Phenomenology in a Pluralistic Context (SUNY Series, Selected Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)

Offers various views on phenomenology and existentialism.Phenomenology in a Pluralistic Context contains papers selected from three years of meetings of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP). The essays are representative of the most current thinking among North American philosophers who have been influenced by the phenomenological movement. A majority of the selections reveals a considerable mutual influence between phenomenology and other philosophical currents. Special emphasis is given to issues in social and political theory; the philosophy of medicine, of art, of language, and of religion; phenomenology's relationship to Kantianism and to Marxism; and the figures of Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, and Heidegger.William L. McBride and Calvin O. Schrag are Professors of Philosophy, Purdue University. William L. McBride and Calvin O. Schrag are Professors of Philosophy, Purdue University. William L. Mcbride And Calvin O. Schrag, Editors. Contains Papers And Symposia Contributions Selected From The Seventeenth, Eighteenth, And Nineteenth Annual Meetings Of The Society For Phenomenology And Existential Philosophy ... Held At Duquesne University (1978), Purdue University (1979), And The University Of Ottawa (1980)--introd. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. "Contains papers and symposia contributions selected from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth annual meetings of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy ... held at Duquesne University (1978), Purdue University (1979), and the University of Ottawa (1980)"--Introduction