Phenomenology and existentialism in the twentieth century. / Book 1, New waves of philosophical inspirations

Phenomenology and existentialism transformed understanding and experience of the Twentieth Century to their core. They had strikingly different inspirations and yet the two waves of thought became merged as both movements flourished. The present collection of research devoted to these movements and their unfolding interaction is now especially revealing. The studies in this first volume to be followed by two succeeding ones, range from the predecessors of existentialism – Kierkegaard/Jean Wahl, Nietzsche, to the work of its adherents – Shestov, Berdyaev, Unamuno, Blondel, Blumenberg, Heidegger and Mamardashvili, Dufrenne and Merleau-Ponty to existentialism’s congruence with Christianity or with atheism. Among the leading Husserlian insights are treated essence and experience, the place of questioning, ethics and intentionality, temporality and passivity and the life world. The following book will uncover the perennial concerns guiding the wondrous interplay of these two inspirational sources. Front Matter....Pages I-X Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Theme....Pages 1-5 Front Matter....Pages 7-7 Husserl and Phenomenology, Experience and Essence....Pages 9-22 Jean Wahl the Precursor: Kierkegaard and Existentialism....Pages 23-30 The Transcendental and the Singular: Husserl and the Existential Thinkers Between the Two World Wars....Pages 31-43 DE L’ « In-Existence » Intentionnelle À Ĺ « Ek-In-Sistence » Existentielle....Pages 45-73 The Value of the Question in Husserl’s Perspective....Pages 75-91 Front Matter....Pages 93-93 The Essential Structure and Intentional Object of Action: Toward Understanding the Blondelian Existential Phenomenology....Pages 95-110 Subjectivity, Openness and Plurality: on the Background of Edmund Husserl’s Phenomenological Reduction....Pages 111-125 What Does it Mean to be an Existentialist Today?....Pages 127-143 Dufrenne and Merleau-Ponty: A Comparative Meditation on Phenomenology....Pages 145-160 The Ethical Project and Intentionality in Edmund Husserl....Pages 161-177 Is Nietzsche a Phenomenologist?—Towards a Nietzschean Phenomenology of the Body....Pages 179-189 The Problem of Authenticity and Everydayness in Existential Philosophy....Pages 191-200 Front Matter....Pages 201-201 Lev Shestov’s Philosophy of Crisis....Pages 203-215 The Idea of God-Man in Nicolas Berdyaev’s Existentialism....Pages 217-229 Unamuno as “Pathological” Phenomenologist: Tragic Sense and Beyond....Pages 231-252 Blondel and the Philosophy of Life....Pages 253-273 Front Matter....Pages 275-275 From the Archeology of Happening ... to the Matter of Death....Pages 277-293 The Phenomenology of Pain: An Experience of Life....Pages 295-307 The Existential Overcoming of Phenomenology in Hans Blumenberg’s Philosophy of Life and Myth....Pages 309-321 Front Matter....Pages 323-323 Temporality and Passivity in Edmund Husserl’s Analyses....Pages 325-346 On Existence, Actuality and Possibility....Pages 347-357 The Consciousness of Time in Life Through Phenomenology and Existentialism....Pages 359-368 Front Matter....Pages 369-369 Existentialism: An Atheistic or A Christian Philosophy?....Pages 371-394 The Horizon of Humanity and the Transcendental Analysis of the Lifeworld....Pages 395-408 Crisis and Culture....Pages 409-419 Front Matter....Pages 421-421 Understanding as Being: Heidegger and Mamardashvili....Pages 423-432 Mind – Its Way of Existence, Structure and Functions in Tibetan Buddhism – Comparison with Phenomenology....Pages 433-450 Back Matter....Pages 451-456