The latest addition to the Contributions to Phenomenology Series, published by Springer, is Critical Communities and Aesthetic Practices – Dialogues with Tony O’Connor on Society, Art, and Friendship, edited by Francis Halsall, Julia Jansen, and Sinead Murphy.
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The Table of Contents of the volume is as follows:
Introduction, F. Halsall, J. Jansen, S. Murphy.
Part 1: Critical Communities and Aesthetic Subjects: Ethics, Politics, Action.
1. Community without Identity: Transcendental Communication in an Age of Flawed Identities, J. Williams
2. Othering, R. Bernasconi
3. Derrida’s Specters: Futurity, Finitude, Forgetting, J. Hodge
4. The Political and Ethical Significance of Waiting in Heidegger’s Philosophy of Action, F. ó Murchadha
5. The Political Horizon of Merleau-Ponty’s Ontology, D. Davis
Part 2: Hermeneutics and Aesthetic Practices: Art, Ritual, Interpretation.
6. Violence and Splendor, A. Lingis
7. Refraction in Film and Philosophy: The Case of Godard, J. Mullarkey
8. Notes on Translating Hölderlin, D. Krell
9. Art & Edge, E.S. Casey
10. Merleau-Ponty on Cultural Schemas and Childhood Drawing, T. Welsh
11. Reflections on the Hermeneutics of Creative Acts, D. Burnham.
12. Hermeneutics as a Critique of Art, N. Davey
Part 3: Aesthetic Practice and Critical Community: Friendship
13. On Friendship, G. Allen
14. Kantian Friendship, G. Banham
15. Just Friends: The Ethics of (Postmodern) Relationships, H.Silverman
16. The Art of Friendship, W. Hamrick