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Phenomenology
Phenomenology: Responses and Developments covers all the major innovators in phenomenology - notably Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and the later Heidegger - and the major schools and issues.
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336 pages, Paperback
First published September 26, 2013
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Leonard Lawlor
43 books9 followersLeonard "Len" Lawlor is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. He specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Continental philosophy. He is author of Imagination and Chance: The Difference between the Thought of Ricoeur and Derrida and co-editor (with Fred Evans) of Chiasms: Merleau-Ponty's Notion of the Flesh. He is a founding editor of the journal Chiasmi International: Trilingual Studies Concerning the Thought of Merleau-Ponty.
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070314: this has been the most frustrating of this history of continental philosophy series, mostly because of later essays, which are definitely of the development of phenomenology in ways I do not follow. do not know if this is a result of too little reading, or just distrust, uninterest that seems to require interest, in religious interpretations. just am not religious in any way, always thought phenomenology useful in escaping dogma, cosmological, somewhat parochial religious, interpretations of the world...
chapter 1) is good on highlighting the essential Hegelian ground that the French philosophers grew through in early 20th century, 2) concise, perceptive, accessible essay on existentialism, showing it as not the only outgrowth of phenomenology, but also why it became most known, how it is more a literary tension than philosophy 3) and how this is in many ways, down to Sartre, 4) then, there is the conceptual problem of appreciating aesthetics on the model, not of subject/object but also arguing how it fits in-the-world, 5) my favourite philosopher Merleau-Ponty as kind of the endpoint, the limit, exploring possibilities of this style of thought, of course cut short by his death, 6) now this starts to get difficult for me, when this essay introduces hermeneutics, 7) which becomes Heidegger, and some sort of dogma, leading beyond exhausted questioning of phenomena, 8) and this leads to something called 'existential theology'? had thought this style was essential freedom from religious conception of the world. which in this case, in all cases, is somehow only in relation to Christianity, 9) yes, even ethics are limited in this way, which leaves out all other religions, or even those of us who are not religious in any way, 10) and here we get sort of a preview of how structuralism, how 'concept' will encompass phenomenology, 11) and then a brief, quick, summation of a few disputes with 'analytic' philosophers, which I cannot truly judge because I have read so little of that style...
so I can see where we go in the next volume, always already knowing some names showing up eg. Foucault, but think I will take a break and try to incorporate these essays first. and wonder whether I need to be a Christian to have either ethics or concepts or whatever...
070314: this has been the most frustrating of this history of continental philosophy series, mostly because of later essays, which are definitely of the development of phenomenology in ways I do not follow. do not know if this is a result of too little reading, or just distrust, uninterest that seems to require interest, in religious interpretations. just am not religious in any way, always thought phenomenology useful in escaping dogma, cosmological, somewhat parochial religious, interpretations of the world...
chapter 1) is good on highlighting the essential Hegelian ground that the French philosophers grew through in early 20th century, 2) concise, perceptive, accessible essay on existentialism, showing it as not the only outgrowth of phenomenology, but also why it became most known, how it is more a literary tension than philosophy 3) and how this is in many ways, down to Sartre, 4) then, there is the conceptual problem of appreciating aesthetics on the model, not of subject/object but also arguing how it fits in-the-world, 5) my favourite philosopher Merleau-Ponty as kind of the endpoint, the limit, exploring possibilities of this style of thought, of course cut short by his death, 6) now this starts to get difficult for me, when this essay introduces hermeneutics, 7) which becomes Heidegger, and some sort of dogma, leading beyond exhausted questioning of phenomena, 8) and this leads to something called 'existential theology'? had thought this style was essential freedom from religious conception of the world. which in this case, in all cases, is somehow only in relation to Christianity, 9) yes, even ethics are limited in this way, which leaves out all other religions, or even those of us who are not religious in any way, 10) and here we get sort of a preview of how structuralism, how 'concept' will encompass phenomenology, 11) and then a brief, quick, summation of a few disputes with 'analytic' philosophers, which I cannot truly judge because I have read so little of that style...
so I can see where we go in the next volume, always already knowing some names showing up eg. Foucault, but think I will take a break and try to incorporate these essays first. and wonder whether I need to be a Christian to have either ethics or concepts or whatever...
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