The World, the Flesh and the Subject: Continental Themes in Philosophy of Mind and Body

by Kathleen Lennon and Paul Gilbert

Book Overview

Here, for the first time, contemporary Continental thought comes into conversation with analytic philosophy on all the principal topics of philosophy of mind. Rejecting the dominant Anglo-American paradigm, which reduces mental phenomena to their roles in a scientific psychology, the authors present a non-mysterious, naturalistic alternative. Characterising mental life is, they seek to show, capturing the world from the point of view of the subject...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748614990
• ISBN13: 9780748614998
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher