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Situated at the crossroads of nature and culture, physics and consciousness, cosmos and life, history - intimately conjoined with time - continues to puzzle the philosopher as well as the scientist. Does brute nature unfold a history? Does human history have a telos? Does human existence have a purpose?
Phenomenology of life projects a new interrogative system for reexamining these questions.
We are invited to follow the logos of life as it spins in innumerable ways the interplay of natural factors, human passions, social forces, science and experience - through interruptions and kairic moments of accomplishment - in the human creative imagination and intellective reasoning. There then run a cohesive thread of reality.
List of contents
Toward Phenomenology of History.- Phenomenological History and Phenomenological Historiography.- Phenomenology and the Challenge of History.- Phenomenology, History and Historicity in Karl Jaspers' Philosophy.- Does History Have a Purpose?; History Theory of Merleau-Ponty in the Latter Half of the 1940S.- History as the Unveiling of the Telos. the Husserlian Critique of the Wel Tanschauungen.- Time, Consciousness, Historicity.- Husserl and Bergson on Time and Consciousness.- The Historicity of Nature.- The Enlightenment and Early Romantic Concepts of Nature and the Self.- Inhabited Time: Couperin' Passacaille.- Social Imagination and History in Paul Ricoeur.- Anxiety and Time in the Hermeneutic Phenomenology of Heidegger.- Principle of Historicity in the Phenomenology of Life.- Time, Alerity and Subjectivity: Reflections on the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas.- Emmanuel Levinas and the Deformalization of Time.- Emmanuel Levinas: Non-Intentional Consciousness and the Status of Representational Thinking.- The Phenomenology of Time in the Philosophy of Levinas: Temporality and Otherness in the Hebraic Tradition.- Time-Space and the Worlds, External and Internal.- Lifeworld Between Scientific and Cultural Experience: On "European Crisis".- Time, Space and the Individual Being in the Internal and External Worlds During the Lifecourse.- Space Travel: When "Space" is a Metaphor.- Phenomenology of Life of Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka and Some Issues of Contemporary Georgian Philosophy.- The Philosophical Sense is the Mature Sense - Husserl's Reflection on the Measure of Philosophy.- Language, Time and Otherness.- Virtual Decadence.- World of Life, Communication and Culture.- Some Considerations Concerning the Question of Measure in the Phenomenology of Life.- TheInterfacing of Language and World.- De L'idée de la Forme Phénoménologique.- Husserl and the Crisis of Philosophy.- Phenomenological Hermeneutics of Intermediacy and the Constitution of Intercultural Sense.- Arendt's Revision of Praxis: On Plurality and Narrative Experience.- Phenomenology in Mongolia.- Phenomenology of Lifelong Learning.- From the Station to the Lyceum.
About the author
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".
Summary
Situated at the crossroads of nature and culture, physics and consciousness, cosmos and life, history – intimately conjoined with time – continues to puzzle the philosopher as well as the scientist. Does brute nature unfold a history? Does human history have a telos? Does human existence have a purpose?
Phenomenology of life projects a new interrogative system for reexamining these questions.
We are invited to follow the logos of life as it spins in innumerable ways the interplay of natural factors, human passions, social forces, science and experience – through interruptions and kairic moments of accomplishment – in the human creative imagination and intellective reasoning. There then run a cohesive thread of reality.
