Series In Continental Thought
Nature's Suit
Husserl's Phenomenological Philosophy of the Physical Sciences
By Lee Hardy
Series Series In Continental Thought
Edmund Husserl, founder of the phenomenological movement, is usually read as an idealist in his metaphysics and an instrumentalist in his philosophy of science. In Nature's Suit, Lee Hardy argues that both views represent... Learn More
Published: 15th January 2014
Transversal Rationality and Intercultural Texts
Essays in Phenomenology and Comparative Philosophy
By Hwa Yol Jung
Winner of the 2012 Edward Goodwin Ballard Prize sponsored by the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology. Transversality is the keyword that permeates the spirit of these thirteen essays spanning almost half a century,... Learn More
Published: 26th July 2011
Dead Letters to Nietzsche, or the Necromantic Art of Reading Philosophy
By Joanne Faulkner
Dead Letters to Nietzsche examines how writing shapes subjectivity through the example of Nietzsche's reception by his readers, including Stanley Rosen, David Farrell Krell, Georges Bataille, Laurence Lampert, Pierre Klossowski,... Learn More
Published: 18th May 2010
Prophetic Politics
Emmanuel Levinas and the Sanctification of Suffering
By Philip J. Harold
In Prophetic Politics, Philip J. Harold offers an original interpretation of the political dimension of Emmanuel Levinas\u2019s thought. Harold argues that Levinas\u2019s mature position in Otherwise Than Being breaks radically... Learn More
Published: 13th October 2009
Between You and I
Dialogical Phenomenology
By Beata Stawarska
Classical phenomenology has suffered from an individualist bias and a neglect of the communicative structure of experience, especially the phenomenological importance of the addressee, the inseparability of I and You, and the... Learn More
Published: 6th October 2009
Kant and the Role of Pleasure in Moral Action
By Iain P.D. Morrisson
Kant scholars since the early nineteenth century have disa­greed about how to interpret his theory of moral motivation. Kant tells us that the feeling of respect is the incentive to moral action, but he is notoriously ambiguous... Learn More
Published: 23rd September 2008
Topologies of the Flesh
A Multidimensional Exploration of the Lifeworld
By Steven M. Rosen
The concept of "flesh" in philosophical terms derives from the writings of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. This was the word he used to name the concrete realm of sentient bodies and life processes that has been eclipsed by... Learn More
The Romance of Individualism in Emerson and Nietzsche
By David Mikics
The great American thinker Ralph Waldo Emerson and the influential German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, though writing in different eras and ultimately developing significantly different philosophies, both praised the individual's... Learn More
Husserl and Transcendental Intersubjectivity
A Response to the Linguistic-Pragmatic Critique
Written by Dan Zahavi, Translated by Elizabeth A. Behnke
Husserl and Transcendental Intersubjectivity analyzes the transcendental relevance of intersubjectivity and argues that an intersubjective transformation of transcendental philosophy can already be found in phenomenology, especially... Learn More
Published: 15th August 2001
Science Unfettered
A Philosophical Study in Sociohistorical Ontology
Written by James E. Mcguire, Contributions by Barbara Tuchanska
Working on a large canvas, Science Unfettered contributes to the ongoing debates in the philosophy of science. The ambitious aim of its authors is to reconceptualize the orientation of the subject, and to provide a new framework... Learn More
Monad & Thou
Phenomenological Ontology Of Human Being
By Hiroshi Kojima
The genesis for this volume was in the bombing of Japan during World War II, where the author, as a young boy, watched the bombers overhead, speculating about the lives of the pilots and their relationship with those huddled on... Learn More
Placing Aesthetics
Reflections On Philosophic Tradition
By Robert E. Wood
Examining select high points in the speculative tradition from Plato and Aristotle through the Middle Ages and German tradition to Dewey and Heidegger, Placing Aesthetics seeks to locate the aesthetic concern within the larger... Learn More
Theory of Objective Mind
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Culture
Written by Hans Freyer, Contributions by Steven Grosby
Theory of Objective Mind is the first book of the important German social philosopher Hans Freyer to appear in English. The work of the neo-Hegelian Freyer, especially the much admired Theory of Objective Mind (1923), had a notable... Learn More
Published: 1st March 1999
Order In The Twilight
Written by Bernhard Waldenfels, Contributions by David J. Parent
In this seminal work, acclaimed philosopher Bernhard Waldenfels deals with the problem of the nature of order after the "shattering of the world," and the loss of the idea of a universal or fundamental order.Order... Learn More
Published: 31st December 1996
Kant's Methodology
An Essay in Philosophical Archaeology
By Charles P. Bigger
Kant's revolution in methodology limited metaphysics to the conditions of possible experience. Since, following Hume, analysis—the "method of discovery" in early modern physics—could no longer ground itself... Learn More
Toward a Rationality Of Emotions
An Essay In The Philosophy Of Mind
By W. George Turski
Embracing an approach to emotions that can generally be characterized as cognitive, Turski examines what it takes in the interrelation of conceptual, historical, psychological, and sociological factors for sustaining a coherent... Learn More