Introduction to a Phenomenology of Life
Renaud Barbaras author Leonard Lawlor translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Indiana University Press
Published:4th Jan '22
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- Hardback£74.00(9780253058157)
In Introduction to a Phenomenology of Life, renowned French philosopher Renaud Barbaras aims to construct the basis for a phenomenology of life. Called an introduction because it has to deal with philosophical limits and presuppositions, it is much more, as Barbaras investigates life in its phenomenological senses, approached through the duality of its intransitive and transitive senses.
Originally published in French (Introduction à une phénoménologie de la vie) Introduction to a Phenomenology of Life first defines the problem of life phenomenologically, then studies the failures of the phenomenological movement to adequately think about life, and finally elaborates a new, original, and productive approach to the problem.
Combining original interpretations and expert readings of philosophers such as Heidegger, Henry, Bergson, and Merleau-Ponty, Barbaras offers a powerful and important contribution to phenomenology and continental thought.
"Introduction to a Phenomenology of Life is a major work that recasts phenomenology as a phenomenology of life. In turn, life is investigated in its phenomenological senses, approached through the duality of its intransitive and transitive senses, i.e., being in life (leben) and feeling, having an experience of something (erleben), intertwining subjective life with a radical insertion in the world."—François Raffoul, author of Thinking the Event
ISBN: 9780253058164
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 585g
382 pages