Phenomenology and Existentialism in the Twentieth Century

The second of three volumes devoted to phenomenology, existentialism and their unfolding interaction, this book explores the contemporary quests to elucidate rationality based on Kierkegaard's existentialism and on Husserl's phenomenology.

Our world's cultural circles are permeated by the philosophical influences of existentialism and phenomenology. Two contemporary quests to elucidate rationality took their inspirations from Kierkegaard's existentialism plumbing the subterranean source of subjective experience and Husserl's phenomenology focusing on the constitutive aspect of rationality. Yet, both contrary directions mingled readily in common vindication of full reality.

In the inquisitive minds (Scheler, Heidegger, Sartre, Stein, Merleau-Ponty, et al.), a fruitful cross-pollination of insights, ideas, approaches, fused in one powerful wave disseminating throughout all domains of thought.

Existentialist rejection of ratiocination and speculation together with Husserl's shift to the genesis of rapproches philosophy and literature (Wahl, Marcel, Berdyaev, Wojtyla, Tischner, etc.), while the foundational underpinnings of language (Wittgenstein, Derrida, etc.) opened the "hidden" behind the "veils" (Sezgin and Dominguez-Rey).

Shows a fresh view upon the origins and development of phenomenology and existentialism as the main intellectual force of the Twentieth Century Through an insight into their cross-pollination, phenomenology and existentialism open a full panorama of human reality In their far reaching fruition, phenomenology and existentialism penetrate and disseminate all fields of humanities and science, thus metamorphosizing our culture and leading to the New Enlightenment

Auteur
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".

Contenu
Section I.- Was Merleau-Ponty a Phenomenologist? Some Reflections Upon the Identity of Phenomenology.- Sartre's Postcartesian Ontology: On Negation and Existence.- Brute Being and Hyletic Phenomenology: The Philosophical Legacy of Merleau-Ponty's the Visible and the Invisible.- Physis and Flesh.- Embodiment and Existence: Merleau-Ponty and the Limits of Naturalism.- Section II.- The Method of Karol Wojty?A: A Way Between Phenomenology, Personalism And Methaphysics.- The Role of Experience in Karol Wojti?a's Ethical Thought.- Camus and Tischner: in Search of Absolute Love.- Edith Stein and Jean Paul Sartre: A Possibile Comparison?.- Section III.- The Dimension of Existence Disclosed by Unraveling the Intentional Structure of Imagining.- Phenomenological and Poetical Grounds of Linguistics.- Perception, Textual Theory and Metaphorical Language.- La Phénomenologie et le Problème de L'imagination.- Section IV.- Merleau-Ponty and the Eternal Return to the Life-World: Beyond Existentialism and Phenomenology.- Dis-Identity as Living Identity.- De-Situatedness: The Subject and its Exhaustion of Space in Gilles Deleuze.- The Post-Structural Effect on the Life-World: Re-Thinking Critical Subjectivity and Ethics through Existential Performance and the Constitutive Power of Performativity.- Section V.- Jean Wahl The Precursor.- Albert Camus: Phenomenology and Postmodern Thought.- Jan Kott and The Aesthetics of Reception: Aspects of An Existential Theatre.- The Existential and Aesthetic Aspects of The History Museum at The Turn of The Century.- Section VI.- Playing with Places: The Aestethetic Experience of Place in a Play Situation.- Mythopoetics of Stone.- Towards a Phenomenology ff the Instrument-Voix.- Hors D'Oeuvre Revisited: An Existential Exchange.-Section VII.- The Human Telos Beyond the Instrumental Closure: The Contribution of Phenomenology and Existentialism.