Phenomenology Books

New and Published Books

1. The Routledge Guidebook to Heidegger's Being and Time

   By Stephen Mulhall

   Series: The Routledge Guides to the Great Books

   The Routledge Guidebook to Heidegger’s Being and Time examines the work of one of the most controversial thinkers of the twentieth century. Heidegger’s writings are notoriously difficult, requiring careful reading. This book analyses his first major publication, Being and Time, which to this day...

   Published January 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. The World of Perception

   By Maurice Merleau-Ponty

   'Painting does not imitate the world, but is a world of its own.'In 1948, Maurice Merleau-Ponty wrote and delivered on French radio a series of seven lectures on the theme of perception. Translated here into English for the first time, they offer a lucid and concise insight into one of the great...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. Existentialism

   Edited by Tanja Staehler

   Series: Critical Concepts in Philosophy

   Existentialism entered the public consciousness after the Second World War, especially through the work of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. Indeed, these charismatic and engaged thinkers gave philosophy a level of glamour it had not before enjoyed, while existentialism’s...

   Published December 13th 2012 by Routledge
4. Jacques Derrida: Law as Absolute Hospitality

   Law as Absolute Hospitality

   By Jacques de Ville

   Series: Nomikoi Critical Legal Thinkers

   Jacques Derrida: Law as Absolute Hospitality presents a comprehensive account and understanding of Derrida’s approach to law and justice. Through a detailed reading of Derrida’s texts, Jacques de Ville contends that it is only by way of Derrida's deconstruction of the metaphysics of presence, and...

   Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
5. The Unwritten Grotowski

   Theory and Practice of the Encounter

   By Kris Salata

   Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

   This book gives a new view on the legacy of Jerzy Grotowski (1933-1999), one of the central, and yet misunderstood, figures who shaped 20th-century theatre, focusing on his least known last phase of work on ancient songs and the craft of the performer. Salata posits Grotowski’s work as...

   Published November 1st 2012 by Routledge
6. Caring and Well-being

   A Lifeworld Approach

   By Kathleen Galvin, Les Todres

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness

   Something is missing in contemporary health and social care. Health and illness is often measured in policy documents in economic terms, and clinical outcomes are enmeshed in statistical data, with the patient’s experience left to one side. This stimulating book is concerned with how to humanise...

   Published October 21st 2012 by Routledge
7. Partners in Palliative Care

   Enhancing Ethics in Care at the End-of-Life

   Edited by Mary Beth Morrissey, Bruce Jennings

   The Collaborative for Palliative Care ("Collaborative") is a grassroots consortium of public and private organizations that came together in 2005 for the purposes of studying the increasing need for palliative care and the methods for such care. It has grown from a small fledgling group to a...

   Published August 8th 2012 by Routledge
8. The Phenomena of Awareness

   Husserl, Cantor, Jung

   By Cecile Tougas

   What is awareness? How is dreaming different from ordinary awareness? What does mathematics have to do with awareness? Are different kinds of awareness related? “Awareness” is commonly spoken of as “mind, soul, spirit, consciousness, the unconscious, psyche, imagination, self, and other.” The...

   Published July 18th 2012 by Routledge
9. Honor: A Phenomenology

   By Robert L. Oprisko

   Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

   Honor is misunderstood in the social sciences. The literature lacks both accuracy and precision in its conceptual development such that we no longer say what we mean because we have no idea what we’re saying. We use many terms to mean honor and mean many different ideas when we refer to honor....

   Published July 16th 2012 by Routledge
10. The Imagination

    By Jean-Paul Sartre

    ‘No matter how long I may look at an image, I shall never find anything in it but what I put there. It is in this fact that we find the distinction between an image and a perception.' - Jean-Paul Sartre L’Imagination was published in 1936 when Jean-Paul Sartre was thirty years old. Long out of...

    Published July 12th 2012 by Routledge