The far reaches : phenomenology, ethics, and social renewal in central Europe / Michael Gubser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gubser, Mike, author.

Series:

Cultural memory in the present

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics--Europe, Central--History--20th century.

Ethics.

Phenomenology--History--20th century.

Phenomenology.

History.

Ethics, Modern--20th century.

Ethics, Modern.

Philosophy, European--20th century.

Philosophy, European.

Central Europe.

Physical Description:

pages cm.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014.

Summary:

When future historians chronicle the twentieth century, they will see phenomenology as one of the preeminent social and ethical philosophies of its age. The phenomenological movement not only produced systematic reflection on common moral concerns such as distinguishing right from wrong and explaining the status of values; it also called on philosophy to renew European societies facing crisis, an aim that inspired thinkers in interwar Europe as well as later Soviet Bloc dissidents. Despite this legacy, phenomenology continues to be largely discounted as esoteric and solipsistic, the last gasp of a Cartesian dream to base knowledge on the isolated rational mind. Intellectual histories tend to cite Husserl's epistemological influence on philosophies like existentialism and deconstruction without considering his social or ethical imprint. And while a few recent scholars have begun to note phenomenology's wider ethical resonance, especially in French social thought, its image as stubbornly academic continues to hold sway. The Far Reaches challenges that image by tracing the history of phenomenological ethics and social thought in Central Europe, from its founders Franz Brentano and Edmund Husserl through its reception in East Central Europe by dissident thinkers such as Jan Patocka, Karol Wojtylsa (Pope John Paul II), and Vaclav Havel. Book jacket.

Contents:

The solicitude of the father : Franz Brentano's ethics of social renewal

A true and better 'I' : Edmund Husserl's call for worldly renewal

Phenomenology without reduction : the realism of the original phenomenological movement

The blueprint of a new heart : Max Scheler and the order of love

Philosophy en plein air : interwar social and ethical phenomenology

Interlude : phenomenology and East European dissidence

The point of view of life : Czechoslovak phenomenology through the Prague Spring

The far reaches : Jan Patočka's transcendence to the world

The definitive no : phenomenology and Czechoslovak resistance to impersonal power

The radiation of humanity : Karol Wojtyła's phenomenological personalism

The light of values : phenomenological ramifications in Polish dissidence.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804790659

0804790655

9780804792523

0804792526

OCLC:

872138875