Questa serie si addentra nel cuore della filosofia continentale, esplorando le sue idee seminali, le tradizioni e i pensatori chiave. Offre una panoramica completa delle correnti intellettuali che hanno plasmato il pensiero moderno e postmoderno. I lettori possono aspettarsi analisi approfondite e valutazioni critiche di complessi concetti filosofici. Questa raccolta è ideale per coloro che cercano una comprensione più profonda delle fondamenta intellettuali dell'indagine filosofica occidentale.
Exploring themes of embodiment, sexuality, and pleasure, this collection of essays by Jean-Luc Nancy delves into the complexities of human existence and relationships. It offers a philosophical examination of how we navigate boundaries and borders in our lives, celebrating the richness of sexual identity while engaging in deep reflection on communal experiences.
Jean-Luc Marion: The Essential Writings is an anthology of Marion's diverse writings in the history of philosophy, Christian theology, and phenomenology. The general introduction provides students with sufficient background for them to tackle the work of this important contemporary philosopher without first having to take preliminary courses on Husserl and Heidegger.
Postmodern Apologetics provides an introduction to contemporary French thinkers who argue for the coherence and viability of Christian faith and religious experience with phenomenological and hermeneutical tools. It treats both French philosophers and appropriations of their thought in the North American context.
This books offers a philosophical exploration and assessment of the various ways in which human societies have confronted the question of death and mortality. In a very accessible style, the author considers religion's attempt to make sense of death, science's attempt to evade death, and philosophy's attempt to embrace death as a fundamental and defining moment of what it means to be human.
This book uses a deconstructive method to bring together the history of Western Monotheism (Christianity, Judaism, Islam) and reflections on contemporary atheism. It develops Nancy's concepts of sense, world, and exposure.
The world into which we are born as the horizon of all our behavior is a world both of things and of events. But what are events? Though familiar to all of us, they are philosophically obscure. This title seeks to change that, to describe what sort of phenomenon an event is and to establish how it can be grasped via a phenomenology.