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This edited volume investigates a much-needed exploration of women phenomenologists, past and present, in particular, Hannah Arendt, Hedwig Conrad-Martius, Edith Stein, and Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka. The sections covered are devoted to the phenomenological exploration of autobiography, subjectivism, and posthumanism as dealing with modalities of the real and art (poetry and music, in particular). This volume includes, among others, a study of the autobiography of Husserl, a phenomenological analysis of an immigrant experience, a poetic autobiography, and a phenomenological recollection of emotions through artistic media. Chapters also explore the notions of empathy, certain aspects of mental illness and trauma, and the experience of patients. This book appeals to students and researchers working in applied phenomenology.
List of contents
The Founding Role of Anna Teresa Tymieniecka in the History of Phenomenology in North America.- The Ontopoietic Phenomenology of Life and the Renewal of the Environmental Philosophy Reflectio.- A Philosophical Portrait of Anna Teresa Tymieniecka Logos and Life.
About the author
Dr. William S. Smith is the Executive President of the World Phenomenology Institute. Dr. Jadwiga S. Smith is the Co-President (American Division) of the World Phenomenology Institute. They both have worked closely with Dr. Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka since the mid-1980s. Drs. William and Jadwiga Smith published widely in the Analecta Husserliana and the Phenomenological Inquiry, organized international conferences and participated in the WPI at all levels. They are professors emeriti of English at Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, Massachusetts, USA.
Dr. Marie Antonios Sassine was until recently the Executive Director for The Centre on New Questions in Ethics, Society, and Technology (CETS)at Dominican University College, Canada. Herprimary areas of focus are phenomenology, continental philosophy, and philosophy of science. She is on the editorial board of the Analecta Husserliana. She has given conferences and published articles in both English and French on the creative imagination in Ibn‘Arabi and Philo of Alexandria, on Jan Patočka and Plato, as well as on Husserl and Jean Ladrière and their critique of technique. Her latest publications and conferences have been on the relation between aesthetics and ethics or politics, particularly in the work of Hannah Arendt.
