by admin | Aug 21, 2024 | Scholars
One of Bollnow’s best-known hermeneutic phenomenological texts is “The Pedagogical Atmosphere” (1988). While the term “pedagogical relation” is a well- known and well-discussed concept, especially in the German theoretical educational literature, interestingly the...
by admin | Aug 21, 2024 | Scholars
The medical doctor Buytendijk was unique in that his philosophical starting point was the healthy human being rather than the ill person. In his wide range of health science publications, Buytendijk preoccupied himself only rarely with methodological issues. A seeming...
by Michael van Manen | Aug 21, 2024 | Scholars
Cixous repeatedly expresses her wariness of reductive language that would simplify her practice of écriture feminine. Still, she makes clear that she wishes to offer new ways of writing and speaking, and that she writes to women: “I write this as a woman, towards...
by admin | Aug 21, 2024 | Scholars
De Beauvoir’s novels, essays and philosophical works reflect a sustained and critical concern with the art of living and how to self-consciously live a life of personal choices that fully face the challenges and consequences of individual freedom, responsibility, and...
by admin | Aug 21, 2024 | Scholars
Derrida is now considered one of the most original thinkers, if not the most influential thinker of his time. His development of the idea of deconstruction, his critical reading of classical philosophic texts, and his provocative take on a wide range of issues and...
by admin | Aug 21, 2024 | Scholars
The thought that the self (soul or mind) is completely distinct from the body has been widely regarded as Descartes’ fundamental mistake: separating the mind from the body. He is the philosopher who is blamed for the legacy of mind–body dualism—an idea that is now...
