Phenomenology of Life. Meeting the Challenges of the Present-Day World

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Philosophy has been always received or bypassed for its resonance or aloofness with the spirit of the time. Should not philosophy/phenomenology of life be expected to do more to ascertain its validity? Should it not pass the pragmatic test, that is to respond directly to the life-concerns of its time? What is the role of the philosopher and philosophy today? Due to the ever-advancing scientific, technological, social and cultural changes that are shaping human life and the life-world-in-transformation, we are desperately seeking a measure to estimate life's unfolding, a compass to stir the course between Scylla and Charibda to maintain human-hood and creative insight for laying the cornerstones for the unforeseeable unfolding of life dynamisms. It is this challenge which philosophy/phenomenology of life meets with underlying ontopoietic unraveling of the hidden logoic concatenations of beingness-in-becoming. The present collection of essays offers contributions to answer this challenge by focusing upon measure, sharing-in-life, intersubjectivity and communication, societal equilibrium, education, and more. It will be of great interest to those working in the fields of Phenomenology, Philosophy, History of Philosophy, and Contemporary Philosophy. The Pragmatic Test of the Ontopoeisis of Life....Pages xiii-xxxvii “Phenomenology of Life” as Chance for Philosophy’s Transformation into a New Humanism....Pages 3-11 The Meaning of Life vis-à-vis the Challenges of the Present-Day World....Pages 13-31 The Transcendental-Phenomenological Meaning of the Notion of “Experience” in E. Husserl and J. Dewey’s Philosophy....Pages 33-41 Husserl’s Mission of Sovereignty of Thought....Pages 45-67 The Task of Philosophy and the Significance of the Vocation of the Philosopher for Human Life in Husserl’s Phenomenological Analysis....Pages 69-79 Towards a Phenomenology of Courageous Willing....Pages 81-95 Becoming Phenomenology: Style, Poetic Texture, and the Pragmatic Turn in Gilles Deleuze and Michel Serres....Pages 97-116 How Can We be Together: Intersubjectivity and Communication....Pages 119-128 A Critique of the Polarity in Edmund Husserl’s Intersubjectivity Theory....Pages 129-144 Lived Words: The Phenomenology of Poetry Experienced....Pages 145-163 Existence and Communication: Challenge of the Times....Pages 165-175 The Existence of Other Egos and the Philosophy of Moral Sentiments....Pages 177-191 The Beingness of Living Beings in Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka’s Philosophy....Pages 195-200 On the Idea of Environment....Pages 201-216 The Meaning of Life: A Topological Approach....Pages 217-234 Epistemological Relativism as a Challenge to Life Sciences — Do We Still Need Universals?....Pages 235-247 Meeting One’s Death in Arcadia....Pages 249-261 Objectivization of Time in the Obsessive World....Pages 265-274 Phenomenology, Linguistic Intentionality, Affectivity and Villemoes’ New Therapy for Schizophrenics....Pages 275-290 Phenomenological Hyletics and the Lifeworld....Pages 293-301 Phenomenology, the Life-World and the Human Condition....Pages 303-313 Transcendence and the Human Condition: Reflections on Kant, Heidegger and Levinas....Pages 315-337 L’Enchantement du Corps chez Nietzsche et Husserl....Pages 339-355 To Being or not to Being? That is the Question for Ethics....Pages 357-364 Imre Kertesz in the 21st Century: Phenomenological Approaches to Philosophical Distortions and Social Violence....Pages 367-384 Phanomenologie der Gewalt. Eine Problemskizze....Pages 385-405 Twentieth-Century Italian Painting Against the Nihilist Drift of European Thought....Pages 407-424 On Guises, Concepts and Related Topics....Pages 425-438 Curriculum of Primary School Science....Pages 439-450 The Orator Does Not Think Before, nor Even While, Speaking: His Speech is his Thought....Pages 451-464 Education Amidst a Cultural Crisis....Pages 465-552