`For the most part these papers were presented at professional meetings in 1980. Their provocative character and excellent quality reveal the present richness and future possibilities of the phenomenological enterprise.' The Modern Schoolman (March 1986)
Inaugural Essay.- From Husserl’s Formulation of the Soul—Body Issue to a New Differentiation of Human Faculties.- I The Problem of Embodiment at the Heart of Phenomenology.- The Singularity and Plurality of the Viewpoint in Husserl’s Transcendental Phenomenology.- Das Problem der Leiblichkeit in der phänomenologischen Bewegung.- Seele und Leib in der kategorialen und in der originären Perspektive.- L’oeil de la chair.- II The Recurrent Question of Dualism.- Husserl and the Problem of Dualism.- “Seeing” and “Touching”, or, Overcoming the Soul—Body Dualism.- The Relativity of the Soul and the Absolute State of the Pure Ego.- The Significance of the Transcendental Ego for the Problem of Body and Soul in Husserlian Phenomenology.- Body—Soul—Consciousness Integration.- III The Soul—Body Territory.- Natural Man and His Soul.- Finitude as Clue to Embodiment.- Topoï of the Body and the Soul in Husserlian Phenomenology.- Husserls Sicht des Leib-Seele Problems.- The Ego-Body Subject and the Stream of Experience in Husserl.- Lived Experience of One’s Body within One’s Own Experience.- IV Soul and Body in Phenomenological Psychiatry.- Living Body, Flesh, and Everyday Body: A Clinical-Noematic Report.- The Experience of Sexual Leib in the Toxico-maniac: Phenomenological Premises.- Kinesthesias and Horizons In Psychosis.- Self-acceptance: The Way of Living with One’s Body in Obesity and Mental Anorexia.- V The Place of the Spirit within the Soul—Body Issue.- Body, Spirit and Ego in Husserl’s Ideas II.- Die Bedeutung des Gewissens für eine leibhafte Verwirklichung von Sittlichkeit.- Value Ethics and Experience.- The Significance of Death for the Experience of Body and World in Human Existence.- La transfiguration du corps dans la phénoménologie de la religion.- VI The Horizon of Nature and Being.- Merleau-Ponty’s Conception of Nature.- Merleau-Ponty’s Ontology Of the Wild Being.- Imagination and the Soul—Body Problem in Arabic Philosophy.- VII Husserl and the History of Philosophy.- Monism in Spinoza’s and Husserl’s Thought.- Husserl’s Berkeley.- Annex.- The Opening Address of the Salzburg Conference.- Index of Names.
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka is a Polish-born American philosopher, one of the most important and continuously active contemporary phenomenologists, founder and president of "The World Phenomenology Institute".