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Coorebyter, Vincent de. Sartre face à la phénoménologie: Autour de L'Intentionnalité et de La Transcendance de l'Ego. Ousia, 2000.

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Leon, McBride William, ed. Existentialist ontology and human consciousness. Garland Pub., 1997.

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Critics of Consciousness: The Existential Structures of Literature. Harvard University Press, 1990.

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Earnshaw, Steven. The existential drinker. Manchester University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9780719099618.001.0001.

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Drinking to excess has been a striking problem for industrial and post-industrial societies – who is responsible when a ‘free’ individual opts for a slow suicide? The causes of such drinking have often been blamed on heredity, moral weakness, ‘disease’ (addiction), hedonism, and Romantic illusion. Yet there is another reason which may be more fundamental and which has been overlooked or dismissed, and it is that the drinker may act with sincere philosophical intent. The Existential drinker looks at the convergence of a new kind of excessive, habitual drinking, beginning in the nineteenth centu

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Chonjae ŭisik kwa wigi ŭi munhak: Existential consciousness and the literature of crisis. Pʻurŭn Sasang, 2002.

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Revolution in poetic consciousness: An existential reading of mid-twentieth-century British women's poetry. Stauffenburg, 2002.

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Peters, Gary. Improvisation and Time-Consciousness. Edited by George E. Lewis and Benjamin Piekut. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195370935.013.002.

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This chapter investigates the “being in the moment” sought after and celebrated by improvisers. Through an initial reference to Hegel’s phenomenology of the “unhappy consciousness,” the discussion proper begins with Soren Kierkegaard’s commentary and existential radicalization of this inEither/Or. Understood as precisely an out-of-the-moment experience, such unhappiness is here understood as being at the heart of much post-romantic art, exemplified in Theodor Adorno’s perspective on the yearning of modernism understood as thepromesse de Bonheur. If unhappiness, conceived as temporal dislocatio

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Hollwey, Sara, and Jill Brierley. Building Intuitive Consciousness: The Inner Camino As an Existential Journey for a Rapidly Changing World. Transpersonal Press, 2020.

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Garcia, Armando S. An Essay on the Not-Self, Nothingness, and Being of Consciousness: A Primer on Existential Buddhism. Visbal Publications, 2020.

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Massimini, Marcello, and Giulio Tononi. A Universe in Your Palm. Translated by Frances Anderson. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198728443.003.0009.

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In this final chapter, the reader is asked to step back into the shoes of the same medical student who was given a brain to hold at the beginning of the book. At the end of a journey between theory and practice at the borders of consciousness, this section reappraises the existential questions raised in the first chapter, this time by a different perspective. The student realizes that the thalamocortical system may actually be a very special object, considers the relationships between consciousness and the external world, appreciates the difference between doing and being and, finally, perceiv

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Schlieter, Jens. Excursus. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190888848.003.0018.

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This chapter, an excursus, embarks on a more philosophical interpretation of consciousness and experience. Building on Thomas Nagel and Niklas Luhmann, it is argued that human consciousness, defined as a process of self-reproduction of never-ending new possibilities, is perplexed by the task of imagining its own nonexistence. Given that consciousness is not equipped for this task, that is to imagine death (its own nonexistence), it will react with a search for meaning, a context for the existential threat. The excursus argues that this leads to the highly accelerated activity of consciousness.

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Golden, Timothy J. Frederick Douglass and the Philosophy of Religion. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2021. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666993868.

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Frederick Douglass and the Philosophy of Religion: An Interpretation of Narrative, Art, and the Political addresses Douglass’s narrative method and the reformed epistemology of analytic theism within the context of Incarnational theology. Timothy J. Golden argues that in this context, Douglass’s use of narrative maintains a robust moral, social, and political engagement—and thus a closer connection to an authentic Christian theology—in a way that analytic theism does not. To show this contrast, Golden presents existential and phenomenological interpretations of Douglass, reading him alongside

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Massimini, Marcello, and Giulio Tononi. A Brain in Your Hand. Translated by Frances Anderson. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198728443.003.0001.

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This chapter introduces the problem of the relationships between matter and consciousness by asking the reader to step in the shoes of a medical student who is given a human brain to hold during an autopsy. From this perspective, the brain is just another worldly object. A thing with mass and borders. How can this be? Holding a brain, feeling its texture and weight, must be like seeing the Earth from the Moon as a tiny blue dot. It is a sublime experience, and it is both a source of mental anguish and liberation. In this way, the reader is presented with basic scientific questions that have an

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Macauley, Robert C. Palliative Sedation (DRAFT). Edited by Robert C. Macauley. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199313945.003.0009.

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Palliative sedation refers to lowering a patient’s level of consciousness so that she no longer suffers from intolerable and refractory symptoms. Some forms of palliative sedation are ethically uncontroversial, such as emergency or respite sedation. Continuous sedation to unconsciousness (CSU) is controversial in that a patient in such a state is unable to eat or drink and may not be able to protect her airway. Ethically relevant considerations include the inability to participate in subsequent decision-making, the uncertain quality of an unconscious life, and the impact on life expectancy (wh

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Forlenza, Rosario. On the Edge of Democracy. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198817444.001.0001.

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This book links the emergence of democracy in Italy after World War II to human experiences and the symbolic formation of meaning in a time of political and existential uncertainty. Between 1943 and 1948 Italians experienced the most intense period of the war, with its hardship and violence, and the most intense period of social, economic, and political reconstruction, with its hopes and vitality. Unlike conventional accounts that focus on institutions, ideologies, and political norms, On the Edge of Democracy examines the aspirations, expectations, and hopes of real people in real time—the so

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Davidson, Arnold. Spiritual Exercises, Improvisation, and Moral Perfectionism. Edited by George E. Lewis and Benjamin Piekut. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195370935.013.26.

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Abstract: Beginning with Pierre Hadot’s idea of spiritual exercises and Stanley Cavell’s conception of moral perfectionism, this essay argues that improvisation can be understood as a practice of spiritual self-transformation. Focusing on the example of Sonny Rollins, the essay investigates the ways in which Rollins’ improvisations embody a series of philosophical concepts and practices: the care of the self, the Stoic exercise of cosmic consciousness, the problem of moral exemplarity, the ideas, found in the later Foucault, of a limit attitude and an experimental attitude, and so on. The unde

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Copan, Paul, and Charles Taliaferro, eds. Naturalness of Belief. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2018. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978735576.

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Despite its name, “naturalism” as a world-view turns out to be rather unnatural in its strict and more consistent form of materialism and determinism. This is why a number of naturalists opt for a broadened version that includes objective moral values, intrinsic human dignity, consciousness, beauty, personal agency, and the like. But in doing so, broad naturalism begins to look more like theism. As many strict naturalists recognize, broad naturalism must borrow from the metaphysical resources of a theistic world-view, in which such features are very natural, common sensical, and quite “at home

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Forlenza, Rosario. Conclusion. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198817444.003.0008.

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The Conclusion contrasts the dominant structuralist and functionalist approaches to democracy and democratization, with the concept of the passage to democracy as an endogenous process of historical and symbolic articulation, and as the symbolization of lived experiences that engender transformations in consciousness, meanings, and beliefs. Rather than assuming a universal and externally determined model for the democratic process, it makes use of the Italian case to argue that democracy is a lengthy and ongoing narrative, and a process of meaning-formation in the context of political and exis

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Flynn, Thomas R. The Later Sartre. Edited by Dan Zahavi. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198755340.013.20.

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Toward the midpoint of his career, Sartre famously announced the separation from his previous work which he described as a rationalist philosophy of consciousness. Henceforth, he implied, his focus would be on free organic praxis. It would be dialectical and historical not just analytical and psychological. It seemed that he was distancing himself from classical (constitutive) Husserlian phenomenology in favor of something more fluid, more concrete like the hermeneutic phenomenology that he discovered in the Heidegger of Being and Time and was recommending as an ingredient in his Existential p

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Existence and the One. Teseo, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.55778/ts877232004.

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<p><span>The collective volume <em>Existence and the One</em> contains a series of academic reflections on contemporary living in an inclusive international dialogue, open to otherness that demands to be accepted and understood under universal recognition of the value of human being and of its surrounding environment. This volume is the successful outcome of a five-year international research in humanistic and philosophical field with important tendencies towards a deep social criticism in metaphysical and theoretical terms. Strongly focused on a profound analysis of th

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Gleeson, Andrew. God and Evil without Theodicy. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198821625.003.0009.

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Against traditional theodicies, which conceive of God tolerating evils as necessary costs of higher goods, this chapter presents God on the model of a loving parent who refuses to countenance the sacrifice of his children for the sake of greater goods. The theodicists’ anthropomorphic image of God as a disembodied Cartesian consciousness producing effects in the physical world is then challenged. In rejecting this view of God, the contention is made that it is a conceptual confusion to draw conclusions about God from the nature of the world, the way we may do for agents in the world from the c

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Nye, Rebecca. The spiritual strengths of young children. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198747109.003.0008.

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This chapter outlines childhood’s spiritual strengths and needs. Psychological theories and empirical research suggest that spiritual capacity is a natural condition of early childhood, arising in everyday experience. Contemporary scholarship identifies key strengths that underpin childhood spirituality. These include children’s heightened sensitivity to non-verbal, embodied, and emotional ways of knowing, and a less dominating verbal and intellectual approach to experience. This privileges children’s spiritual capacity for ‘relational consciousness’, and is evident in attention to mystery, de

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Lushombo, Léocadie W. Christian and African Ethic of Women's Political Participation. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2022. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666982411.

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This book surveys a broad panorama of Christian and African traditions to discover and assess the components that will illuminate and motivate a Christian and African ethic of women’s political participation. The author’s primary lens for diagnosing the problems faced by women in Africa is Engelbert Mveng’s concept of “anthropological poverty” that results from slavery and colonialism. It affects women in unique ways and is exacerbated by the religious and cultural histories of women’s oppression. The author advocates an interplay between the sacredness of every individual’s life, a salient pr

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Schreffler, Gibb. Dhol. University of Illinois Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252044076.001.0001.

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In the early twenty-first century, the Punjab region’s traditional drummers, dholis, were experiencing “the toughest time ever.” Concurrently, their instrument, the iconic barrel-drum dhol, was experiencing unprecedented global popularity. This book uncovers why, notwithstanding the emblematic status of dhol for Punjabis, the dholis’ local communities are facing existential crisis. The pursuit of a national identity—which aids in political representation and maintaining historical consciousness during change—has led modern Punjabis to make particular economic, social, and artistic choices. A c

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Shipley, Morgan. Psychedelic Mysticism. Published by Lexington Books, 2015. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978726079.

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Concerned with scholarly, popular, and religious backdrops that understand the connection between psychedelics and mystical experiences to be devoid of moral concerns and ethical dimensions—a position supported empirically by the rise of acid fascism and psychedelic cults by the late 1960s—Psychedelic Mysticism: Transforming Consciousness, Religious Experiences, and Voluntary Peasants in Postwar America traces the development of sixties psychedelic mysticism from the deconditioned mind and perennial philosophy of Aldous Huxley, to the sacramental ethics of Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, and Ra

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Kieft, Eline. Dancing in the Muddy Temple. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2022. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666993950.

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Drawing from nature experience, dance, anthropology, and shamanism, Dr. Eline Kieft explores improvised movement as a pathway to insight, healing, transformation, and direct interaction with source. Dancing in the Muddy Temple takes the reader on a journey through multiple layers of embodied spirituality based in movement and embedded in the land. Addressing existential questions outside of mainstream religions, the book seeks possibilities for a spirituality that dances with the sacred life force within and all around us. Starting within the body, and always using movement as a way of knowing

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