Description: This book develops the interplay between phenomenology as a historical movement and as a descriptive method within Continental philosophy and the arts.
Brief description: John Russon is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Guelph (Canada), and Director of the Toronto Summer Seminar in Philosophy. He is the author of eight books, including Human Experience (2003), Bearing Witness to Epiphany (2009), Sites of Exposure (2017) and Adult Life (2020). He has also written extensively on contemporary European philosophy, German Idealism and ancient Greek philosophy.
Review Quotes: "The appropriate audience for this volume is wide. It will be both enjoyable and enlightening for professional and student philosophers, artists, writers, and poets. The progression from each piece to the next is both thoughtful and natural, thanks to the editorial work of Carlson and Costello. In sum, this book explores the relationships between artist and work, work and witness, and artist and witness in a way that is meaningful and interesting to anyone interested in either art (broadly construed) or philosophy. . . . I thoroughly recommend this book to all who are interested in phenomenology or art, as much can be learned from this volume on both accounts." --Continental Philosophy Review