Ask for the tragic and Europe will answer. Leaving behind the philosophers' enthusiasm of the nineteenth century, 'tragedy' and 'the tragic' now seem little more than vague containers. However, it appears that we still discover a tragic essence in our personal lives. Time and again tragedy is being registered, written down and staged. This book wants to open a contemporary philosophical perspective on the tragic. What is the locus of tragedy? Does it relate to metaphysics, the gods, destiny, and chance? Or is it a matter of ethics, of the Law and its transgression? Does man himself occupy the...

This work develops the ethical attitude of courageous vulnerability through the integration of Marcel Proust's novel In Search of Lost Time and the philosophies of Henri Bergson, William James, and Gabriel Marcel. Central to the discussion is the phenomenon of involuntary memory, taken from common experience but "discovered" and made visible by Proust. Through the connection between a variety of themes from both Continental and American schools of thought such as Bergson's phenomenological account of the artist, James' "will to believe," and Marcel's "creative fidelity," the courageously...

Quel est le statut de l'art et de l'affectivite esthetique chez Michel Henry ? Le champ occupe par l'art dans l'economie de la phenomenologie materielle est-il le lieu le plus propre pour l'exploration immanente de l'apparaitre et l'auscultation de l'affectivite transcendantale de la vie ? Ce livre offre un reperage de quelques pistes remarquables a partir desquelles le besoin de poser les jalons d'une esthetique materielle se fait suffisamment pressant pour qu'on y prete attention. C'est pour frayer cette voie et faire les premiers pas dans la direction qu'elle inflechit que les etudes ici...

The notion of subjectivity is one of the most fundamental notions for modern philosophy that only gains in importance in present-day discussions. This volume gathers essays from both young and senior researchers that examine which role subjectivity plays in both classical and contemporary phenomenology. The essays discuss the importance of a phenomenological account of subjectivity for the nature and the status of phenomenology but they also discuss how the phenomenological account of the subject offers new perspectives on themes from practical philosophy and from the philosophy of mind....

Es kann nur eine Erfahrung aufgrund des lebendigen Erfahren-Konnens schlechthin geben. Die Differenzdiskurse, die heute legitimierend fur Gesellschaft, Religion oder Philosophie in Anspruch genommen werden, stoen sich an der prinzipiellen "Ungeteiltheit" solcher Erfahrungsmoglichkeit vor jeder besonderen Erkenntnis. Die radikal phanomenologische Wahrheit solcher Einheit erarbeiten wir daher mit Meister Eckhart als "Ab-Grund" des Absoluten sowie in Ubereinstimmung mit der Lebensphanomenologie Michel Henrys als rein immanente "Praxis." Dieses philosophisch-mystische "Gesprach" mit Meister...

In Self-Identity and Powerlessness, Alice Koubova proposes a conception of human existence that does not essentially depend on the definition of self-identity. The author shows that the philosophical stress on human identity fails to grasp essential aspects of human existence. By emphasizing the moments of Dasein's powerlessness in Heidegger's fundamental ontology, she develops -- in her analysis of various philosophers, literary examples, and social psychology --an original phenomenology of alternation of existence and affair. How necessary is identity for thinking? Are we...

Phenomenologies of Violence presents phenomenology as an important method to investigate violence, its various forms, meanings, and consequences for human existence. On one hand, it seeks to view violence as a genuine philosophical problem, i.e., beyond the still prevalent instrumental, cultural and structural explanations. On the other hand, it provides the reader with accounts on the many faces of violence, ranging from physical, psychic, structural and symbolic violence to forms of social as well as organized violence. In this volume it is argued that phenomenology, which has not...

The articles in this volume reflect upon the intersections of corporeity and affectivity in Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology. They illuminate the meaning of his phenomenology regarding corporeity and affectivity from various phenomenological perspectives. Corporeity and Affectivity explores his invaluable contribution in interdisciplinary and trans-disciplinary respect, including the humanities, the arts and the sciences. Contributors include: Alexei Chernyakov (+), Jagna Brudzińska, Universitat Koln, IFiS PAN Warschau, Nicola Zippel, Sapienza University of Rome,...

Dans Silence et langage Stephen A. Noble propose une relecture de la genese de la phenomenologie de Merleau-Ponty qui analyse la place centrale du langage au sein d'une philosophie de la perception elaboree sur une solidarite du voir et du discours. En partant de La structure du comportement , et par l'intermediaire notamment des travaux de Goldstein, l'etude situe le contexte dans lequel le langage apparait comme theme majeur dans la pensee de Merleau-Ponty au sein d'un debat sur le vivant qui remonte a la philosophie kantienne. Sont reexaminees alors l'influence de la...

Phenomenological Perspectives on Plurality offers twelve essays that discuss how the question of plurality is thought in contemporary continental philosophy. In particular, its essays investigate how this issue influences topics in ontology, aesthetics, and social and political philosophy as well as other fields. In the wake of the critique of metaphysics as onto-theology, the question of plurality has become a central focus of philosophy today. This question does not only give rise to rethink the beginning of metaphysics as well as some of its basic concepts, such as the notion of...