Description
Phenomenology has primarily been concerned with questions about knowledge and ontology. However, in recent years the rise of interest and research in phenomenology and embodiment, the emotions and cognitive science has seen the concept of agency move to a central place in the study of phenomenology generally.
The Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology of Agency is an outstanding reference source to this topic and the first volume of its kind. It comprises twenty-seven chapters written by leading international contributors. Organised into two parts, the following key topics are covered:
窶｢ major figures
窶｢ the metaphysics of agency
窶｢ rationality
窶｢ voluntary and involuntary action
窶｢ moral experience
窶｢ deliberation and choice
窶｢ phenomenology of agency and the cognitive sciences
窶｢ phenomenology of freedom
窶｢ embodied agency
Essential reading for students and researchers in phenomenology, philosophy of mind, metaphysics and philosophy of cognitive science The Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology of Agency will also be of interest to those in closely related subjects such as sociology and psychology.
Table of Contents
Introduction Christopher Erhard and Tobias Keiling Part 1: Important Figures: From Brentano to Tengelyi 1. Franz Brentano窶冱 Critique of Free Will Denis Seron 2. Phenomenology of Willing in Pfänder and Husserl Karl Mertens 3. Alexander Pfänder窶冱 Phenomenology of Motivation Genki Uemura 4. Scheler窶冱 Phenomenology of Freedom and His Theory of Action Eugene Kelly 5. The Intentionality and Positionality of Spontaneous Acts: Adolf Reinach窶冱 Account of Agency Francesca DeVecchi 6. Dietrich von Hildebrand on the Will and Intentional Agency Alessandro Salice 7. The Varieties of Activity 窶� Hans Reiner窶冱 Contribution Christopher Erhard 8. Martin Heidegger: From Fluid Action to Gelassenheit Sacha Golob 9. Edith Stein: Psyche and Action Antonio Calcagno 10. Action in the Phenomenology of Alfred Schütz Michael Barber 11. Determined to act: On the structural place of acting in Sartre窶冱 ontology of subjectivity Simone Neuber 12. Emmanuel Levinas: Freedom, and Agency Michael Morgan 13. Hanna Arendt: Plural Agency, Political Power, and Spontaneity Marieke Borren 14. Merleau-Ponty and Agency Thomas Baldwin 15. Paul Ricﾅ砥r: A Phenomenological Hermeneutics of Meaningful Action Timo Helenius 16. Operari Sequitur Esse: Hermann Schmitz窶冱 Attitudinal Theory of Agency, Freedom, and Responsibility Henning Nörenberg 17. Hubert Dreyfus: Skillful Coping and the Nature of Everyday Expertise Justin White 18. Life is an adventure: László Tengelyi窶冱 phenomenology of action Tobias Keiling Part 2: Systematic Perspectives Phenomenology of Agency 1: General Issues 19. On the Satisfaction Conditions of Agentive Phenomenology: A Dialogue Terry Horgan and Martine Nida-Rümelin 20.
