Human Existence and Transcendence

Human Existence and Transcendence
Title Human Existence and Transcendence PDF eBook
Author Jean Wahl
Publisher University of Notre Dame Pess
Pages 212
Release 2016-12-15
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0268101094

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William C. Hackett’s English translation of Jean Wahl’s Existence humaine et transcendence (1944) brings back to life an all-but-forgotten book that provocatively explores the philosophical concept of transcendence. Based on what Emmanuel Levinas called “Wahl’s famous lecture” from 1937, Existence humaine et transcendence captured a watershed moment of European philosophy. Included in the book are Wahl's remarkable original lecture and the debate that ensued, with significant contributions by Gabriel Marcel and Nicolai Berdyaev, as well as letters submitted on the occasion by Heidegger, Levinas, Jaspers, and other famous figures from that era. Concerned above all with the ineradicable felt value of human experience by which any philosophical thesis is measured, Wahl makes a daring clarification of the concept of transcendence and explores its repercussions through a masterly appeal to many (often surprising) places within the entire history of Western thought. Apart from its intrinsic philosophical significance as a discussion of the concepts of being, the absolute, and transcendence, Wahl's work is valuable insofar as it became a focal point for a great many other European intellectuals. Hackett has provided an annotated introduction to orient readers to this influential work of twentieth-century French philosophy and to one of its key figures.

Consciousness and Transcendence

Consciousness and Transcendence
Title Consciousness and Transcendence PDF eBook
Author Loomis Mayer
Publisher John Hunt Publishing
Pages 109
Release 2023-10-27
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1803412259

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A central but rarely explored mystery of human existence and subjective consciousness was recognized by Blaise Pascal several centuries ago: Why am I me and not you or anyone else? Science can explain why there is (objectively) a person here, but not why that person is (subjectively) me. This relates to the more widely debated mind/body problem, more currently known as the "Hard Problem of Consciousness." Moving on to human culture, including religion and the arts, this book asks whether these are the direct result of Darwinian evolution or, rather, of the nature of human consciousness. Do the mysteries of our consciousness, of our existence, have a role to play?

Transcendence

Transcendence
Title Transcendence PDF eBook
Author Gaia Vince
Publisher Hachette UK
Pages 311
Release 2020-01-21
Genre Science
ISBN 0465094910

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In the tradition of Guns, Germs, and Steel and Sapiens, a winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books shows how four tools enabled has us humans to control the destiny of our species "A wondrous, visionary work." --Tim Flannery, scientist and author of the bestselling The Weather Makers What enabled us to go from simple stone tools to smartphones? How did bands of hunter-gatherers evolve into multinational empires? Readers of Sapiens will say a cognitive revolution -- a dramatic evolutionary change that altered our brains, turning primitive humans into modern ones -- caused a cultural explosion. In Transcendence, Gaia Vince argues instead that modern humans are the product of a nuanced coevolution of our genes, environment, and culture that goes back into deep time. She explains how, through four key elements -- fire, language, beauty, and time -- our species diverged from the evolutionary path of all other animals, unleashing a compounding process that launched us into the Space Age and beyond. Provocative and poetic, Transcendence shows how a primate took dominion over nature and turned itself into something marvelous.

Existence and Transcendence

Existence and Transcendence
Title Existence and Transcendence PDF eBook
Author Victor Segesvary
Publisher University Press of Amer
Pages 234
Release 2002-02
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780761821472

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This research work is a serious attempt to dilemma the inadequacies of reductive materialism as it has developed in the West in the last 200 years. The epoch of scientism has produced great material wealth for some but has also seriously sapped the human and the environmental realms that have collided with this contemporary reality. Segesvary explores philosophy, theology as well as the natural sciences to develop his powerful anti-Faustian argument.

Debating Humanity

Debating Humanity
Title Debating Humanity PDF eBook
Author Daniel Chernilo
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 271
Release 2017-04-20
Genre History
ISBN 1107129338

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An original approach to the question 'what is a human being?', examining key ideas of leading contemporary sociologists and philosophers.

Transcendence and the Concrete

Transcendence and the Concrete
Title Transcendence and the Concrete PDF eBook
Author Jean Wahl
Publisher Fordham Univ Press
Pages 304
Release 2016-11-01
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0823273032

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Jean Wahl (1888–1974), once considered by the likes of Georges Bataille, Gilles Deleuze, Emmanuel Levinas, and Gabriel Marcel to be among the greatest French philosophers, has today nearly been forgotten outside France. Yet his influence on French philosophical thought can hardly be overestimated. Levinas wrote that “during over a half century of teaching and research, [Wahl] was the life force of the academic, extra-academic, and even, to a degree anti-academic philosophy necessary to a great culture.” And Deleuze, for his part, commented that “Apart from Sartre, who remained caught none the less in the trap of the verb to be, the most important philosopher in France was Jean Wahl.” Besides engaging with the likes of Bataille, Bergson, Deleuze, Derrida, Levinas, Maritain, and Sartre, Wahl also played a significant role, in some cases almost singlehandedly, in introducing French philosophy to movements like existentialism, and American pragmatism and literature, and thinkers like Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Jaspers, and Heidegger. Yet Wahl was also an original philosopher and poet in his own right. This volume of selections from Wahl’s philosophical writings makes a selection of his most important work available to the English-speaking philosophical community for the first time. Jean Wahl was Professor of Philosophy at the Sorbonne from 1936 to 1967, save during World War II, which he spent in the United States, having escaped from the Drancy internment camp. His books to appear in English include The Pluralist Philosophies of England and America (Open Court, 1925), The Philosopher's Way (Oxford UP, 1948), A Short History of Existentialism (Philosophical Library, 1949), and Philosophies of Existence (Schocken, 1969).

Human Existence and Transcendence in Swami Vivekananda's and Mircea Eliade's Thought

Human Existence and Transcendence in Swami Vivekananda's and Mircea Eliade's Thought
Title Human Existence and Transcendence in Swami Vivekananda's and Mircea Eliade's Thought PDF eBook
Author Varghese Alengadan
Publisher
Pages
Release 1997
Genre Transcendence (Philosophy)
ISBN

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