contemporary Interpretations of the Interpersonal Situation
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Dialogue and communication have today become central concepts in con temporary man's effort to analyze and comprehend the major roots of con flict that threaten our twentieth-century world. Underlying all attempts at dialogue, however, is the presupposition that it is ontologically possible for...
by Oyvind Standal
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Phenomenology is a philosophical approach to the study of consciousness and subjective experience. In recent years it has become a more prominent element of the social scientific study of sport and a core component of the important emergent concept of physical literacy. This book is the first to offer...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Phenomenology in the United States is in a state of ferment and change. Not all the changes are happy ones, however, for some of the most prominent philosophers of the first generation of phenomenologists have died: in 1959 Alfred Schutz, and within the past two years John \Vild, Dorion Cairns, and...
by William H. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Why should I be moral? Philosophers have long been concerned with the legitimacy of morality’s claim on us—especially its ostensible aim to motivate certain actions of all persons unconditionally. This problem of moral normativity has received extensive treatment in analytic moral theory, but...
by William S. Hamrick
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
The following pages attempt to develop the main outlines of an existential phenomenology of law within the context of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phe nomenology of the social world. In so doing, the essay addresses the rather narrow scholarly question, If Merleau-Ponty had written a phenomenology of...
Nature and Experience
Phenomenology and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
What do we mean when we speak about and advocate for ‘nature’? Do inanimate beings possess agency, and if so what is its structure? What role does metaphor play in our understanding of and relation to the environment? How does nature contribute to human well-being?
By bringing the concerns...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
This book explores the philosophical writings of Gerda Walther (1897–1977). It features essays that
recover large parts of Walther’s oeuvre in order to show her contribution to phenomenology
and philosophy. In addition, the volume contains an English translation of part of her
major...
by Seppo Sajama, Matti Kamppinen
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
This book offers a concise exposition of the content theory of intentionality, which lies at the root of Husserl’s phenomenology, for student and scholar. Originally published in 1982.
The first part traces the history of phenomenology from its beginnings in Aristotle and Aquinas through...
Phenomenology of Time
Edmund Husserl’s Analysis of Time-Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Edmund Husserl occupied himself with the analysis of time-consciousness throughout his life. In this book, the three stages that may be distinguished in Husserl's occupation with this theme are discussed in their interrelationship. The first stage consists of a lecture manuscript from 1905; the second...
Social Phenomenology
Husserl, Intersubjectivity, and Collective Intentionality
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2012
Social Phenomenology brings together insights from the tradition of phenomenology and recent discussions of collective intentionality. In doing so, it offers a unique account of how consciousness is formative of the social world. That is, how our thinking things to be so can, in some cases, actually...
by Professor Bryan A. Smyth
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Bringing to light the essential philosophical role of Marxism within Merleau-Ponty's reinterpretation of transcendental phenomenology, this book shows that the realization of this project hinges methodologically upon a renewed conception of the proletariat qua universal class-specifically, that it...
Foundations of Morality, Human Rights, and the Human Sciences
Phenomenology in a Foundational Dialogue with the Human Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The essays in this volume constitute a portion of the research program being carried out by the International Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences. Established as an affiliate society of the World Institute for Ad vanced Phenomenological Research and Learning in 1976, in Arezzo, Italy,...