Commonplace commitments : thinking through the legacy of Joseph P. Fell / edited by Peter S. Fosl, Michael J. McGandy, and Mark D. Moorman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fosl, Peter S., editor.

McGandy, Michael J., editor.

Moorman, Mark D., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fell, Joseph P.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (325 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Bucknell University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume explores the many dimensions of the work of Joseph P. Fell. Drawing from continental sources such as Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre as well as North American thinkers such as John William Miller, Fell has secured a place as an enduring and important thinker within the tradition of phenomenological thought. Fell's critical development of these strands of philosophy has resulted in a provocative and original challenge to complacent dualism and persistent problems of skepticism, alienation, and nihilism.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Introduction; I: Orientations; 1 What Is Philosophy?; 2 Joseph P. Fell As a Teacher; 3 Style in Teaching Philosophy; 4 The Eclipse and Rebirth of American Philosophical Pluralism; II: The European Tradition; 5 An Aristotelian Argument against the Inquiring of the Nicomachean Ethics; 6 Why Martin Heidegger?; 7 Placing Common Life; 8 "Honoring One's Commitments"; III: Joining the American Tradition; 9 From Place to Midworld; 10 The Reclamation of History; 11 Ordinary Studies; IV: Prospects; 12 Re-Orienting Thinking; 13 Heideggerian Pathways Through Existential Crises

14 The Humanity of the Severely Handicapped within Jean-Paul Sartre's Ethics15 The Integrity of Finitude; 16 René Descartes, Nihilism, and Hans Jonas's "Third Road"; Coda; A Bibliography of Joseph P. Fell's Work; Index; Contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61148-731-5

OCLC:

958455098