4 papers in the library · 7 citations · publishing 2022-2026
2026 Neal Deroo
Challengingmonotheistic and cognitive assumptions in philosophy of religion, Neal DeRoo sets out a novel theory grounded in a transcendental phenomenological understanding of spirituality. DeRoo applies transcendental phenomenology to questions and methods in the empirical study of religion and considers the way religion shapes our experience and interaction with the world. Accounting for this...
Fordham University Press eBooks June 7, 2022 Neal Deroo 7 citations
The book argues that expressivity is the key to understanding experience and phenomenology. Experience is the constant tying together of knowing, being, and doing in a way that is simultaneously transcendental and empirical, and expressivity names the process by which this tying happens, and so it functions as the logic—the ‘how’—of experience itself. This logic is inherently political, insofar...
The Political Logic of Experience June 7, 2022 Neal Deroo
The task of this chapter is to use expressivity to clarify the relationship between transcendental phenomenology and phenomenology more broadly. It argues that the transcendental must be accounted for in any elaboration of experience, and that phenomenology is necessary to account for at least some elements of that elaboration. The chapter begins by explaining how subjectivity is generated out...
The Political Logic of Experience June 7, 2022 Neal Deroo
The task of this chapter is to outline the implications expressivity has for the relationship between conditions and what they condition. It argues two major claims: first, that concrete “empirical” phenomena alter the transcendental condition(s) of their own appearing; and second that transcendental conditions are experienced as operative in subjective experience, albeit indirectly. This...