Kategoria BISAC: Philosophy >> Movements - Phenomenology

• Written by a team of leading scholars, including Dagfinn Follesdal, J. N. Mohanty, Robert Solomon, Jean-Luc Marion
• Highlights the area of overlap between the two movements
• Features longer essays discussing each of the main schools of thought, shorter essays introducing prominent themes, and problem-oriented chapters
• Organised topically, around concepts such as temporality, intentionality, death and nihilism
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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.

As witnessed by recent films such as Fight Club and Identity, our culture is obsessed with multiple personality-a phenomenon raising intriguing questions about personal identity. This study offers both a full-fledged philosophical theory of personal identity and a systematic account of multiple personality. Gunnarsson combines the methods of analytic philosophy with close hermeneutic and phenomenological readings of cases from different fields, focusing on psychiatric and psychological treatises, self-help books, biographies, and fiction. He develops an original account...

In recent years there has been a great deal of talk about a possible death of art. As the title of Heidegger s The Origin of the Work of Art suggests, the essay challenges such talk, just as it in turn is challenged by such talk, talk that is supported by the current state of the art-world. It was Hegel, who most profoundly argued that the shape of our modern world no longer permits us to grant art the significance it once possessed. Hegel s proclamation of the end of art in its highest sense shadows this commentary, as it shadows Heidegger s essay. Heidegger s problematic turn from the...

Until now, little has been done to address these arguments in a unified and systematic way. Ordinary Objects is...

Krakow was the setting of the August 2008 conference on Phenomenology and Existentialism from which the papers in this and two succeeding volumes were drawn. Phenomenology and Existentialism had strikingly different inspirations and yet the two waves of thought became closely linked as both movements flourished in the mid-twentieth century. Time has given us greater perspective on that interaction. Piotr Mroz s study in this first volume -- "What Does It Mean To Be an Existentialist Today?" -- shows the distance we have traveled. It was thought that a conference devoted to these movements...

First published in 1984, Cultural Analysis is a systematic examination of the theories of culture contained in the writings of four contemporary social theorists: Peter L. Berger, Mary Douglas, Michel Foucault, and Jurgen Habermas.

This study of their work clarifies their contributions to the analysis of culture and shows the converging assumptions that the authors believe are laying the foundation for a new approach to the study of culture. The focus is specifically on culture, a concept that remains subject to ambiguities of treatment, and concentrates on questions...

"Institution and Passivity" is based on course notes for classes taught at the Bibliotheque Nationale de Paris. Philosophically, this collection connects the issue of passive constitution of meaning with the dimension of history, furthering discussions and completing arguments started in "The Visible and the Invisible" and "Signs "(both published by Northwestern). Leonard Lawlor and Heath Massey s translation makes available to an English-speaking readership a critical transitional text in the history of phenomenology.
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