Existentialism

'One of the most profound and potentially life-altering encounters I've had' Sophie McBain, GuardianA user's guide to the everyday challenges of living, which looks to philosophy to reframe the way we understand ourselves and our relationshipsHow can we...

Comparative readings offer an accessible introduction and shed light on Heidegger's thought by examining it in the context of the work of other philosophers.This collection of comparative essays by the late Robert E. Wood puts Martin Heidegger in...

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Using elements of Ricoeur's thought, psychoanalysts respond as both theoreticians and clinicians to his groundbreaking dialogue.Beginning with Sigmund Freud, the relationship between philosophy and psychoanalysis has fallen short of its mutually...

This book develops an ontological approach to understanding existential intelligence and its connections to democracy and education, and argues that it is essential to our capacity for co-existing peacefully and living collectively with human and...

What if you could walk through Greece with Martin Heidegger, engage him in dialogue, and explore the depths of his masterpiece, Being and Time? This volume invites you on an imaginary journey alongside the philosopher, where each stop becomes an...

Translation of Carlo Sini's reading of Plato's Republic as the foundation of Western anthropology.On Political Virtue is Carlo Sini's masterful reading of Plato's Republic as the foundation of both Western politics and anthropology. In his long career,...

Offers a description of what happens to survivors after a death, based on the effect this death has on the survivor's relation to the spatial and temporal world occupied after the loss of the deceased.A Death of the World offers a phenomenological...

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Aurel Kolnai was born in Budapest, in 1900 and died in London, in 1973. He was, according to Karl Popper and the late Bernard Williams, one of the most original, provocative, and sensitive philosophers of the twentieth century. Kolnai's moral philosophy...

In an era dominated by technological advancement and standardization, phenomenology offers crucial insights into teacher and learner experiences. This book explores how phenomenological perspectives can transform educational understanding, particularly...

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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...

Drawing a link between music and what Maurice Merleau-Ponty calls the habit body - a quasi-transcendental structure at the heart of our perceptual, social, and agential being - this book helps articulate why music has the power to express as well as...

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Sartre and Foucault were two of the most prominent and at times mutually antagonistic philosophical figures of the twentieth century. And nowhere are the antithetical natures of their existentialist and poststructuralist philosophies more apparent than...

Although Martin Heidegger is nearly as notorious as Friedrich Nietzsche for embracing the death of God, the philosopher himself acknowledged that Christianity accompanied him at every stage of his career. In Heidegger's Confessions, Ryan Coyne isolates a...

This text explores how phenomenology might lead to monadological metaphysics, and conversely, how monadology might be helpful to nonmetaphysical thinking. Little has been published (especially in English) on the connections between these two fields and...

Phenomenology, New Materialism, and Advances In the Pulsatile Imaginary: Rites Of Disimagination brings together scholars from art history and image theory, literary studies and philosophy. Chapters of this volume engage with the overarching theme of...

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This textbook introduces you to existentialist philosophical theory and its cultural influence. The first part of the book offers an introductory overview of the 19th century historical roots of existentialist thought and chapters on all the key...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798881803728Author J. Moufawad-PaulFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781793640598Author Adam J GravesFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington Books

Bringing together leading international and interdisciplinary scholars, this ground-breaking volume examines the theory and practice of philosophical health in contemporary contexts of care broadly understood, care for the self, care for the other, and...

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This volume contains for the first time in English, Jan Patocka's seminal essay "The Phenomenology of Afterlife", as well as contributions surrounding and analyzing this text. In his essay, Patocka reflects on our relation to the dead and on how the...

This book is an investigation into cultural variations in experiences of depression. Examining first-person accounts of depressed persons in Iran alongside similar previously studied data from the UK, the book highlights the cultural shaping at the heart...

In a "return" to Edmund Husserl and Sigmund Freud, Intimacy and the Anxieties of Cinematic Flesh explores how we can engage these foundational thinkers of phenomenology and psychoanalysis in an original approach to film. The idea of the intimate...

Phenomenology research design is often very difficult for the novice researcher to grasp, particularly when the researcher has little to no background in philosophy. As such, dissertation students tend to struggle with the design throughout the entire...

An ambitious venture into Nietzsche's envisioned philosophy for the future. Nietzsche advocated for a post-theistic "philosophy of the future"-a new approach to human reality that would bend Western thought away from nihilism in a life-affirming,...

Our lives take shape around identities. Race, religion, sexual orientation, and other collective identities impose scripts that dictate how we should think, act, and associate. African Americans should support reparations and affirmative action...

'Existentialist thought [...] is an effort to reconcile the objective and the subjective, the absolute and the relative, the timeless and the historical.' Simone de BeauvoirIn the aftermath of the Second World War, a group of intellectuals gathered to...

Jean-Luc Marion has long endeavored to broaden our view of truth. In this illuminating new book-his deepest engagement with theology to date-Marion proposes a rigorous new understanding of human and divine revelation in a deeply phenomenological key. ...

Empathy (Einfuhlung)-as a crucial concept for understanding ourselves, others, and communities-was a central topic of interest in the first half of the twentieth century amongst philosophers and in the emerging sciences of psychology and sociology. Edith...

The Lived Experience of Forgiveness: Phenomenological and Psychological Perspectives remedies the absence of systematic research on the experience of forgiveness by bringing together the work of five psychologists, one philosopher, and one theologian...

For Kierkegaard the most important thing in life is to become a single individual or a true self. We are all born as human beings, but this makes us only members of a crowd, not true selves. To become a true self, we must transcend what we are at any...

This anthology of classic essays focuses on the philosophy of Edmund Husserl and the philosophical movement to which his writings gave impetus: phenomenology. Sixty contributions from a wide variety of scholars provide an introduction to phenomenology...

In the philosophical literature, it is customary to think of perception as being assessable with respect to epistemic norms. E.g., the whole discussion around disjunctivism, which is now often considered to be the dominant, if not the default position in...