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Advancing Phenomenology
Springer 2010; US$ 179.99The title "Advancing Phenomenology" is purposely ambiguous. On the one hand, these essays document the progress that phenomenology as an ongoing and vibrant movement has made in the period of about a century since its inception. They illustrate the advance of phenomenology both in terms of the range of topics represented in this volume and... more...
Albert Camus as Political Thinker
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 95.00An intense genealogical reconstruction of Camus's political thinking challenging the philosophical import of his writings as providing an alternative, aesthetic understanding of politics, political action and freedom outside and against the nihilistic categories of modern political philosophy and the contemporary politics of contempt and terrorisms more...
Alien Phenomenology, or What It's Like to Be a Thing
University of Minnesota Press 2012; US$ 60.00Humanity has sat at the center of philosophical thinking for too long. The recent advent of environmental philosophy and posthuman studies has widened our scope of inquiry to include ecosystems, animals, and artificial intelligence. Yet the vast majority of the stuff in our universe, and even in our lives, remains beyond serious philosophical concern.... more...
The Analytic Turn in Philosophy
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 49.95This collection, with contributions from leading philosophers, places analytic philosophy in a broader context comparing it with the methodology of its most important rival tradition in twentieth-century philosophy--phenomenology, whose development parallels the development of analytic philosophy in many ways. The Analytic Turn will be of great... more...
Andre Gorz and the Sartrean Legacy
Palgrave Macmillan 2000; US$ 151.00A comprehensive and scholarly exploration of the personal and philosophical origins of André Gorz's work, this book includes a unique analysis of his early untranslated texts, as well as critical discussion of his relationship to the work of Husserl, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Marx and Habermas. Reassessing pivotal notions such as the 'lifeworld' and the... more...
Anspruch und Rechtfertigung
Springer 2008; US$ 179.99Die Autorin entwickelt eine phänomenologische Theorie des ?rechtlichen Denkens" und untersucht damit erstmals systematisch diejenigen Bewusstseinsstrukturen, die ein Begründen, Ausweisen und Rechtfertigen überhaupt erst möglichen machen. Die grundlegende Frage ist, wie Rechtsansprüche als ein Grundmerkmal des Erfahrens verstanden werden können. Der... more...
Anxious Angels
Palgrave Macmillan 1999; US$ 39.00Existentialism was one of the most important influences on twentieth-century thought, especially in the period between the 1920s and early 1960s. Best known in its atheistic representatives such as Sartre, it also numbered many significant religious thinkers. Anxious Angels is a critical introduction to these religious existentialists, who are treated... more...
Appropriating Heidegger
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 28.00This volume is unique in bringing together representatives of many different approaches to Heidegger's philosophy. more...
The Archaic
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 41.99The Archaic takes as its major reference points C.G. Jung's classic essay, 'Archaic Man' (1930), and Ernesto Grassi's paper on 'Archaic Theories of History' (1990). Moving beyond the confines of a Jungian framework to include other methodological approaches, this book explores the concept of the archaic. Defined as meaning 'old-fashioned',... more...
The Arithmetic of Life and Death
Random House Publishing Group 2010; US$ 15.00Whether you realize it or not, numbers are everywhere--and integral to almost every facet of your life . . . from your next raise in pay to the inevitable rise of inflation, your weekly family budget to your end of the national debt. And as George Shaffner amazingly reveals, there are discerning answers (and a great measure of comfort) in numbers.... more...









