Category: Phenomenology

By Christina M. Gschwandtner

The philosophical paintings of Jean-Luc Marion has opened new methods of conversing approximately non secular convictions and studies. during this exploration of Marion’s philosophy and theology, Christina M. Gschwandtner offers a entire and demanding research of the tips of saturated phenomena and the phenomenology of givenness. She claims that those phenomena don't consistently seem within the over the top mode that Marion describes and indicates as a substitute that we reflect on levels of saturation. Gschwandtner covers significant topics in Marion’s work―the old occasion, artwork, nature, love, reward and sacrifice, prayer, and the Eucharist. She works in the phenomenology of givenness, yet means that Marion himself has now not thought of very important facets of his philosophy.

By Shaun Gallagher, Dan Zahavi

The Phenomenological Mind is the 1st booklet to correctly introduce primary questions on the brain from the point of view of phenomenology. Key questions and themes coated include:

• • what's phenomenology?
• • naturalizing phenomenology and the cognitive sciences
• • phenomenology and consciousness
• • cognizance and self-consciousness
• • time and consciousness
• • intentionality
• • the embodied mind
• • action
• • wisdom of alternative minds
• • located and prolonged minds
• • phenomenology and private identity.

This moment version incorporates a new preface, and revised and more desirable chapters. additionally integrated are worthwhile positive factors comparable to bankruptcy summaries, publications to extra interpreting, and a word list, making The Phenomenological Mind an awesome advent to key recommendations in phenomenology, cognitive technological know-how and philosophy of mind.

By Paul Ricoeur

By Paola Marrati

By Gregory J. Feist

Challenging Assumptions. simply because we “think” whatever doesn’t make it actual. Feist’s obtainable method of technology is helping scholars problem their assumptions, comprehend examine, and realize that during Psychology, it’s no longer all black and white.

nearly all scholars input Introductory Psychology with preconceived notions―many of them wrong. Psychology: views and Connections is designed to maneuver scholars past what could appear noticeable to them, to have them reevaluate the strategies and ideology they bring about to the direction. Feist & Rosenberg problem scholars: Don’t think every thing you're thinking that! scholars are inspired to imagine seriously and query preconceived notions, placing their ideas―and the information of others―to the try out and needless to say no one standpoint tells the total story.

By Mark Rowlands

There is a brand new state of mind in regards to the brain that doesn't find psychological approaches completely "in the head." a few imagine that this elevated notion of the brain stands out as the foundation of a brand new technological know-how of the brain. during this e-book, major thinker Mark Rowlands investigates the conceptual foundations of this new technology of the brain. the hot frame of mind in regards to the brain emphasizes the ways that psychological tactics are embodied (made up partially of extraneural physically buildings and processes), embedded (designed to operate in tandem with the environment), enacted (constituted partially by means of action), and prolonged (located within the environment). the hot mind set in regards to the brain, Rowlands writes, is really an outdated mind set that has taken on new shape. Rowlands describes a belief of brain that had its clearest expression in phenomenology -- within the paintings of Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty. He builds on those perspectives, clarifies and renders constant the tips of embodied, embedded, enacted, and prolonged brain, and develops a unified philosophical therapy of the unconventional perception of the brain that underlies the recent technology of the mind.

By Rodolphe Gasché

By Maurice Merleau-Ponty

The Primacy of Perception brings jointly a few very important reviews by means of Maurice Merleau-Ponty that seemed in quite a few courses from 1947 to 1961. The name essay, that is in essence a presentation of the underlying thesis of his Phenomenology of Perception, is by way of classes given through Merleau-Ponty on the Sorbonne on phenomenological psychology. "Eye and Mind" and the concluding chapters current functions of Merleau-Ponty's rules to the geographical regions of artwork, philosophy of heritage, and politics. Taken jointly, the stories during this quantity offer a scientific creation to the most important issues of Merleau-Ponty's philosophy.

This hugely own account of a lifetime’s non secular and philosophical enquiry charts the author’s trip of religion via modern tradition. Distinguishing among what she posits because the ‘universal’ and the ‘rhapsodic’ trademarks, Tymieniecka interrogates innovations as diverse as creativity and the media, pleasure and discomfort, and fact and ambiguity. She contemplates the probabilities and bounds of communique among humans, and descriptions what she calls the ‘transnatural destiny’ of the human soul.

The booklet asserts that in contrast to concept, which unfolds a logical continuity, and in contrast to discussion, that's directed sequentially upward towards highbrow conclusions, the mode of mirrored image of the ‘rhapsodic logos’ imposes no limits or caps upon its knowing. as a substitute, the ‘logoic’ stream interlaces the rhapsodic cadences of our reflections on fact, in all their innumerable fluctuations, and sifts them to mould the intimate mind/soul inwardness that we event as faith.

The radiative meditations of this ‘rhapsodic logos’ weave their manner during the entanglements of the secret of incarnation, the constitutive archetypes, the inwardly sacred, the transnatural future of the soul, and eventually ascend the rhapsodic scales towards culminating religion within the Christo-Logos.

This can be the most entire and updated surveys of the philosophy of Sartre, through a few of the leading interpreters within the usa and Europe. The essays are either expository and unique, and canopy Sartre's writings on ontology, phenomenology, psychology, ethics, and aesthetics, in addition to his paintings on heritage, dedication, and growth; a last part considers Sartre's courting to structuralism and deconstruction. delivering a balanced view of Sartre's philosophy and situating it in terms of modern traits in Continental philosophy, the quantity exhibits that a few of the themes linked to Lacan, Foucault, Lévi-Strauss, and Derrida are to be present in the paintings of Sartre, in certain cases as early as 1936. a distinct characteristic of the quantity is the therapy of the lately released and hitherto little studied posthumous works. therefore new readers and nonspecialists will locate this the handiest, obtainable advisor to Sartre presently to be had. complex scholars and experts will discover a conspectus of contemporary advancements within the interpretation of Sartre.