Category: Phenomenology

By Francesco Alfieri

This publication examines the phenomenological anthropology of Edith Stein. It particularly specializes in the query which Stein addressed in her paintings Finite and everlasting Being: what's the foundational precept that makes the person particular and unrepeatable in the human species? conventional analyses of Edith Stein’s writings have tended to border her perspectives in this factor as being prompted by means of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, whereas neglecting her curiosity within the lesser-known determine of Duns Scotus. but, as this publication exhibits, in regards to the query of individuality, Stein used to be serious of Aquinas’ process, discovering that of Duns Scotus to be extra convincing. with a view to get to the center of Stein’s readings of Duns Scotus, this booklet seems to be at her released writings and her own correspondence, as well as undertaking a meticulous research of the unique codexes on which her assets have been established. Written with diligence and aptitude, the ebook significantly evaluates the authenticity of Stein’s resources and exhibits how the placement of Scotus himself developed. It highlights the originality of Stein’s contribution, which was once to rediscover the relevance of Mediaeval scholastic inspiration and reinterpret it within the language of the Phenomenological university based via Edmund Husserl.

By Reinhardt Grossmann

Professor Grossmann believes that for a whole realizing of the existentialists and phenomenologists we should also comprehend the issues that they have been attempting to resolve, difficulties inherited from the philosophical culture. This e-book exhibits essentially how the most issues of phenomenology and existentialism grew out of culture.

Being and Nothingness

The 1st learn of its variety, The impression of Idealism assesses the effect of classical German philosophy on technological know-how, faith and tradition.

This first volume explores German Idealism's effect on philosophy and clinical idea. Fourteen essays, by means of best gurus of their respective fields, every one concentrate on the legacy of a specific concept that emerged round 1800, whilst the underlying techniques of recent philosophy have been being shaped, challenged and criticised, leaving a legacy that extends to all actual components and all issues within the philosophical global.

From British Idealism to phenomenology, existentialism, pragmatism and French postmodernism, the tale of German Idealism's influence on philosophy is right here interwoven with man's medical trip of self-discovery within the 19th and early 20th centuries from Darwin to Nietzsche to Freud and past. Spanning the analytical and Continental divide, this primary quantity examines Idealism's effect on modern philosophical discussions.

By Emmanuel Levinas

This assortment, now on hand in a reasonable paperback version, comprises 11 of the main major articles written via Emmanuel Levinas. This quantity contains "Reality and its Shadow," "The Ego and the Totality," "Philosophy and the belief of Infinity," "Meaning and Sense," "Humanism and An-archy," "God and Philosophy" and "Transcendence and Evil," between others. a great review of Levinas's principles and philosophy. all the theses represented during this assortment is additional explored and constructed in Levinas's differently than Being, or past Essence.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception is largely stated to be probably the most vital contributions to philosophy of the 20th century. during this quantity, major philosophers from Europe and North the United States study the character and quantity of Merleau-Ponty's fulfillment and look at its significance to modern philosophy.

The chapters, such a lot of that have been in particular commissioned for this quantity, disguise the valuable features of Merleau-Ponty's influential paintings. those include:

• Merleau-Ponty’s debt to Husserl
• Merleau-Ponty’s perception of philosophy
• perception, motion and the position of the body
• consciousness and self-consciousness
• naturalism and language
• social principles and freedom.

Contributors: David Smith, Sean Kelly, Komarine Romdenh-Romluc, Hubert Dreyfus, Mark Wrathall, Thomas Baldwin, Simon Glendinning, Naomi Eilan, Eran Dorfman, Francoise Dastur

By Allan Casebier

In movie and Phenomenology, Allan Casebier develops a conception of illustration first indicated within the writings of the daddy of phenomenology, Edmund Husserl, after which applies it to the case of cinematic illustration. This paintings offers one of many clearest expositions of Husserl's hugely influential yet frequently imprecise proposal. It additionally demonstrates the facility of phenomenology to light up the event of the artwork shape distinct to the twentieth-century cinema. movie and Phenomenology is meant as an antidote to all hitherto latest theories concerning the nature of cinematic illustration, no matter if issuing from vintage resources resembling the movie idea of Andre Bazin or the post-structuralist synthesis of Lacanian psychoanalysis, Barthesian textual research and Metzean cine-semiotics. Casebier exhibits how a phenomenological account of illustration will extra the goals of any movie conception. constructing a doable feminist movie concept, legitimising the documentary, answering the problem of Derridean deconstruction, correctly theorising narrativity, movie and Phenomenology argues that concept of movie needs to be Realist either with recognize to epistemology and ontological concerns. during this means, this paintings runs opposite to the total process modern movie idea, which has been deeply anti-Realist.

By Martin Heidegger

The Phenomenology of spiritual existence offers the textual content of Heidegger’s very important 1920–21 lectures on faith. the quantity involves the well-known lecture path advent to the Phenomenology of faith, a path on Augustine and Neoplatonism, and notes for a direction at the Philosophical Foundations of Medieval Mysticism that was once by no means introduced. Heidegger’s engagements with Aristotle, St. Paul, Augustine, and Luther provide readers a feeling of what phenomenology could come to intend within the mature expression of his suggestion. Heidegger finds a powerful exhibit of theological wisdom, conserving Christian lifestyles event from Greek philosophy and protecting Paul opposed to Nietzsche.

Publish yr note: First released in 2003 by means of Noesis Press
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Each Yearbook offers an annual foreign discussion board for phenomenology and phenomenological philosophy within the spirit of Edmund Husserl’s groundbreaking paintings. integrated are articles on modern concerns and controversies, severe reports of phenomenological figures, investigations at the relationships to the usual and human sciences, ancient reports on phenomenology and phenomenological philosophy, in addition to translations of classical and modern phenomenological texts.

The target is to resume the unique spirit and goal of Edmund Husserl's Jahrbuch für Philosophie und phänomenolische Forschung, which he expressed within the 1913 preface to the inaugural quantity, "This magazine is meant . . . to unite these in shared paintings who wish for a primary reform of philosophy through the natural and rigorous execution of phenomenological method."

Contributors contain
Pierre Adler, New institution for Social examine
Patrick Burke, Seattle University
Damian Byers, Sydney, Australia
Richard Cobb-Stevens, Boston collage
Natalie Depraz, college of Paris IV (Sorhonne)
John Drabinski, Grand Valley nation college
John Drummond, Fordham University
R. O. Elveton, Carleton College
Parvis Emad, l. a. Crosse, Wisconsin
Lester Embree, Florida Atlantic college
Kathleen Haney, collage of Houston, Downtown
James G. Hart, Indiana University
Patrick Heelan, S.J., Georgetown college
Nam-In Lee, Seoul nationwide collage, Korea
Christian Lotz, collage of Kansas
James Mensch, St. Francis Xavier college, Canada
Dermot Moran, collage university, Dublin, eire
Harry Reeder, collage of Texas, Arlington
James Risser, Seattle University
Hans damage, Sodertorn collage university, Sweden
Karl Schuhmann, college of Utrecht, Netherlands
Marylou Sena, Seattle University
Olav K.Wiegand, college of Mainz, Germany
Edith Wyschogrod, Rice University
Dan Zahavi, Copenhagen, Denmark

By Herbert Marcuse

This used to be Herbert Marcuse's first ebook on Hegel, written within the early Thirties while he used to be below the powerful effect of Martin Heidegger. It presents a nonetheless unequaled Heideggerian analyzing of Hegel's concept that seeks the defining features of "historicity" - what it capacity to claim historic occasion occurs. those principles have been foundational for Marcuse; they show a practice referred to as "phenomenological Marxism," as a consequence represented by means of Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty and by means of a few individuals of the Praxis team in Yugoslavia.

The booklet is in components. the 1st analyzes Hegel's good judgment so that it will determine its ontological tricky or conception of being; by means of targeting Hegel's Early Theological Writings and the Phenomenology of Spirit, the second one half argues that the idea that of existence in its historicity was once in truth the unique origin of Hegelian ontology. sincerely it is a "purer" kind of philosophizing than Marcuse was once to pursue after he joined the Institut für Sozialforschung, came upon Freud, and distanced himself from Heidegger's philosophy. yet there's a convinced connection among his research of historicity during this very important early paintings and his later makes an attempt to appreciate the underlying dynamic of latest heritage and society in such books as One-Dimensional guy and Eros and Civilization.

Hegel's Ontology and the idea of Historicity is incorporated within the sequence experiences in modern German Social proposal, edited via Thomas McCarthy,