Fenomenologi & existentialism

This book provides a clear picture of phenomenology’s applications to social, behavioral, and health sciences, covering both interpretive and descriptive phenomenology from research design through analysis. It is divided into four parts. Par...

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Fenomenologi i praktiken är en samnordisk antologi som beskriver varför det behövs filosofi och vetenskapsteori som grund i empirisk forskning och varför just den fenomenologiska filosofin lämpar sig särskilt väl för en sådan grund. Boken består a...

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First published in 1945, Maurice Merleau-Ponty's monumental Phenomenologie de la perception signalled the arrival of a major new philosophical and intellectual voice in post-war Europe. Breaking with the prevailing picture of existentialism and ph...

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In this groundbreaking work, Sara Ahmed demonstrates how queer studies can put phenomenology to productive use. Focusing on the "orientation" aspect of "sexual orientation" and the "orient" in "orientalism,"...

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Exploring phenomenological philosophy as it relates to psychiatry and the social world, this book establishes a common language between psychiatrists, anti-psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers. Phenomenology and the Social Context of Ps...

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The field of phenomenological psychopathology (PP) is concerned with exploring and describing the individual experience of those suffering from mental disorders. The Oxford Handbook of Phenomenological Psychopathology is the first ever comprehensi...

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"Det sägs ibland att existentialismen är mer en sinnesstämning än en filosofi, och att den kan spåras tillbaka till ångestridna romanförfattare på 1800-talet och längre bakåt till Gamla Testamentet och till Job. Kort sagt till var och en som ...

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Existential therapy has been practiced and continues to be practiced in many forms and situations throughout the world. But until now, it has lacked a coherent structure, and analysis of its tenets, and an evaluation of its usefulness. Irvin Yalom...

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Personligheten är inte objektivt mätbar, hon kan inte helt fångas in i ett vetenskapligt system. Bakom varje teori upptäcker vi individen, den människa som allt detta händer med. Här finner vi de djupaste och mest fundamentala frågorna om kärleken...

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This monumental book, regarded by many as Sartre's greatest achievement, is one of the most influential philosophical works of the 20th century. In it Sartre set out his fundamental views on philosophy and laid the foundations of existentialism.

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Maurice Merleau-Ponty är 37 år gammal när han 1945 lägger fram sin avhandling Phénoménologie de la perception. Genom Sartre, som var en studiekamrat från tiden vid Ecole normale supérieure och som hade vistats i Tyskland 1934, kom Merleau-Ponty i ...

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Gunnar Karlsson hävdar att det som anses som typiskt för maskulinitet i första hand är en reaktion på människans existentiella villkor, som innefattar hjälplöshet, sårbarhet och beroende. Bokens bärande tankegång är att maskulinitet är ett ouppnåe...

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The Promise of Happiness is a provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy. It asks what follows when we make our desires and even our own happiness conditional on the happiness of others: "I just want you to be happy"; &q...

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The Concept of Crisis and the Unity of Husserl¿s position.- Towards a Computational Phenomenology (1).- Habitual Body and Memory in Merleau-Ponty.- Merleau-Ponty: The Triumph of Dialectics over Structuralism.- The Hermeneutics of Suspicion.- Boeck...

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Beloved and contemplated by philosophers, architects, writers, and literary theorists alike, Bachelard's lyrical, landmark work examines the places in which we place our conscious and unconscious thoughts and guides us through a stream of cerebral...

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An exploration of the emergence of a new psychedelic spirituality in the work of Philip K. Dick, Terence McKenna, and Robert Anton Wilson. A study of the spiritual provocations to be found in the work of Philip K. Dick, Terence McKenna, and Robert...

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Philosophy, Socrates declared, is the art of dying. This book underscores that it is also the art of learning to live and share the earth with those who have come before us. Burial, with its surrounding rituals, is the most ancient documented cult...

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In this groundbreaking work, Sara Ahmed demonstrates how queer studies can put phenomenology to productive use. Focusing on the "orientation" aspect of "sexual orientation" and the "orient" in "orientalism,"...

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The present volume gathers all of Beckett's texts for theatre, from 1955 to 1984. It includes both the major dramatic works and the short and more compressed texts for the stage and for radio. 'He believes in the cadence, the comma, the bite of wo...

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This comprehensive anthology of Soren Kierkegaard's works reveals the mix of philosophy, psychology, theology and literary criticism that made Kierkegaard one of the most compelling writers of the 19th-century and a shaping force in the 20th.

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Pedagogical Tact describes how teacher-student relations possess an improvisational and ethical character. The daily realities of educators, parents, and childcare specialists are pedagogically conditioned by sensitive insights, active thoughtfuln...

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Present day neuroscience places the brain at the centre of study. But what if researchers viewed the brain not as the foundation of life, rather as a mediating organ? Ecology of the Brain addresses this very question. It considers the human body a...

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Idéer till en ren fenomenologi och fenomenologisk filosofi är en fenomenologins grundbok. Det är i denna bok, utgiven 1913, som Husserl för första gången presenterar den fenomenologiska reduktionen och därmed etablerar fenomenologin i dess transce...

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A revised translation of Heidegger's most important work.

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Although written fairly early in his career, in 1939, Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions is considered to be one of Jean-Paul Sartre's most important pieces of writing. It not only anticipates but argues many of the ideas to be found in his famou...

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Understanding Existentialism provides an accessible introduction to existentialism by examining the major themes in the work of Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and de Beauvoir. Paying particular attention to the key texts, Being and Time, Being a...

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Sustainable Action and Motivation proposes individual competencies and institutional policies that can help overcome the motivational hurdles that hamper sustainable action. Following the Paris Agreement of 2015 and the UN Sustainable Development ...

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"The Ego and His Own," the seminal defence of individualism, coloured the thinking of Friedrich Nietzsche, Max Emst, Henrik Ibsen and Victor Serge, among many others, some of whom would vigorously deny any such influence in later years. ...

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Alexandre Koj_ve offers a systematic discussion of key themes such as right, justice, law, equality, and autonomy in which he presages our contemporary world of economic globalization and international law. Edited and translated (with Robert Howse...

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