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Die Idee eines selbstandigen Bandes von "Pfander-Studien" entstand
nach dem Internationalen Kongress "Die Munchener Phanomenologie",
der an lasslich des hundertsten Geburtstags von Alexander Pfander
in Munchen stattfand. Ursprunglich war geplant, die im zweiten Teil
des Kongresses im Rahmen einer Arbeitstagung uber "Das Werk und die
Bedeutung Alexander pfanders" gehaltenen Referate, die bereits
vervielfaltigt waren, nebst Diskussionsberichten in den
vorgesehenen Gesamtband uber die Konferenz fur die Serie
Phaenomenologica einzuschlie- ssen. Als sich herausstellte, dass
der dort verfugbare Raum -fur die meisten Beitrage zu knapp
bemessen war und nur die abgekurz- ten Texte ohne Diskussion hatten
aufgenommen werden' konnen, tauchte die Idee eines gesonderten
Bandes auf. Sie fuhrte alsbald zur Erwagung neuer Beitrage und
sonstiger Hilfen fur das Ver- standnis des alten und neuen Werkes
Pfanders. Von den Kon- gressbeitragen war ohnehin der von Karl
Schuhmann ftir ein gesondertes selbstandiges Buch" Husserl uber
Pfander" vorgese- hen, das inzwischen in der Reihe Phaenomenologica
erschienen ist. 1 Der Beitrag von Peter Schwankl "Alexander
pfanders Nachlasstexte uber das virtuell Psychische" erschien im
Journal 0/ Phenomenological Psychology. 2 Die beiden einleitenden
Refe- rate von Schwankl und Spiegel berg uber die damals noch unge-
druckten Nachlasswerke Philosophie auf phanomenologischer Grundlage
und Ethik in kurzer Darstellung konnten nach deren Erscheinen
fortbleiben.
There is no author's introduction to Phenomenology and the
Foundations of the Sciences, either as published here in the first
English translation or in the standard German edition, because its
proper introduction is its companion volume: General Introduction
to Pure Phenomenology. 2 The latter is the first book of Edmund
Husserl's larger work: Ideas Toward a Pure Phenomenology and
Phenomenological Philosophy, and is commonly referred to as Ideas I
(or Ideen 1). The former is commonly called Ideen III. Between
these two parts of the whole stands a third: Phenomeno 3 logical
Investigations of Constitution, generally known as Ideen II. In
this introduction the Roman numeral designations will be used, as
well as the abbreviation PFS for the translation at hand. In many
translation projects there is an initial problem of establish ing
the text to be translated. That problem confronts translators of
the books of Husserl's Ideas in different ways. The Ideas was
written in 1912, during Husserl's years in Gottingen (1901-1916).
Books I and II were extensively revised over nearly two decades and
the changes were incorporated by the editors into the texts of the
Husserliana editions of 1950 and 1952 respectively. Manuscripts of
the various reworkings of the texts are preserved in the Husserl
Archives, but for those unable to work there the only one directly
available for Ideen II is the reconstructed one."
The phenomenological approach to the philosophy of mind, as
inaugurated by Brentano and worked out in a very sophisticated way
by Husserl, has been severely criticized by philosophers within the
Wittgensteinian tradition and, implicitly, by Wittgenstein himself.
Their criticism is, in the epistemological regard, directed against
introspectionism, and in the ontological regard, against an
internalist and qualia-friendly, non-functionalist (or: broadly
dualistic/idealistic) conception of the mind. The book examines
this criticism in detail, looking at the writings of Wittgenstein,
Ryle, Hacker, Dennett, and other authors, reconstructing their
arguments, and pointing out where they fall short of their aim. In
defending Husserl against his Wittgensteinian critics, the book
also offers a comprehensive fresh view of phenomenology as a
philosophy of mind. In particular, Husserl's
non-representationalist theory of intentionality is carefully
described in its various aspects and elucidated also with respect
to its development, taking into account writings from various
periods of Husserl's career. Last but not least, the book shows
Wittgensteinianism to be one of the effective roots of the
present-day hegemony of physicalism.
This unusual sociological study examines the issue of enchantment
in terms of habitus and charisma. It seeks to overcome a fated
notion of disenchantment in a culture of postmodernity. Crossing
between theological and sociological self-understandings of
culture, the study criticizes conventions of secularisation so as
to defend the viability of theological forms of enchantment.
Through a reading of Bourdieu, Simmel and the Swiss theologian,
Hans Urs von Balthasar, the book attempts to supply theology with
its own sociological self-understanding of religious belief and
culture, but also to give to sociology a basis of theological
reflexivity.
In Diminished Faculties Jonathan Sterne offers a sweeping cultural
study and theorization of impairment. Drawing on his personal
history with thyroid cancer and a paralyzed vocal cord, Sterne
undertakes a political phenomenology of impairment in which
experience is understood from the standpoint of a subject that is
not fully able to account for itself. He conceives of impairment as
a fundamental dimension of human experience, examining it as both
political and physical. While some impairments are enshrined as
normal in international standards, others are treated as causes or
effects of illness or disability. Alongside his fractured account
of experience, Sterne provides a tour of alternative vocal
technologies and practices; a study of "normal" hearing loss as a
cultural practice rather than a medical problem; and an intertwined
history and phenomenology of fatigue that follows the concept as it
careens from people to materials science to industrial management
to spoons. Sterne demonstrates how impairment is a problem,
opportunity, and occasion for approaching larger questions about
disability, subjectivity, power, technology, and experience in new
ways. Diminished Faculties ends with a practical user's guide to
impairment theory.
This book is a defence of the philosophy of common sense broadly in
the spirit of Thomas Reid and G.E. Moore. It breaks new ground by
drawing on the work of Aristotle, contemporary evolutionary biology
and psychology, and historical studies on the origins of early
modern philosophy. Part One offers new answers to the questions:
What counts as a common sense belief? Why should common sense
beliefs be considered default positions? And why is it that
philosophers so frequently end up denying what we all know to be
true? Part Two defends common sense beliefs from specific
challenges from prominent philosophers on topics from metaphysics
to ethics.
A close examination of Marx's dialectical method of analysis,
this studies uses the lens of current debates in cultural studies,
political economy, and critical sociology. It seeks to reanimate
Marx's theoretical reconstruction of the capitalist formation from
the point of view of recent and emerging social dynamics within
advanced consumer economies. The book consists of two parts: part
one reconstructs the defining movement of Marx's analytical
approach as a function of abstraction. It demonstrates how Marx's
method articulates a specific theory and practice of
representation--one of the several dimensions through which it
expresses an "aesthetic sensibility"; part two opens up to a
broader analysis of the continuing pertinence of Marx's method in
the analysis of contemporary global capitalism wherein cultural
production takes centre stage.
The ass had been coming the other way too long. He had none left to
spare a dime of and as they are, had come to the part he had wanted
most. It was more tours. The canceled check was of him and he wrote
it for all you had been worth, as men do there. He wanted war. I
had wanted both women and money. It was motion she was of. The
inert had died of sin. So many were it and all came to rescue the
baggage claim of it coming to the Vatican. This is sainted material
and we had not understood sexual issues were the matter in sin of
folly. So much is effected as the science of new millennia speaks
as God.
The tale is of a man who had not known why he did as he did. It
was of a nation that had been effected of that. It was a Church
that sanctified what was said of men. Send mother this.
For both continental and analytic styles of philosophy, the thought
of Martin Heidegger must be counted as one of the most important
influences in contemporary philosophy. In this book, essays by
internationally noted scholars, ranging from David B. Allison to
Slavoj Zizek, honour the interpretive contributions of William J.
Richardson's pathbreaking Heidegger: Through Phenomenology to
Thought. The essays move from traditional phenomenology to the idea
of essential (another) thinking, the questions of translation and
existential expressions of the turn of Heidegger's thought, the
intersection of politics and language, the philosophic significance
of Jacques Lacan, and several essays on science and technology. All
show the influence of Richardson's first study. A valuable emphasis
appears in Richardson's interpretation of Heidegger's conception of
die Irre, interpreted as Errancy, set in its current locus in a
discussion of Heidegger's debacle with the political in his
involvement with National Socialism.
A re-issue of Gregory Bateson's classic work. It summarizes
Bateson's thinking on the subject of the patterns that connect
living beings to each other and to their environment.
An Introduction to Modern European Philosophy, contains scholarly
but accessible essays by nine British academics on Hegel,
Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger,
Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Maritain, Hannah Arendt, Habermas,
Foucault, and the 'Events' of 1968. Written for English-speaking
readers, it describes the varied traditions within 19th- and
20th-century European philosophy, reflecting the dynamism and
plurality within the European tradition and presenting opposing
points of view. It deals with both French and German philosophers,
plus Kierkegaard, and is not confined to any one school of thought.
It has been purged of jargon but contains a glossary of important
technical terms. There is a bibliography of further reading and
website information at the end of each chapter.
This book discusses the legal thought of Bronislaw Malinowski
(1884-1942), undoubtedly one of the titans of social sciences who
greatly influenced not only the shape of modern cultural
anthropology but also the social sciences as a whole. This is the
first comprehensive work to focus on his legal conceptions: while
much has been written about his views on language, magic, religion,
and culture, his views on law have not been fairly reconstructed or
recapitulated. A glance at the existing literature illustrates how
little has been written about Malinowski's understanding of law,
especially in the legal sciences. This becomes even more evident
given the fact that Malinowski devoted much of his scholarly work
to studying law, especially in the last period of his life, during
which he conducted broad research on law and "primitive
jurisprudence". The main aim of this book is to address this gap
and to present in detail Malinowski's thoughts on law. The book is
divided into two parts. Part I focuses largely on the impact that
works of two distinguished professors from his alma mater (L.
Dargun and S. Estreicher) had on Malinowski's legal thoughts, while
Part II reconstructs Malinowski's inclusive, broad and
multidimensional understanding of law and provides new readings of
his legal conceptions mainly from the perspective of reciprocity.
The book offers a fresh look at his views on law, paving the way
for further studies on legal issues inspired by his methodological
and theoretical achievements. Malinowski's understanding of law
provides a wealth of fodder from which to formulate interesting
research questions and a solid foundation for developing theories
that more accurately describe and explain how law functions, based
on new findings in the social and natural sciences.
One of the earliest and most influential treatises on the subject
of this volume is Aristotle's Categories. Aristotle's title is a
form of the Greek verb for speaking against or submitting an
accusation in a legal proceeding. By the time of Aristotle, it also
meant: to signify or to predicate. Surprisingly, the "predicates"
Aristotle talks about include not only bits of language, but also
such nonlinguistic items as the color white in a body and the
knowledge of grammar in a man's soul. (Categories I/ii) Equally
surprising are such details as Aristotle's use of the terms
'homonymy' and 'synonymy' in connection with things talked about
rather than words used to talk about them. Judging from the
evidence in the Organon, the Metaphysics, and elsewhere, Aristotle
was both aware of and able to mark the distinction between using
and men tioning words; and so we must conclude that in the
Categories, he was not greatly concerned with it. For our purposes,
however, it is best to treat the term 'predication' as if it were
ambiguous and introduce some jargon to disambiguate it. Code,
Modrak, and other authors of the essays which follow use the terms
'linguistic predication' and 'metaphysical predication' for this."
Wittgenstein once said, "I cannot help seeing every problem from a
'religious point of view'. "However, since he never advocated any
one religion many people have wondered just what this religious
point of view could be. This book answers this question by
clarifying the overall nature(s) of his philosophies (the early and
the later) and then by exploring the idea of a religious point of
view as an analogy for a philosophy. As a result, the author
reveals the concordance between the later Wittgenstein and central
aspects of Hebraic thought. Although perhaps this ought not to be
surprising (Wittgenstein himself described his thought as "one
hundred per cent Hebraic"), the truth of the matter has been
obscured by popular supposition that Wittgenstein was anti-Semitic.
This hardcover edition of Hegel's landmark work of philosophy
contains the authoritative and respected translation of J.B.
Baillie. The Phenomenology of Spirit, also known as The
Phenomenology of Mind, contains methodical discussions of Hegelian
examination of mind and mental functioning. In Hegelianist
philosophy, the notion of the spirit or mind commences with a
consideration of the subjective (i.e. individual) mind. After some
contemplation however, it is realised that this 'individual' sort
of mind is but the initial stage of the process - the so-called
'in-itself stage'. The stage which follows this is that of the
objective mind - it is this type of mind that finds itself object
of law, morals and government. This frames the condition of the
mind when it is out-of-itself. The final stage of the Hegelianist
posit upon the mind is that of the 'absolute mind'. At this point,
the mind ascends above the constraints of the natural world and of
mankind's institutions and laws.
"Das Problem der verborgenen Vernunft" ist es, das auch dieser
Aufhellung der Verantwortlichkeit den Horizont gibt, in welchem als
Klarung der Einheit der Teleologie die phanomeno- logische Geduld
sich entfalten kann. - Die hier vorgelegte Untersuchung wurde von
der Philo so- phischen Fakultat der Universitat zu Koln im Sommer
1973 als Dissertation angenommen; sie wurde fur die
Veroffentlichung durchgesehen. Danken mochte ich vor aHem Herrn
Professor Dr. Ludwig Land- grebe. Seinem philosophischen Vorbild
und seiner groBzugigen Forderung ist die vorliegende Arbeit
entscheidend verpflichtet. Herrn Professor Dr. Lothar Eley sage ich
Dank fUr seine stetige freundliche Hilfe. EbenfaHs danke ich Herrn
Heinz Runi, der in zahlreichen Gesprachen durch seine Anregungen an
der Entwick- lung dieser Arbeit teilgenommen und zu ihrem Gelingen
beige- tragen hat. Die folgenden Untersuchungen stutzen sich
hauptsachlich auf die veroffentlichten Werke Husserls; daruber
hinaus war das Studium unveroffentlichter Manuskripte von groBem
Nutzen, und fUr die Erlaubnis zu ihrer Verwendung gilt mein Dank
dem ver- storbenen Direktor des Russerl-Archivs in Lowen, Rerrn
Profes- sor Dr. Herman Leo van Breda. - Bedanken mochte ich mich
auch :beim Deutschen Akademischen Austauschdienst, der mir fur mein
Studium in KOln ein Stipendium gewahrte.
This Pivot studies the influence of Julia Kristeva's work on
American literary and film studies. Chapters consider this
influence via such innovative approaches as Hortense Spillers's and
Jack Halberstam's to Paule Marshall's fiction and Bram Stoker's
Dracula, respectively. The book also considers how critics in the
United States receive Kristeva's work on French feminism,
semiotics, and psychoanalytic writing in complex, controversial
ways, especially on the question of marginalized populations.
Examples include Kelly Oliver and Benigno Trigo on Orson Welles's
The Lady from Shanghai and Touch of Evil as well as Frances
Restuccia on David Lynch's Mulholland Drive. Carol Mastrangelo Bove
also examines Kristeva's take on the US in her essays and fiction,
which provide a vital part of the dialogue with American critics.
Like them, Bove incorporates Kristeva's thought in her own creative
readings of little-known authors and directors including Christiane
Rochefort, Nancy Savoca, and Frank Lentricchia.
What is judgement?
This question has exercised generations of philosophers. Early
analytic philosophers such as Frege, Russell and Wittgenstein as
well as phenomenologists such as Brentano, Husserl and Reinach
changed how philosophers think about this question. The papers in
this book explore and assess their contributions and help us to
retrace their steps. In doing so we will get a clearer picture of
judgement and the related notion of truth.
Many scholars have struggled with Irigaray's focus on sexuate
difference, in particular with her claim that it is "ontological,"
wondering if this implies a problematically naive or essentialist
account of sexuate difference. As a result, the ethical vision
which Irigaray elaborates has not been taken up in a robust way in
the fields of philosophy, feminism, or psychoanalysis. By tracing
the notion of relation throughout Irigaray's work, this book
identifies a rigorous philosophical continuity between the three
self-identified "phases" in Irigaray's thought (despite some
critics' concerns that there is a discontinuity between these
phases) and clarifies the relational ontology that underlies
Irigaray's conceptualization of sexuate difference - one that
always already implies an ethical project. The text demonstrates
that an understanding of Irigaray's Heideggerian inheritance -
especially prominent in her later texts - is essential to grasping
the sense of the idea that sexuate difference is ontological - it
concerns Being, rather than beings. This book further develops
potential applications of this ontological notion of a "relational
limit" for the fields of philosophy, feminism, and psychotherapy.
This book aids in the rehabilitation of the wrongfully deprecated
work of William Parry, and is the only full-length investigation
into Parry-type propositional logics. A central tenet of the
monograph is that the sheer diversity of the contexts in which the
mereological analogy emerges - its effervescence with respect to
fields ranging from metaphysics to computer programming - provides
compelling evidence that the study of logics of analytic
implication can be instrumental in identifying connections between
topics that would otherwise remain hidden. More concretely, the
book identifies and discusses a host of cases in which analytic
implication can play an important role in revealing distinct
problems to be facets of a larger, cross-disciplinary problem. It
introduces an element of constancy and cohesion that has previously
been absent in a regrettably fractured field, shoring up those who
are sympathetic to the worth of mereological analogy. Moreover, it
generates new interest in the field by illustrating a wide range of
interesting features present in such logics - and highlighting
these features to appeal to researchers in many fields.
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