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This volume centers on the exploration of the ways in which the canonical texts and thinkers of the phenomenological and existential tradition can be utilized to address contemporary, concrete philosophical issues. In particular, the included essays address the key facets of the work of Charles Guignon, and as such, honor and extend his thought and approach to philosophy. To this end, the four main sections of the volume deal with the question of authenticity, i.e. what it means to be an authentic person, the ways in which the phenomenological and existential traditions can impact the sciences, how best to understand the fact of human mortality, and, finally, the ways philosophical reflection can help address current questions of value. The volume is designed primarily to serve as a secondary resource for students and specialists interested in rediscovering the practical application of existential and phenomenological thought. The collection of scholarly essays, then, could be used in conjunction with some of the more recent scholarship concerning the practical value of philosophy. Along with contributing to previous scholarship, the essays in this proposed volume attempt to update and expand the scope of phenomenological and existential inquiry.

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction

Hans Pedersen and Megan Altman

Part I Authenticity and Subjectivity

Chapter 2: Can We Drop the Subject?: Heidegger, Selfhood, and the History of a Modern Word

Lawrence J. Hatab

Chapter 3: Knowing Thyself in a Contemporary Context: A Fresh Look at Heideggerian Authenticity

Steven Burgess and Casey Rentmeester

Chapter 4: From Extremity to Releasement: Place, Authenticity, and the Self

Jeff Malpas

Chapter 5: Guignon on Self-Surrender and Homelessness in Dostoevsky and Heidegger

Kevin Aho

Chapter 6: Authenticity and Duty in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Michael E. Zimmerman

Part II Phenomenology Reflection on the Sciences and Technology

Chapter 7: Phenomenology of Value and the Value of Phenomenology

Benjamin Crowe

Chapter 8: Heidegger and Dilthey: Language, History, and Hermeneutics ...

Eric S. Nelson

Chapter 9: A Phenomenological Reformulation of Psychology: Resources, Progress, and Prospects

Blaine J. FowersChapter 10: Philosophical Hermeneutics and the One and the Many

Frank C. Richardson and Robert C. Bishop

Chapter 11: The Phenomenological Elements of Addiction: A Heideggerian Perspective

Frank Schalow

Chapter 12: A Heideggerian Critique of Cyberbeing

Richard Polt

Part III Phenomenological Considerations of Death and Ethics

Chapter: 13 Death in Being and Time : Getting Our Stories Straight

Adam Buben

Chapter 14: Mortality and Morality: A Heideggerian Interpretation of Kierkegaard´s Either/Or

Megan Altman

Chapter 15: Rethinking Levinas on Heidegger on Death

Iain Thomson

Chapter 16: Dumas and Heidegger on Death to Come

Mariana Ortega

Part IV Questions of Agency and the Social

Chapter 17: The Phenomenology of Agency and Deterministic Agent-Causation

Derk Pereboom

Chapter 18: Kierkegaard and the Problem of Ironic Agency

Hans Pedersen

Chapter 19: Phenomenology as Social Critique

Bill Koch

Chapter 20: Existential Socialization

Daniel O. Dahlstrom

Chapter 21: ´Demanding Authenticity of Ourselves´: Heidegger on Authenticity as an Extra-Moral Ideal

Mark A. Wrathall

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