Phenomenology of Values and Valuing

✍ Scribed by James G. Hart (auth.), James G. Hart, Lester Embree (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 257
• Series: Contributions to Phenomenology 28
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Although a key aspect of the phenomenological movement is its contribution to value theory (axiology) and value perception (almost all the major figures devoted a great part of their labors to these topics), there has been relatively little attention paid to these themes. This volume in part makes up for this lacuna by being the first anthology on value-theory in the phenomenological movement. It indicates the scope of the issues by discussing, e.g., the distinctive acts of valuing, openness to value, the objectivity of values, the summation and combination of values, the deconstruction of values, the value of absence, and the value of nature. It also contains discussions of most of the major representative figures not only in their own right but also in relationship to one another: Von Ehrenfels, Brentano, Scheler, Hartmann, Husserl, Heidegger, Schutz, and Derrida.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Introduction....Pages 1-9
The Concept of Objective Value....Pages 11-28
Image and Artistic Value....Pages 29-48
Problems of the Value of Nature in Phenomenological Perspective or What to Do about Snakes in the Grass....Pages 49-61
The Value of Absence....Pages 63-80
The Part Played by Value in the Modification of Open into Attractive Possibilities....Pages 81-94
The Notion of Value in Christian von Ehrenfels....Pages 95-115
Values, Reasons for Actions, and Reflexivity....Pages 117-136
Value as Ontological Difference....Pages 137-154
Scheler’s Theory of Values Reconsidered....Pages 155-167
Husserl’s Phenomenology of Willing....Pages 169-192
The Summum Bonum and Value-Wholes: Aspects of a Husserlian Axiology and Theology....Pages 193-230
A Bibliography of Axiology and Phenomenology....Pages 231-244
Back Matter....Pages 245-256

✦ Subjects

Phenomenology; Ethics; Modern Philosophy; Philosophy