..". a profoundly stimulating and satisfying piece of philosophy.... It is a book from which one really can learn something worthwhile." --Idealistic Studies
..". exceptionally well-written philosophy of religion... " --Mentalities
..". a most impressive phenomenology of religion... a splendid achievement... " --The Reformed Theological Review
..". challenging to scholars... interesting to general audiences." --International Journal for Philosophy of Religion
..". equal in clarity of thought and comprehensiveness of scope.... profoundly original." --The Reformed...
..". a profoundly stimulating and satisfying piece of philosophy.... It is a book from which one really can learn something worthwhile." --Idealist...
"For description and defense of the narrative configurations of everyday life, and of the practical and social character of those narratives, there is no better treatment than Time, Narrative, and History.... a clear, judicious, and truthful account, provocative from beginning to end." Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology
..". a superior work of philosophy that tells a unique and insightful story about narrative." Quarterly Journal of Speech
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"For description and defense of the narrative configurations of everyday life, and of the practical and social character of those narratives, there...
"The Structures of the Life-World "is the final focus of twenty-seven years of Alfred Schutz's labor, encompassing the fruits of his work between 1932 and his death in 1959. This book represents Schutz's seminal attempt to achieve a comprehensive grasp of the nature of social reality. Here he integrates his theory of relevance with his analysis of social structures. Thomas Luckmann, a former student of Schutz's, completed the manuscript for publication after Schutz's untimely death.
"The Structures of the Life-World "is the final focus of twenty-seven years of Alfred Schutz's labor, encompassing the fruits of his work between 1932...
Hans Jonas, a pupil of Heidegger and a colleague of Hannah Arendt at the New School for Social Research, was one of the most prominent phenomenologists of his generation. This carefully chosen anthology of Jonas's shorter writings - on topics from Jewish philosophy to philosophy of religion to philosophy of biology and social philosophy - reveals their range without obscuring their central unifying thread: that as living, biological beings, we are also beings who die, and who must consider the implications for current and future ethical and social relations.
Hans Jonas, a pupil of Heidegger and a colleague of Hannah Arendt at the New School for Social Research, was one of the most prominent phenomenologist...
A classic of phenomenology and existentialism, The Phenomenon of Life sets forth a systematic and comprehensive philosophy--an existential interpretation of biological facts laid out in support of his claim that the mind is prefigured throughout organic existence. Hans Jonas shows how life-forms present themselves on an ascending scale of perception and freedom of action, a scale reaching its apex in a human being's capacity for thought and morally responsible behavior.
A classic of phenomenology and existentialism, The Phenomenon of Life sets forth a systematic and comprehensive philosophy--an existential inte...
" Wilshire] establishes a phenomenology of theatre, a theory of enactment, and a theory of appearance, none of which American theatre... has ever had." --Performing Arts Journal
..". Wilshire makes unique contributions to understanding major aspects of the human condition in its necessary search for selfhood." --Process Studies
"It is one of the American classics." --Human Studies
" Wilshire] establishes a phenomenology of theatre, a theory of enactment, and a theory of appearance, none of which American theatre... has ever h...
