Recently added articles from Philosophy Today:
ENABLING/DISABLING SENSATION: TOWARD AN ALIMENTARY IMPERATIVE IN CARNAL PHENOMENOLOGY
Jul 01, 2008; ... Sensation breaks up every system ... Emmanuel Levinas, Totality and Infinity It is both our panic and our privilege to be mortal and sense-full. We live on the leash of our senses. Although they enlarge us, they also limit and restrain us, but how beautifully. Diane ...
"OH THAT THIS TOO, TOO SOLID FLESH WOULD MELT": A PHENOMENOLOGY OF SADNESS IN SHAKESPEARE'S HAMLET
Jul 01, 2008; ... This essay is the second in a series of works on the phenomenology of emotion. The first1 dealt with the emotion of anger; this time I shall be phenomenologically analyzing the emotion of sadness. Because my analysis is part of an ongoing project on the phenomenology of emotion, it is concerned ...
EMBODIMENT IN POLANYI'S THEORY OF TACIT KNOWING
Jul 01, 2008; ... One of Michael Polanyi's most important contributions to philosophy is his clarification of the structure of tacit knowing based upon two terms of awareness. For instance, in driving a nail, we are not only aware of the nail, but also aware of the hammer and the feelings in our palm and fingers ...
BEAUVOIR AND THE QUESTION OF A WOMAN'S POINT OF VIEW
Jul 01, 2008; ... Recently, philosophers have taken to announcing a revival or a renaissance in the study of the philosophical work of Simone de Beauvoir.1 Sonia Kruks argues that feminist Beauvoir studies, having passed through an early ( 1970s) phase in which women related to Beauvoir as an icon, and through a ...
IS EXISTENTIALIST AUTHENTICITY UNETHICAL? DE BEAUVOIR ON ETHICS, AUTHENTICITY AND EMBODIMENT
Jul 01, 2008; ... One of the most important problems confronted by existentialist thought clearly appears to be the one referring to the possible contradiction between authenticity and ethics. This problem has not been sufficiently explored in philosophical literature, despite being one of the core issues ...
"Man" and His Technological Doubles
Jul 01, 2008; ... (ProQuest: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.) In contemporary society one can observe an apparent collapse of the opposition between technology on the one hand and nature on the other, an opposition which has been constitutive for the modern understanding of both nature and ...
A DESPAIRING DUTY: THE NON-RECIPROCAL DIMENSION TO SARTRE'S ETHICS
Jul 01, 2008; ... The taste for risk ... is the taste for employing one's freedom to reveal the destructive forces in a field of freedom.1 In the late 1940s, Sartre sets in motion his quest for an ethics. This pursuit alters his negative account of "social" ontology from Being and Nothingness,2 leaving him ...
ADORNO'S ENDGAME
Jul 01, 2008; ... Fredric Jameson, observing in Late Marxism that Adorno adopts Marx's view about the abstract character of all historical forms of exchange, adds that the abstractions characteristic of exchange profoundly affect society because they extend "across the whole range of distinct human activities ...
WITTGENSTEIN'S TURNABOUT
Jul 01, 2008; ... We are all familiar with the distinction between the early and the later Wittgenstein, along with the many different interpretations of its significance. I have long been of the opinion that the crucial factor giving rise to the turnabout in Wittgenstein's thinking concerning the nature ...
A FESTIVAL OF ANTI-REALISM: BRAVER'S HISTORY OF CONTINENTAL THOUGHT
Jul 01, 2008; ... Lee Braver's book does a rare service, and can function as a kind of landmark.' He describes continental philosophy as a systematic program of anti-realism, which he traces with great learning from Immanuel Kant through G. W. F. Hegel, Friedrich Nietzsche, the early and later Martin Heidegger, ...
THE PROBLEM OF DEFINING PAIN
Apr 01, 2008; ... What does it mean to be in pain?1 The major trend today is an attempt to offer a physiological explanation of pain. Although instructive medical textbooks generally assess pain as a complex, multidimensional symptom determined not only by physical, but also by psychological factors such as ...
CRISIS AS A PHILOSOPHICAL BEGINNING: HEGEL AND HUSSERL ON THE PROBLEM OF MOTIVATION
Apr 01, 2008; ... When natural consciousness entrusts itself straightway to Science, it makes an attempt, induced by it knows not what, to walk on its head too, just this once; the compulsion to assume this unwanted posture and to go about in it is a violence it is expected to do to itself, all unprepared and ...
AN ETHICS OF INHERITANCE
Apr 01, 2008; ... Inherited wealth is generally quite unequally distributed: it is nearly as unequally distributed as wealth (generally considered) and a great deal more unequally distributed than income. Inheritance is probably the main factor of wealth concentration among the richest part of the population, and ...
"AT WHAT PRICE FREEDOM?": THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL RUDIMENTS OF SARTRE'S COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS
Apr 01, 2008; ... In this essay I want to situate the Sartrean perspective on freedom with respect to a topical, albeit broad, trend in contemporary Western civic discourse. I aim to do so, not only in the hope of showcasing some of the most compelling aspects of Sartre's treatment of human freedom, but also to ...
LOVE AND LUST AFTER LEVINAS AND LINGIS
Apr 01, 2008; ... In A Natural History of Love, Diane Ackerman cites Stendal as asserting there are four kinds of love: mannered love, physical love, vanity love, passionate love.1 An unofficial count in Love in the Time of Cholera revealed the word "love" bestowed with twenty different modifiers.2 Yet, ...
TOWARD A SERRESIAN RECONCEPTUALIZATION OF KANTIAN RESPECT
Apr 01, 2008; ... For Immanuel Kant the most basic phenomenon of moral life, the categorical imperative, is ineluctably bound up with an essential difference between the sensible and the intelligible, across which practical subjectivity is constituted. More specifically, the moral imperative can be experienced ...
THE PRECARIOUS LIVES OF ANIMALS: BUTLER, COETZEE, AND ANIMAL ETHICS
Apr 01, 2008; ... There never was a human, there never was a life, and no murder has, therefore, ever taken place. Judith Butler, Precarious Life, 147 In Precarious Life, Judith Butler explores a Levinasian ethics, or what she calls a Jewish ethics of non-violence.1 Arguing against Israeli ...
FUTURE IMPOSSIBLE: CARL SCHMITT, JACQUES DERRIDA, AND THE PROBLEM OF POLITICAL MESSIANISM
Apr 01, 2008; ... For more than a decade, the work of Carl Schmitt, the one-time leading jurist for the Third Reich, anti-Semite, and proponent of the authoritarian state and German nationalism, has been undergoing a revival. What is surprising about this flood of new interest and new scholarship is the source: ...
CLASHING STYLES IN MAKING ART AND DECISIONS: TOWARD A PHILOSOPHY OF COMPLEMENTARITY
Apr 01, 2008; ... In David Galenson's recent study of the life cycles of artistic creativity, Old Masters and Young Geniuses, he argues that there are two distinctive and conflicting styles, experimental and conceptual innovation.1 He demonstrates the existence of these different approaches in the fields ...
ANALYTIC AND TRANSCENDENTAL EMPIRICISM: RUSSELL, MERLEAU-PONTY, AND DELEUZE
Dec 01, 2007; ... At the beginning of the twentieth century, Bertrand Russell put forward the concept of an "analytic empiricism," an approach which he held to "eliminate Pythagoreanism from the principles of mathematics, and to combine empiricism with an interest in the deductive parts of human knowledge,"1 thus ...