Phenomenology
Truth and Interpretation
A resolute defense of philosophy and hermeneutics against the threats of dogmatism and relativism.
Redeeming Words
Probing study of how literature can redeem the revelatory, redemptive powers of language.
Hans Jonas's Ethic of Responsibility
Articulates the fundamental importance of ontology to Hans Jonas’s environmental ethics.
Moments of Disruption
Explores the ethical and political implications of Levinas’s and Sartre’s accounts of human existence.
The Barbarian Principle
Essays exploring a rich intersection between phenomenology and idealism with contemporary relevance.
More Studies in Ethnomethodology
Phenomenological analyses of the orderliness of naturally occurring collaboration.
The Sense of Space
A phenomenological account of spatial perception in relation to the lived body.
The Intercorporeal Self
An original interpretation of Merleau-Ponty on subjectivity, drawing from and challenging both the continental and analytic traditions.
Retrieving Aristotle in an Age of Crisis
An urgent, contemporary defense of Aristotle
The Heidegger Change
Elaborates the author’s conception of plasticity by proposing a new way of thinking through Heidegger’s writings on change.
The Possible Present
A practical hermeneutics of time.
Deleuze and Guattari's Immanent Ethics
Explains how the work of Deleuze and Guattari speaks to feminism and other progressive movements.
Experimental Phenomenology, Second Edition
Expanded new edition of the landmark book demonstrating the practice of phenomenology through visual illusions and ambiguous drawings
Nature and Logos
Exploration of Alfred North Whitehead's influence on Maurice Merleau-Ponty's ontology of nature.
Schelling's Organic Form of Philosophy
Locates in Schelling a new understanding of our relation to nature in philosophy.
Sleights of Reason
Demonstrates the dramatic interplay of elements that comprise the concepts of norm, bisexuality, and development.
Objectivity
Appearing for the first time in English, Günter Figal’s groundbreaking book in the tradition of philosophical hermeneutics offers original perspectives on perennial philosophical problems.
Elemental Philosophy
Explores the ancient and perennial notion of the four elements as environmental ideas.
An Unprecedented Deformation
Philosophical interpretation of Proust based on the work of Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze.
Hegel and Shakespeare on Moral Imagination
Study of self-consciousness in Hegel and Shakespeare.
Between Nihilism and Politics
Essays describe Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo’s unique and radical hermeneutic philosophy.
Oedipus
First English translation of Nasio's groundbreaking work on the Oedipus complex.
The Politics of Spirit
A critical look at the development of the phenomenological approach to the study of religion, revealing its evaluative and metaphysical concepts.
Ethics of Writing
First English translation of Sini’s important work on the influence of writing and the alphabet on Western rationality.
Spirit, the Family, and the Unconscious in Hegel's Philosophy
Investigates the role of family in Hegel’s phenomenology.