Download or read book Phenomenology in Italy written by Federica Buongiorno and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-12-24 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features a theoretical depiction of the Italian phenomenological tradition. It brings together the main Italian phenomenologists of the present to discuss the positions and theories of the most important Italian phenomenologists of the past. Those profiled include Antonio Banfi, Sofia Vanni Rovighi, Enzo Paci, Dino Formaggio, Giuseppe Semerari, Enzo Melandri, Paolo Bozzi, Carlo Sini, Giovanni Piana and Paolo Parrini. This collection shows not only the variety of perspectives but also the inner consistency, peculiarity and originality of the tradition. Moreover, the contributors connect continental and analytical traditions, the scientific approach and existentialism. Italian phenomenology, the rise of which dates back to Antonio Banfi’s writings on Husserl in 1923, proves to be from its very beginning, a relational philosophy. It is a philosophy that is capable, precisely by means of its method, of developing actual forms of communication and exchange among the different sciences. This book will provide graduate students and researchers with unique insights into the Italian school of phenomenological thought.

Download or read book Digital Hermeneutics written by Alberto Romele and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first monograph to develop a hermeneutic approach to the digital—as both a technological milieu and a cultural phenomenon. While philosophical in its orientation, the book covers a wide body of literature across science and technology studies, media studies, digital humanities, digital sociology, cognitive science, and the study of artificial intelligence. In the first part of the book, the author formulates an epistemological thesis according to which the “virtual never ended.” Although the frontiers between the real and the virtual are certainly more porous today, they still exist and endure. In the book’s second part, the author offers an ontological reflection on emerging digital technologies as “imaginative machines.” He introduces the concept of emagination, arguing that human schematizations are always externalized into technologies, and that human imagination has its analog in the digital dynamics of articulation between databases and algorithms. The author takes an ethical and political stance in the concluding chapter. He resorts to the notion of "digital habitus" for claiming that within the digital we are repeatedly being reconducted to an oversimplified image and understanding of ourselves. Digital Hermeneutics will be of interest to scholars across a wide range of disciplines, including those working on philosophy of technology, hermeneutics, science and technology studies, media studies, and the digital humanities.

Download or read book On Tyranny written by Leo Strauss and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Tyranny is Leo Strauss’s classic reading of Xenophon’s dialogue Hiero, or Tyrannicus, in which the tyrant Hiero and the poet Simonides discuss the advantages and disadvantages of exercising tyranny. Included are a translation of the dialogue from its original Greek, a critique of Strauss’s commentary by the French philosopher Alexandre Kojève, and the complete correspondence between the two. This revised and expanded edition introduces important corrections throughout and expands Strauss’s restatement of his position in light of Kojève’s commentary to bring it into conformity with the text as it was originally published in France.

Download or read book Deleuze Bergson Merleau Ponty written by Dorothea E. Olkowski and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deleuze, Bergson, Merleau-Ponty: The Logic and Pragmatics of Creation, Affective Life, and Perception offers the only full-length examination of the relationships between Deleuze, Bergson and Merleau-Ponty. Henri Bergson (1859–1941), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961), and Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995) succeeded one another as leading voices in French philosophy over a span of 136 years. Their relationship to one another's work involved far more than their overlapping lifetimes. Bergson became both the source of philosophical insight and a focus of criticism for Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze. Deleuze criticized Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology as well as his interest in cognitive and natural science. Author Dorothea Olkowski points out that each of these philosophers situated their thought in relation to their understandings of crucial developments and theories taken up in the history and philosophy of science, and this has been difficult for Continental philosophy to grasp. She articulates the differences between these philosophers with respect to their disparate approaches to the physical sciences and with how their views of science function in relation to their larger philosophical projects. In Deleuze, Bergson, Merleau-Ponty, Olkowski examines the critical areas of the structure of time and memory, the structure of consciousness, and the question of humans' relation to nature. She reveals that these philosophers are working from inside one another's ideas and are making strong claims about time, consciousness, reality, and their effects on humanity that converge and diverge. The result is a clearer picture of the intertwined workings of Continental philosophy and its fundamental engagement with the sciences.

Download or read book Towards a Philosophy of Digital Media written by Alberto Romele and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses the conceptual tools of philosophy to shed light on digital media and on the way in which they bear upon our existence. At the turn of the century, the rise of digital media significantly changed our world. The digitizing of traditional media has extraordinarily increased the circulation of texts, sound, and images. Digital media have also widened our horizons and altered our relationship with others and with ourselves. Information production and communication are still undoubtedly significant aspects of digital media and life. Recently, however, recording, registration and keeping track have taken the upper hand in both online practices and the imaginaries related to them. The essays in this book therefore focus primarily on the idea that digital media involve a significant overlapping between communication and recording.

Download or read book Historical journey in a linguistic archipelago written by Émilie Aussant and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-12-14 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a selection of papers presented during the 14th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XIV, Paris, 2017). Part I brings together studies dealing with descriptive concepts. First examined is the notion of “accidens” in Latin grammar and its Greek counterparts. Other papers address questions with a strong echo in today’s linguistics: localism and its revival in recent semantics and syntax, the origin of the term “polysemy” and its adoption through Bréal, and the difficulties attending the description of prefabs, idioms and other “fixed expressions”. This first part also includes studies dealing with representations of linguistic phenomena, whether these concern the treatment of local varieties (so-called patois) in French research, or the import and epistemological function of spatial representations in descriptions of linguistic time. Or again, now taking the word “representation” literally, the visual display of grammatical relations, in the form of the first syntactic diagrams. Part II presents case studies which involve wider concerns, of a social nature: the “from below” approach to the history of Chinese Pidgin English underlines the social roles of speakers and the diversity of speech situations, while the scrutiny of Lhomond’s Latin and French textbooks demonstrates the interplay of pedagogical practice, cross-linguistic comparison and descriptive innovation. An overview of early descriptions of Central Australian languages reveals a whole spectrum of humanist to positivist and antihumanist stances during the colonial age. An overarching framework is also at play in the anthropological perspective championed by Meillet, whose socially and culturally oriented semantics is shown to live on in Benveniste. The volume ends with a paper on Trần Đức Thảo, whose work is an original synthesis between phenomenology and Marxist semiology, wielded against the “idealistic” doctrine of Saussure.

Download or read book The Rediscovery of the Mind written by John R. Searle and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1992-07-08 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this major new work, John Searle launches a formidable attack on current orthodoxies in the philosophy of mind. More than anything else, he argues, it is the neglect of consciousness that results in so much barrenness and sterility in psychology, the philosophy of mind, and cognitive science: there can be no study of mind that leaves out consciousness. What is going on in the brain is neurophysiological processes and consciousness and nothing more—no rule following, no mental information processing or mental models, no language of thought, and no universal grammar. Mental events are themselves features of the brain, "like liquidity is a feature of water." Beginning with a spirited discussion of what's wrong with the philosophy of mind, Searle characterizes and refutes the philosophical tradition of materialism. But he does not embrace dualism. All these "isms" are mistaken, he insists. Once you start counting types of substance you are on the wrong track, whether you stop at one or two. In four chapters that constitute the heart of his argument, Searle elaborates a theory of consciousness and its relation to our overall scientific world view and to unconscious mental phenomena. He concludes with a criticism of cognitive science and a proposal for an approach to studying the mind that emphasizes the centrality of consciousness to any account of mental functioning. In his characteristically direct style, punctuated with persuasive examples, Searle identifies the very terminology of the field as the main source of truth. He observes that it is a mistake to suppose that the ontology of the mental is objective and to suppose that the methodology of a science of the mind must concern itself only with objectively observable behavior; that it is also a mistake to suppose that we know of the existence of mental phenomena in others only by observing their behavior; that behavior or causal relations to behavior are not essential to the existence of mental phenomena; and that it is inconsistent with what we know about the universe and our place in it to suppose that everything is knowable by us.

Download or read book Esperienze del mondo l essere umano e l animale written by Edmund Husserl and published by Mimesis. This book was released on 2022-07-26T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le analisi elaborate da Edmund Husserl negli anni Trenta del Novecento sollevano una serie di interrogativi volti a chiarire il rapporto che intercorre tra esseri umani e animali. Poiché gli animali sono anch’essi esseri senzienti, quale tipologia d’esperienza hanno del mondo circostante ovvero del mondo-circostante che condividono con gli esseri umani? Che cosa effettivamente possiamo esperire degli animali? Tramite questo libro diventa possibile comprendere l’effettiva ampiezza del programma di ricerca husserliano il quale, nella sua declinazione trascendentale, non si esime dal chiarire e discutere il modo di fare esperienza del mondo non solo degli esseri umani, ma anche degli animali. Si tratta di questioni estremamente attuali alle quali il rigore metodologico che contraddistingue la fenomenologia husserliana propone risposte degne della massima considerazione.

Download or read book Fenomenologia e religione written by Jean Héring and published by Fondazione Centro Studi Campostrini. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1925 a Strasburgo, Fenomenologia e religione è un testo raro e di eccellente qualità filosofica, anche perché è il primo testo ad aver incrociato la fenomenologia husserliana con la filosofia della religione. Con un gesto teorico parallelo a quello operato all’epoca da Ernst Troeltsch, Max Scheler e Rudolf Otto, Héring propone una soluzione alternativa tanto all’analisi “positiva”, solo antropologica, del fenomeno religioso, quanto a una sua analisi di stampo spiritualista o idealista. Questa proposta si appoggia alla dottrina fenomenologica husserliana, di cui Héring presenta una mirabile sintesi in uno dei tre capitoli di Fenomenologia e religione: tale sintesi si può porre ancora oggi come un chiaro punto di partenza didattico per comprendere la teoria husserliana. Preceduta da una lucidissima diagnosi della situazione degli studi religiosi nella sua epoca, la fenomenologia husserliana viene a quelli applicata per delineare una nozione innovativa di “fenomeno religioso”, che mantiene piena attualità nel panorama contemporaneo di filosofia della religione. Héring utilizzerà in seguito la prospettiva teorica di Fenomenologia e religione nel suo lavoro “critico” di biblista, e in particolare nella sua teologia escatologica di ispirazione programmaticamente paolina. Quest’ultima simpatizza esplicitamente per quel movimento riconosciuto come “terzo cristianesimo”, rispetto a quello cattolico e protestante, inserendosi così nella corrente ecumenica che ha preceduto e favorito i lavori del Concilio Vaticano II. Il testo di Héring è introdotto da un lungo saggio di Giuseppe Di Salvatore, che mira a valorizzarne il contesto storico, l’interesse fenomenologico e la portata teologica, per infine rivendicarne l’attualità programmatica. Ne viene esaltato lo spessore filosofico e l’esemplarità fenomenologica nella bella prefazione di Roberta De Monticelli, che ha scoperto questo testo e stimolato il progetto della sua traduzione italiana.

Download or read book In Vivo written by Gabor Csepregi and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The course of human life, punctuated by unexpected and transformative moments, is never uniform. What are the characteristics of such life-defining moments, what responses do they evoke, and how do they transform the lives of those who experience them? In Vivo explores foundational questions and pivotal moments of the human experience – engagement with a foreign culture, the decision to break free from unfortunate experiences, a generous action undertaken in the context of an otherwise regular day – in terms of their life-altering potential. Through illustrative examples, both real and fictional, Csepregi reveals the primacy of personal feelings in shaping human life and demonstrates the formative power of spontaneity outside the traditional context of formal education. These moments, and particularly the way they disrupt ordinary temporal order, Csepregi argues, are the lived experiences of our vitality. In an age marked by increasing anxiety about the homogenizing tendencies of contemporary life, In Vivo is timely and revelatory. Informed by a range of philosophical thinking and examples from art, music, and literature, it illustrates opportunities for meaningful reflection that are available to everyone, and urges the reader to engage with them.

Download or read book La crisi delle scienze europee e la fenomenologia trascendentale written by Edmund Husserl and published by Il Saggiatore. This book was released on 2015-11-20 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scritta negli anni immediatamente precedenti la Seconda guerra mondiale ma apparsa postuma nel 1954, La crisi delle scienze europee e la fenomenologia trascendentale è un'opera decisiva nella storia del pensiero occidentale, nata da un'urgenza profonda di Edmund Husserl: recuperare il senso più autentico della filosofia, in opposizione al rigido obiettivismo delle scienze di meri fatti, astratte dai soggetti, le quali, nelle sue parole, non possono che creare «meri uomini di fatto». Se difettano a queste scienze gli strumenti e le risorse per rispondere ai problemi più importanti dell'uomo – primo fra tutti il problema del senso dell'esistenza –, spetta al pensiero filosofico di guidare l'uomo moderno, ricostruendo la fiducia in una ragione assoluta che dia senso al mondo, alla storia, all'umanità. La scienza non ha sempre fondato la propria verità nell'obiettività che ne domina il metodo a partire dal Positivismo, ma all'alba del Novecento sembra ormai aver messo da parte tutti i problemi di ordine metafisico, e in particolare le questioni ultime e supreme, come quella della ragione, che dovrebbero rappresentarne il cardine. Testo imprescindibile per chiunque voglia accostarsi alla fenomenologia, La crisi delle scienze europee è anche la testimonianza più lucida e profetica del pensiero di Husserl: negli anni trenta, il filosofo scriveva che «noi uomini del presente siamo di fronte al grave pericolo di soccombere nel diluvio scettico», e quel pericolo è oggi ancora più tangibile. Per questo, a più di cinquant'anni dalla prima pubblicazione in italiano, il Saggiatore ripropone, nella storica traduzione di Enrico Filippini, questo classico che – come il Discorso sul metodo di Cartesio e la Fenomenologia dello spirito di Hegel – non smette di essere nostro contemporaneo.

Download or read book Il destino della filosofia written by Edmund Husserl and published by LIT EDIZIONI . This book was released on 2014-06-11T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lo scopo della filosofia è raggiungere una verità definitiva, riguardante il mondo e l’uomo che abita questo mondo. Il raggiungimento di questo scopo, per il filosofo, non è una questione di velleità intellettuale o ambizione accademica, ma costituisce una responsabilità dinanzi alla storia. La ragione è l’elemento specificamente umano che guida il filosofo nella realizzazione di questo compito infinito. Il destino della filosofia è inevitabilmente intrecciato alla volontà di ogni singolo pensatore di persistere nella ricerca di quei metodi e quei concetti che soli permettono di giungere a una comprensione evidente della realtà. In uno dei suoi ultimi scritti, redatto agli inizi della temperie nazista, Edmund Husserl lancia un monito alla coscienza degli europei: abbandonare la filosofia, ossia la forma più alta dell’autonomia della ragione, significa rinunciare al dono più prezioso e insieme alla responsabilità più grande, che l’uomo ha ereditato dalla sua storia. Presentati in una nuova traduzione italiana, il testo è preceduto dall’Introduzione di Angela Ales Bello, tra i massimi esperti del pensiero fenomenologico.

Download or read book Weak Thought written by Gianni Vattimo and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heralding the beginning of the philosophical dialogue on the concept for which Gianni Vattimo would become best known (and coining its name), this groundbreaking 1983 collection includes foundational essays by Vattimo and Pier Aldo Rovatti, along with original contributions by nine other Italian philosophers influenced by and working within the authors’ framework. Dissatisfied with the responses to nineteenth- and twentieth-century European philosophy offered by Marxism, deconstruction, and poststructuralism, Vattimo found in the nihilism of Friedrich Nietzsche an important context within which to take up the hermeneutics of Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer. The idea of weak thought sketched by Vattimo and Rovatti emphasizes a way of understanding the role of philosophy based on language, interpretation, and limits rather than on metaphysical and epistemological certainties—without falling into relativism. To the first English-language edition of this volume, translator Peter Carravetta adds an extensive critical introduction, providing an overview of weak thought and taking stock of its philosophical trajectory over more than a quarter century.

Download or read book The Mathematical Imagination written by Matthew Handelman and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an archeology of the undeveloped potential of mathematics for critical theory. As Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno first conceived of the critical project in the 1930s, critical theory steadfastly opposed the mathematization of thought. Mathematics flattened thought into a dangerous positivism that led reason to the barbarism of World War II. The Mathematical Imagination challenges this narrative, showing how for other German-Jewish thinkers, such as Gershom Scholem, Franz Rosenzweig, and Siegfried Kracauer, mathematics offered metaphors to negotiate the crises of modernity during the Weimar Republic. Influential theories of poetry, messianism, and cultural critique, Handelman shows, borrowed from the philosophy of mathematics, infinitesimal calculus, and geometry in order to refashion cultural and aesthetic discourse. Drawn to the austerity and muteness of mathematics, these friends and forerunners of the Frankfurt School found in mathematical approaches to negativity strategies to capture the marginalized experiences and perspectives of Jews in Germany. Their vocabulary, in which theory could be both mathematical and critical, is missing from the intellectual history of critical theory, whether in the work of second generation critical theorists such as Jürgen Habermas or in contemporary critiques of technology. The Mathematical Imagination shows how Scholem, Rosenzweig, and Kracauer’s engagement with mathematics uncovers a more capacious vision of the critical project, one with tools that can help us intervene in our digital and increasingly mathematical present. The Mathematical Imagination is available from the publisher on an open-access basis.

Download or read book Consciousness and Intentionality Models and Modalities of Attribution written by Denis Fisette and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1999-09-30 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers collected here had their origin in a conference held in Montreal, 1-3 June 1995. The conference drew together researchers of all persuasions, from Europe and North America, to discuss the philosophy of mind. The volume is divided into four sections, each section being prefaced by a specific introduction. The first section deals mainly with the problem of consciousness in relation to intentionality. The second section's main topic is the problem of `qualia', a notion closely related to phenomenal consciousness, approached in the context of perception. The last two sections raise several problems related to what has been called `folk psychology'. Readership: Philosophers interested in philosophy of mind, psychologists, cognitive scientists.

Download or read book Saying What We Mean written by Eugene Gendlin and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection of Eugene T. Gendlin’s groundbreaking essays in philosophical psychology, Saying What We Mean casts familiar areas of human experience, such as language and feeling, in a radically different light. Instead of the familiar scientific emphasis on what is conceptually explicit, Gendlin shows that the implicit also comprises a structure that can be made available for recognition and analysis. Developing the traditions of phenomenology, existentialism, and pragmatism, Gendlin forges a new path that synthesizes contemporary evolutionary theory, cognitive psychology, and philosophical linguistics.

Download or read book One World written by Peter Singer and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a religious historian, this is an introduction to early Christian thought. Focusing on major figures such as St Augustine and Gregory of Nyssa, as well as a host of less well-known thinkers, Robert Wilken chronicles the emergence of a specifically Christian intellectual tradition. In chapters on topics including early Christian worship, Christian poetry and the spiritual life, the Trinity, Christ, the Bible, and icons, Wilken shows that the energy and vitality of early Christianity arose from within the life of the Church. While early Christian thinkers drew on the philosophical and rhetorical traditions of the ancient world, it was the versatile vocabulary of the Bible that loosened their tongues and minds and allowed them to construct the world anew, intellectually and spiritually. These thinkers were not seeking to invent a world of ideas, Wilken shows, but rather to win the hearts of men and women and to change their lives. Early Christian thinkers set in place a foundation that has endured. Their writings are an irreplaceable inheritance, and Wilken shows that they can still be heard as living voices within contemporary culture.