{"title":"Books by Rick Anthony Furtak","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780197633724","title":"Love, Subjectivity, and Truth","description":"Love, Subjectivity, and Truth engages in a lively manner with the overlapping areas of philosophy and literature, philosophy of emotions, and existential thought. “Subjective truth,” a phrase used in Proust's novel In Search of Lost Time, is rich with existential connotations. It invokes Kierkegaard above all, but significantly Nietzsche as well, and other philosophers who thematize love, subjectivity, and truth. In Search of Lost Time is especially concerned about what we can know about others through love. Insofar as it conveys and analyzes experience, the novel is capable not only of exploring existential issues but also of doing something like phenomenology. What we know is shaped by our way of knowing, just as the properties of visible, colored objects are determined by the wavelengths of light our eyes can see. Nowhere does the subjective basis of our awareness appear so evident as it does when we view things through loving eyes. In Proust's novel we find skeptical views about love expressed again and again. However, we also note countercurrents, in which love is shown to provide a unique sort of insight. At those times, love seems to be a prerequisite of veridical apprehension. Love, Subjectivity, and Truth investigates this tension as it is played out in Proust's fiction.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56226168963445,"sku":"9780197633724","price":60.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780197633724_bd94fd9e-45f4-4db5-8742-7adab758f6e6.jpg?v=1786011656"},{"product_id":"9781587318450","title":"The Sonnets of Rainer Maria Rilke","description":"Romano Guardini described Rainer Maria Rilke as the “poet who had things of such importance to say about the end of our own age [and] was also a prophet of things to come.” The complexity of Rilke is, then, “highly relevant to modern Man.” Decades after Guardini’s assessment, the reader who rediscovers Rilke will find a depth of mind and soul that display a profundity the post-modern reader only thinks he possesses.  In an expanded collection of Rilke’s sonnets, Rick Anthony Furtak not only makes this lyrical masterpiece accessible to the English reader, but he proves himself a master of sorts as well. His introduction that elaborates on Rilke’s marriage of vision and voice, intention and enigma, haunted companionship and abandonment is a stand-alone marvel for the reader. Furtak’s praised translation of Sonnets to Orpheus (University of Chicago Press, 2008) is surpassed in this much broader collection of verse that also includes the original German text. It is Furtak’s great achievement that Rilke resonates with the contemporary reader, who uncertain and searching wants to believe that the vision of existence can mirror much more than his own consciousness. In his feat of rendering Rilke in English, contextualizing the philosophical meanings of verse, and presenting literary romanticism, Furtak provides a formidable contribution to the vindication of true poetic voice.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56303858123125,"sku":"9781587318450","price":11.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781587318450_03cb09f7-ef71-4ba3-899c-af4f41967411.jpg?v=1786023687"},{"product_id":"kierkegaards-existential-philosophy","title":"Kierkegaard's Existential Philosophy","description":"Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) authored an extraordinarily diverse body of work that addresses some of the most pressing questions of human existence. Kierkegaard's Existential Philosophy positions these writings within a unified interpretive framework, arguing for Kierkegaard's status as a foundational figure in the existential tradition. Against the dominance of systematic abstraction, Kierkegaard developed a mode of thought oriented toward lived experience and personal engagement. His frequent appeals to figures from classical antiquity underscore his conviction that philosophy ought to be practiced by passionate existing thinkers, rather than detached theoretical observers.Central to this interpretive account is Kierkegaard's challenge to restrictive conceptions of rationality. His sustained emphasis on emotion as a condition of understanding constitutes a deliberate revolt against purely intellectualist models of knowledge. These affective dimensions of existence are not, for Kierkegaard, barriers to understanding. On the contrary, they are necessary conditions for genuine insight. Love, emotion, and passionate commitment shape how we come to know ourselves and the world, meaning that they cannot be separated from the search for truth. Consequently, this study resists readings that divide Kierkegaard's work into two separate projects---an epistemological critique of modern philosophy on the one hand, and a moral and spiritual assessment of flawed ways of living on the other. Instead, it argues that questions of knowledge and questions of how to live are fundamentally intertwined.Kierkegaard's Existential Philosophy offers a comprehensive interpretation of the philosopher's pseudonymous and signed works, maintaining that the ultimate test of its interpretive framework lies in its credibility when measured against readers' own lived experience.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57680048030069,"sku":"9780197828571","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-rick-anthony-furtak.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}