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- Fundamentally reassesses the meaning of “nature”
- Re-considers the modern dogmatic derogation of ancient conceptions of the “tiered universe”
- Introduces readers from the general public to a major scholar
Part of the book series: Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences (WHPS, volume 5)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
The philosophical basis for this cosmology is Conrad-Martius’ “realontology” which is a phenomenological account of the essence of appearing reality. The full elaboration of the modes of appearing of what is real enables the unfolding of an analogical theory of “selfness” within the order of nature culminating in an account of the coming to be of humans, for whom there is an essentially distinctive world- and self-manifestation for which she reserves the term “spirit.” Key to her position is the revival of ancient metaphysical themes in new transformed guises, especially potentiality and entelechy.
Nature’s status, as a self-actuation of world-constituting essence-entelechies, places Conrad-Martius in the middle of philosophical-theological discussions of, e.g., the hermeneutical mandate of demythologization as well as the nature of evolution. Of special interest is her insistence on both nature’s self-actuating and evolving powers and a robust theory of creation.
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Authors, Editors and Affiliations
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Dominican University College, Ottawa, Canada
Rodney K. B. Parker
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Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
James G. Hart
About the editor
James G. Hart is a Professor Emeritus at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he taught in both the Department of Religious Studies and (as an Adjunct Professor) in the Philosophy Department from 1972 until 2001. His previous works include The Piety of Thinking (Indiana University Press, 1976, with John Maraldo), The Person and the Common Life (Springer, 1992), and Who One Is (two volumes, Springer, 2009).
Rodney K.B. Parker is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Dominican University College in Ottawa, Ontario. From 2017 to 2018, he was the lead researcher for Women in Early Phenomenology at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, University of Paderborn. He is also a former Adjunct Professor at the University of Western Ontario and Visiting Scholar at the Husserl Archives, KU Leuven. His areas of specialization are Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology and the history of the phenomenological movement.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Hedwig Conrad-Martius’ Ontological Phenomenology
Authors: James G. Hart
Editors: Rodney K. B. Parker
Series Title: Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44842-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-44841-7Published: 09 May 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-44844-8Published: 09 May 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-44842-4Published: 08 May 2020
Series ISSN: 2523-8760
Series E-ISSN: 2523-8779
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 272
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Nature, Cosmology