By Galen A. Johnson
This e-book is a philosophical inquiry into historic which means and narrative realizing. reading chosen writings of Husserl and Merleau-Ponty, and tales of Kafka, Rilke, Sartre, and Camus, the writer defends the narrative coherence of existence and the irreducibility of narrative realizing and fact. The island imagery exposed in those authors presents the parameters for a modern philosophy of background safely mingling earth and sky as natality and mortality, remembering and forgetting, wandering and homecoming, waking and dreaming, wealth and poverty. Johnson has driven the life-world topic of Husserl's phenomenology out towards the wild-flowering international the place it kind of feels to were headed.
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