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Essays on phenomenological encounters with the world.

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H. Peter Steeves is a phenomenologically oriented hybrid of Roland Barthes and Jean Baudrillard, and not only is he quite as good as they are, his writing also offers a strong argument for why we need to expand the reach of phenomenology rather than set it aside. Steeves has an extraordinary eye for the revealing empirical detail. His essays on Disneyland and Las Vegas are masterpieces in the hermeneutics of irreality. His powers of observation are those of a writer or a painter, and his essay on CC)zanne is quite as revealing as Merleau-Ponty's classic. This is a highly original book, full of ideas, and it brilliantly applies phenomenology to our real (and unreal) experience. It will have a major impact on the field.

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H. Peter Steeves is Associate Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. He is the author of Animal Others: On Ethics, Ontology, and Animal Life, also published by SUNY Press, and Founding Community: A Phenomenological-Ethical Inquiry.

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