EPIS Publishing Co. is please to announce the imminent release of its first 2012 publication entitled Three Essays on Phenomenology (with subtitles following). If you’d like a discounted, advance purchase on the volume, please send an email to epispublishing1@gmail.com. or a check mailed to the following address, for $20.00:
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Here is the Preface for the book:
These three essays represent a period of intense philosophical research and writing in conjunction with Professor David A. Boileau (now deceased) during the early years of this new millennium. Like so much other intellectual work, I consider them as preliminary and introductory—unfinished in many ways. Before his passing, David Boileau and I were working on various theoretical criticisms of modern humanism, especially how inadequate conceptions of phenomenology resulted in anthropological distortion, in moral theory, social relations, and psychology. It is in these essays, that I attempt to begin working out the phenomenological problems in psychology, examining the relation between ego distortions and moral behavior, and finally proposing a line of inquiry into radical subjectivity. This volume is the very first volume in the proposed “ZeroPoint Series,” which initiates a line of inquiry into the possibilities for introspective and radical cognitive autonomy, which might have applications for clinical work in psychoanalysis, cultural criticism, social and political philosophy, and moral theory. It is my belief that each one can be further developed and that together they can lead to new critical perspectives in the accounting of radical subjectivity. I am planning further volumes in this series. I also acknowledge that although I have turned to a number of thinkers for discussion and understanding of this work, that it contains a number of mistakes and lacunas, all of which are solely mine.
Here is the back cover description:
These three essays are phenomenological investigations into moral theory, humanistic/modern social relations, and the possibility of radical subjectivity. The first essay, Chasing the Self, is a criticism of 20th-Century psychology, arguing that it rests upon scientific assumptions that prevent a fuller and richer anthropological conception of humans. It is rich in theory and has practical, clinical applications. The second essay, Existential Psychoanalysis, is a study of Jean-Paul Sartre’s dialectic between psychoanalytic distortions in self-concept and the resulting moral problematic of sado-masochistic social relations. It is well researched and is a valuable contribution to the complicated question concerning radical subjectivity. The third and final essay, Prolegomena to The Possessive Self, concerns the problem of the Other by examining and criticizing the possessive self of the Enlightenment. By criticizing the very construction of the modernist self, the “I” of humanism is dismantled, opening up theoretical and practical possibilities for new structures in social relations. All three essays are introductory and open up fertile possibilities for continued development of their ideas and assertions.
KCB
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