The first collection of Gendlin's groundbreaking essays in philosophical psychology, Saying What We Mean casts familiar areas of human experience, such as language and feeling, in a radically different light. Instead of the familiar emphasis on the conceptually explicit in an era of scientism, Gendlin shows that the implicit also comprises a structure available for recognition and analysis.
The first collection of Gendlin's groundbreaking essays in philosophical psychology, Saying What We Mean casts familiar areas of human experience, suc...
Alarming environmental degradation makes ever more urgent the reconciliation of political economy and sustainability. Land and the Given Economy examines how the landed basis of human existence converges with economics, and it offers a persuasive new conception of land that transcends the flawed and inadequate accounts in classical and neoclassical economics.
Todd S. Mei grounds this work in a rigorous review of problematic economic conceptions of land in the work of John Locke, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, Henry George, Alfred Marshall, and...
Alarming environmental degradation makes ever more urgent the reconciliation of political economy and sustainability. Land and the Given Economy...
Christophe Bouton's Time and Freedom addresses the problem of the relationship between time and freedom as a matter of practical philosophy, examining how the individual lives time and how her freedom is effective in time. Bouton first charts the history of modern philosophy's reengagement with the Aristotelian debate about future contingents, beginning with Leibniz. While Kant, Husserl, and their followers would engage time through theories of knowledge, Schopenhauer, Schelling, Kierkegaard, and (later), Heidegger, Sartre, and Levinas applied a phenomenological and existential...
Christophe Bouton's Time and Freedom addresses the problem of the relationship between time and freedom as a matter of practical philosophy, ex...
By virtue of the originality and depth of its thought, Emmanuel Levinas s masterpiece, Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority, is destined to endure as one of the great works of philosophy. It is an essential text for understanding Levinas s discussion of the Other, yet it is known as a difficult book. Modeled after Norman Kemp Smith s commentary on Kant s Critique of Pure Reason, Levinas s Existential Analytic guides both new and experienced readers through Levinas s text. James R. Mensch explicates Levinas s arguments and shows their historical referents, particularly...
By virtue of the originality and depth of its thought, Emmanuel Levinas s masterpiece, Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority, is desti...
Heidegger s later thought is a thinking of things, so argues Andrew J. Mitchell in The Fourfold. Heidegger understands these things in terms of what he names the fourfold a convergence of relationships bringing together the earth, the sky, divinities, and mortals and Mitchell s book is the first detailed exegesis of this neglected aspect of Heidegger s later thought. As such it provides entree to the full landscape of Heidegger s postwar thinking, offering striking new interpretations of the atomic bomb, technology, plants, animals, weather, time, language, the holy, mortality, dwelling,...
Heidegger s later thought is a thinking of things, so argues Andrew J. Mitchell in The Fourfold. Heidegger understands these things in terms of wha...
Michel Henry defends the illuminating thesis that Incarnation is not existence in a body, but existence in the flesh. It is not in a body that flesh appears originally, but being in the flesh that comes first. For only in flesh can one see or touch, feel joy or sorrow, hunger or thirst and undergo each of these impressions as one s own. But how does flesh come into this condition? How is life given to it so that it can feel itself, or anything else, in this way? Christianity s fundamental thesis, on which its fate plays out in every generation, is that the Word was made flesh. Henry then...
Michel Henry defends the illuminating thesis that Incarnation is not existence in a body, but existence in the flesh. It is not in a body that fles...
In At the Heart of Reason," Claude Romano boldly calls for a reformulation of the phenomenological project. He contends that the main concern of phenomenology, and its originality with respect to other philosophical movements of the last century, such as logical empiricism, the grammatical philosophy of Wittgenstein, and varieties of neo-Kantianism, was to provide a "new image of Reason."
Against the common view, which restricts the range of reason to logic and truth-theory alone, Romano advocates "big-hearted rationality," including in it what is only ostensibly its opposite, that is,...
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In At the Heart of Reason," Claude Romano boldly calls for a reformulation of the phenomenological project. He contends that the main concern of p...
Feminist Experiences develops and defends a distinctive understanding of feminist philosophy as social critique. Feminist philosophy is essentially a political endeavor, Johanna Oksala argues, aiming to expose, analyze, and ultimately change gendered power relations. However, such an understanding of feminist philosophy raises a host of theoretical problems and paradoxes. Oksala investigates the philosophical challenges and outlines the ontological presuppositions and methodological innovations the project requires.
Drawing on conceptual tools from the thought of Michel...
Feminist Experiences develops and defends a distinctive understanding of feminist philosophy as social critique. Feminist philosophy is esse...
The first text to critically discuss Edmund Husserl's concept of the "life-world," The Natural World as a Philosophical Problem reflects Jan Patocka's youthful conversations with the founder of phenomenology and two of his closest disciples, Eugen Fink and Ludwig Landgrebe. Now available in English for the first time, this translation includes an introduction by Landgrebe and two self-critical afterwords added by Patocka in the 1970s. Unique in its extremely broad range of references, the work addresses the views of Russell, Wittgenstein, and Carnap alongside Husserl and Heidegger, in...
The first text to critically discuss Edmund Husserl's concept of the "life-world," The Natural World as a Philosophical Problem reflects Jan Pa...
A foundational text by Eugene Gendlin, increasingly recognised as one of the most original contemporary thinkers, A Process Model demonstrates how human behaving, perceiving, speaking, and everyday living arise from body-environment interaction. Gendlin creates ""an alternative model in which we define living bodies in such a way that one of them can be ours.
A foundational text by Eugene Gendlin, increasingly recognised as one of the most original contemporary thinkers, A Process Model demonstrates how hum...
