Paul Downes

Concentric Space as a Life Principle Beyond Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Ricoeur (eBook, PDF)

Inclusion of the Other

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Concentric Space as a Life Principle beyond Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Ricoeur invites a fresh vision of human experience and search for life meanings in terms of potential openings through relational space. Offering a radical spatial rereading of foundational ideas of influential thinkers Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Ricoeur, it argues that these ideas can be rethought for a more fundamental understanding of life, self and other.

This book offers a radical reconceptualisation of space as an animating principle for life through common, although previously hidden, features across the thought of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Ricoeur. It offers a fresh spatial interpretation of key themes in these thinkers' works, such as compassion, will to life, Dionysian rapture, will to power, selfovercoming, re-valuation of values, eternal recurrence, living metaphor and intersubjectivity. It proposes a spatial restructuring of experience from diametric spaces of exclusion towards concentric spaces of inclusion for an experiential restructuring towards unifying modes of experience. This spatial rereading of these major figures in philosophy directly challenges many previous understandings, to offer a distinctive spatial-phenomenological framework for examining a life principle.

This book will appeal to academics, researchers and postgraduates engaged in the study of philosophy, wellbeing, education and human development. The book's interdisciplinary scope ensures that it is also of interest for those in the fields of psychology, anthropology, psychoanalysis and culture studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351392624
• Artikelnr.: 57847359

Autorenporträt

Paul Downes is Professor of Psychology, School of Human Development, Institute of Education, Dublin City University, Ireland. He has over 100 international peer-reviewed publications across areas of philosophy, psychology, education, law, anthropology and social policy and has given keynotes and invited presentations in 29 countries.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction. 2. Features of the Spatial Proto-Language of Concentric
and Diametric Space. 3. Compassion and Space. 4. Rapture and Space. 5. The
Spatial Background between Dionysian and Apollonian Myths. 6. Power and
Space. 7. Space as Freedom in Experience. 8. Space as Movement: Eternal
Recurrence beyond Homogenous Time. 9. Space Prior to Metaphor. 10. Space
and Internalisation of the Other.