| Material Phenomenology Contributor(s): Henry, Michel (Author), Davidson, Scott (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0823229432 ISBN-13: 9780823229437 Publisher: Fordham University Press OUR PRICE: $80.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2008 Annotation: Material Phenomenology offers Michel Henry's most sustained investigation of Husserlian phenomenology. With painstaking detail and precision, Henry reveals the decisive methodological assumptions that led Husserlian phenomenology in the direction Idealism. Returning to the materiality of life, Henry's material phenomenology situates central phenomenological themes - intentionality, temporality, embodiment and intersubjectivity - within the full concreteness of life. This book is essential reading for those interested in the future of phenomenology or in a philosophy of life in the truest sense. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Movements - Phenomenology - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern |
| Dewey: 142.7 |
| LCCN: 2008017452 |
| Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy (Hardcover Unnumbered) |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.80 lbs) 160 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book is Michel Henry's most sustained investigation of Husserlian phenomenology. With painstaking detail and precision, Henry reveals the decisive methodological assumptions that led Husserlian phenomenologyin the direction of Idealism. Returning to the materiality of life, Henry's material phenomenology situates central phenomenological themes-intentionality, temporality, embodiment, and intersubjectivity-within the full concreteness of life.One of the most accessible of Henry's books, Material Phenomenology is essential reading for those interested in the future of phenomenology or in a philosophy of life in the truest sense. |
Contributor Bio(s): Davidson, Scott: - Scott Davidson is Chair of the Philosophy Department at Oklahoma City University.Henry, Michel: - Michel Henry (1922-2002) was Professor of Philosophy at the Universite Paul Valery, Montpelier. Among his many works are The Essence of Manifestation (Nijhoff, 1973), Incarnation. Une philosophie de la chair (Seuil, 2000), I Am the Truth (2002), Material Phenomenology (2008), Seeing the Invisible: On Kandinsky (Bloomsbury, 2009), and From Communism to Capitalism (Bloomsbury, 2014). |