Suchergebnisse

I / Philosophical Foundations -- 1. Phenomenology: A Viewing -- 2. Phenomenology and Existentialism: Husserl and Sartre on Intentionality -- 3. Phenomenology and the Natural Attitude -- 4. The Empirical and Transcendental Ego -- 5. Being-in-Reality -- 6. Jean-Paul Sartre's Philosophy of Freedom -- II / Aesthetics and Literature -- 7. Toward a Phenomenology of the Aesthetic Object -- 8. Phenomenology and the Theory of Literature -- 9. Existentialism and the Theory of Literature -- 10. Existential Categories in Contemporary Literature -- 11. The Privileged Moment: A Study in the Rhetoric of Thomas Wolfe -- 12. Albert Camus: Death at the Meridian -- III / History and the Social Sciences -- 13. A Study in Philosophy and the Social Sciences -- 14. Knowledge and Alienation: Some Remarks on Mannheim's Sociology of Knowledge -- 15. History as a Finite Province of Meaning -- 16. History, Historicity, and the Alchemistry of Time -- 17. Causation as a Structure of the Lebenswelt -- 18. Death and Situation.

"Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Questionnaires are everywhere: we fill them out in doctor's offices and at job interviews, to express ourselves and to advance knowledge, to find love and to kill time. But where did they come from, and why have they proliferated? In Questionnaire, Evan Kindley investigates the history of "the form as form," from the Victorian confession album to the BuzzFeed quiz. In the process, he uncovers surprising connections between disparate fields (literature and science, psychology and business, and journalism and surveillance), and while asking questions about the questions we ask ourselves.Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic"--