Fordham University Press Quiet Powers of the Possible: Interviews in Contemporary French Phenomenology (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)

Quiet Powers of the Possible offers an excellent introduction to contemporary French phenomenology through a series of interviews with its most prominent figures. Guided by rigorous questions that push into the most important aspects of the latest phenomenological research, the book gives readers a comprehensive sense of each thinker’s intellectual history, motivations, and philosophical commitments. The book introduces readers to debates that have not previously been accessible to the English-speaking world, such as the growing interest in the phenomenological concept of life in its affective and even vital dimensions, the emerging dialogue with the analytic philosophy of mind and language, and reassessments of the so-called theological turn. The diversity of approaches collected here has its origin in a deeper debate about the conceptual and historical foundations of phenomenology itself. In this way the book offers the most accessible and wide-ranging introduction to French phenomenology to have appeared in the English-speaking world to date. Review Eureka! Here's a book that we ― teachers, students and readers ― have all been waiting for: hearing the 'new phenomenologists' in conversation. There is no better way to begin a study of the recent irruptions in phenomenology than to read this book. Author: ―Kevin Hart Source: University of Virginia "... Quiet Powers of the Possible deserves to be received as an indispensable contribution to the field and as a significant interrogation into the powers and possibilities of phenomenology's expanded account of reason.” Source: ―Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews About the Author Tarek R. Dika is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan Society of Fellowsand Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. He iscoeditor, with W. Chris Hackett, of Quiet Powers of the Possible: Interviews in Contemporary French Phenomenology (Fordham University Press, 2015). W. Chris Hackett is Research Fellow and Lecturer in the School of Philosophy, Australian Catholic University. Richard Kearney is the Charles Seelig Professor of Philosophy at Boston College.He is the author of over 20 books, among them the trilogy The God Who May Be (Indiana University Press, 2001), On Stories (Routledge, 2002), and Strangers, Gods, and Monsters (Routledge, 2003), as well as works including Debates in Continental Philosophy (Fordham University Press, 2004), and Anatheism (Columbia, 2011). In 2008 he launched the Guestbook Project, an ongoing artistic, academic, and multi-media experiment in hospitality.