Synopses & Reviews
Quiet Powers of the Possible offers an excellent introduction to contemporary French phenomenology through a series of interviews with its most prominent figures.
Guided by rigorous questions that push into the most important aspects of the latest phenomenological research, the book gives readers a comprehensive sense of each thinker's intellectual history, motivations, and philosophical commitments.
The book introduces readers to debates that have not previously been accessible to the English-speaking world, such as the growing interest in the phenomenological concept of life in its affective and even vital dimensions, the emerging dialogue with the analytic philosophy of mind and language, and reassessments of the so-called theological turn.
The diversity of approaches collected here has its origin in a deeper debate about the conceptual and historical foundations of phenomenology itself. In this way the book offers the most accessible and wide-ranging introduction to French phenomenology to have appeared in the English-speaking world to date.
About the Author
Tarek R. Dika is Postdoctoral Fellow at The Michigan Society of Fellows and Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
W. Chris Hackett is Research Fellow and Lecturer in the School of Philosophy, Australian Catholic University.
RICHARD KEARNEY is Charles B. Seelig Professor of Philosophy at Boston College.
Table of Contents
Contents:
Foreword by Richard Kearney
Acknowledgments
References and Citations
Contributors
Introduction
Jean-François Courtine
French Phenomenology in Historical Context
Jean-Luc Marion
The Phenomenology of Givenness
Claude Romano
The Fundamental Concepts of Phenomenology
Jocelyn Benoist
Contextualism, Realism, and the the Limits of Husserlian Intentionality
Michel Henry
Material Phenomenology
Renaud Barbaras
The Phenomenology of Life
Françoise Dastur
Phenomenology and Finitude
Jean-Yves Lacoste
Phenomenology and the Frontier
Emmanuel Falque
The Collision of Phenomenology and Theology
Jean-Louis Chrétien
Attempting to Thing Beyond Subjectivity
Author Bibliographies
Books
Introductory Annotated Bibliographies
English, German, and French Introductions to Phenomenology
Key Terms and References
List of Contributors
Index