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Varieties of Self-Awareness

New Perspectives from Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, and Comparative Philosophy

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Editors:
  1. Saulius Geniusas

    1. Department of Philosophy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong

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  • Uniquely and exclusively focused on a central theme in contemporary phenomenology – pre-reflective self-awareness
  • A collection of chapters by established scholars in the field
  • Includes established perspectives against phenomenological principles

Part of the book series: Contributions to Phenomenology (CTPH, volume 121)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Possible, Impossible, and Fictional Self-Awareness

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Husserlian Shadows in Plato’s Cave: Layers of Contingency and Fictional Variations on Self-Awareness

      • Claudio Majolino
      Pages 3-25

    3. Ghosts of Ourselves: Self-Responsibility in Georg Simmel’s The View of Life

      • Nicolas de Warren
      Pages 27-44

    4. Daydreaming and Self-Awareness

      • Saulius Geniusas
      Pages 45-61

  3. Embodied Self-Awareness: Incorporation, Kinesthesis, and Sexuality

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63
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    2. Varieties of Incorporation: Beyond the Blind Man’s Cane

      • Giovanna Colombetti
      Pages 65-84

    3. Kinesthesis and Self-Awareness

      • Gediminas Karoblis
      Pages 85-99

    4. The Pre-reflective Dimension of Self-Awareness and the Bipolar Structure of Existence: Merleau-Ponty’s Way from Body Schema to Sexual Schema

      • Kwok-ying Lau
      Pages 101-118

  4. Historical, Social, and Environmental Self-Awareness

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119
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    2. Historical Self-Awareness

      • David Carr
      Pages 121-134

    3. Individuation and Self-Awareness in Wilhelm Dilthey

      • Eric S. Nelson
      Pages 135-152

    4. Ecological Self-Awareness in the Anthropocene

      • Mintautas Gutauskas
      Pages 153-170

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 225-231
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About this book

This collection of chapters, written by prominent scholars in their respective fields, re-examines the nature of self-awareness in both Western and Eastern philosophy, inquires into its diverse and variable modes, and significantly broadens the framework of its analysis. The chapters collected focus on reflective and pre-reflective forms of self-awareness, as well as the relation between self-awareness and the awareness of things and the world. Included are examinations of the affective and embodied dimensions of self-awareness, the distinct forms of self-awareness in memory, phantasy, and dreams, as well as the temporal and spatial nature of self-awareness. This edited volume appeals to students and researchers working in phenomenology and on the philosophy of self-awareness.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong

    Saulius Geniusas

About the editor

Saulius Geniusas is professor of philosophy at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His main philosophical interests lie in 19th and 20th century Continental philosophy, especially in phenomenology and hermeneutics. Geniusas is the author of a number of books, including The Origins of the Horizon in Husserl’s Phenomenology (Springer 2012), The Phenomenology of Pain (Ohio University Press, 2020), and Phenomenology of Productive Imagination (Ibidem Press, 2022). He is also an editor and co-editor of numerous volumes, including Stretching the Limits of Productive Imagination: Studies in Kantianism, Phenomenology and Hermeneutics (Rowman & Littlefield 2018) and Hermeneutics and Phenomenology: Figures and Themes (co-edited with Paul Fairfield, Bloombsbury 2018). He has also published more than sixty articles in various philosophy journals and anthologies. Geniusas has been awarded numerous research fellowshipsand grants, including the Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers and on three occasions the General Research Fund (GRF) grant in Hong Kong. Some of his books have also been awarded international prizes.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Varieties of Self-Awareness

  • Book Subtitle: New Perspectives from Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, and Comparative Philosophy

  • Editors: Saulius Geniusas

  • Series Title: Contributions to Phenomenology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39175-0

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-39174-3Published: 20 September 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-39177-4Due: 09 October 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-39175-0Published: 19 September 2023

  • Series ISSN: 0923-9545

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1915

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 231

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Phenomenology

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