Inaugural Lecture.- Pensée et Prédication.- I — The Irreducible / In the Individual or in Human Communication?.- The Unique Individual and His Other.- The Irreducible Alienation of the Self.- A Time to Exist on One’s Own.- Love of Self: Obstacle or Privileged Means of Encountering Another?.- II — The Irreducible Personal Nucleus in Human Communication.- Participation or Alienation?.- The Dialectical Conception of Self-Determination.- Phenomenology of Personalistic Morality.- The Self and the Other in the Thought of Edith Stein.- III — The Irreducible Factor in Human Creativity: Causality, Language, Cognition and Interpretation.- Otherness and Causality.- Le Langage Entre Soi et Autrui.- The ‘Founded Act’ and the Apperception of Others.- Empathy, A Return to Reason.- The Creative Self and the Other in Man’s Self-Interpretation.
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".