Existentialism

This study explores the increasingly troubled relationship between humankind and the Earth, with the help of a simple example and a complicated interlocutor. The example is a pond, which, it turns out, is not so simple as it seems. The interlocutor is...

The relationship of philosophy with Kafka's oeuvre is complex. It has been argued that Kafka's novels and stories defy philosophic extrapolation; conversely, it has also been suggested that precisely the tendency of Kafka's writings to elude discursive...

This edited volume presents the life and thought of Kurt H. Wolff, a Jewish refugee from Darmstadt, a student of Karl Mannheim, practitioner of the sociology of knowledge, translator of the classic works of Simmel, Durkheim, and Mannheim, and creator of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781419641756Author Paul DevlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 277g

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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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538193495Author Gary CoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

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A philosophically and medically informed response to the physical vulnerabilities of our existence As we grapple with the impacts of an aging population, the millions who struggle with chronic pain and illness, and the unknown number of COVID survivors...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538193488Author Gary CoxFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

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The How to Read series provides a context and an explanation that will facilitate and enrich your understanding of texts vital to the canon. These books use excerpts from the major texts to explain essential topics, such as Jean-Paul Sartre's pioneering...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991481132Author Dr Max MalikowFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Theocentric Publishing GroupPublisher Theocentric Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 109g

Armstrong suggests that James's perspective is essentially phenomenological--that his understanding of the process of knowing, the art of fiction, and experience as a whole coincides in important ways with the ideas of the leading phenomenologists. He...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977124329Author Stephan PachecoFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Pacheco Humility FoundationPublisher Pacheco Humility FoundationWeight(grams) 281g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806530895Author D McElroyFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Philosophical LibraryPublisher Philosophical LibraryWeight(grams) 89g

Originally published in 1998, The Phenomenology of Modern Legal Discourse recovers the suffering which is concealed as lawyers, judges and other legal officials resignify a harm through the special vocabulary and grammar which constitutes legal language...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615490540Author Matthew-Donald Deberardinis SangsterFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Mama Sangster PublicationsPublisher Mama Sangster...

Intercultural Phenomenology explores the nature of reality by engaging in a cross-cultural dialogue between two of the most influential philosophical traditions of the 20th century. Drawing on ideas from phenomenology, Japanese philosophy and Zen...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538166130Author Tendayi SitholeFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

In this essential early work, the preeminent European philosopher Peter Sloterdijk offers a cross-cultural and transdisciplinary meditation on humanity's tendency to refuse the world. Developing the first seeds of his anthropotechnics, Sloterdijk...

In this essential early work, the preeminent European philosopher Peter Sloterdijk offers a cross-cultural and transdisciplinary meditation on humanity's tendency to refuse the world. Developing the first seeds of his anthropotechnics, Sloterdijk...

The holy (Being-as-the-holy) is a distinctive theme in Heidegger’s work that is perhaps well-known to readers, yet not attended to sufficiently in contemporary Heidegger studies. The essays in this volume, authored by an international group of scholars,...

Emilio Uranga, a founding member of the famed el grupo Hiperión, devoted his life to characterizing the nuances and uniqueness of Mexican existence. His landmark book, Análisis del ser del mexicano became an instant classic. This is the first English...

This is an innovative work in Africana philosophical thought that links the phenomenon of nihilism in black America, in particular black American youth, to modern traditions of Western philosophy. Black Nihilism and Antiblack Racism engages defining...

The topic of revelation is fundamental to any account of religious experience, playing a special role in the Judeo-Christian tradition where the texts of Scripture are regarded as revealed. Yet, any reflection on the revealed status of a given message or...

A Phenomenology for Women of Color: Merleau-Ponty and Identity in Difference explores how phenomenology can help philosophy of race explain the persistence of race as a key indicator of social standing through lived experiences. Engaging with the work of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538153499Author Devon JohnsonFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538174616Author Michael J MonahanFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

Mabogo P. More: Philosophical Anthropology is the first book to provide an extensive treatment of More's Africana existential thought. This book locates him, as it is clear in his body of work, in the Azanian (Black and Indigenous) existential tradition...

Jean-Paul Sartre’s work has been taken up by writers outside of Europe, particularly in the Global South, who have developed phenomenological and existential analyses of racism, colonialism, and other structures of domination. Sartre’s philosophical...

The history of slavery, colonization, subjugation, gratuitous violence, and the denial of basic human rights to people of African descent has led Afro-Pessimists to look at black existence through the lens of white supremacy and anti-blackness. Against...

This volume fills a lamentable gap in the philosophical literature by providing a collection of writings from the pivotal generation of thinkers between Kant and Hegel. It includes some of Hegel's earliest critical writings--which reveal much about his...

Oppression and the Human Condition is both a valuable teaching tool and an insightful addition to scholarship on the philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre. Students and teachers will find it an excellent and accessible introduction to Sartre's existentialism,...

Albert approaches critical rationalism as an alternative to other philosophical standpoints dominant in Germany: the conceptions of the Frankfurt School, hermeneutical thinking as represented by Gadamer, analytic philosophy, and logical empiricism. The...

Drawing on previously unexplored sources, Kerry H. Whiteside presents the political theory of Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961), one of France's best-known twentieth-century philosophers. Whiteside argues that Merleau-Ponty's objective in his political...

In 1974, thirty-year-old philosopher and translator David Farrell Krell began corresponding and meeting with Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt. Years later, he would meet Jacques Derrida and, through many letters and visits, come to know him well...

A distinctive focus of 19th- and 20th-century Latin American philosophy is the convergence of identity formation and political liberation in ethnically and racially diverse postcolonial contexts. From this perspective, Omar Rivera interprets how a...

Plants are commonly considered immobile, in contrast to humans and other animals. But vegetal existence involves many place-based forms of change: stems growing upward, roots spreading outward, fronds unfurling in response to sunlight, seeds traveling...