A Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism

by Hubert L. Dreyfus (Editor), Mark A. Wrathall (Editor)

Overview

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 Illustrations	viii
	Notes on Contributors	ix
	Acknowledgments	xiv
1	A Brief Introduction to Phenomenology and Existentialism	1
Part I	Phenomenology	7
	Main Movements	8
2	Husserlian Phenomenology	9
3	Existential Phenomenology	31
4	French Phenomenology	48
	Central Concepts	68
5	Intentionality	69
6	Consciousness	78
7	The Lifeworld and Lived Experience	91
8	Husserl's Reductions and the Role They Play in His Phenomenology	105
9	Categorial Intuition	115
10	Temporality	127
Part II	Existentialism	135
	Main Movements	136
11	The Roots of Existentialism	137
12	German Existence-Philosophy	162
13	Religious Existentialism	188
14	French Existentialism	206
	Central Concepts	228
15	The Concept of Authenticity	229
16	Affectivity	240
17	The Body	253
18	Freedom and Responsibility	263
19	Absurdity	271
20	Death	280
Part III	Contemporary Issues in Phenomenology and Existentialism	289
21	Emotions in Phenomenology and Existentialism	291
22	The Egological Structure of Consciousness: Lesson from Sartre for Analytical Philosophy of Mind	310
23	Phenomenology, Neuroscience, and Intersubjectivity	329
24	The Intrinsic Spatial Frame of Reference	346
25	Action, the Scientific Worldview, and Being-in-the-World	356
26	Phenomenology in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science	377
27	Phenomenological Currents in Twentieth-Century Psychology	394
28	Medicine	412
29	Realism, Science, and the Deworlding of the World	425
30	Environmental Philosophy	445
31	Ontology, Pragmatism, and Technology	464
32	The Lived-Body and the Dignity of Human Beings	478
33	Sexuality	489
34	Feminism	502
35	A Life Worth Living	516
36	The Search for Immediacy and the Problem of Political Life in Existentialism and Phenomenology	531
37	History and Historicity	545
38	Bubbles and Skulls: The Phenomenology of Self-Consciousness in Dutch Still-Life Painting	559
39	Mathematics	585
	Index	600

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