This study, through a close reading of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus argues that Wittgenstein can be interpreted from a mystical point of view. 

In this volume, Eigen places under sustained scrutiny some of our most basic modern assumptions about inheritance, genealogy, blood relations, and racial categories in order to answer the question, what constitutes "good" bonds among humans, and what compels us to determine them so across generations as both a physical and a metaphysical attribute? 

This book is a genealogical study of confession. Drawing on the work of Michel Foucault as well as the history of Western confessional writings from Ancient Greece to contemporary pop culture, this book challenges the transhistorical and commonsense views of confession as an innate impulse resulting in the psychological liberation of the confessing subject. On the contrary, confessional desire is argued to be contingent and constraining, and alternatives to confessional subjectivity are explored.

If Edmund Husserl's true philosophy lay in his unpublished research manuscripts, as he argues, then it is in these - rather than the "introductions" and fragmentary studies he published during his lifetime - that we may possibly find a systematic of his philosophy. This work constitutes a study of the full range of Husserl's writings with the special task of uncovering there the systematic presentation or presentations of the transcendental phenomenological problematic. Sandmeyer's study contains an overview of Husserl's total set of writings, a translation of Husserl correspondence with...

In this timely study, Dodd’s chief purpose is to wrest from the phenomenological tradition a more robust and developed philosophical reflection on the problems of violence. Relying upon the work of Arendt, Sartre, Heidegger, and others, Dodd attempts to answer the question of whether we have become the dupes of violence. His thesis is that if a philosophical engagement with the problem of war is meaningful at all, then this is only because such an engagement is part of a broader reflection on the possibility of philosophy itself.

Reinterpreting Sartre's main methodologies and removing Hegelian dialectics from his notion of violence, this book demolishes the supposed hostile intersubjective relations that characterizes all concrete relations. Furthering this stance, it reconstructs an interpretation of the "violent Sartre" and crafts an alternative response: one that rejects terrorist tactics, preemptive war and Western hegemony through democratization. Based on the latest debate on Sartre's works on ethics and politics, this project examines the relevancy and new importance they hold for contemporary concerns --...