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Written between 1945 and 1947, the essays in Sense and Non-Sense provide an excellent introduction to Merleau-Ponty's thought. They summarize his previous insights and exhibit their widest range of application-in aesthetics, ethics, politics, and the sciences of man. Each essay opens new perspectives to man's search for reason.

A volume of essays which addresses the roles of truth and interpretation in the shaping of human thought.

"Speech is a way of tearing out a meaning from an undivided whole." Thus does Maurice Merleau-Ponty describe speech in this collection of his important writings on the philosophy of expression, composed during the last decade of his life.

Hegel's Phenomenology is considered by many to be the most difficult book in the philosophical canon. While some authors have published excellent essays on various chapters and aspects of the book, few authors have successfully tackled the whole.

Jacques Derrida may be viewed as a ""foundational"" French thinker, the most basic questions concerning his work still remain unanswered. This book offers discrete interpretations of Derrida's two book-length 1967 texts, interpretations that elucidate the relation of Derrida's interest in language to his focus on philosophical concerns.

The problem of the will has long been viewed as central to Heidegger's later thought. Focusing on this problem, this book aims to clarify key issues from the philosopher's later period, and demonstrates how his so-called ""turn"" is not a simple ""turnaround"" from voluntarism to passivism.

Offers a comprehensive view of Maurice Ponty's (1908-1961) work. This work presents a collection of foundational essays that help in understanding the core of this critical twentieth-century philosopher's thought.

Devoted to the most important American Continental philosopher of his generation and one of the discipline's founding fathers, this anthology constitutes a critical document in Continental philosphy, refecting its history, its present state, and its debt to Calvin O. Schrag.

This collection of essays provides a portrait of the intellectual relationship between these two men. It addresses several points of contact and covers themes of the debate from the different periods in their shared history.

A collection of essays discussing contemporary writings and differing perspectives on the role of philosophy (and its relation to ""non-philosophy"") since the death of Merleau-Ponty, including Sartre, Barthes, Heidegger, Lacan, Foucault, Lyotard, and Derrida.

In this work, Piaget's theory of the development and nature of knowledge is discussed in the context of 20th-century European thought, and his views are compared with those of Freud, Lacan, Heidegger, Foucault, and writers of the Frankfurt school.

This work performs a psychoanalytic inversion of transcendental philosophy, reading Kant's synthetic a priori judgments in terms of the analytic a posteriori metapsychology itself.

Eugene Gendlin's contribution to the theory of language is the focus of this collection of essays Each essay is followed by a comment from Gendlin himself. The work investigates how concepts grow out of experience, and compares Gendlin's work to that of Wittgenstein, Dilthey and Heidegger.

A selected anthology of Hans Jonas's later essays which offers a comprehensive survey of the philosopher's contributions.

An investigation of Heidegger's philosophy of the ""I"" and the ""We"".

A collection of six essays by British and American philosophers, this book represents recent appropriations of Derrida's thought at the Warwick Workshops on Continental Philosophy. It focuses on the celebrated term ""differance,"" a neologism devised by Derrida to denote the influence of differentiation in the structuring of all signification.

At a time in which many philosophers have concluded that Husserl's philosophy is exhausted, but when the alternatives to Husserl appear to be exhausted as well, this work aims to presents an innovative approach to Husserlian phenomenology.

A lengthy critique of Kant's apriorism precedes discussions on the ethical principles of eudaemonism, utilitarianism, pragmatism, and positivism.

Clark Butler presents an innovative analysis of Hegel's most challenging work in Hegel's Logic--​the first major English-language treatment of Hegel's Science of Logic to appear in nearly fifteen years. Although earlier commentators on the Logic have considered standard analytical philosophy-and with it modern logic-in opposition to Hegel. Butler views it as a legitimate approach in terms of which Hegel needs to be understood. This interpretation allows him to address the rigor of Hegel's thought on several levels as at once an exercise in purely conceptual redefinition and a full-bodied work in metaphysical ontology and even theology. The result is an account of the Logic intelligible to analytical philosophers as well as non-specialists.

This anthology provides an overview of the concept of time in the Western philosophic tradition. Using writings dated from the Book of Genesis to the work of 20th century philosophers, this text offers a synoptic view of the changing philosophic notions of time.

Explores the problems of contemporary philosophy of language and the constitution of logical forms. Husserl argues that, even at its most abstract, logic demands an underlying theory of experience. Part I examines prepredicative experience; Part II the structure of predicative thought as such; and Part III the origin of general conceptual thought.

Speaking is an introduction to the philosophy of language from an existential and phenomenological point of view. Gusdorf's central concern is to analyze speech within the context of human reality. Speech is an abstraction, but speaking is not, he says. Speaking expresses the experimental and dialectical relation of man, nature, and society. It is through speaking that nature is sublimated into the meant and expressive world of human reality.

Restructuring Architectural Theory addresses the impact of contemporary critical theory, from poststructuralism to deconstruction and beyond, on architecture. This unique collection of essays will be invaluable to students and scholars as well as to architects and art historians for the range of issues it covers and the depth of analysis it provides.

This classic, first published in 1969, introduces to English-speaking readers a field which is of increasing importance in contemporary philosophy and theology - hermeneutics, the theory of understanding, or interpretation.

This elegant translation of Bernhard Waldenfels's Phenomenology of the Alien (Grundmotive einer Phanomenologie des Fremden) introduces an English readership to the philosophy of alien-experience, a multifaceted and multidimensional phenomenon that permeates our everyday experiences of the life-world with immediate implications for the ways we conduct our social, political, and ethical affairs.

In this book Heidegger attempts to make the fundamental ideas of his philosophy accessible to nonphilosophers. He addresses certain philosophical/psychological theories for the first and only time, including Freudian psychoanalysis and Indian philosophy.