Phenomenology for the Twenty-First Century by J. Aaron Simmons, J. Edward Hackett

By J. Aaron Simmons, J. Edward Hackett

This quantity illustrates the relevance of phenomenology to various modern issues. showing either the epistemological rigor of classical phenomenology and the empirical research of more moderen models, its chapters speak about quite a lot of matters from justice and cost to embodiment and affectivity. The authors draw on analytic, continental, and pragmatic assets to illustrate how phenomenology is a crucial source for questions of non-public life and social lifestyles. The publication concludes by means of contemplating how the way forward for phenomenology pertains to modern philosophy and comparable educational fields.

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By J. Aaron Simmons, J. Edward Hackett

This quantity illustrates the relevance of phenomenology to various modern issues. showing either the epistemological rigor of classical phenomenology and the empirical research of more moderen models, its chapters speak about quite a lot of matters from justice and cost to embodiment and affectivity. The authors draw on analytic, continental, and pragmatic assets to illustrate how phenomenology is a crucial source for questions of non-public life and social lifestyles. The publication concludes by means of contemplating how the way forward for phenomenology pertains to modern philosophy and comparable educational fields.

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Adriaan Peperzak, Simon Critchley, and Robert Bernasconi (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1996). 13. Husserl, Cartesian Meditations, Fifth Meditation. 14.  149. 15.  111. 16.  160. 17.  192. 2 To the People Themselves 31 18. Pan-Africanist thinkers have used a singular notion of Africa in an attempt to unify people against colonial and neocolonial oppression. As such, their use of ‘Africa’ is clearly an attempt to construct a political identity, rather than naming a naturally existing entity with uniform features.

But the problem with any particular universal principle is just that, that it is particular. The swift claim of universality for a particular conception of cosmopolitan justice clashes with cosmopolitanism’s commitment to the value of each person as a conscious agent, that is, as a person with a vital perspective on what justice ought to look like. 27 Cosmopolitics is focused on concrete, collaborative efforts to address specific injustices in the here and now. We may not be in a position to articulate a comprehensive, determinate account of global justice, but we can still recognize injustices when they occur.

A. E. M. Dalton impassable gap between phenomenology’s power as a theoretical science, capable of detailing with profound accuracy the structures of lived experience, and its relative impotence as a practical science, capable of dictating social, political, and ethical action. 1 In order to surmount this problem then, it would appear necessary to eventually step beyond the borders of pure phenomenological analysis and to venture into the realm of prescriptive ethics. But how? How can we step beyond the limitations of phenomenological analysis without betraying its insights?

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