Phenomenology and Existentialism in the Twentieth Century, Book One: New Waves of Philosophical Inspirations

ISBN-13: 9789048127245 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 468 str.

A-T Tymieniecka

Opis

Krakow was the setting of the August 2008 conference on Phenomenology and Existentialism from which the papers in this and two succeeding volumes were drawn. Phenomenology and Existentialism had strikingly different inspirations and yet the two waves of thought became closely linked as both movements flourished in the mid-twentieth century. Time has given us greater perspective on that interaction. Piotr Mroz s study in this first volume -- "What Does It Mean To Be an Existentialist Today?" -- shows the distance we have traveled. It was thought that a conference devoted to these movements and their interaction would now be especially valuable. The hope was not disappointed. The studies here range from the predecessors of existentialism -- Kierkegaard (Kremer-Marietti), Nietzsche (Storm Torjussen), Wahl (Kremer-Marietti) -- to the work of its adherents -- Shestov (Gruca), Berdyaev (Stark), Unamuno (Tze-Wan Kwan), Blondel (Walkey, Mandolini), Blumenberg (Zowislo), and Heidegger and Mamardashvili (Stafecka). Existentialism s congruence with Christian faith or with atheism is examined (Franke). Among the Husserlian themes covered are Husserl s apprehensions on essence and experience (Ortiz Hill), the place of questioning (Plotka), ethics and intentionality (Ferrarello); temporality and passivity (Shahid), and the lifeworld (Servan). Another study focuses on Husserlian progeny, namely, Dufrenne and Merleau-Ponty (Berman). Affinity between phenomenology and Tibetan Buddhism is also explored (Kurpiewski). Studies focusing specifically on the interaction of phenomenology and existentialism are a comparison of Husserl and existentialists between the World Wars (Villela-Petit), on the intentional and the existential (Sivak), and on time consciousness in each line of thought (Rizzacasa)."

Spis treści

Theme.- Theme.- Section I.- Husserl and Phenomenology, Experience and Essence.- Jean Wahl the Precursor: Kierkegaard and Existentialism.- The Transcendental and the Singular: Husserl and the Existential Thinkers Between the Two World Wars.- DE L’ « In-Existence » Intentionnelle À ? « Ek-In-Sistence » Existentielle.- The Value of the Question in Husserl’s Perspective.- Section II.- The Essential Structure and Intentional Object of Action: Toward Understanding the Blondelian Existential Phenomenology.- Subjectivity, Openness and Plurality: on the Background of Edmund Husserl’s Phenomenological Reduction.- What Does it Mean to be an Existentialist Today?.- Dufrenne and Merleau-Ponty: A Comparative Meditation on Phenomenology.- The Ethical Project and Intentionality in Edmund Husserl.- Is Nietzsche a Phenomenologist?—Towards a Nietzschean Phenomenology of the Body.- The Problem of Authenticity and Everydayness in Existential Philosophy.- Section III.- Lev Shestov’s Philosophy of Crisis.- The Idea of God-Man in Nicolas Berdyaev’s Existentialism.- Unamuno as “Pathological” Phenomenologist: Tragic Sense and Beyond.- Blondel and the Philosophy of Life.- Section IV.- From the Archeology of Happening … to the Matter of Death.- The Phenomenology of Pain: An Experience of Life.- The Existential Overcoming of Phenomenology in Hans Blumenberg’s Philosophy of Life and Myth.- Section V.- Temporality and Passivity in Edmund Husserl’s Analyses.- On Existence, Actuality and Possibility.- The Consciousness of Time in Life Through Phenomenology and Existentialism.- Section VI.- Existentialism: An Atheistic or A Christian Philosophy?.- The Horizon of Humanity and the Transcendental Analysis of the Lifeworld.- Crisis and Culture.- Section VII.- Understanding as Being: Heidegger and Mamardashvili.- Mind – Its Way of Existence, Structure and Functions in Tibetan Buddhism – Comparison with Phenomenology.

O autorze

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".