Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP)
Having its roots in phenomenology and existentialism, the SPEP series has brought out an impressive selection of works fundamental to continental philosophy for nearly five decades, including works by and about Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Paul Ricoeur, and Edmund Husserl. In addition to making classic authors and texts available to contemporary readers, SPEP is committed to providing translations of key international books and to publishing a new generation of thinkers. It provides a forum for promising scholarly studies on contemporary figures and welcomes significant contributions to pressing philosophical topics and existential problems.
Philosopher and physician Drew Leder shows how a phenomenology of lived embodiment reveals a series of healing strategies available in the face of the bodily breakdowns and challenges that are a part of the human condition.
A bold new conception of Heidegger’s model of Destrucktion as a method of interpreting history that enables us to reorient and indeed transform its own most troubling legacies.
This thorough study offers a lucid analysis of Czech philosopher Jan Patočka’s thought, from the influences on his phenomenology to the impact of his politics. The book provides a nuanced grounding for current and future Patočka scholars.
Russell Ford examines Gilles Deleuze’s Empiricism and Subjectivity within its academic and philosophical context, arguing that the significance of this work only becomes apparent in connection to a larger problematic: the conceptual constitution of a purely immanent account of existence.
This book provides a comprehensive and critical account of Gadamer’s hermeneutical philosophy. Robert J. Dostal shows that at the heart of Gadamer’s enterprise is the thesis that “being that can be understood is language.”
The Possibility of Philosophy presents the notes Maurice Merleau‑Ponty prepared for three courses he taught at the Collège de France. Two of these courses were the last he taught before his unexpected death in 1961.
Edward S. Casey invites us to rethink our emotions as fundamentally emerging from outside and around the self, redirecting our attention from the subjective sources of emotion to what reaches us from outside the domain of the subject.
Drawing on and developing the phenomenological work of figures such as Edmund Husserl and Max Scheler, Knowing by Heart details the various feelings and feeling‑states that pertain to matters of the heart.
In Cognition and Work, Max Scheler offers an early critique of American pragmatism and demonstrates the dynamic relation that not only the human being but all living beings have to the environment they inhabit.
Having its roots in phenomenology and existentialism, the SPEP series has brought out an impressive selection of works fundamental to continental philosophy for nearly five decades, including works by and about Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Paul Ricoeur, and Edmund Husserl. In addition to making classic authors and texts available to contemporary readers, SPEP is committed to providing translations of key international books and to publishing a new generation of thinkers. It provides a forum for promising scholarly studies on contemporary figures and welcomes significant contributions to pressing philosophical topics and existential problems.
