{"product_id":"phenomenology-isbn-9780262539319","title":"Phenomenology","description":"\u003cb\u003eA concise and accessible introduction to phenomenology, which investigates the experience of experience.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers a concise and accessible introduction to phenomenology, a philosophical movement that investigates the experience of experience. Founded by Edmund Husserl (1859–1938) and expounded by Max Scheler, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and others, phenomenology ventures forth into the field of experience so that truth might be met in the flesh. It investigates everything \u003ci\u003eas experienced\u003c\/i\u003e. It does not study mere appearance but the true appearances of things, holding that the unfolding of experience allows us to sort true appearances from mere appearance. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book unpacks a series of terms—world, flesh, speech, life, truth, love, and wonder—all of which are bound up with each other in experience. For example, \u003ci\u003eworld\u003c\/i\u003e is where experience takes place; \u003ci\u003eflesh\u003c\/i\u003e names the way our experiential exploration is inscribed into the bearings of our bodily being; \u003ci\u003espeech\u003c\/i\u003e is instituted in bodily presence; \u003ci\u003etruth\u003c\/i\u003e concerns the way our claims about things are confirmed by our experience. A chapter on the phenomenological method describes it as a means of clarifying the modality of experience that is written into its very fabric; and a chapter on the phenomenological movement bridges its divisions while responding to criticisms from analytic philosophy and postmodernism.\u003c\/p\u003eSeries Foreword ix \u003cbr\u003e Preface xi \u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments xiii \u003cbr\u003e1 To the Things Themselves 1 \u003cbr\u003e2 World 19 \u003cbr\u003e3   Flesh 43 \u003cbr\u003e4 Speech 59 \u003cbr\u003e5 Truth 77 \u003cbr\u003e6 Life 99 \u003cbr\u003e7 Love 119 \u003cbr\u003e8 Wonder 139 \u003cbr\u003e9 The   Method 163 \u003cbr\u003e10 The Movement 183 \u003cbr\u003eGlossary 213 \u003cbr\u003eNotes 219 \u003cbr\u003eBibliography 229 \u003cbr\u003e Further Reading 235 \u003cbr\u003eIndex 237Chad Engelland is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of Dallas. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eHeidegger's Shadow: Kant, Husserl, and the Transcendental Turn\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Way of Philosophy: An Introduction\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eOstension: Word Learning and the Embodied Mind\u003c\/i\u003e (MIT Press).Beware: the book in your hands has a peculiar subject matter. It is not about this topic or that one but about everything at all, and that might seem to be too ambitious, especially for such a small book. But it is not about everything full stop but about everything as experienced. If biology is the study of life (bios), phenomenology would seem to be the study of appearance (phenomenon). What’s misleading about this analogy is that the study of appearance suggests that we are dealing with mere appearance as opposed to reality, with a mental image instead of the existent thing. But it is just this misunderstanding of appearance that makes phenomenology so urgently necessary. Phenomenology is the study of experience, of the way things appear to us together in their truth. Sometimes there can be mere appearance; it looks like the turtle is dead but it turns out it was just playing dead, or it looks like a turtle but really it’s just a curiously shaped stone. But we are able to have mere appearance because experience is fundamentally reliable; we know the turtle is in fact alive, because we now see it swimming away, or we pick up what we think is a turtle only to discover the lifeless solidity of rock. The unfolding of experience allows us to sort true appearances from mere appearances. Phenomenology does not study mere appearance; it studies the true appearance of things.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44864244711653,"sku":"NP9780262539319","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262539319.jpg?v=1767734716","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/phenomenology-isbn-9780262539319","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}