Publisher's Synopsis
These 14 essays constitute Sokolowski's sustained project of critical phenomenological analysis of many different forms of presentation, as well as numerous forms of human experience. By providing concrete analyses of human themes familiar to everyone, such as picturing and quotation, these examples of applied phenomenology take appearances seriously, while making philosophical distinctions among them.;The essays describe representation in image and speech, clarify how we can isolate something as an issue for thought, and discuss what we do after we have isolated it. Sokolowski describes two ways in which wholes are articulated into parts and further develops the theme of measurement. A phenomenological attempt to treat sense and reference is included, as well as a discussion of the formal composition of sentences and images and their relationship to the way things are disclosed. The final three essays are studies in the phenomenology of ethical performance.
