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4023Karl Jaspers: From Selfhood to BeingBar Ilan University Press. 2006.This is a study of the work of the German philosopher Karl Jaspers (1883-1969), from his beginnings as a young psychiatrist to his mature days as an existentialist philosopher. This critical study of Jasper's philosophy traces his effort to instill meaning into the human quest for self-understanding and reveals the difficulties and frustrations inherent in this search. The book presents to the reader Jasper's attempts to deal with these difficulties by means of a philosophical approach to the co…Read more
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2417From Opposition to Reciprocity: Karl Jaspers on Science, Philosophy, and What Lies Between ThemInternational Philosophical Quarterly 44 (2): 147-163. 2004.This article deals with the relationship between philosophy and science in the writings of Karl Jaspers and with its reception in the wider scholarly literature. The problem discussed is how to characterize the relationship that exists between science—defined on pure Kantian grounds as a universally valid knowledge of phenomenal objects—and philosophy—conceived by Jaspers as the transcending mode of thinking of personal Existenz rising towards the totality and unity of Being. Two solutions to th…Read more
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23Husserl and Other PhenomenologistsThe European Legacy 21 (5-6): 467-480. 2016.This article addresses a basic question: what elements in Husserl’s phenomenology can account for the variety of post-Husserlian phenomenologies? The answer, I suggest, is that Husserl’s idea of reality, particularly his notion of givenness vis-à-vis self-givenness, facilitated the work of his followers by offering them at once a firm ground and a point of departure for their inquiries. However, adopting Husserl’s phenomenology as their starting point did not prevent his followers from developin…Read more
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22The Vocabulary of RealityHuman Studies 38 (3): 331-347. 2015.This article seeks to extricate and explicate the unique vocabulary that was consolidated by the realistic phenomenologist Hedwig Conrad-Martius in her establishing book Realontologie, published in 1923. Among the concepts are: “Essence”, “Bearer”, Self-adherence, Capability, Tangentiality, Incorporation, Internality, “Quiet,” Fullness, Depth, Layeredness, Abyss, and others. CM does not always coin them as distinguished concepts, but they function as philosophical concepts due to the meaning she…Read more
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11Hedwig Conrad-Martius: The Phenomenological Gateway to RealitySpringer Verlag. 2023.This volume, the first of its kind written in English, interprets the realistic-phenomenological philosophy of Hedwig Conrad-Martius (1888-1966). She was a prominent figure in the Munich-Göttingen Circle, the first generation of phenomenology after Edmund Husserl (1859-1938), and was known as the “first lady of German philosophy”.The articles included in this collection deal with the two main themes constituting her realistic-metaphysical phenomenology: Being and the I. The new edition includes …Read more
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6Towards Reality: The Development of the Philosophical Attitude to Reality in the Thought of Karl JaspersJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 37 (2): 152-172. 2006.
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6Hedwig Conrad-Martius: The Phenomenological Gateway to RealitySpringer Verlag. 2021.This volume, the first of its kind written in English, interprets the realistic-phenomenological philosophy of Hedwig Conrad-Martius. She was a prominent figure in the Munich-Göttingen Circle, the first generation of phenomenology after Edmund Husserl, and was known as the “first lady of German philosophy”. The articles included in this collection deal with the two main themes constituting her realistic-metaphysical phenomenology: Being and the I. In addition, the collection includes a comprehen…Read more
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5Husserl and Other Phenomenologists (edited book)Routledge. 2017._Husserl and Other Phenomenologists_ addresses a fundamental question: what is it in the thinking of the founding father of phenomenology, Edmund Husserl, that on the one hand enables the huge variety in the phenomenological discourse and, at the same time, necessitates relying on his phenomenology as a point of departure and an object before which philosophizing is conducted. The contributors to this volume, each with his or her own focus on a specific figure in the phenomenological school vis-…Read more
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2The Metaphysical Absolutizing of the Ideal. Hedwig Conrad-Martius’ Criticism of Husserl’s IdealismIn Rodney K. B. Parker (ed.), The Idealism-Realism Debate Among Edmund Husserl’s Early Followers and Critics, Springer Verlag. pp. 193-216. 2021.This article discusses the main arguments of Hedwig Conrad-Martius against the worldview of idealism in connection to her phenomenological idea of reality. The discussion focuses on her most far-reaching critical argument concerning the damage caused by idealism to the possibility for metaphysics by turning the real into the ideal, thereby reducing reality to an idea. This article analyses Conrad-Martius’ understanding of the evolution of idealism and of her criticism regarding the metaphysical …Read more
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1Unity and Fragmentation of the Self in Leibowitz’s Idea of Faith and their Repercussions: A Critical PerspectiveIn Dov Schwartz & Avi Sagi (eds.), Faith: Jewish Perspectives, Academic Studies Press. pp. 545-583. 2019.
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Essence, Abyss, and Self—Hedwig Conrad-Martius on the Non-spatial Dimensions of BeingIn Sebastian Luft & Ruth Hagengruber (eds.), Women Phenomenologists on Social Ontology: We-Experiences, Communal Life, and Joint Action, Springer Verlag. pp. 147-167. 2018.Hedwig Conrad-Martius, the woman pioneer of the realistic phenomenological school, describes the reality to which her philosophizing is addressed as “totally non-material corporeality”. With this contradictory expression she seeks to affirm two foundational aspects regarding reality: the spatial that achieved material realization in real existents and the concealed non-spatial that is at the cradle of the establishing of reality and remains present behind its phenomenal and material appearing. T…Read more
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Hedwig Conrad-Martius (1888-1966)In Kristin Gjesdal (ed.), The Oxford handbook of nineteenth-century women philosophers in the German tradition, Oxford University Press. 2023.
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A Philosophical Resonance: Hedwig Conrad-Martius versus Edith SteinIn Dermot Moran & Elisa Magrì (eds.), Empathy, Sociality, and Personhood: Essays on Edith Stein’s Phenomenological Investigations, Springer Verlag. 2017.
Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan
PhD, 2001
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics and Epistemology |
Areas of Interest
Metaphysics and Epistemology |