Inventing Philosophy's Other(English, Paperback, Strassfeld Jonathan)

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Inventing Philosophy's Other(English, Paperback, Strassfeld Jonathan) is written by Strassfeld Jonathan and published by The University of Chicago Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0226821595 (ISBN 10) and 9780226821597 (ISBN 13).

The history of phenomenology, and its absence, in American philosophy. Phenomenology and so-called "continental philosophy" receive scant attention in most American philosophy departments, despite their foundational influence on intellectual movements such as existentialism, post-structuralism, and deconstruction. In Inventing Philosophy's Other, Jonathan Strassfeld explores this absence, revealing how everyday institutional practices played a determinative role in the development of twentieth-century academic discourse. Conventional wisdom holds that phenomenology's absence from the philosophical mainstream in the United States reflects its obscurity or even irrelevance to America's philosophical traditions. Strassfeld refutes this story as he traces phenomenology's reception in America, delivering the first systematic historical study of the movement in the United States. He examines the lives and works of Marjorie Grene, Alfred Schuetz, Hubert Dreyfus, and Iris Marion Young, among others, while also providing a fresh introduction to phenomenological philosophy.