Cultural Reader

By the late 1950s, Merleau-Ponty felt that his Phenomenology of Perception had not gone far enough. Describing how the body structures perc...

From the Individual to the World After establishing the body as the ground of perception, Merleau-Ponty turns to the broader question: how ...

The Body as Our General Medium for Having a World Merleau-Ponty’s most famous declaration is deceptively simple: “The body is our general m...

The Forgotten Partner of Existentialism When people think of mid-20th century French philosophy, names like Sartre, Beauvoir, or perhaps Ca...

Jean-Paul Sartre's engagement with  Edmund Husserl 's   phenomenology   played a pivotal role in shaping his philosophical outlook. ...

Edmund Husserl was the founder of phenomenology while Martin Heidegger was its main precursor. Both philosophers include within their phen...

Emmanuel Levinas was a French philosopher and theologian.  Levinas was born in Lithuania in 1906 and immigrated to France as a young man. He...

Phenomenology is a philosophical movement that originated in the early 20th century and focuses on the study of consciousness and the object...

Martin Heidegger and Emmanuel Levinas have as much agreement as they do discord. One of these point of common ground with different stances ...

Definition: Heidegger's concept of Mitsein, usualy translated as "being-with," refers to the fundamental fact of human existe...

Definition: Heidegger's concept of Dasein, which is often translated as "being-there", refers to the unique way that human bei...

Martin Heidegger's concept of ontological difference (also ontic-ontological difference) is his way of starting to answer his question o...

The main theme of Heidegger's "Being and Time" is the question of the meaning of being. Heidegger starts by quoting Plato'...

Being and Time  is Martin Heidegger's most influential book and one of the most important books in 20th century philosophy.    In ...

In philosophical phenomeoloyg, "facticity" is the character of   "factuality" and "contingency" of exsitence. ...

Alterity and Otherness are concepts used in various ways by different branches of philosophy. In phenomenology, alterity and otherness serve...

Onto-theology is a term coined by Emmanuel Kant to designate theology as a metaphysics which exists independently of all experience. For Kan...