Gerda Walther's phenomenology of sociality, psychology, and religion. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Antonio Calcagno.
• Editors: Calcagno, Antonio, 1969-
• Contents: Intro; Series Foreword; Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences; Contents; Editor and Contributors; Introduction; The Life and Work of Gerda Walther; Gerda Walther (1897-1977): A Sketch of a Life; References; Gerda Walther: Searching for the Sense of Things, Following the Traces of Lived Experiences; Orienting Oneself in Multiple Experiences; The Phenomenological Method; The Fundamental Human Essence: The I-Center and Embeddedness; Telepathic Union; Communal Union; Mystical Union; Social Ontology and the Self; Social Acts and Communities: Walther Between Husserl and Reinach IntroductionReinach's Conception of Social Acts (and Walther's Departure from It); Husserl on the Constitutive Function of Social Acts; Walther on Social Acts; The Ontological Constitution of Communities; The Phenomenological Constitution of Communities; Conclusion; References; On Community: Edith Stein and Gerda Walther; Introduction; The Relation Between the I and the Community; Community in Edith Stein and Gerda Walther; Conclusion; Gerda Walther and the Possibility of a Non-intentional We of Community; Gerda Walther on the Unity of Communal Oneness The Possibility of a Non-intentional Communal WeHuman Beings as Social Beings: Gerda Walther's Anthropological Approach; Introduction; Human Beings as Social and Communal Beings; The Constitution of Human Beings; The Development from the Individual to the "We"; Inner Joining or Inner Unification; We-Experiences; Conclusion; References; Körper, Leib, Gemüt, Seele, Geist: Conceptions of the Self in Early Phenomenology; Gerda Walther; Edith Stein; Hedwig Conrad-Martius; Conclusion; What Is the Condition for the Members of Social Communities to Be "Real" People According to Gerda Walther? Analyzing the Human Being: The Ontology of Social CommunityThe Base of Social Community: Its "Emotional-Spiritual" Life and Its Relation to Intentional Content; The Copernican Turn of Sociology; Conclusion; Religion and Mysticism; Phenomenology of Mysticism, Introduction and Chapter One; Translator's Preface; Phenomenology of Mysticism; Gerda Walther; Introduction: Limitations of Our Method and Objects of Inquiry; Chapter One: The Ego as Centre of Lived-Experience; Phenomenological Approaches to the Uncanny and the Divine: Adolf Reinach and Gerda Walther on Mystical Experience The Phenomenological Approach: Munich and GöttingenUncanny Experiences; Concluding Remarks; Translation Appendix (Translated by Kimberly Baltzer-Jaray and Fritz Wenisch); Das Absolute (Paragraphs 5-7, 12); Structure of Experience; Skeptical Considerations; Assessment of the Experience; Bibliography; Selected Writings by Gerda Walther; Secondary Sources
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 291.422; Philosophy; Mysticism; Parapsychology; RELIGION / Comparative Religion; Philosophy -- History & Surveys -- General; Philosophy -- Social; Philosophy -- Religious; History of Western philosophy; Social & political philosophy; Philosophy of religion; Phenomenology ; Philosophy (General); Philosophy -- Movements -- Phenomenology; Phenomenology & Existentialism; Electronic books; Criticism and interpretation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319975924; 3319975927
• Related ISBNs: 9783319975917; 3319975919
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 29, 2018)
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