Existentialism

Walter Lowrie's classic, bestselling translation of Soren Kierkegaard's most important and popular books remains unmatched for its readability and literary quality. Fear and Trembling and The Sickness Unto Death established Kierkegaard as the father of...

Max van Manen offers an extensively updated edition of Phenomenology of Practice: Meaning-Giving Methods in Phenomenological Research and Writing to provide an eloquent, accessible, and detailed approach to practicing phenomenology.Phenomenology of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451236296Author Michael S BerlinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint New American LibraryPublisher New American LibraryWeight(grams) 385g

In 1961 the prolific French intellectual Jean-Paul Sartre was invited to give a talk at the Gramsci Institute in Rome. In attendance were some of Italy's leading Marxist thinkers such as Enzo Paci, Cesare Luporini, Galvano Della Volpe and Lucio Colletti,...

Whether framed philosophically as "Why is there a world rather than nothing at all?" or more colloquially as "But, Mommy, who made God?" the metaphysical mystery about how we came into existence remains the most fractious and fascinating question of all...

Soren Kirkegaard and Maurice Blondel are positioned together in a dialogue regarding the vision of the supernatural. Maurice Ashley Agbaw-Ebai draws from this a sharper image of the preeminent place religious experience possesses in human life and...

Few philosophers held greater fascination for Jacques Derrida than Martin Heidegger, and in this book we get an extended look at Derrida's first real encounters with him. Delivered over nine sessions in 1964 and 1965 at the cole Normale Sup rieure,...

How Non-being Haunts Being reveals how the human world is not reducible to "what is." Human life is an open expanse of "what was" and "what will be," "what might be" and "what should be." It is a world of desires, dreams, fictions, historical figures,...

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,...

Presenting case studies of schizophrenic patients, Laing aims to make madness and the process of going mad comprehensible. He also offers an existential analysis of personal alienation.About the AuthorR.D. Laing, one of the best-known psychiatrists of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394743172Author Viktor E. FranklFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 278gDimensions(mm)...

This book presents a full decade of Sartre's work, from the publication of the Critique of Dialectical Reason in 1960, the basic philosophical turning-point in his postwar development, to the inception of his major study on Flaubert, the first volumes of...

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...

How four of Europe's most mysterious and fascinating writers shaped the modern mind.Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Kafka were all outsiders in their societies, unable to fit into the accepted nineteenth-century categories of theology,...

On Inception is a translation of Martin Heidegger's ber den Anfang (GA 70). This work belongs to the crucial period, before and during WWII, when Heidegger was at work on a series of treatises that begins with "Contributions to Philosophy" and includes...

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How the phenomenology of pain allows us to rethink human incarnation While the phenomenological tradition has carefully treated both the objective and the lived body, Espen Dahl explores a dimension of the body that does not fall neatly into either...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438448640Author Kris SealeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Heidegger’s Being and Time is one of the most influential and controversial philosophical treatises of the 20th century. But what exactly are the ideas that so profoundly impacted Sartre’s existentialism, influenced Gadamer’s hermeneutics, and...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399504249Author Kelli FueryFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

Kierkegaard, Literature, and the Arts is a collection of fourteen essays that illuminate the broad and often underappreciated variety of the nineteenth-century Danish thinker Soren Kierkegaard's engagements with literature and the arts. These essays,...

In the rigorous and highly original Self-Awareness and Alterity, Dan Zahavi provides a sustained argument that phenomenology, especially in its Husserlian version, can contribute something decisive to the analysis of self-awareness.Taking on recent...

In Kierkegaard's Romantic Legacy, Anoop Gupta develops an original theory of the self based on Kierkegaard's writings. Gupta proceeds by historical exegesis and considers several important ways of thinking about self outside of the natural sciences. His...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780773529878Author George PattisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint McGill-Queen's University PressPublisher McGill-Queen's University Press

The Disinterested Witness is a detailed, contextual, and interpretive study of the concept of saksin (or that which directly or immediately perceives) in Advaita Vedanta, and a significant comparison of the philosophies of the East and West. Central to...

A novel inquiry into the possibility and viability of existentialist ethics.Book InformationISBN 9780773531383Author Christine DaigleFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint McGill-Queen's University PressPublisher McGill-Queen's University...

This book looks to existential thinkers for reasons to hope immortal life could be worth living. It injects new arguments and insights into the debate about the desirability of immortality, and tackles related issues such as boredom, personal identity,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780880101158Author Jochen BockemuhlFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint SteinerBooks, IncPublisher Anthroposophic Press Inc

A bold new conception of Heidegger’s project of Destruktion as a method of interpreting history For Martin Heidegger, our inherited traditions provide the concepts through which we make our world intelligible. Concepts we can also oppose, disrupt, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487592318Author Frederick Temple KingstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto...

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Embodied Idealism argues that Maurice Merleau-Ponty's early thought - primarily as found in The Structure of Behavior and Phenomenology of Perception - stands as a form of transcendental idealism. This interpretation runs against the grain of much of the...

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,...

A structural syllabus combined with child-centred activities.Book InformationISBN 9780194351089Author Liz DriscollFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 261g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375759895Author Gordon MarinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm) 202mm...

This is an introduction to one of Nietzsche's most important works - a key text in nineteenth-century philosophy. Friedrich Nietzsche was arguably the most important and influential thinker of the nineteenth century. "The Birth of Tragedy", his first...

Philosopher Terry Pinkard revisits Sartre's later work, illuminating a pivotal stance in Sartre's understanding of freedom and communal action. Jean-Paul Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason, released to great fanfare in 1960, has since then receded...