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978-0-7391-0942-7 • Hardback • March 2006 • $116.00 • (£89.00)
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Richard I. Sugarman is professor of Religion and Director of the Integrated Humanities Program at the University of Vermont. Roger B. Duncan is retired from the University of Connecticut, where he taught Philosophy at the Hartford campus for 27 years.
Chapter 1 Explorations of the Human Life-World
Chapter 2 Conversations, Reflections, and Beliefs
Chapter 3 Toward a Phenomenology of Transcendence
Chapter 4 New Directions, A Philosopher at Work: Toward a Phenomenology of the Other
Chapter 5 Letter to John Wild
Chapter 6 Bibliography of John Wild's Posthumous Papers
This book contains a landmark collection of essays on the foundational issues of existential phenomenology. It displays the depth and versatility of one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. These posthumous papers of John Wild are a treasure trove of erudition, cogent argumentation, and a jargon-free exploration of timeless philosophical questions. Wild confronts the phenomenological tradition with his own vast knowledge of the history of philosophy. His approach is fresh, surprising, and exciting. A final bonus is Wild's introduction to the thought of Emmanuel Levinas which marks the very first American recognition of Levinas' overall importance. This book is not only an invaluable look at a key historical moment in contemporaryphilosophy; it is also a challenge to continental thought, calling for a renewed examination of its most basic points of departure..
— Robert J. Anderson, Washington College
With unusual clarity and insight, the American philosopher John Wild used his phenomenological approach to explore what he called lived experience, which never grasps the world completely but grants us opportunities to glimpse truth and to give meaning to our lives in positive ways if we learn to use our freedom well. Retrieved through the careful attention that Richard Sugarman and Roger Duncan have paid to the posthumous papers of this major twentieth-century philosopher, John Wild's much-neededwisdom shines again in the twenty-first century—sane and sensible, profound and yet down to earth, illuminating and helpful...
— John K. Roth
In this volume of carefully selected previously unpublished texts, each perceptively introduced, contextualized and annotated, Professors Sugarman and Duncan masterfully bring to life yet more of the penetrating insights of a rightfully distinguished American philosopher, or as John Wild might have said, they have retrieved and renewed his intellectual inquiries into and for our unfolding ?life world.????
— Richard A. Cohen, author of Out of Control: Confrontations between Spinoza and Levinas
This book offers an excellent introduction to phenomenology! It provides the most penetrating critique of relativism even as it constructs a perspectival realism not indifferent to transcendence. More than any other thinker, Wild understands the dissolution of the self wrought by abandoning the world or sinking into nihilism. In his writings, Wild both lives and explains the imperative and the dread of communicating the self in its individuality, its style, by projecting it into writing. I really enjoyed every page and 'studying' with Wild...
— Anne Ashbaugh, Colgate University
The philosophical world stands in debt to Professors Richard Sugarman and Roger Duncan for making available a representative portion of the unpublished works of an internationally eminent twentieth century American philosopher. John Wild, a member of thephilosophy faculty at Harvard University over a span of thirty-four years, was the consummate teacher/scholar who in the course of his career influenced generations of instructors and researchers and helped shape the direction of philosophy in the UnitedStates as it moved toward a new century. With a veritable mastery of the history of philosophy and a rigor in analysis and argumentation, Professor Wild remained in the forefront of critical assessments of the contributions of twentieth century continental phenomenology and existentialism and became a pioneer in the recovery and revitalization of indigenous American pragmatism..
— Calvin O. Schrag