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The Prism of the Self

Philosophical Essays in Honor of Maurice Natanson

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  • © 1995

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Editors:
  1. Steven Galt Crowell

    1. Rice University, Houston, USA

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Part of the book series: Contributions to Phenomenology (CTPH, volume 19)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Consciousness

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Thresholds of Melancholy

      • Judith Butler
      Pages 3-12

    3. Solipsism

      • Steven Galt Crowell
      Pages 13-29

    4. Natanson on Phenomenology in Psychiatry

      • Osborne P. Wiggins Jr.
      Pages 31-41

    5. Notes from the Underground: Merleau-Ponty and Husserl’s Sixth Cartesian Meditation

      • Fred Kersten
      Pages 43-58

    6. The Problem of Representational Adequacy, or How to Evidence an Ecosystem

      • Lester Embree
      Pages 59-70
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About this book

This volume contains sOOeen essays written by his students and colleagues in honor of Maurice Natanson. The essays explore some of the diverse themes Professor Natanson has pursued through forty years of teaching and philosophizing in the tradition of existential phenomenology. Because it also includes a lengthy biographical and philosophical interview where one can find an absorbing account of Natanson's Lebens/au/in his own words, there is no need to detail that polypragmatic career here. Suffice to say that even passing acquaintance with the man and the work will reveal that Edmund Husserl's self-description holds equally of his distinguished interpreter: "I seek not to instruct but only to lead, to point out and describe what I see. I claim no other right than that of speaking according to my best lights, principally before myself but in the same manner also before others, as one who has lived in all its seriousness the fate of a philosophical existence. "l For Natanson, as the diversity of the contributions to this volume attest, such seriousness involves something other than that narrow technical vision for which a topic is the more philosophical the less it has to do with anything else. In Natanson's pages-to say nothing of his teaching and conversation-there are no men of straw but living, breathing human beings; with hirn philosophy's tentacles are ubiquitous.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Rice University, Houston, USA

    Steven Galt Crowell

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Prism of the Self

  • Book Subtitle: Philosophical Essays in Honor of Maurice Natanson

  • Editors: Steven Galt Crowell

  • Series Title: Contributions to Phenomenology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8408-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1995

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-3546-7Published: 30 June 1995

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4570-6Published: 09 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-8408-1Published: 09 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0923-9545

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1915

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 358

  • Topics: Phenomenology, Philosophy, general, Aesthetics, Modern Philosophy

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