The Series in Continental Thought publishes scholarship that critically engages and extends twentieth- and twenty-first-century European thought, especially phenomenology. The series provides a forum for innovative interpretations of influential figures within this tradition, such as Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Levinas, and Derrida. In addition, the series publishes contemporary work in phenomenology that enters into dialogue with other philosophical traditions and fields, including cognitive science, moral psychology, feminist theory, critical race theory, and environmental studies. The publication of translations of influential texts further supports work in both the history of phenomenology and contemporary phenomenology. Published in collaboration with the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology, the series is committed to the development of Continental philosophy and the work of emerging scholars.
Dr. Hanne Jacobs
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Wilfrid Sellars and Phenomenology
Intersections, Encounters, Oppositions
Edited by Daniele De Santis and Danilo Manca
This collection offers the first systematic, comparative analysis of Wilfrid Sellars’s Pittsburgh school of thought and Husserlian phenomenology. Beginning with an introduction to contemporary philosophical debates about the mind and pragmatism, the essays examine and clarify the discursive divide between analytic and Continental philosophy.
Philosophy | Individual Philosophers · Philosophy | Movements | Analytic · Philosophy · Philosophy | Movements | Phenomenology
The Phenomenology of Pain
By Saulius Geniusas
The Phenomenology of Pain is the first book-length investigation of its topic to appear in English. Groundbreaking, systematic, and illuminating, it opens a dialogue between phenomenology and the sciences to argue that science alone cannot clarify the nature of pain experience without incorporating a phenomenological approach.
Philosophy | Movements | Phenomenology · Psychology · Social Science | Disease & Health Issues · Philosophy
The Affection in Between
From Common Sense to Sensing in Common
By April Flakne
Drawing on phenomenology and everyday affective encounters of grieving, befriending, rearing, and bonding, Flakne warns against the disorientation and division implicit in what we think we mean by common sense. Instead, she invites us to relearn sensing together as key to an inevitable ethics of interembodiment.
Philosophy | Movements | Phenomenology · Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy · Philosophy | Social · Philosophy
The Phenomenology of Pain
By Saulius Geniusas
The Phenomenology of Pain is the first book-length investigation of its topic to appear in English. Groundbreaking, systematic, and illuminating, it opens a dialogue between phenomenology and the sciences to argue that science alone cannot clarify the nature of pain experience without incorporating a phenomenological approach.
Philosophy | Movements | Phenomenology · Psychology · Social Science | Disease & Health Issues · Philosophy
Becoming a Place of Unrest
Environmental Crisis and Ecophenomenological Praxis
By Robert Booth
In this bold argument, Robert Booth asserts that the environmental crisis stems from our anthropocentric understanding of, and behavior in, the more-than-human world. Linking environmental phenomenology to ecofeminism, he shows why and how an ecophenomenological praxis may interrupt the environmental crisis at its source.
Philosophy | Movements | Phenomenology · Nature | Environmental Conservation & Protection · Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory · Philosophy · Environmental Studies
Motivation and the Primacy of Perception
Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Knowledge
By Peter Antich
Bridging phenomenology, philosophy of mind, and epistemology, Peter Antich asserts that the latter has long been hampered by an inadequate phenomenology of knowledge. However, a careful description of Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenon of motivation can offer compelling new ways to think about knowledge and longstanding epistemological questions.
Philosophy | Movements | Phenomenology · Philosophy | Epistemology · Philosophy | Aesthetics · Philosophy
The Birth of Sense
Generative Passivity in Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy
By Don Beith
Don Beith proposes a new concept of “generative passivity,” the idea that our organic, psychological, and social activities take time to develop into sense. Drawing on empirical studies and phenomenological reflections, he argues that in nature, novel meaning emerges prior to any type of constituting activity or deterministic plan.
Philosophy | Movements | Phenomenology · Continental Philosophy · Philosophy
Thinking between Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty
By Judith Wambacq
Questioning the dominant view that Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty have little of substance in common, Judith Wambacq draws on unpublished primary sources and current scholarship in English and French to bring them into a compelling dialogue to reveal a shared concern with the transcendental conditions of thought.
Philosophy | Movements | Phenomenology · Continental Philosophy · Philosophy
The Golden Age of Phenomenology at the New School for Social Research, 1954–1973
Edited by Lester Embree and Michael D. Barber
These original essays focus on the introduction of phenomenology to the United States by the community of scholars who taught and studied at the New School for Social Research in New York City between 1954 and 1973. The collection powerfully traces the lineage and development of phenomenology in the North American context.
The Crisis of Meaning and the Life-World
Husserl, Heidegger, Arendt, Patočka
By Ľubica Učník
Učník examines the existential conflict that formed the focus of Edmund Husserl’s final work: how to reconcile scientific rationality with the meaning of human existence. To investigate this conundrum, she places Husserl in dialogue with three of his most important successors: Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, and Jan Patočka.
Continental Philosophy · Philosophy | Movements | Phenomenology · Philosophy
Merleau-Ponty
Space, Place, Architecture
Edited by Patricia M. Locke and Rachel McCann
Phenomenology has played a decisive role in the emergence of the discourse of place, and the contribution of Merleau-Ponty to architectural theory and practice is well established. This collection of essays by 12 eminent scholars is the first devoted specifically to developing his contribution to our understanding of place and architecture.
Philosophy | Movements | Phenomenology · Art Criticism and Theory · Philosophy | Aesthetics · Philosophy
Time, Memory, Institution
Merleau-Ponty's New Ontology of Self
Edited by David Morris and Kym Maclaren
This is the first investigation of the relation between time and memory in Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s thought as a whole and the first to explore in depth the significance of his concept of institution. It brings his views on the self and ontology into contemporary focus, arguing that the self is not a self-contained or self-determining identity.
Philosophy | Aesthetics · Philosophy | Movements | Phenomenology · Philosophy
Topologies of the Flesh
A Multidimensional Exploration of the Lifeworld
By Steven M. Rosen
The concept of “flesh” in philosophical terms derives from the writings of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. This was the word he used to name the concrete realm of sentient bodies and life processes that has been eclipsed by the abstractions of science, technology, and modern culture. Topology, to conventional understanding, is the branch of mathematics that concerns itself with the properties of geometric figures that stay the same when the figures are stretched or deformed.Topologies
Between You and I
Dialogical Phenomenology
By Beata Stawarska
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.
The Madness of Vision
On Baroque Aesthetics
By Christine Buci-Glucksmann
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Translation by Dorothy Z. Baker
In The Madness of Vision, Buci-Glucksmann asserts the important of embodied vision in nine studies of paintings, sculptures, and images. She integrates the work of Merleau-Ponty with Lacanian psychoanalysis, Renaissance studies in optics, and twentieth-century mathematics to make the case for the pervasive influence of the baroque.
Continental Philosophy · Philosophy | Aesthetics · Philosophy
