Tag: Phenomenology

Free Download Decolonizing Existentialism and Phenomenology: The Liberation of Philosophies of Freedom and Identity (Living Existentialism) by Jina Fast
English | November 15, 2023 | ISBN: 1538178036 | 232 pages | MOBI | 0.50 Mb
Decolonizing Existentialism and Phenomenology analyzes the history of decolonial existentialist and phenomenological theory in the work of figures such as Simone de Beauvoir, Richard Wright, Franz Fanon, Lewis Gordon, Audre Lorde, Sylvia Wynter, and Jamaica Kincaid in order to reimagine and rewrite the philosophical canon. Phenomenology and existentialism study the structures of consciousness as experienced from the perspective of the subject, yet their methods have been markedly tied to the subjective lived experiences and perspectives of White Europeans and Americans. By centering the experiences of peoples of the African diaspora, gender marginalized people, and queer peoples, Africana existentialist and phenomenologist philosophers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have been able to generate new frameworks for understanding structures of meaning and consciousness within oppressive colonial orders thus challenging histories of existentialism and phenomenology that bracket social markers of identity and experiences of social identity. This text represents a study of the philosophies of scholars that seek to decolonize hegemonic discourses and structures that impede the development of the selves and projects of colonized peoples.

Free Download Unsettling Nature: Ecology, Phenomenology, and the Settler Colonial Imagination (Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Environmental Humanities) By Taylor Eggan
2022 | 310 Pages | ISBN: 0813946832 | EPUB | 1 MB
The German poet and mystic Novalis once identified philosophy as a form of homesickness. More than two centuries later, as modernity’s displacements continue to intensify, we feel Novalis’s homesickness more than ever. Yet nowhere has a longing for home flourished more than in contemporary environmental thinking, and particularly in eco-phenomenology. If only we can reestablish our sense of material enmeshment in nature, so the logic goes, we might reverse the degradation we humans have wrought―and in saving the earth we can once again dwell in the nearness of our own being.Unsettling Nature opens with a meditation on the trouble with such ecological homecoming narratives, which bear a close resemblance to narratives of settler colonial homemaking. Taylor Eggan demonstrates that the Heideggerian strain of eco-phenomenology―along with its well-trod categories of home, dwelling, and world―produces uncanny effects in settler colonial contexts. He reads instances of nature’s defamiliarization not merely as psychological phenomena but also as symptoms of the repressed consciousness of coloniality. The book at once critiques Heidegger’s phenomenology and brings it forward through chapters on Willa Cather, D. H. Lawrence, Olive Schreiner, Doris Lessing, and J. M. Coetzee. Suggesting that alienation may in fact be "natural" to the human condition and hence something worth embracing instead of repressing, Unsettling Nature concludes with a speculative proposal to transform eco-phenomenology into "exo-phenomenology"―an experiential mode that engages deeply with the alterity of others and with the self as its own Other.

Free Download PHENOMENOLOGY;THE BASICS;2
by Dan Zahavi
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1032396377 | 211 pages | True PDF EPUB | 10.05 MB

Free Download Reaction-Diffusion Automata: Phenomenology, Localisations, Computation By Andrew Adamatzky (auth.)
2013 | 330 Pages | ISBN: 364231077X | PDF | 78 MB
Reaction-diffusion and excitable media are amongst most intriguing substrates. Despite apparent simplicity of the physical processes involved the media exhibit a wide range of amazing patterns: from target and spiral waves to travelling localisations and stationary breathing patterns. These media are at the heart of most natural processes, including morphogenesis of living beings, geological formations, nervous and muscular activity, and socio-economic developments.This book explores a minimalist paradigm of studying reaction-diffusion and excitable media using locally-connected networks of finite-state machines: cellular automata and automata on proximity graphs. Cellular automata are marvellous objects per se because they show us how to generate and manage complexity using very simple rules of dynamical transitions. When combined with the reaction-diffusion paradigm the cellular automata become an essential user-friendly tool for modelling natural systems and designing future and emergent computing architectures.The book brings together hot topics of non-linear sciences, complexity, and future and emergent computing. It shows how to discover propagating localisation and perform computation with them in very simple two-dimensional automaton models. Paradigms, models and implementations presented in the book strengthen the theoretical foundations in the area for future and emergent computing and lay key stones towards physical embodied information processing systems.

Free Download Max van Manen, "Phenomenology of Practice Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 1032131934 | 2023 | 498 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Max van Manen offers an extensively updated edition of Phenomenology of Practice: Meaning-Giving Methods in Phenomenological Research and Writing to provide an eloquent, accessible, and detailed approach to practicing phenomenology.

Free Download Shawn Loht, "Phenomenology of Film: A Heideggerian Account of the Film Experience"
English | ISBN: 1498519024 | 2017 | 220 pages | PDF | 12 MB
Phenomenology of Film: A Heideggerian Account of the Film Experience uses the philosophy of Martin Heidegger as a framework for addressing key issues in the philosophy of film. This study grapples with the question of how we can reconcile film as a popular entertainment medium with Heidegger’s own various critiques of popular media and culture throughout his career. Shawn Loht also explores topics such as the ontology of film and moving images; the phenomenological character of the viewer experience; film conceived as an art medium; and the function of films as vehicles for philosophical thought. He further discusses important concepts from Heidegger’s philosophy-Dasein, existentiality, world, art and poetry, and the nature of philosophy. The first four chapters take up these issues from a theoretical perspective. The remaining chapters provide robust application of the theoretical material to the films of three contemporary filmmakers: Terrence Malick, Michael Haneke, and David Gordon Green.

Free Download Susi Ferrarello, "The Phenomenology of Pregnancy and Early Motherhood: Ethical, Social, and Psychological Perspectives"
English | ISBN: 1032791969 | 2024 | 148 pages | EPUB | 487 KB
The Phenomenology of Pregnancy and Early Motherhood provides an ethical, social, and psychological investigation of the process of becoming a mother.

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by Susi Ferrarello
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1032791969 | 162 Pages | True PDF | 1.65 MB

Free Download Steven L. Bindeman, "Phenomenology and the Creative Process"
English | ISBN: 1433198037 | 2023 | 314 pages | EPUB | 1258 KB
Phenomenology and the Creative Process explores the subject of creativity from a vast range of perspectives. While the emphasis is placed on fundamental ideas taken from phenomenological philosophy and its precursors, the book also engages with related issues from the fields of psychology, physics, narrative studies, art, literature, cognitive science and neuroscience.

Free Download Phenomenology and Future Generations: Generativity, Justice, and Amor Mundi
by Matthias Fritsch, Ferdinando G Menga
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1438499493 | 275 Pages | PDF | 1.85 MB