Commonplace Commitments: Thinking through the Legacy of Joseph P. Fell

Peter S. Fosl

ISBN 10: 1611487307 / ISBN 13: 9781611487305

Published by Bucknell University Press, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Commonplace Commitments: Thinking through the Legacy of Joseph P. Fell
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1611487307
• ISBN 13: 9781611487305
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 640 grams

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Synopsis

Joseph P. Fell proposes that the solution to the problem of nihilism is found in the common experience of persons and the everyday commitments that one makes to people, practices, and institutions. In his landmark 1979 book Heidegger and Sartre, and in his subsequent essays, Fell describes a quiet but radical reform in the philosophical tradition that speaks to perennial dilemmas of thought and pressing issues for action.

Since Descartes, at least, we have been puzzled as to what we can know, how we should act, and what we should value. The skeptical influence of modern dualism―distilled in the mind-body problem at arose with the assertion “I think, therefore I am”―has shot through not just philosophy and psychology, but also society, politics, and culture. With dualism arose radical subjectivism and the concomitant problems of nihilism and alienation. The broad aim of phenomenology is to repair the rupture of self and world. Announced by Edmund Husserl and developed by Jean-Paul Sartre, Martin Heidegger, and John William Miller, who drew from the North American tradition, this is the project to which Fell has devoted more than a half century of reflection and technical elaboration.

In this volume, an array of scholars consider, criticize, and cultivate Fell’s key contributions to the phenomenological project. Ranging from analyses of key texts in Fell’s phenomenology to probing examinations of his crucial philosophical presuppositions to the prospects for Fell’s call to find the solution to nihilism in everyday experience―these essays gather the work of the authors thinking with and through Fell’s key works on Sartre, Heidegger, and Miller. Also included are seminal statements from Fell on his pedagogical practice and his conception of philosophy.

About the Authors

Jeff Malpas is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He was founder and, until 2005, Director of the university's Centre for Applied Philosophy and Ethics. He has authored and edited numerous books with some of the world's leading academic presses and has published a wide range of scholarly articles on topics in philosophy, art, architecture, and geography. His books include Place and Experience (2018) and Heidegger's Topology (2006).

Katie Terezakis is professor of philosophy at Rochester Institute of Technology, USA.

David Weinberger is the co-author of the international bestseller The Cluetrain Manifesto and the author of Small Pieces Loosely Joined. A fellow at Harvard University, Weinberger writes for such publications as Wired and the Harvard Business Review and is a frequent commentator for NPR’s All Things Considered. In 1994, he founded Evident Marketing, a strategic marketing firm on technology issues. He lives in Boston.