About this book
Introduction
This collection offers a critical assessment of transcendentalism, the understanding of consciousness, absolutized as a system of a priori laws of the mind, that was advanced by Kant and Husserl. As these studies show, transcendentalism critically informed 20th Century phenomenological investigation into such issues as temporality, historicity, imagination, objectivity and subjectivity, freedom, ethical judgment, work, praxis. Advances in science have now provoked a questioning of the absolute prerogatives of consciousness. Transcendentalism is challenged by empirical reductionism. And recognition of the role the celestial sphere plays in life on planet earth suggests that a radical shift of philosophy's center of gravity be made away from absolute consciousness and toward the transcendental forces at play in the architectonics of the cosmos.
Keywords
Absoluteness Consciousness Cosmos Edmund Husserl Emmanuel Kant Emmanuel Levinas Ethical Judgement Freedom Friedrich Nietzsche Gabriel Marcel Gilles Deleuze Henri Bergson Imagination Jean-Paul Sartre Karl Jaspers Martin Heidegger Maurice Merleau-Ponty Merab Mamardashvili Ontopoiesis Pure Reason Subjectivity Temporality Transcendentalism William James
Editors and affiliations
- 1.Advanced Phenomenological Research And, LearningThe World Institute ForHanoverUSA
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