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A Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy) [Hardcover]

Hubert L. Dreyfus (Editor), Mark A. Wrathall (Editor)
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March 24, 2006 1405110775 978-1405110778 1
A Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism is a complete guide to two of the dominant movements of philosophy in the twentieth century.
  • Written by a team of leading scholars, including Dagfinn Føllesdal, J. N. Mohanty, Robert Solomon, Jean-Luc Marion
  • Highlights the area of overlap between the two movements
  • Features longer essays discussing each of the main schools of thought, shorter essays introducing prominent themes, and problem-oriented chapters
  • Organised topically, around concepts such as temporality, intentionality, death and nihilism
  • Features essays on unusual subjects, such as medicine, the emotions, artificial intelligence, and environmental philosophy


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"The volume is thorough and will assist readers interested in both Continental thought and traditional Anglo-American topics." (CHOICE, November 2009)

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A Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism is a complete guide to two of the dominant movements of philosophy in the twentieth century. Comprising a series of original essays written by leading scholars, it highlights the approaches, styles, and problems common to the broad range of philosophers included under the banners of phenomenology and existentialism.

The volume features three types of entry: longer essays discussing each of the main schools of thought; shorter essays introducing prominent themes and concepts, such as temporality, death, and nihilism; and problem-oriented chapters discussing important phenomenological and existential approaches to the central questions that have preoccupied each of these traditions. The essays cover both mainstream and less usual topics, such as medicine, the emotions, artificial intelligence, and environmental philosophy.


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  • Hardcover: 624 pages
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 1 edition (March 24, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1405110775
  • ISBN-13: 978-1405110778
  • Product Dimensions: 7 x 2 x 9.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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5.0 out of 5 stars A welcome and important focus, June 26, 2009
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This volume is a welcome addition to Blackwell's excellent series of "companions" to philosophical figures and schools. Its focus is important--it acknowledges implicitly that phenomenology has a variety of dimensions, but also that existentialism played a key role in the development of phenomenology. It also insists, rightly, that existentialism should not be understood outside of its phenomenological roots. Dreyfus and Wrathall are a marvelous team in their own writing, and they have done their usual impeccable job gathering clear-thinking and clear-writing scholars to produce a truly helpful volume for students of philosophy at all levels.
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Phenomenology and existentialism are two of the most influential movements in twentieth-century philosophy. Read the first page
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subdividing acts, naturalistic ethical realism, categorial intention, existential spatiality, categorial intuition, existential elucidation, categorial acts, propositionalist theory, basal stimulation, categorial objects, reflexive cogito, feminist phenomenology, partial intentions, facto history, phenomenological requirement, absurd hero, finitary mathematics, existential phenomena, saturated phenomenon, mirror neurons, intentional moments, naturalizing phenomenology, eidetic intuition, eidetic variation, primal impression
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New York, The Hague, Cambridge University Press, Northwestern University Press, Martinus Nijhoff, Edmund Husserl, Oxford University Press, Indiana University Press, Martin Heidegger, University of Chicago Press, Duquesne University Press, Jean-Paul Sartre, Harvard University Press, World War, Simone de Beauvoir, Earth Itself, Stanford University Press, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, David Bailly, Hubert Dreyfus, Princeton University Press, Grand Inquisitor, Humanities Press, Journal of Phenomenological Psychology, The Brothers Karamazov
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