2018-02Forum
Husserl and the Theological Question

Abstract: Defending the ancient thesis, that being and the true, or being and manifestation, are necessarily inseparable, is at the heart of transcendental phenomenology. The transcendental “reduction” disengages the basic “natural” naïve doxastic belief which permits the world to appear as essentially indifferent to the agency of manifestation. The massive work of transcendental phenomenology is…

2018-02Discussion Papers, Comments, Book Reviews
Cultural Values and Mental Health: A Manifesto for International Values-based Practice

Abstract: This article sets out a manifesto for the development of an international values-based practice fully engaged with the diversity of cultural values and implemented through the resources of the international movement in philosophy and psychiatry. Anticipated by mid-twentieth century ordinary language philosophy of the “Oxford School,” the last three decades have witnessed…

2018-02Discussion Papers, Comments, Book Reviews
Repressed Fear of Being Inconsistent. Some Notes on Karl Stern’s Biography

Preview: /Review of Daniel Burston’s, A Forgotten Freudian: The Passion of Karl Stern (London: Karnac Books 2017), 256 pages./ When the chief editor of Eidos kindly asked me to write a review of Daniel Burston’s new book devoted to Karl Stern, I kept a straight face and gritted my teeth. I did not want to reveal the fact that I had never…

2018-02Discussion Papers, Comments, Book Reviews
Moving Beyond Limits Together: Anthony Steinbock’s Phenomenology after Husserl

Preview: /Review of Anthony J. Steinbock’s, Limit-Phenomena and Phenomenology in Husserl (London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017), 155 pages./ This cohesive collection of essays from Anthony Steinbock is vital for understanding the situation of henomenological philosophy. Along with the exegesis of texts central to its development, he shows a way of doing phenomenology “after” Husserl,…