Category: Existentialism

Download Love, Reason, and Will: Kierkegaard After Frankfurt by Anthony Rudd, John Davenport PDF

By Anthony Rudd, John Davenport

ISBN-10: 1628927321

ISBN-13: 9781628927320

Love, cause, and may: Kierkegaard After Frankfurt introduces and investigates topics universal to Harry G. Frankfurt and Søren Kierkegaard, focusing rather on their realizing of affection. numerous extraordinary members argue that Kierkegaard's insights approximately love, volition, and id will help us to guage elements of Frankfurt's famous arguments approximately love and being concerned; equally, Frankfurt's analyses of the higher-order will, valuing, and self-love support make clear issues in Kierkegaard's Works of affection and different books.

By bringing those key thinkers into dialog with one another, we could glean a brand new figuring out of the constitution of affection, purposes for romance or deriving from loving, and extra greatly, the relevant moral questions of "how to stay" and to boost an genuine identification and significant existence.

Love, cause, and may will entice readers attracted to the philosophy of motion and feelings, continental idea (especially within the existential tradition), the research of personality in psychology, and theological paintings on neighbor-love and virtues.

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Download Four Phenomenological Philosophers: Husserl, Heidegger, by Christopher Macann PDF

By Christopher Macann

ISBN-10: 0203981499

ISBN-13: 9780203981498

ISBN-10: 0415073537

ISBN-13: 9780415073530

ISBN-10: 0415073545

ISBN-13: 9780415073547

Four Phenomenological Philosophers is the 1st booklet to envision the key texts of the prime figures of phenomenology in a single quantity. In separate chapters, the ebook explores the information of Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty with designated readings in their most crucial texts. an information of those key thinkers and their significant texts is key to an figuring out of the various significant topics of latest philosophy, from hermeneutics and existentialism to postmodernism and deconstructivism.

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Download Dialogue with Heidegger: Greek Philosophy (Studies in by Jean Beaufret PDF

By Jean Beaufret

ISBN-10: 0253347300

ISBN-13: 9780253347305

Jean Beaufret may be most sensible recognized for posing the inquiries to which Martin Heidegger spoke back in his well-known "Letter on Humanism." those questions, swiftly written in a Paris café, represent an early and improvised second that used to be to shape a profound philosophical engagement and friendship among the 2 thinkers. Mark Sinclair provides, for the 1st time in English translation, the 1st of 4 volumes of Beaufret's essays. This quantity covers Beaufret's improvement of Heidegger's method of Greek considering in six essays "The start of Philosophy," "Heraclitus and Parmenides," "Reading Parmenides," "Zeno," "A word on Plato and Aristotle," and "Energeia and Actus." discussion with Heidegger is an important complement to Heidegger's personal paintings and a necessary examine of philosophy in its personal correct.

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Download Transversal Rationality and Intercultural Texts: Essays in by Hwa Yol Jung PDF

By Hwa Yol Jung

ISBN-10: 0821419552

ISBN-13: 9780821419557

ISBN-10: 0821443690

ISBN-13: 9780821443699

Transversality is the key-phrase that permeates the spirit of those 13 essays spanning nearly part a century, from 1965 to 2009. The essays are exploratory and experimental in nature and are supposed to be a transversal linkage among phenomenology and East Asian philosophy. Transversality is the idea that dispels all ethnocentrisms, together with Eurocentrism. within the globalizing global of multiculturalism, Eurocentric universalism falls a ways in need of being common yet easily parochial on the rate of the non-Western global. Transversality is intercultural, interspecific, interdisciplinary, and intersensorial. Transversal Rationality and Intercultural Texts ability to remodel the very approach of philosophizing itself by means of infusing or hybridizing a number of traditions within the heritage of the world. Like no different student, Jung bridges the distance among Asian and Western cultures. what's commonly referred to as “comparative philosophy” is not only a missed department of philosophy; it really is poised to noticeably remodel the very belief of philosophy itself.

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Download The Seducer's Diary by Søren Kierkegaard PDF

By Søren Kierkegaard

ISBN-10: 1400847346

ISBN-13: 9781400847341

"In the mammoth literature of affection, The Seducer's Diary is an complex curiosity--a feverishly highbrow try to reconstruct an erotic failure as a pedagogic luck, a wound masked as a boast," observes John Updike in his foreword to Søren Kierkegaard''s narrative. This paintings, a bankruptcy from Kierkegaard''s first significant quantity, Either/Or, springs from his courting along with his fiancée, Regine Olsen. Kierkegaard fell in love with the younger lady, ten years his junior, proposed to her, yet then broke off their engagement a yr later. This occasion affected Kierkegaard profoundly. Olsen grew to become a muse for him, and a flood of volumes resulted. His try and set correct, in writing, what he feels used to be a mistake in his dating with Olsen taught him the key of "indirect communication." The Seducer''s Diary, then, turns into Kierkegaard''s try and painting himself as a scoundrel and hence make their holiday more straightforward for her. concerns of marriage, the moral as opposed to the classy, dread, and, more and more, the severities of Christianity are meditated through Kierkegaard during this severe paintings.

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Download Finite Transcendence: Existential Exile and the Myth of Home by Steven A. Burr PDF

By Steven A. Burr

ISBN-10: 0739187961

ISBN-13: 9780739187968

Absurdity, time, death—each poses a profound chance to Being, compelling us to stand our limits and our finitude. but what does it suggest to completely discover and event those threats? Finite Transcendence: Existential Exile and the parable of domestic offers a considerate and thorough exam of those demanding situations and questions, arguing the universality of the belief of finitude within the adventure of exile. by way of tracing the historic presence and event of notions of “faith” and “exile” in Western notion from the traditional Greeks to the current, Steven A. Burr demonstrates the nature of every as basic constitutive parts of what it ability to be human. The publication discusses crucial parts of every, culminating in a compelling account of “existential exile” as a definitive identify for the human adventure of finitude. Burr follows with a entire research of the writings of Albert Camus, demonstrating an edifying articulation of, engagement with, and reconciliation of the of existential exile. eventually, in line with the version urged in Camus’s strategy, Burr discusses responses to exile and articulates the which means of domestic because the transcendence of exile.

Finite Transcendence is a piece that might be of serious worth to someone operating in or learning existentialism, philosophy of faith, hermeneutics, and social concept, in addition to to somebody attracted to questions of religion and society, faith, or secularity.

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Download Modern French Philosophy: From Existentialism to by Robert Wicks PDF

By Robert Wicks

ISBN-10: 1780744560

ISBN-13: 9781780744568

From Dadaisk to May'68 and past, this integral significant other presents not just an summary of 1 of the main intellectually fertile sessions of ecu background, but additionally a considerable perception into the various minds in the back of smooth French philosophy. In a gently established and obtainable demeanour, Robert Wicks provides concise debts of person philosophers either recognized and not more famous, earlier and current, introducing their significant works and explaining their impression on their friends and the broader international. overlaying the activities which outline the final a hundred years of French concept, from Surrealism to Structuralism and the intricacies of Postmodernism, this instruction manual good points such key French thinkers as: Henri Bergson, Teilhard de Chardin, Saussure, Sartre, Camus, Cioran, Levi- Strauss, Lacan, Barthes, Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard, Irigaray, Deleuze, Baudrillard. Lucid, authoritative and targeted, this can be a vital source not just for college students of philosophy , but in addition for all these attracted to the interesting highbrow panorama that characterises 20th and twenty-first century France.

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Download The New Husserl: A Critical Reader (Studies in Continental by Donn Welton PDF

By Donn Welton

ISBN-10: 025321601X

ISBN-13: 9780253216014

The hot first-time booklet of works from Edmund Husserl's later years, in particular his Freiburg interval, mixed with new experiences of his approach and theories, has influenced a awesome shift in perceptions of the scope and importance of Husserl's transcendental phenomenology. knowledgeable by way of a deep studying of not only the works released in the course of Husserl's lifetime but in addition the numerous lectures and manuscripts he wrote in his later years, the essays within the New Husserl offer another method of Husserl through studying his paintings and his technique as a entire and through probing matters, outdated and new, that occupied him in this quite efficient interval. The famous Husserl professional Klaus Held opens the publication with essays, released right here in English for the 1st time, that supply an insightful and lucid advent to Husserl's significant texts. different widespread Husserl students deal with his most vital and lasting contributions to philosophy, resembling the concept that of intentionality, the speculation of varieties, time-consciousness, attention and subjectivity, the phenomenological procedure, and the matter of generativity. through inviting readers to find this "new Husserl," the current assortment is probably going to form scholarly discussions of Husserl's proposal for your time to return.

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Download Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre by Walter Kaufmann PDF

By Walter Kaufmann

Existentialism may be the main misunderstood of contemporary philosophic positions-- misunderstood as a consequence of its huge attractiveness and normal unfamiliarity with its origins, representatives, and rules. Existential pondering didn't originate with Jean Paul Sartre. It has past non secular, literary, and philosophic origins. In its narrowest formula it's a metaphysical doctrine, arguing because it does that any Read more...

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