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283 books match the query 'Phenomenology' and 3 start with w

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Watsuji on Nature

Japanese Philosophy in the Wake of Heidegger

David W. Johnson

Northwestern University Press, 2019

In the first study of its kind, David W. Johnson’s Watsuji on Nature reconstructs the astonishing philosophy of nature of Watsuji Tetsuro (1889–1960). Johnson situates Watsuji’s philosophy in relation to his reception of the thought of Heidegger and to his renewal of core ontological positions in classical Confucian and Buddhist philosophy. He shows that for Watsuji we have our being in the lived experience of nature, one in which nature and culture compose a tightly interwoven texture called fūdo(<風土). By fully unfolding Watsuji’s novel and radical claim that this is a setting that is neither fully external to human subjectivity nor merely a product of it, this book also sets out what still remains unthought in this concept, as well as in the relational structure that underwrites it. Johnson argues that what remains unarticulated is nothing less than the recovery of a reenchanted conception of nature and an elucidation of the wide-ranging implications of a relational conception of the self for questions about the disclosive character of experience, the distinction between fact and value, and the possibility of a place-based ecological ethics.
 
In an engagingly lucid and deft analysis, Watsuji on Nature radically expands our appreciation of twentieth-century Japanese philosophy and shows what it has to offer to a global philosophical conversation.
 
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What Is Transcendental Phenomenology?

Foundations of a Phenomenological Speculative Idealism

Alexander Schnell; Leonard Ip

Northwestern University Press, 2027

Offering a systematic introduction to a vital discipline

Phenomenology is a now century-old school of philosophy, to which Alexander Schnell offers here a threefold introduction that explores its diversity of approaches. In What Is Transcendental Phenomenology?, Schnell provides an in-depth overview of the Husserlian phenomenological method and its fundamental concepts (epoché and reduction, eidetic variation, phenomenological description, and phenomenological construction). He then examines that method’s limits, stressing the necessity of overcoming them in order to achieve a constructive approach while staying true to its fundamental disciplinary frameworks. Finally, he outlines a theory of understanding that expands the phenomenological method and highlights its speculative grounding before turning to speculative realists’ criticisms of the field. Schnell’s work shows that phenomenology can face the challenge of speculative thinking from an idealist standpoint, making a vital contribution to current debates about new, or speculative, realism. This important volume not only answers its titular question but, in its mode of discussing its subject, is itself phenomenology.

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Wilfrid Sellars and Phenomenology

Intersections, Encounters, Oppositions

Daniele De Santis

Ohio University Press, 2023

Wilfrid Sellars tackled the difficult problems of reconciling Pittsburgh school–style analytic thought, Husserlian phenomenology, and the Myth of the Given.

This collection of essays brings into dialogue the analytic philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars—founder of the Pittsburgh school of thought—and phenomenology, with a special focus on the work of Edmund Husserl. The book’s wide-ranging discussions include the famous Myth of the Given but also more traditional problems in the philosophy of mind and phenomenology such as the

  • status of perception and imagination
  • nature of intentionality
  • concept of motivation
  • relationship between linguistic and nonlinguistic experiences
  • relationship between conceptual and preconceptual experiences

Moreover, the volume addresses the conflicts between Sellars’s manifest and scientific images of the world and Husserl’s ontology of the life-world. The volume takes as a point of departure Sellars’s criticism of the Myth of the Given, but only to show the many problems that label obscures. Contributors explain aspects of Sellars’s philosophy vis-à-vis Husserl’s phenomenology, articulating the central problems and solutions of each. The book is a must-read for scholars and students interested in learning more about Sellars and for those comparing Continental and analytic philosophical thought.

Contributors

Walter Hopp
Wolfgang Huemer
Roberta Lanfredini
Danilo Manca
Karl Mertens
Antonio Nunziante
Jacob Rump
Daniele De Santis
Michela Summa
 

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