Title: The things themselves : phenomenology and the return to the everyday /
Authors: Steeves, H. Peter.
Publisher: State University of New York Press,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Phenomenology.
Abstract: "Taking Edmund Husserl's dictum to heart yet finding in it a new direction, The Things Themselves is an attempt to return philosophy to the world and, in so doing, know ourselves and our place in that world anew. The book deals with the myriad ways in which a phenomenological approach to philosophy can inform commonplace experiences and understanding. From a trip to Disneyland to a morning spent watching television exercise shows, from the commitment to become a vegetarian to the choice to become a political revolutionary, this book breaks down the barrier between theory and praxis, demanding that we both investigate and hold ourselves accountable to this world"--Jacket.
Contents: Introduction -- Section I: The animal as first philosophy -- Monkey see -- Illicit crossings : the familiar other and the feral self -- Lost dog -- Section II: The good, the true, and the beautiful -- Being beautiful ABS : Kiana, Christ, and the gang at ESPN2 -- Cézanne's out -- She knows what you did last summer : feminist epistemology and the scientific ideal -- Section III: Away from home -- Mars attacked! : interplanetary environmental ethics and the science of life -- A phenomenologist in the magic kingdom : experience, meaning, and being at Disneyland -- Las Vegas, Las Vegas -- These hits to the body.