In the rigorous and highly original Self-Awareness and Alterity, Dan Zahavi provides a sustained argument that phenomenology, especially in its Husserlian version, can make a decisive contribution to discussions of self-awareness.
Traces the relations between literary criticism and psychoanalysis to their shared origins in the Enlightenment era’s novels and novelistic discourse, where the period’s efforts to invent new notions of subjectivity and individualism are most apparent.
Examines the paradox between Husserl's transcendental philosophy and his later historicist theory. Rejecting the arguments of earlier critics, this book proposes a model of the transcendental philosopher who balances historical reduction with a strict mind of historical context.
Included are essays in epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophical psychology by one of the most important twentieth-century continental philosophers.
Can Xue draws the reader into a world of the grotesque and the surreal, of uncertain spaces and indeterminate identities, of sexual menace and psychological disorientation. These novellas are about life in post-Mao China, but not the China of social realism or of Western fantasy.
This is a critical approach to reading texts rendered variously illegible - through erasures, excisions, overprintings and rearrangements - by major 20th-century artists and writers.
Considered a masterpiece of antifascist world literature, Medallions stands as the culmination of Nalkowska's literary style. More than mere historical record, Medallions offers the reader... Læs mere
Melville Herskovits and his wife and collaborator Frances spent over twenty years studying the social networks, religion, music, and oral traditions of the peoples of West Africa and their descendants in the New World.
Philosopher and medical doctor Drew Leder shows how the phenomenology of lived embodiment makes available a variety of existential... Læs mere
Offers a funny, thought-provoking and disquieting exploration of the question of whether to have children.