How does literature illuminate the way we live? Natanson, a prominent champion of phenomenology, draws upon this method's power to show how fiction can highlight aspects of experience that are normally left unexamined. By exploring the structure of the everyday world, Natanson reveals the "uncanny" that lies at the core of the ordinary. Phenomenology - which involves the questioning of that which we usually take for granted - is for Natanson the essence of philosophy.
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The Erotic Bird . . . artfully weaves phenomenology through interpretations of major literary works in an effort to explore, 'the particular manner in which phenomenology is "in" literature.' One of the most unique aspects of Natanson's book, which makes it most accessible to the reader, is his use of everyday examples to give a context for phenomenological concepts. -- Review
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Maurice Natanson was Professor of Philosophy at Yale University until his retirement in 1995. He is the author of Anonymity: A Study in the Philosophy of Alfred Schutz. His book Edmund Husserl: Philosopher of Infinite Tasks won the National Book Award in 1974. The Erotic Bird, his final book, was completed just before his death in 1996.
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IN AN ENTERPRISING and provocative essay entitled "Philosophy as/and/of Literature," Arthur C. Danto explores a number of questions concerning the relationship between philosophy and literature. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Hans Castorp, The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann, Alfred Schutz, Edmund Husserl, New York, Gregor Samsa, Ivan Ilych, The Crisis, Wallace Stevens, William James, Ontological Argument, Joachim Ziemssen, United States, Aron Gurwitsch, Cartesian Meditations, Dead Sea, Jean Wahl, Jean-Paul Sartre, Stephen Crane, The Black Riders, Bert Lahr, First World War, Franz Brentano, Fritz Kaufmann New!
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IN AN ENTERPRISING and provocative essay entitled "Philosophy as/and/of Literature," Arthur C. Danto explores a number of questions concerning the relationship between philosophy and literature. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Hans Castorp, The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann, Alfred Schutz, Edmund Husserl, New York, Gregor Samsa, Ivan Ilych, The Crisis, Wallace Stevens, William James, Ontological Argument, Joachim Ziemssen, United States, Aron Gurwitsch, Cartesian Meditations, Dead Sea, Jean Wahl, Jean-Paul Sartre, Stephen Crane, The Black Riders, Bert Lahr, First World War, Franz Brentano, Fritz Kaufmann New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett on 17 pages
- The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann on 11 pages
- The Principles of Psychology, Vol. 1 by William James on 5 pages
- The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology: An Introduction to Phenomenological Philosophy (Northwestern University Studies in Phenomenology & Existential Philosophy) by Edmund Husserl on 4 pages
- Critique of Pure Reason (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant) by Immanuel Kant on 4 pages
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- Existentia Africana: Understanding Africana Existential Thought (Africana Thought) by Lewis R. Gordon on page 178, and Back Matter
- Existentia Africana: Understanding Africana Existential Thought (Africana Thought) by Lewis R. Gordon on page 178, and Back Matter
- Passions of the Earth in Human Existence, Creativity, and Literature (Analecta Husserliana, Volume LXXI) by A-T. Tymieniecka on page 301, and Back Matter
- Schutzian Social Science (CONTRIBUTIONS TO PHENOMENOLOGY Volume 37) by Lester Embree on page 89
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