This book sets out a new reading of the much-neglected philosophy of Karl Jaspers. By questioning the common perception of Jaspers either as a proponent of irrationalist cultural philosophy or as an early, peripheral disciple of Martin Heidegger, it re-establishes him as a central figure in modern European philosophy.
Giving particular consideration to his position in epistemological, metaphysical and political debate, the author argues that Jaspers's work deserves renewed consideration in a number of important discussions, particularly in hermeneutics, anthropological reflections on religion, the critique of idealism, and debates on the end of metaphysics.

Contents:
Editor's Introduction: 'What is Phenomenology?' Dermot Moran
1. Franz Brentano: Intentionality and the Project of Descriptive Psychology: 1. 'Foreword to the 1874 Edition of Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint' F. Brentano 2. 'The Distinction between Physical and Psychical Phenomena' F. Brentano 3. 'Descriptive Psychology or Descriptive Phenomenology' F. Brentano 4. 'Letter to Anton Marty, 17 March 1905' F. Brentano 2. Edmund Husserl: Founder of Phenomenology: 5. 'Introduction to the Logical Investigations' E. Husserl 6. 'Consciousness as Intentional Experience' E. Husserl 7. 'The Phenomenology of Internal Time Consciousness' E. Husserl 8. 'Pure Phenomenology, its Method and its Field of Investigation' E. Husserl 9. 'Noesis and Noema' E. Husserl 10. 'The Way into Phenomenological Transcendental Philosophy by Inquiring into the Pregiven Life-World' E. Husserl 3. Adolf Reinach: The Phenomenology of Social Acts: 11. 'Concerning Phenomenology' A. Reinach 4. Max Scheler: Phenomenology of the Person: 12. 'The Being of the Person' M. Scheler 5. Edith Stein: Phenomenology and the Interpersonal: 13. ''I' and Living Body' E. Stein 6. Martin Heidegger: Hermeneutical Phenomenology and Fundamental Ontology: 14. 'My Way to Phenomenology' M. Heidegger 15. 'The Fundamental Discoveries of Phenomenology, its Principle and the Clarification of its Name' M. Heidegger 16. 'Being and Time 7: The Phenomenological Method of Investigation' M. Heidegger 17. 'The Worldhood of the World' M. Heidegger 7. Hans-Georg Gadamer: Phenomenology, Hermeneutics and Tradition: 18. 'Elements of a Theory of Hermeneutic Experience' H-G. Gadamer 8. Hannah Arendt: Phenomenology of the Public World: 19. 'What is Existenz Philosophy?' H. Arendt 20. 'Labor, Work, Action' H. Arendt 9. Jean-Paul Sartre: Transendence and Freedom: 21. 'Intentionality: A Fundamental Idea of Husserl's Philosophy' Jean-Paul Sartre 22. 'The Transcendence of the Ego' Jean-Paul Sartre 23. 'Bad Faith' Jean-Paul Sartre 10. Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Embodied Perception 24. 'The Body as Object and Mechanistic Physiology' Maurice Merleau-Ponty 25. 'The Primacy of Perception' Maurice Merleau-Ponty 11. Simone de Beauvoir: Phenomenology and Feminism: 26. 'Destiny' Simone De Beauvoir 27. 'Women's Situation and Character' Simone De Beauvoir 12. Emmanuel Levinas: The Primacy of the Other: 28. 'Ethics and the Face' Emmanuel Levinas 29. 'Beyond Intentionality' Emmanuel Levinas 13. Jacques Derrida: Phenomenology and Deconstruction: 30. 'Signs and the Blink of an Eye' Jacques Derrida 31. 'Differance' Jacques Derrida 14. Paul Ricoeur: Phenomenology as Interpretation: 'Phenomenology and Hermeneutics' Paul Ricoeur

Jean-Paul Sartre originally made the term 'engagement' part of the existentialist vocabulary following WWII. It implies the responsibility of intervening in social or political conflicts in the hope of fostering freedom. Imagining the Possible opens different windows upon this particular engagement.

The book presents a new conceptual framework and a set of research principles with which to study and interpret technology from a phenomenological perspective. The author is explicitly concerned with studying ancient technological practices but the general concept of technology forms the centrepiece of discussion and is defined as an explicitly social, symbolic, and embodied endeavour that simultaneously brings into being both human agents and their material world.

Dobres argues that, for ancient technologies and products to be fully understood, we need to appreciate the historically constituted ways in which social agency, technical knowledge and the gestural acts of artefact production and use were socially meaningful and, thus, politically charged.

In the first two volumes of "Technics and Time," Bernard Stiegler worked carefully through Heidegger's and Husserl's relationship to technics and technology. Here, in volume three, he turns his attention to the prolematic relationship to technics he finds in Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason," particularly in the two versions of the Transcendental Deduction. Stiegler relates this problematic to the "cinematic nature" of time, which precedes cinema itself but reaches an apotheosis in it as the "exteriorization process" of schema, through tertiary retentions and their mechanisms. The book focuses on the relationship between these themes and the "culture industry"-- as defined by Adorno and Horkheimer--that has supplanted the educational institutions on which genuine cultural participation depends. This displacement, Stiegler says, has produced a malaise from which current global culture suffers. The result is potentially catastrophic.

This volume develops a historically informed phenomenology of caste and untouchability. It explores the idea of 'Brahmin' and the practice of untouchability by offering a scholarly reading of ancient and medieval texts. By going beyond the notions of purity and pollution, it presents a new framework of understanding relationships between social groups and social categories. An important intervention in the study of caste and untouchability, this book will be an essential read for the scholars and researchers of political studies, political philosophy, cultural studies, Dalit studies, Indology, sociology, social anthropology and Ambedkar studies.

The oeuvre of Alain Badiou has gained international success and recognition, but most of the secondary literature focuses on internal problems of Badiou's philosophy, rather than its position within a broader philosophical genealogy. This book unites philosophers from Germany, Slovenia, the UK, Australia and France, to trace the relation between elements of Badiou's philosophy and the German philosophical tradition, namely the three significant movements of German Idealism, Phenomenology, Marxism and the Frankfurt School. This is a discussion that has not yet been established, although the parallels and decisive differences between poststructuralist French philosophy and German philosophy are apparent. Through these paradigms - Badiou's reception of German Idealism, Marxism, Adorno and the Critical Theory, and Heideggerian phenomenology - the authors shed light onto Badiou's inheritance of and engagement with these specific traditions, but also highlight the links between these philosophies to open up new questions for contemporary continental thought. With an original chapter from Alain Badiou himself, looking back at his influences and antagonisms within the German tradition, this book is essential for readers interested in the exploration of Badiou's legacy. It illustrates the continuation of poststructuralist philosophy, Critical Theory and the Frankfurt School, assessing the place of classic continental philosophy to tackle how we might benefit from these intellectual exchanges today.

First published in 1990, "Existentialism" is widely regarded as a classic introductory survey of the topic, and has helped to renew interest in existentialist philosophy. Utilizing recently published primary sources, David E. Cooper provides a sympathetic, original account of a mainstream movement of philosophical thought, reconstructed from the best writing of Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and others. Existentialism is viewed as the attempt to "overcome" various forms of alienation: from the world, one another and oneself.The early chapters describe the existential phenomenology, on the basis of which the dualisms of Cartesian metaphysics are "dissolved". Discussions of the self and others, and of "Angst" and absurdity, lead into chapters on existential freedom and the prospects for an existentialist ethics. Writers discussed, include Husserl, Jaspers, Buber, Marcel, and Ortega. The author places existentialism within the great traditions of philosophy, and argues that it deserves as much attention from analytic philosophers as it has always received on the continent.

Philosophical debates, many of them involving the appropriation of modern Western philosophical doctrines, are a crucial element shaping the intellectual and practical behaviour of many thinkers in the Islamicate world and their audiences. One Western philosopher currently receiving a particularly lively reception throughout the Islamicate world is Martin Heidegger. This book explores various aspects of the reception of Heidegger's thought in the Arabic, Iranian, Turkish, and South Asian intellectual context. Expert Heidegger scholars from across the Islamicate world introduce and discuss approaches to Heidegger's philosophy that operationalize, recontextualize, or review it critically in the light of Islamic and Islamicate traditions. In doing so, this book imparts knowledge of the history and present situation of Heidegger's reception in the Islamicate world and suggests new pathways for the future of Heidegger Studies - pathways that associate Heidegger's thought with the challenges presently faced by the Islamicate world.

This work discusses philosophical problems of perceptual content, the content of deomonstrative thoughts, and the unity of proposition. By demonstrating a connection between phenomenology and analysis, Kelly suggests ways in which they can be fruitfully pursued.

An intense "genealogical" reconstruction of Camus's political thinking challenging the philosophical import of his writings as providing an alternative, "aesthetic" understanding of politics, political action and freedom outside and against the nihilistic categories of modern political philosophy and the contemporary "politics of contempt" and terrorisms

This edited collection re-examines the global impact of Sartre's philosophy from 1944-68. From his emergence as an eminent philosopher, dramatist, and novelist, to becoming the 'world's conscience' through his political commitment, Jean-Paul Sartre shaped the mind-set of a generation, influencing writers and thinkers both in France and far beyond. Exploring the presence of existentialism in literature, theatre, philosophy, politics, psychology and film, the contributors seek to discover what made Sartre's philosophy so successful outside of France. With twenty diverse chapters encompassing the US, Europe, the Middle East, East Asia and Latin America, the volume analyses the dissemination of existentialism through literary periodicals, plays, universities and libraries around the world, as well as the substantial challenges it faced. The global post-war surge of existentialism left permanent traces in history, exerting considerable influence on our way of life in its quest for authenticity and freedom. This timely and compelling volume revives the path taken by a philosophical movement that continues to contribute to the anti-discrimination politics of today.

This book presents the first comparative study of the works of Charlotte Delbo, Noor Inayat Khan, and Germaine Tillion in relation to their vigorous struggles against Nazi aggression during World War II and the Holocaust. It illuminates ways in which their early lives conditioned both their political engagements during wartime and their extraordinary literary creations empowered by what Lara R. Curtis refers to as modes of 'writing resistance.' With skillful recourse to a remarkable variety of genres, they offer compelling autobiographical reflections, vivid chronicles of wartime atrocities, eyewitness accounts of victims, and acute perspectives on the political implications of major events. Their sensitive reflections of gendered subjectivity authenticate the myriad voices and visions they capture. In sum, this book highlights the lives and works of three courageous women who were ceaselessly committed to a noble cause during the Holocaust and World War II.

In Pathways into the Jungian World contributors from the disciplines of medicine, psychology and philosophy look at the central issues of commonality and difference between phenomenology and analytical psychology.
The major theme of the book is how existential phenomenology and analytical psychology have been involved in the same fundamental cultural and therapeutic project - both legitimize the subtlety, complexity and depth of experience in an age when the meaning of experience has been abandoned to the dictates of pharmaceutical technology, economics and medical psychiatry. The contributors reveal how Jung's relationship to the phenomenological tradition can be, and is being, developed, and rigorously show that the psychological resonance of the world is immediately available for phenomenological description.

Phenomenology offers the Jungian psychologist a philosophical underpinning to clinical practice and theorizing which emphasizes the claims and integrity of experience. What analytical psychology offers the phenomenologist is psychological insight into the complexity and imaginal structure of experience itself. In Thoughts Along the Edge contributors from the disciplines of medicine, psychology and philosophy look at the central issues of commonality and difference.
The major theme of the book is how existential phenomenology and analytical psychology have been involved in the same fundamental cultural and therapeutic project - both legitimize the subtlety, complexity and depth of experience in an age when the meaning of experience has been abandoned to the dictates of pharmaceutical technology, economics and medial psychiatry.

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Introduction to Phenomenology is an outstanding and comprehensive guide to phenomenology. Dermot Moran lucidly examines the contributions of phenomenology's nine seminal thinkers: Brentano, Husserl, Heidegger, Gadamer, Arendt, Levinas, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and Derrida.
Written in a clear and engaging style, Introduction to Phenomenology charts the course of the phenomenological movement from its origins in Husserl to its transformation by Derrida. It describes the thought of Heidegger and Sartre, phenomonology's most famous thinkers, and introduces and assesses the distinctive use of phenomonology by some of its lesser known exponents, such as Levinas, Arendt and Gadamer. Throughout the book, the enormous influence of phenomenology on the course of twentieth-century philosophy is thoroughly explored.
This is an indispensible introduction for all unfamiliar with this much talked about but little understood school of thought. Technical terms are explained throughout and jargon is avoided. Introduction to Phenomenology will be of interest to all students seeking a reliable introduction to a key movement in European thought.

From Aristotle to the present, memory has been grasped as a trace or impression of lost reality - bridging physiological experience and consciousness. Philosophers have vainly sought the nature of this bridge. The present-day physiologizing/naturalizing of consciousness is not resolving their congenital continuity, in which the very existence and practice of life is rooted. We have to change our approach (Erwin Straus). The Aristotelian congenital ties between memory and temporality, acquire crucial significance in our primogenital ontopoiesis of life (Tymieniecka). It reveals memory to be the factor that carries this coalescence and the becoming of life itself. This can be the fruit only of the generative springs of life, first phenomenology/philosophy, the ontopoietic logos of life.

In this collection we explore memory in the constitution of reality: rememorizing and interpretation, consciousness/action, facts/imagination, history/myths, self-realization/metamorphosis.

Contents:
Husserl and the Transcendental Ego
1. The Transcendental Ego and the Epoché
2. The 'Discovery' of the Transcendental Ego
3. Directedness
4. Indubitability
5. By no means whatever something mysterious or mystical
6. Numerical Identity Over Time
7. Necessity
8. Transcendency within Immanency
The I and the Me
Summary
The Theory of the Formal Presence of the I
1. Sartre on Kant's 'I think' Doctrine
2. Is Kant's 'I think' Doctrine True?
3. Is Kant's 'I think' Doctrine Purely Formal?
4. Hypostatisation
5. Subjectivity and Synthesis
6. The Unity of Conciousness
7. Sartre's Holism
8. Consciousness Makes Itself
9. Individuality
10. Pre-Reflective Consciousness
11. Conciousness Without the I
12. Consciousness With the I
13. Sartre's Cogito
14. Sartre's Retentions
15. Positional Consciousness^l 16. The Me
17. The Phenomenology of the I
18. The Ego and the Epoché
19. Consciousness and the I
20. Why the I is not the Source of Consciousness
21. Sartre's Conclusions on 'the I and the Me'
The Theory of the Material Presence of the Me
Summary
1. Sartre's Criticisms of La Rochefoucauld
2. The Autonomy of Unreflected Consciousness
3. The Constitution of the Ego
4. Consciousness and the Ego
5. The Constitution of Actions
6. The Ego as the Pole of Actions, States and Qualities
7. The Ego-World Analogy
8. Sartre and the Evil Genius
9. The Certainty of the Cogito
10. Poetic Production
11. Interiority
12. The Structure of the Interiority of the Ego
13. Self-Knowledge
14. The Ego as Ideal
15. The Ego and Reflection
16. The I and Consciousness in the Ego
Conclusions
1. A Correct Transcendental Phenomenology
2. The Refutation of Solipsism
3. A Non-Idealist Phenomenology Which Provides a Foundation for Ethics and Politics
4. Subject-Object Dualism
5. Absolute Interiority: Towards a Phenomenology of the Soul

Existentialism, as a philosophy, gained prominence after World War II. Instead of focusing upon a particular aspect of human existence, existentialists argued that our focus must be upon the whole being as he/she exists in the world. Rebelling against the rationalism of such philosophers as Descartes and Hegel, existentialists reject the emphasis placed on man as primarily a thinking being. Freedom is central to human existence, and human relations and encounters cannot be reduced simply to thinking: the whole being is involved with the progress toward freedom. This dictionary provides - through alphabetically arranged entries - overviews of the various tenants, philosophers, and writers of existentialism - and of those writers/philosophers who, in retrospect, seem to existentialists to espouse their philosophy, such as Nietzsche and Kirkegaard.

Volume XVII Part 1: Phenomenology, Idealism, and Intersubjectivity: A Festschrift in Celebration of Dermot Moran's Sixty-Fifth Birthday Part 2: The Imagination: Kant's Phenomenological Legacy Aim and Scope: The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy provides an annual international forum for phenomenological research in the spirit of Husserl's groundbreaking work and the extension of this work by such figures as Scheler, Heidegger, Sartre, Levinas, Merleau-Ponty and Gadamer.Contributors: Andreea Smaranda Aldea, Lilian Alweiss, Timothy Burns, Steven Crowell, Maxime Doyon, Augustin Dumont, Richard Kearney, Mette Lebech, Samantha Matherne, Timothy Mooney, Thomas Nenon, Matthew Ratcliffe, Alessandro Salice, Daniele De Santis, Andrea Staiti, Anthony J. Steinbock, Michela Summa, Thomas Szanto, Emiliano Trizio, and Nicolas de Warren. Submissions: Manuscripts, prepared for blind review, should be submitted to the Editors ([email protected] and [email protected]) electronically via e-mail attachments.

Introduction to Phenomenology is an outstanding and comprehensive guide to phenomenology. Dermot Moran lucidly examines the contributions of phenomenology's nine seminal thinkers: Brentano, Husserl, Heidegger, Gadamer, Arendt, Levinas, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and Derrida.
Written in a clear and engaging style, Introduction to Phenomenology charts the course of the phenomenological movement from its origins in Husserl to its transformation by Derrida. It describes the thought of Heidegger and Sartre, phenomonology's most famous thinkers, and introduces and assesses the distinctive use of phenomonology by some of its lesser known exponents, such as Levinas, Arendt and Gadamer. Throughout the book, the enormous influence of phenomenology on the course of twentieth-century philosophy is thoroughly explored.
This is an indispensible introduction for all unfamiliar with this much talked about but little understood school of thought. Technical terms are explained throughout and jargon is avoided. Introduction to Phenomenology will be of interest to all students seeking a reliable introduction to a key movement in European thought.

This book explores Edith Stein's phenomenology of the state. It features chapters on the application of Stein's political philosophy to real issues and questions affecting nations today. The contributors also situate Stein's political theory within her larger philosophical corpus. The collection examines An Investigation Concerning the State from various angles. Scholars first consider some of the direct claims Stein makes about social and political ontology. They mine her work for its implications for and applications to contemporary debates. Then, the contributors position her work in relation to other figures in phenomenology, including Edmund Husserl and Max Scheler. Finally, Stein's views are brought to bear on other disciplines, including feminism, theology, and literature. The contributors also use her theory of the state to address various contemporary issues, including bioethics and rights, globalization, as well as social and political inequality. The view of the state that emerges has implications for how we do politics and make ethical decisions. Moreover, Stein's work has an impact on our views of sociality (as opposed to the sociality of contractarian views of the state), pedagogy, women, theories of justice and law, as well as social psychology and religion. This volume helps readers better understand this vital voice in political philosophy and appeals to students, professors, and researchers working in the field.

From Soul to Self takes the reader on a fascinating journey through philosophy, theology, religious studies, and physiological sciences. Each of the essays, drawn from a number of different fields, focuses on the idea of the soul and of our sense of ourselves.
A stellar line-up of authors explore the relationship between a variety of ideas that have arisen in philosophy, religion and science, each idea seeking to explain why we think that we as individuals are somehow distinct and unique.
Contributors: Richard Sorabji, Anthony Kenny, Kallistos Ware, Peter Riviere, Gary Matthews, Susan Greenfield, Galen Strawson

Since its formulation by George Kelly in the mid-1950s Personal Construct Psychology has been distinguished by its links with general philosophy and by the philosophical richness of its fundamental postulates. Personal Construct Psychology recognizes that any attempt to understand why we behave as we do must begin with an understanding of how we create meaning. After a brief general introduction Bill Warren traces the philosophical history of Personal Construct Psychology through the broad and complex tradition of phenomenology and thinkers such as Spinoza, Hegel and Heidegger. He also gives credit to the influence of general creative and dramatic literature across a variety of cultures. Specific issues addressed in depth include the position of Personal Construct Psychology with regard to philosophy of science, cognitive science, clinical psychology, concepts of mental illness and the implications for social and political philosophy. The text should provide counsellors, therapists and students of Personal Construct Psychology with a broader appreciation of its historical and philosophical context and its importance to contemporary psychology.

This book explores what it means to exist in virtual worlds. Chiefly drawing on the philosophical traditions of existentialism, it articulates the idea that - by means of our technical equipment and coordinated practices - human beings disclose contexts or worlds in which they can perceive, feel, act, and think. More specifically, this book discusses how virtual worlds allow human beings to take new perspectives on their values and beliefs, and explore previously unexperienced ways of being. Virtual Existentialism will be useful for scholars working in the fields of philosophy, anthropology, media studies, and digital game studies.