Language Beyond Postmodernism: Saying and Thinking in Gendlin Philosophy

by David Michael Kleinberg-Levin (Contributor), Eugene Gendlin (Contributor), David Kolb (Contributor)

Eugene Gendlin's contribution to the theory of language is the focus of this collection of essays edited by David Michael Levin. This compilation of critical studies—each followed by a comment from Gendlin himself—investigates how concepts grow out of experience, and explores relations between Gendlin's philosophy of language and experience and the philosophies of Wittgenstein, Dilthey, and Heidegger.

376 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 20, 1997

About the author

Dr. David Kleinberg-Levin (known, in earlier years as David Michael Levin) graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover and went on to study philosophy at Harvard University, graduating in 1961. He spent a year as Fulbright Exchange Fellow at the Sorbonne in Paris and undertook research, mostly on Fichte and Schelling, at the university in Freiburg im Breisgau. In 1967, he received his Ph.D. from Columbia University, writing a dissertation on Husserl's phenomenology under the guidance of Aron Gurwitsch of the New School for Social Research. He taught in the Humanities Department at MIT (1968-1972), and then joined the Philosophy Department at Northwestern University, from which he retired in 2005.

Reviews

[Jeff Falzone · Rating 5 out of 5]

A wonderful book, full of varied and extremely interesting articles, all of which are in response to Gendlin's Philosophy of the Implicit.

And Gendlin's responses to each essay are priceless.