A Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism (eBook)

Hubert L. Dreyfus, Mark A. Wrathall (Herausgeber)

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2008 | 1. Auflage
624 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
9781405155335 (ISBN)

Infos

A Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism is a
complete guide to two of the dominant movements of philosophy in
the twentieth century.

* Written by a team of leading scholars, including Dagfinn
Føllesdal, J. N. Mohanty, Robert Solomon, Jean-Luc Marion

* Highlights the area of overlap between the two movements

* Features longer essays discussing each of the main schools of
thought, shorter essays introducing prominent themes, and
problem-oriented chapters

* Organised topically, around concepts such as temporality,
intentionality, death and nihilism

* Features essays on unusual subjects, such as medicine, the
emotions, artificial intelligence, and environmental
philosophy

Autor

Hubert L. Dreyfus is Professor of Philosophy in the Graduate School at the University of California at Berkeley. His publications include On the Internet (2001), What Computers (Still) Can't Do (Third Edition, 1992), Being-in-the-World: A Commentary on Division I of Heidegger's Being and Time (1991), and Mind over Machine: The Power of Human Intuition and Expertise in the Era of the Computer (with Stuart Dreyfus, 1987). Mark A. Wrathall is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Brigham Young University. He is the editor of Religion after Metaphysics (2003), Heidegger Re-examined (with Hubert L. Dreyfus, 2002), Heidegger, Authenticity, and Modernity (with Jeff Malpas, 2000), Heidegger, Coping, and Cognitive Science (with Jeff Malpas, 2000), and Appropriating Heidegger (with James Falconer, 2000). Hubert L. Dreyfus and Mark A. Wrathall are also the joint editors of A Companion to Heidegger (Blackwell, 2005).

Inhalt

List of Illustrations viii

Notes on Contributors ix

Acknowledgments xiv

1 A Brief Introduction to Phenomenology and Existentialism
1

Mark A. Wrathall and Hubert L. Dreyfus

PART I PHENOMENOLOGY 7

MAIN MOVEMENTS 8

2 Husserlian Phenomenology 9

Steven Crowell

3 Existential Phenomenology 31

Mark A. Wrathall

4 French Phenomenology 48

François-David Sebbah

CENTRAL CONCEPTS 68

5 Intentionality 69

J. N. Mohanty

6 Consciousness 78

Charles Siewert

7 The Lifeworld and Lived Experience 91

Martin Jay

8 Husserl's Reductions and the Role They Play in His
Phenomenology 105

Dagfinn Føllesdal

9 Categorial Intuition 115

Dieter Lohmar

10 Temporality 127

John B. Brough and William Blattner

PART II EXISTENTIALISM 135

MAIN MOVEMENTS 136

11 The Roots of Existentialism 137

Hubert L. Dreyfus

12 German Existence-Philosophy 162

Udo Tietz

13 Religious Existentialism 188

Clancy Martin

14 French Existentialism 206

Robert Wicks

CENTRAL CONCEPTS 228

15 The Concept of Authenticity 229

Taylor Carman

16 Affectivity 240

Béatrice Han-Pile

17 The Body 253

Piotr Hoffman

18 Freedom and Responsibility 263

Frederick A. Olafson

19 Absurdity 271

David Sherman

20 Death 280

David Couzens Hoy

PART III CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN PHENOMENOLOGY AND
EXISTENTIALISM 289

21 Emotions in Phenomenology and Existentialism 291

Robert C. Solomon

22 The Egological Structure of Consciousness: Lessons from
Sartre for Analytical Philosophy of Mind 310

Manuel Bremer

23 Phenomenology, Neuroscience, and Intersubjectivity 329

Matthew Ratcliffe

24 The Intrinsic Spatial Frame of Reference 346

Shaun Gallagher

25 Action, the Scientific Worldview, and Being-in-the-World
356

Craig DeLancey

26 Phenomenology in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive
Science 377

Daniel Andler

27 Phenomenological Currents in Twentieth-Century Psychology
394

Frederick J. Wertz

28 Medicine 412

Fredrik Svenaeus

29 Realism, Science, and the Deworlding of the World 425

Peter Eli Gordon

30 Environmental Philosophy 445

Iain Thomson

31 Ontology, Pragmatism, and Technology 464

Shunsuke Kadowaki

32 The Lived-Body and the Dignity of Human Beings 478

Andreas Brenner

33 Sexuality 489

Ann V. Murphy

34 Feminism 502

Sara Heinämaa

35 A Life Worth Living 516

Julian Young

36 The Search for Immediacy and the Problem of Political Life in
Existentialism and Phenomenology 531

Michael Allen Gillespie

37 History and Historicity 545

Charles Guignon

38 Bubbles and Skulls: The Phenomenology of Self-Consciousness
in Dutch Still-Life Painting 559

Wayne M. Martin

39 Mathematics 585

Mark van Atten

Index 600

Rezensionen

"The volume is thorough and will assist readers interested in both Continental thought and traditional Anglo-American topics." (CHOICE, November 2009)

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.5.2008
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Schlagworte: Phänomenologie • Phänomenologie • Phenomenology • Philosophie • Philosophy
• ISBN-13: 9781405155335 / 9781405155335