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

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Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Springer Science & Business Media, Mar 30, 2006 - Philosophy - 562 pages

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.

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Contents

CARMEN COZMA Phenomenology of Life as Chance
3
DAVID GRUNBERG The Meaning of Life visavis
12
R KURENKOVA Y PLEKHANOV and E ROGACHEVA
33
NICOLETTA GHIGI The Task of Philosophy and
68
JEFFREY WATTLES Towards a Phenomenology
81
Style Poetic
96
CHIEDOZIE OKORO A Critique of the Polarity in Edmund
129
The Phenomenology
145
MARIA LUCRECIA ROVALETTI The Objectivization of Time
263
WILFRIED VER EECKE and RICHARD COBBSTEVENS
275
ANGELA ALES BELLO Phenomenological Hyletics and
293
KONRAD ROKSTAD Phenomenology the Lifeworld and
303
ALAIN BEAULIEU LEnchantement du Corps chez Nietzsche
339
HAMBLET To Being or Not to Being? That is
356
MICHAEL STAUDIGL Phanomenologie der Gewalt
385
PIERO TRUPIA Twentiethcentury Italian Painting against
407

Challenge
164
HALILTURAN The Existence of Other Egos and
177
ZAIGA IKERE The Beingness of Living Beings
194
AYHAN SOL On the Idea of Environment
201
A Topological
217
ALEX ANTONITES Epistemological Relativism as
235
HANNAH SCOLNICOV Meeting Ones Death in Arcadia
249
SEMIHA AKINCI On Guises Concepts and Related Topics
425
KIYMETSELVI Curriculum of Primary School Science
439
WAIT The Orator does not Think Before
451
WILLEM W VAN GROENOU Education Amidst a Cultural
465
INDEX OF NAMES
553
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Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka was born in Marianowo, Poland on February 28, 1923. She studied at the University of Krakow, the Sorbonne, and the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, where she received a Ph.D. in philosophy. She was the founder and president the World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning. She was the author of 14 books and the editor of Analecta Husserliana: The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research and Phenomenological Inquiry: A Review of Philosophical Ideas and Trends. She died on June 7, 2014 at the age of 91.

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