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Merleau-Ponty between Philosophy and Symbolism
(November 2019)
The Matrixed Ontology
Rajiv Kaushik - Author
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Argues that symbolism is an important and unique element of Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology.
Merleau-Ponty says in his Institution and Passivity lectures that he wants to “consider criticism itself as a symbolic form” instead of doing “a philosophy of symbolic form.” This invites the possibility of an unconventional thought: If critical philosophy is a symbolic form, it cannot disclose its own limits and is, ...(Read More) |
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Earthly Encounters
(September 2019)
Sensation, Feminist Theory, and the Anthropocene
Stephanie D. Clare - Author
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A feminist approach to the Anthropocene that recovers the relevance of sensation and phenomenology.
Earthly Encounters develops a fuller account of the lived experience of racialized gender formation as it exists on this planet, earth. It analyzes sensations: the chill of winter, the warm embrace of the wind, the feeling of being immersed in water, and a stifling sense of c...(Read More) |
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Levinas and the Torah
(September 2019)
A Phenomenological Approach
Richard I. Sugarman - Author
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A Levinasian commentary on the Torah.
The French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas (1906–95) was one of the most original Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century. This book interprets the Hebrew Bible through the lens of Levinas’s religious philosophy. Richard I. Sugarman examines the Pentateuch using a phenomenological approach, drawing on both Levinas’s philosophical and Jewish writ...(Read More) |
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Face to Face with Animals
(May 2019)
Levinas and the Animal Question
Peter Atterton - Editor
Tamra Wright - Editor
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Explores Levinas’s approach to animal ethics from a range of perspectives.
This is the first volume of primary and secondary source material dedicated solely to the animal question in Levinas. Drawing on previously unpublished material, including the recent discovery and digitization of the original French recording of an interview with Levinas that took place in 1986, it seeks to give fresh impetus to the debate surround...(Read More) |
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The Cudgel and the Caress
(March 2019)
Reflections on Cruelty and Tenderness
David Farrell Krell - Author
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Offers philosophical and psychological reflections on cruelty and tenderness.
The Cudgel and the Caress explores the enduring significance of tenderness and cruelty in a range of works across philosophy, psychoanalysis, and literature. Divided into two parts, the book initially focuses on tenderness, with David Farrell Krell delivering original readings of Homer’s Iliad, Sophocles’s Antigone, and ...(Read More) |
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The Manifest and the Revealed
(December 2018)
A Phenomenology of Kenosis
Adam Y. Wells - Author
Kevin Hart - Foreword by
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Offers a new phenomenological method for biblical interpretation that opens up the possibility of an absolute science of scripture.
What is scripture and how does it function? Is there a “scientific” way to understand its meaning? In answer, Adam Wells proposes a phenomenological approach to scripture that radicalizes both phenomenology and its relation to Christianity. By reading the “kenōsis hymn”...(Read More) |
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The Other in Perception
(November 2018)
A Phenomenological Account of Our Experience of Other Persons
Susan Bredlau - Author
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Demonstrates the unique, pervasive, and overwhelmingly important role of other people within our lived experience.
Drawing on the original phenomenological work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Edmund Husserl, Simone de Beauvoir, and John Russon, as well as recent research in child psychology, The Other in Perception argues for perception’s inherently existential significance: we ...(Read More) |
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Aesthetic Reason and Imaginative Freedom
(October 2018)
Friedrich Schiller and Philosophy
María del Rosario Acosta López - Editor
Jeffrey L. Powell - Editor
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Shows the relevance of Schiller’s thought for contemporary philosophy, particularly aesthetics, ethics, and politics.
This book seeks to draw attention to Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) as a philosophical thinker in his own right. For too long, his philosophical contribution has been neglected in favor of his much-deserved reputation as a political playwright. The essays in this c...(Read More) |
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Atmospheres of Breathing
(April 2018)
Lenart Škof - Editor
Petri Berndtson - Editor
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Attempts to think anew about philosophical questions from the perspective of breath and breathing.
As a physiological or biological matter, breath is mostly considered to be mechanical and thoughtless. By expanding on the insights of many religions and therapeutic practices, which emphasize the cultivation of breath, the contributors argue that breath should be understood as fundamentally and comprehensively intertwined with hum...(Read More) |
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Beautiful, Bright, and Blinding
(November 2017)
Phenomenological Aesthetics and the Life of Art
H. Peter Steeves - Author
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Phenomenological analysis of beauty and art across various aspects of lived experience and culture.
Through a careful analysis of concrete examples taken from everyday experience and culture, Beautiful, Bright, and Blinding develops a straightforward and powerful aesthetic methodology founded on a phenomenological approach to experience—one that investigates how consciousness engages with the world and thus what i...(Read More) |
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