1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology of Agency
Introduction Christopher Erhard and Tobias Keiling
Part 1: Important Figures: From Brentano to Tengelyi
1. Franz Brentano’s Critique of Free Will Denis Seron
2. Phenomenology of Willing in Pfänder and Husserl Karl Mertens
3. Alexander Pfänder’s Phenomenology of Motivation Genki Uemura
4. Scheler’s Phenomenology of Freedom and His Theory of Action Eugene Kelly
5. The Intentionality and Positionality of Spontaneous Acts: Adolf Reinach’s Account of Agency Francesca DeVecchi
6. Dietrich von Hildebrand on the Will and Intentional Agency Alessandro Salice
7. The Varieties of Activity – Hans Reiner’s Contribution Christopher Erhard
8. Martin Heidegger: From Fluid Action to Gelassenheit Sacha Golob
9. Edith Stein: Psyche and Action Antonio Calcagno
10. Action in the Phenomenology of Alfred Schütz Michael Barber
11. Determined to act: On the structural place of acting in Sartre’s ontology of subjectivity Simone Neuber
12. Emmanuel Levinas: Freedom, and Agency Michael Morgan
13. Hanna Arendt: Plural Agency, Political Power, and Spontaneity Marieke Borren
14. Merleau-Ponty and Agency Thomas Baldwin
15. Paul Ricœur: A Phenomenological Hermeneutics of Meaningful Action Timo Helenius
16. Operari Sequitur Esse: Hermann Schmitz’s Attitudinal Theory of Agency, Freedom, and Responsibility Henning Nörenberg
17. Hubert Dreyfus: Skillful Coping and the Nature of Everyday Expertise Justin White
18. Life is an adventure: László Tengelyi’s phenomenology of action Tobias Keiling
Part 2: Systematic Perspectives
Phenomenology of Agency 1: General Issues
19. On the Satisfaction Conditions of Agentive Phenomenology: A Dialogue Terry Horgan and Martine Nida-Rümelin
20. <Ambulo!>: Structures of Phenomenology and Ontology in Action David Woodruff Smith
21. Will-Power: Essentially Embodied Agentive Phenomenology, By Way of O’Shaughnessy Robert Hanna
22. Phenomenology of Agency and the Cognitive Sciences Shaun Gallagher
Phenomenology of Agency 2: Aspects of Agency
23. Phenomenology of Free Agency Galen Strawson
24. The Phenomenology of Rational Agency Roberta De Monticelli
25. Deliberating, Choosing, and Acting John J. Drummond
26. Involuntariness: Actions and their Context Günter Figal
27. Moral Experience: Its Existence, Describability, and Significance Uriah Kriegel.
Index
Biography
Christopher Erhard is Lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and the Study of Religion at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany.
Tobias Keiling, currently an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at Somerville College, Oxford, UK, is based at the University of Bonn, Germany
