Phenomenology and Existentialism in the Twenthieth Century: Book III. Heralding the New Enlightenment (Analecta Husserliana, 105)

The discussion on the phenomenology of life will continue to be crucial to the general outlook and direction of phenomenological investigations. The imp- tance of it is not only the fact that it is an innovation in the philosophical circle, but it is also an effort that contributes to the re-reading of the hitherto ex- gerated differences between phenomenology and metaphysics. What is new and signi?cant about life is that even though it is evident in the ?ow of the history of philosophy, no philosopher has seriously addressed it. Not many philosophers have said something in particular about life in serious philoso- ical re?ection. The discussion on life by Henri Bergson attests to this and one 3 can hardly point to other deep re?ections elsewhere about the subject. The advantage here about our area is not only that it has extended the horizon of phenomenological thinking, it has also helped to lead phenomenology from the constitutive analysis to a creative impetus that has brought a new point of view to the ?eld, hence raising questions about the general philosophical t- dition from ancient times. This is a reading which my philosophy attempts to investigate about Tymienieckan thought. The emphasis in philosophy till now has been more on reason in its int- lection and pure rational dimension based on the earliest conception of the human person distinguished by rationality. Front Matter....Pages i-ix Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Heralding the New Enlightenment....Pages 3-4 Front Matter....Pages 5-5 The New Enlightenment....Pages 7-15 Front Matter....Pages 17-17 The Development of the Living Seed of Intentionality. From E. Husserl and E. Fink to A.-T. Tymieniecka’s Ontopoiesis of Life....Pages 19-37 Phenomenology in a New Century: What Still Needs to be Done....Pages 39-76 Tymieniecka’s First Philosophy....Pages 77-96 Jean Wahl And The Renewal Of Metaphysics....Pages 97-107 Front Matter....Pages 109-109 Post-Modernism and the Ethics of Conscience: Various “Interpretations” of the Morality of the Post-Modern World. Role of A. T. Tymieniecka’s Phenomenology of Life....Pages 111-122 On the Meaningfulness of Man’s Existence: from the Existentialist Thinking to Phenomenology of Life....Pages 123-130 Creative Imagination In Harmony as Full Maturity Of Phenomenological Inquiry....Pages 131-150 Hermeneutics and the Vocative Structure of the Divine: Toward a Dramatic, Redemptive Phenomenology....Pages 151-170 Arriving in the World-of-Life....Pages 171-190 Front Matter....Pages 191-191 Intersubjectivity– an Existentialistic, Phenomenological and Discourse Ethical Approach....Pages 193-207 Is the Phenomenon of Non-Intentional “Self-Other” Relation Possible?....Pages 209-220 Two Dimensions Of Human Being In Karl Jaspers’ Philosophy– Existence And Hermeneutics....Pages 221-227 The Guilt Which We Are: An Ontological Approach To Jaspers’ Idea Of Guilt....Pages 229-251 Front Matter....Pages 253-253 Freud, Husserl And “Loss Of Reality ” : Classical Psychoanalysis, Transcendental Phenomenology And Explication Of Psychosis ....Pages 255-275 A Contribution To Phenomenology Of The Human Normality In The Modern Time....Pages 277-279 Toward A Phenomenological And Existential Psychology....Pages 281-299 Paradoxes Of Intention: Logotherapy, Phenomenology And Existentialism....Pages 301-320 Front Matter....Pages 321-321 Phenomenology Of Utilitarian-Aesthetic Dynamics Of Nature....Pages 323-338 Front Matter....Pages 321-321 Human Flourishing Beyond Economic Well-Being: The Contribution Of Phenomenology Towards A “Richer” Idea Of Personhood....Pages 339-351 Front Matter....Pages 353-353 Phenomenological Perspectives On Philosophical Didactics....Pages 355-364 Phenomenology Of Education: Contemporary Dialogue Of Philosophy And Pedagogics....Pages 365-369 Front Matter....Pages 371-371 The Phenomenological Way: A Philosophical View On The Vitality Of Being....Pages 373-390 Back Matter....Pages 391-394 The great flourishing in the Twentieth Century of the amalgamated movement of Phenomenology and Existentialism, having reached its unfolding and reverberation - as we have shown in our two preceding books and continue in this one - seems to have spanned the entire gamut of their marvels. Although the philosophical field is being still corroborated by phenomenologico-existential insights, their approaches and tendencies in a constant flux of perspectives, phenomenology as such has remained itself an open question. Its ultimate foundations, the question of "phenomenology of phenomenology", its "unconditional positioning" as the source of sense has not been solved by Husserl (see herein Verducci's study of Husserl and Fink, infra-page). But in this conundrum in which we find ourselves, there is gathering a wave of thought that continues regenerating philosophy. The deepest phenomenologico-existential inspirations, driven by a prompting logos, is undertaking a new critique of reason (see Verducci), apprehending the pivotal role of Imaginatio Creatrix (see Egbe), realizing Jean Wahl's importance as an early precursor of the quest after ultimate meaning (see Kremer-Marietti) and is clarifying the Logos of the "Moral Sense" (see Cozma and Szmyd). Finding a new point of departure for all phenomenology in the ontopoiesis of life (Tymieniecka) and so establishing the sought for "first philosophy" encompassing all (see Haney), is fructifying the coalescing reformulations of issues found in the phenomenology/ontopoiesis of life. We have here a powerful ferment we may call the New Enlightenment