Series in Continental Thought
About Series in Continental Thought
Over the past two decades, the Press has published notable books in this series that relate to the work of eminent thinkers in the European tradition: Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, Foucault, Buber, and others. This series is sponsored by the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology, Inc.
Series Editor(s)
Ted Toadvine, Series Editor
Dept. of Philosophy
1295 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1295
e-mail: toadvine@uoregon.edu
Featured Title
Kant and the Role of Pleasure in Moral Action
Kant scholars since the early nineteenth century have disagreed about how to interpret his theory of moral motivation. Kant tells us that the feeling of respect is the incentive to moral action, but he is notoriously ambiguous on the question of what exactly this means.…
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Anthropology and Historiography of Science
Whether history or anthropology is the most fundamental social science remains still a controversial and undecided issue. For a proper understanding of this instructive controversy, the presuppositions of these two disciplines need to be critically and philosophically reviewed.…
Between You and I
Dialogical Phenomenology
Classical phenomenology has suffered from an individualist bias and a neglect of the communicative structure of experience, especially the phenomenological importance of the addressee, the inseparability of I and You, and the nature of the alternation between them.…
Available September 2009 (est.)
Series in Continental Thought n° 36
The Context of Self
A Phenomenological Inquiry Using Medicine as a Clue
This study takes up the challenge presented to philosophy in a dramatic and urgent way by contemporary medicine: the phenomenon of human life. Initiated by a critical appreciation of the work of Hans Jonas, who poses that issue as well, the inquiry is brought to focus on the phenomenon of embodiment, using relevant medical writing to help elicit its concrete dimensions.…
G. W. F. Hegel
The Philosophical System
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, perhaps the most influential of all German philosophers, made one of the last great attempts to develop philosophy as an all-embracing scientific system. This system places Hegel among the "classical" philosophers—Aristotle, Aquinas, Spinoza—who also attempted to build grand conceptual edifices.…
Heidegger and Whitehead
A Phenomenological Examination into the Intelligibility of Experience
Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time can be broadly termed a transcendental inquiry into the structures that make human experience possible. Such an inquiry reveals the conditions that render human experience intelligible.…
Husserl and Transcendental Intersubjectivity
A Response to the Linguistic-Pragmatic Critique
By Dan Zahavi
Husserl and Transcendental Intersubjectivity analyzes the transcendental relevance of intersubjectivity and argues that an intersubjective transformation of transcendental philosophy can already be found in phenomenology, especially in Husserl.…
Investigations in Philosophy of Space
The central contribution of Ströker’s investigations is a careful and strict analysis of the relationship between experienced space, Euclidean space, and non-Euclidean spaces. Her study begins with the question of experienced space, inclusive of mood space, space of action and perception, of practical activities and bodily orientations, and ends with the controversies of the proponents of geometric and mathematical understanding of space.…
Kant and the Role of Pleasure in Moral Action
Kant scholars since the early nineteenth century have disagreed about how to interpret his theory of moral motivation. Kant tells us that the feeling of respect is the incentive to moral action, but he is notoriously ambiguous on the question of what exactly this means.…
Series in Continental Thought n° 35
Kant’s Methodology
An Essay in Philosophical Archeology
Kant's revolution in methodology limited metaphysics to the conditions of possible experience. Since, following Hume, analysis—the "method of discovery" in early modern physics—could no longer ground itself in sense or in God's constituting reason a new arché , "origin" and "principle," was required, which Kant found in the synthesis of the productive imagination, the common root of sensibility and understanding.…
Merleau-Ponty and Derrida
Intertwining Embodiment and Alterity
While there have been many essays devoted to comparing the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty with that of Jacques Derrida, there has been no sustained book-length treatment of these two French philosophers.…
Monad and Thou
Phenomenological Ontology of Human Being
The genesis for this volume was in the bombing of Japan during World War II, where the author, as a young boy, watched the bombers overhead, speculating about the lives of the pilots and their relationship with those huddled on the ground.…
Ontology of the Work of Art
The Musical Work, The Picture, The Architectural Work, The Film
In these studies Roman Ingarden investigates the nature and mode of being of four kinds of art works: the musical work, the picture, the architectural work, and the film. He establishes that the work of art is a purely intentional object but considers also its connections to the real world.…
Order in the Twilight
In this seminal work, acclaimed philosopher Bernhard Waldenfels deals with the problem of the nature of order after the "shattering of the world," and the loss of the idea of a universal or fundamental order.…
Placing Aesthetics
Reflections on the Philosophic Tradition
Examining select high points in the speculative tradition from Plato and Aristotle through the Middle Ages and German tradition to Dewey and Heidegger, Placing Aesthetics seeks to locate the aesthetic concern within the larger framework of each thinker's philosophy.…
Principles of Interpretation
This is a major phenomenological work in which real learning works in graceful tandem with genuine and important insight. Yet this is not a work of scholarship; it is a work of philosophy, a work that succeeds both in the careful, descriptive massing of detail and in the power of its analysis of the conditions that underlie the possibility of such things as description, interpretation, perception, and meaning.…
Prophetic Politics
Emmanuel Levinas and the Sanctification of Suffering
In Prophetic Politics, Philip J. Harold offers an original interpretation of the political dimension of Emmanuel Levinas's thought. Harold argues that Levinas's mature position in Otherwise Than Being breaks radically with the dialogical inclinations of his earlier Totality and Infinity and that transformation manifests itself most clearly in the peculiar nature of Levinas's relationship to politics.…
Available October 2009 (est.)
Series in Continental Thought n° 37
Rational Animals
The Teleological Roots of Intentionality
By Mark Okrent
Rational Animals: The Teleological Roots of Intentionality offers an original account of the intentionality of human mental states, such as beliefs and desires. The account of intentionality in Rational Animals is broadly biological in its basis, emphasizing the continuity between human intentionality and the levels of intentionality that should be attributed to animal actions and states.…
The Romance of Individualism in Emerson and Nietzsche
By David Mikics
The great American thinker Ralph Waldo Emerson and the influential German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, though writing in different eras and ultimately developing significantly different philosophies, both praised the individual's wish to be transformed, to be fully created for the first time.…
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