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  • Being with the Dead

    Burial, Ancestral Politics, and the Roots of Historical Consciousness

    by Hans Ruin ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    Philosophy, Socrates declared, is the art of dying. This book underscores that it is also the art of learning to live and share the earth with those who have come before us. Burial, with its surrounding rituals, is the most ancient documented cultural-symbolic practice: all humans have developed techniques of caring for and communicating with the dead. The premise of Being with the Dead is that we ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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    Virtues and Vices

    by Katarina Barrling, David Butterfield, Pär Cassel, Marie Kawthar Daouda, Torbjörn Elensky, Jessica Frazier, Peter Haldén, Thomas Idergard, Anthony Pagden, Ritchie Robertson, Hans Ruin, Malise Ruthven, Mateusz Strózynski, Fredrik Svenaeus, Sten Widmalm ...
    Narrated by Justine Harris ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 13 min

    What is a virtue and what is a sin? Is it possible to say that our actions are evil or good? Every age and culture have their own answers to these timeless questions. For example, in the Western Protestant tradition, the human body and its desire have been considered to be inherently evil, but that is not a position taken for granted in other cultures. Virtue and sin seem to represent a duality ... Read more

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  • Metaphysics, Facticity, Interpretation

    Phenomenology in the Nordic Countries

    Edited by D. Zahavi, Sara Heinämaa, Hans Ruin ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The past decade has witnessed a notable turn in philosophical orientation in the Nordic countries. For the first time, the North has a generation of philosophers who are oriented to phenomenology. This means a vital rediscovery of the phenomenological tradition as a partly hidden conceptual and methodological resource for taking on contemporary philosophical problems.The essays collected in the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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    A Genealogy of the 'Confessing Animal'

    by Chloe Taylor ...
    Series series Studies in Philosophy
    Drawing on the work of Foucault and Western confessional writings, this book challenges the transhistorical and commonsense views of confession as an innate impulse resulting in the psychological liberation of the confessing subject. Instead, confessional desire is argued to be contingent and constraining, and alternatives to confessional subjectivity are explored. ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Agon of Interpretations

    Towards a Critical Intercultural Hermeneutics

    by Ming Xie ...
    Written by a team of leading international scholars, The Agon of Interpretations explores the challenges and possibilities of critical intercultural hermeneutics in a globalized world. Editor Ming Xie and writers from eight countries on five continents not only lay out the importance of critical hermeneutics to intercultural understanding but also probe the conditions under which a hermeneutics ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Horizons of Authenticity in Phenomenology, Existentialism, and Moral Psychology

    Essays in Honor of Charles Guignon

    Edited by Hans Pedersen, Megan Altman ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume centers on the exploration of the ways in which the canonical texts and thinkers of the phenomenological and existential tradition can be utilized to address contemporary, concrete philosophical issues. In particular, the included essays address the key facets of the work of Charles Guignon, and as such, honor and extend his thought and approach to philosophy. To this end, the four ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Nothingness and the Meaning of Life

    Philosophical Approaches to Ultimate Meaning Through Nothing and Reflexivity

    by Dr Nicholas Waghorn ...
    What is the meaning of life? Does anything really matter? In the past few decades these questions, perennially associated with philosophy in the popular consciousness, have rightly retaken their place as central topics in the academy. In this major contribution, Nicholas Waghorn provides a sustained and rigorous elucidation of what it would take for lives to have significance. Bracketing issues ... Read more

    $153.99 USD

  • Desire and Distance

    Introduction to a Phenomenology of Perception

    by Renaud Barbaras ...
    Translated by Paul B. Milan ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    Desire and Distance constitutes an important new departure in contemporary phenomenological thought, a rethinking and critique of basic philosophical positions concerning the concept of perception presented by Husserl and Merleau-Ponty, though it departs in significant and original ways from their work. Barbaras's overall goal is to develop a philosophy of what "life" is—one that would do justice ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Hegel, Husserl and the Phenomenology of Historical Worlds

    by Tanja Staehler ...
    GWF Hegel famously described philosophy as 'its own time apprehended in thoughts', reflecting a desire that we increasingly experience, namely, the desire to understand our complex and fast-changing world. But how can we philosophically describe the world we live in? When Hegel attempted his systematic account of the historical world, he needed to conceive of history as rational progress to allow ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The Horizons of Continental Philosophy

    Essays on Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty

    Edited by H.J. Silverman ...
    Series Book 30 - Martinus Nijhoff Philosophy Library
    lacan. Barthes. Jakobson. Horkheimer. Adorno. Gadamer. Ricoeur. Foucault. Deleuze. Derrida. lyotard. Vattimo. Kofman. and Irigaray are also part of that outer horizon of continental philosophy. The purpose of this volume however is to establish that space within the core of continental philosophy - specifically in relation to the work of Husserl. Heidegger. and Merleau-Ponty -- and to move out to ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Back to 'Things in Themselves'

    A Phenomenological Foundation for Classical Realism

    by Josef Seifert ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Phenomenology
    In an enlightening dialogue with Descartes, Kant, Husserl and Gadamer, Professor Seifert argues that the original inspiration of phenomenology was nothing other than the primordial insight of philosophy itself, the foundation of philosophia perennis. His radical rethinking of the phenomenological method results in a universal, objectivist philosophy in direct continuity with Plato, Aristotle and ... Read more

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  • Hegel and Resistance

    History, Politics and Dialectics

    Edited by Bart Zantvoort, Rebecca Comay ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy
    The concept of resistance has always been central to the reception of Hegel's philosophy. The prevalent image of Hegel's system, which continues to influence the scholarship to this day, is that of an absolutist, monist metaphysics which overcomes all resistance, sublating or assimilating all differences into a single organic 'Whole'. For that reason, the reception of Hegel has always been marked ... Read more

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