Steven Crowell - Böcker

Existentialism exerts a continuing fascination on students of philosophy and general readers. As a philosophical phenomenon, though, it is often poorly understood, as a form of radical subjectivism that turns its back on reason and argumentation and possesses all the liabilities of philosophical idealism but without any idealistic conceptual clarity. In this volume of original essays, the first to be devoted exclusively to existentialism in over forty years, a team of distinguished commentators discuss the ideas of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and Beauvoir and show how their focus on existence provides a compelling perspective on contemporary issues in moral psychology and philosophy of mind, language and history. A further sequence of chapters examines the influence of existential ideas beyond philosophy, in literature, religion, politics and psychiatry. The volume offers a rich and comprehensive assessment of the continuing vitality of existentialism as a philosophical movement and a cultural phenomenon.

Existentialism exerts a continuing fascination on students of philosophy and general readers. As a philosophical phenomenon, though, it is often poorly understood, as a form of radical subjectivism that turns its back on reason and argumentation and possesses all the liabilities of philosophical idealism but without any idealistic conceptual clarity. In this volume of original essays, the first to be devoted exclusively to existentialism in over forty years, a team of distinguished commentators discuss the ideas of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and Beauvoir and show how their focus on existence provides a compelling perspective on contemporary issues in moral psychology and philosophy of mind, language and history. A further sequence of chapters examines the influence of existential ideas beyond philosophy, in literature, religion, politics and psychiatry. The volume offers a rich and comprehensive assessment of the continuing vitality of existentialism as a philosophical movement and a cultural phenomenon.

The thirteen essays in this volume represent the most sustained investigation, in any language, of the connections between Heidegger's thought and the tradition of transcendental philosophy inaugurated by Kant. This collection examines Heidegger's stand on central themes of transcendental philosophy: subjectivity, judgment, intentionality, truth, practice, and idealism. Several essays in the volume also explore hitherto hidden connections between Heidegger's later "post-metaphysical" thinking—where he develops a "topological" approach that draws as much upon poetry as upon the philosophical tradition—and the transcendental project of grasping the conditions that make experience of a meaningful world possible. This volume will interest philosophers in the continental tradition, where Heidegger's thought has long had a central role, as well as those many philosophers in the analytic tradition whose own approach to knowledge, semantics, and philosophy of mind traces its roots to Kant.

The thirteen essays in this volume represent the most sustained investigation, in any language, of the connections between Heidegger's thought and the tradition of transcendental philosophy inaugurated by Kant. This collection examines Heidegger's stand on central themes of transcendental philosophy: subjectivity, judgment, intentionality, truth, practice, and idealism. Several essays in the volume also explore hitherto hidden connections between Heidegger's later "post-metaphysical" thinking—where he develops a "topological" approach that draws as much upon poetry as upon the philosophical tradition—and the transcendental project of grasping the conditions that make experience of a meaningful world possible. This volume will interest philosophers in the continental tradition, where Heidegger's thought has long had a central role, as well as those many philosophers in the analytic tradition whose own approach to knowledge, semantics, and philosophy of mind traces its roots to Kant.

Winner of 2002 Edward Goodwin Ballard PrizeIn a penetrating and lucid discussion of the enigmatic relationship between the work of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, Steven Galt Crowell proposes that the distinguishing feature of twentieth-century philosophy is not so much its emphasis on language as its concern with meaning. Arguing that transcendental phenomenology is indispensable to the philosophical explanation of the space of meaning, Crowell shows how a proper understanding of both Husserl and Heidegger reveals the distinctive contributions of each to that ongoing phenomenological project.

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.

The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophyprovides 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.

Each Yearbook provides an annual international forum for phenomenology and phenomenological philosophy in the spirit of Edmund Husserl's groundbreaking work. Included are articles on contemporary issues and controversies, critical studies of phenomenological figures, investigations of the relationships to the natural and human sciences, historical studies on phenomenology and phenomenological philosophy, and translations of classic and recent phenomenological texts.

Each Yearbook provides an annual international forum for phenomenology and phenomenological philosophy in the spirit of Edmund Husserl's groundbreaking work. These respected philosophers have contributed essays on a wide range of concerns: Rudolf Bernet - Husserl's Transcendental Idealism Revisited; Ian Angus - In Praise of Fire - Responsibility, Manifestation, Polemos, Circumspection; Dieter Lohmar - Husserl's Hesitant Revisionism in the Field of Logic; Torsten Pietrek - A Reconstruction of Phenomenological Method for Metaethics; Renaud Barbaras - Sensing and Creating - Phenomenology and the Unity of Aesthetics; Christian Lotz - Recollection, Mourning and the Absolute Past, Husserl, Freud and Derrida; Karlheinz Ruhstorfer - Adieu - Derrida's God and the Beginning of Thinking; and Rosemary R. P. Lerner - Husserl vs. Neo-Kantianism Revisited - On Skepticism, Foundationalism, and Intuition. This book also includes: Sebastian Luft - A Hermeneutic Phenomenology of Spirit - Husserl, Natorp and Cassirer; Heribert Boeder - Truth in the First Epoch of Philosophy; Marcus Brainard - Epoche and Epoch in Logotectonic Thought; Edmund Husserl - Tobaccology (German/English); Johannes Daubert - Notes from Husserl's Mathematical-Philosophical Exercises (1905), ed. and intro by Mark van Atten and Karl Schuhmann (German/English); Dorion Cairns - On Eugen Fink's ""The Problem of Husserl's Phenomenology"".

The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophyprovides 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.

The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy Volume VI includes important contributions by both established and emerging scholars working in the phenomenological tradition, together with first-time English translations of texts and documents whose phenomenological relevance transcends their considerable historical significance.

The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, Volume VII includes important contributions by both established and emerging scholars working in the phenomenological tradition, together with first-time English translations of texts and documents whose phenomenological relevance transcends their considerable historical significance. Contributors include David Vessey, Daniel Dahlstrom, Ulrich Melle, John Noras, Rochus Sowa, Kevin Aho, Joseph Schear, Ivo De Gennaro, Joe Sachs, Gerhard Kruger, Oskar Becker, Jacob Klein, Dorion Cairns, and James Despres.

Steven Crowell has been for many years a leading voice in debates on twentieth-century European philosophy. This volume presents thirteen recent essays that together provide a systematic account of the relation between meaningful experience (intentionality) and responsiveness to norms. They argue for a new understanding of the philosophical importance of phenomenology, taking the work of Husserl and Heidegger as exemplary, and introducing a conception of phenomenology broad enough to encompass the practices of both philosophers. Crowell discusses Husserl's analyses of first-person authority, the semantics of conscious experience, the structure of perceptual content, and the embodied subject, and shows how Heidegger's interpretation of the self addresses problems in Husserl's approach to the normative structure of meaning. His volume will be valuable for upper-level students and scholars interested in phenomenological approaches to philosophical questions in both the European and the analytic traditions.