Phenomenology Books

New and Published Books

1. Ideas

   General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology

   By Edmund Husserl

   Series: Routledge Classics

   With a new foreword by Dermot Moran ‘the work here presented seeks to found a new science – though, indeed, the whole course of philosophical development since Descartes has been preparing the way for it – a science covering a new field of experience, exclusively its own, that of "Transcendental...

   Published April 29th 2012 by Routledge
2. Morality, Self Knowledge and Human Suffering

   An Essay on The Loss of Confidence in the World

   By Josep Corbí

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

   In this wholly original study, Josep Corbi asks how one should relate to a certain kind of human suffering, namely, the harm that people cause one another. Relying upon real life examples of human suffering--including torture, genocide, and warfare--as opposed to thought experiments,...

   Published April 24th 2012 by Routledge
3. Economic Methodology and Freedom to Choose (Routledge Revivals)

   By Patrick O'Sullivan

   First published in 1987, Professor O'Sullivan's work provides an in depth philosophical examination of the foundations of method in Economics and other human sciences. The argument is unabashedly dialectical in the great Socratic-Platonic tradition, and the reissue will be very welcome to all...

   Published March 25th 2012 by Routledge
4. Phenomenological Approaches to Sport

   Edited by Irena Martínková, Jim Parry

   Series: Ethics and Sport

   The study of sport is often thought of simply in terms of the sport sciences. This book explains how a phenomenological approach is capable of revealing the nature and meanings of sport in ways that are beyond the reach of the sciences and how the very concepts required by sport science stand in...

   Published March 18th 2012 by Routledge
5. Foucault and Education

   Disciplines and Knowledge

   Edited by Stephen J. Ball

   First published in 1990, this book was the first to explore Foucault's work in relation to education, arguing that schools, like prisons and asylums, are institutions of moral and social regulation, complex technologies of disciplinary control where power and knowledge are crucial. Original and...

   Published February 27th 2012 by Routledge
6. Cultural Analysis

   The Work of Peter L. Berger, Mary Douglas, Michel Foucault, and Jürgen Habermas

   By Robert Wuthnow, James Davison Hunter, Albert J. Bergesen, Edith Kurzweil

   First published in 1984, Cultural Analysis is a systematic examination of the theories of culture contained in the writings of four contemporary social theorists: Peter L. Berger, Mary Douglas, Michel Foucault, and Jürgen Habermas. This study of their work clarifies their contributions to the...

   Published February 27th 2012 by Routledge
7. Heidegger

   By John Richardson

   Series: The Routledge Philosophers

   Martin Heidegger is one of the twentieth century’s most influential, but also most cryptic and controversial philosophers. His early fusion of phenomenology with existentialism inspired Sartre and many others, and his later critique of modern rationality inspired Derrida and still others. This...

   Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
8. The Phenomenological Mind

   2nd Edition

   By Shaun Gallagher, Dan Zahavi

   The Phenomenological Mind is the first book to properly introduce fundamental questions about the mind from the perspective of phenomenology. Key questions and topics covered include: • what is phenomenology? • naturalizing phenomenology and the cognitive sciences • phenomenology and consciousness...

   Published February 20th 2012 by Routledge
9. The Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre (Routledge Revivals)

   Edited by Robert Denoon Cumming

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in Great Britain in 1968, this is an authoritative introduction to the life of one of the greatest intellectual figures of the twentieth century. Prompted by the belief that none of the parts of Sartre’s work is fully intelligible apart from the whole , this ambitious volume...

   Published January 19th 2012 by Routledge
10. The Phenomenology of Moral Normativity

    By William Smith

    Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory

    Why should I be moral? Philosophers have long been concerned with the legitimacy of morality’s claim on us—especially its ostensible aim to motivate certain actions of all persons unconditionally. This problem of moral normativity has received extensive treatment in analytic moral theory, but...

    Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge