Selfhood and Appearing

The Intertwining
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-37583-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 17, 342 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

Reihe: Studies in Contemporary Phenomenology

What is the relation between our selfhood and appearing? Our embodiment positions us in the world, situating us as an object among its visible objects. Yet, by opening and shutting our eyes, we can make the visible world appear and disappear—a fact that convinces us that the world is in us. Thus, we have to assert with Merleau-Ponty that we are in the world that is in us: the two are intertwined. Author James Mensch employs the insights of Jan Patocka’s asubjective phenomenology to understand this double relationship of being-in. In this volume, he shows how this relation constitutes the reality of our selfhood, shaping our social and political interactions as well as the violence that constantly threatens to undermine them.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mensch, James

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Phänomenologie

Über Autor(innen)

James Mensch, Ph.D. (1976), University of Toronto, is Professor of Philosophy at Charles University in Prague. He has published twelve monographs (including Patocka’s Asubjective Phenomenology (Königshausen & Neumann, 2016) and Levinas’ Existential Analytic (Northwestern University Press, 2015). A member of Central European Institute of Philosophy, he has published over a hundred articles in books and journals.