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In this work, Hermann Schmitz introduces the main theses of New
Phenomenology: subjective facts and affective involvement, the felt body
and the primitive present, and pre-personal selfconsciousness among
others. He also offers a new solution to the problem of freedom and a
critique of the current age of irony based on the critique of Western
reductionism and introjectivism.
About the author
Hermann Schmitz (Leipzig 1928 - Kiel 2021) is known as the founder of New Phenomenology and for his philosophy of the felt body ("Leib") and atmospheres. Author of an ambitious and far reaching "System of Philosophy" in ten volumes (1964-1980), he kept elaborating on his fundamental insights on atmospheres, feelings, space, felt body and consciousness in more than fifty volumes and many essays. Among the more recent ones: "Jenseits des Naturalismus" (2010), "Der Leib" (2011), "Gibt es die Welt?" (2014), "Ausgrabungen zum wiklichen Leben" (2016), "Sich selbst verstehen. Ein Lesebuch" (2021), and "Kurze Einführung in die Neue Phänomenologie" (2009), translated into English as "New Phenomenology: An Introduction" (Mimesis International 2014).
