A Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism

A Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism

A Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism

A Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism

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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


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781444356564
Publisher: Wiley
Publication date: 08/24/2011
Series: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy , #121
Sold by: JOHN WILEY & SONS
Format: eBook
Pages: 624
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

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).

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Table of Contents

List of Illustrationsviii
Notes on Contributorsix
Acknowledgmentsxiv
1A Brief Introduction to Phenomenology and Existentialism1
Part IPhenomenology7
Main Movements8
2Husserlian Phenomenology9
3Existential Phenomenology31
4French Phenomenology48
Central Concepts68
5Intentionality69
6Consciousness78
7The Lifeworld and Lived Experience91
8Husserl's Reductions and the Role They Play in His Phenomenology105
9Categorial Intuition115
10Temporality127
Part IIExistentialism135
Main Movements136
11The Roots of Existentialism137
12German Existence-Philosophy162
13Religious Existentialism188
14French Existentialism206
Central Concepts228
15The Concept of Authenticity229
16Affectivity240
17The Body253
18Freedom and Responsibility263
19Absurdity271
20Death280
Part IIIContemporary Issues in Phenomenology and Existentialism289
21Emotions in Phenomenology and Existentialism291
22The Egological Structure of Consciousness: Lesson from Sartre for Analytical Philosophy of Mind310
23Phenomenology, Neuroscience, and Intersubjectivity329
24The Intrinsic Spatial Frame of Reference346
25Action, the Scientific Worldview, and Being-in-the-World356
26Phenomenology in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science377
27Phenomenological Currents in Twentieth-Century Psychology394
28Medicine412
29Realism, Science, and the Deworlding of the World425
30Environmental Philosophy445
31Ontology, Pragmatism, and Technology464
32The Lived-Body and the Dignity of Human Beings478
33Sexuality489
34Feminism502
35A Life Worth Living516
36The Search for Immediacy and the Problem of Political Life in Existentialism and Phenomenology531
37History and Historicity545
38Bubbles and Skulls: The Phenomenology of Self-Consciousness in Dutch Still-Life Painting559
39Mathematics585
Index600

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