Phenomenology and the Problem of Meaning in Human Life and History

This edited volume highlights the continuing relevance of Husserl's phenomenology, through a selection of work from members of the Organization of Phenomenological Organizations. As their papers amply demonstrate, contemporary phenomenology retains its critical focus, even as the discipline continues to expand and diversify. The book consists of four sections. In the first, authors focus on the contemporary implications of Husserl's critique of natural science and the problem of meaning; in the second, they draw upon phenomenological insights to help us understand present day social and ecological crises. The third includes contributions on the relationships between phenomenology, hermeneutics, literature and art; while in the final section, authors take up the work of prominent post-Husserlian phenomenologists to think through issues of language, interpretation, philosophy, religion and the history of ideas. In sum, the variety of approaches these thinkers take in order to understand issues that currently confront us richly demonstrates the enduring significance of Husserlian phenomenology for 20th- and 21st-century philosophy. libri nigri Band 60 Cover 1 Titelei 4 Impressum 5 Content 8 Acknowledgements 11 The Diversity of Phenomenology by Ľubica UĊník and Anita Williams 12 Section One: Husserl on the Problem of Meaning 18 Husserl and Jacob Klein on Unity and Multiplicity by Burt C. Hopkins 20 The Transcendental Critique of Naturalism Revisited, and the Question of a Meaning-Constitutive Life by Rosemary R. P. Lerner 46 The Final Fulfilment: From Meaning to Intuition in the Phenomenological Analysis of the Life of Consciousness by Mikhail Belousov 66 Husserl’s Phenomenology of Existence and the Problem of Meaning in Human Life by George Heffernan 80 Section Two: Phenomenology, the Everyday and Contemporary Problems 114 Another Place, Another Time: Phenomenological Reflection on Utopia by Chan-Fai Cheung 116 The Crisis of the Life-World and the Meaning of Life by Wataru Wada 132 Everydayness, Modernity and the Meaning of Life by Junichi Murata 144 Section Three: Phenomenology, Hermeneutics and the Arts 160 The Hunting Game in Hermeneutics: Meaning, Memory and Desire in Interpretation by Ana-Maria Pascal 162 Forms of Visual Perception and the Ontology of Image: Formal Aesthetics on Geometric Abstraction in Painting, with an Example of Zbigniew Romańczuk’s Works by Aleksandra Łukaszewicz Alcaraz 180 The Problem with Happy Endings: Are There Any Positive Answers in a Philosophy of Finite Existence? by Inês Pereira Rodrigues 200 Section Four: The thinkers from the Phenomenological Tradition 214 On the Mode of Being of Language by Horst Ruthrof 216 How to Express the Sense of Experience? From Husserl to Merleau-Ponty by Carmen López Sáenz 242 The Inner Word: Augustine and Gadamer on Language, Meaning and Being by Alexander S. Jensen 266 A Cursed Philosopher: How Merleau-Ponty Interprets Bergson and Christianity by Yuichi Sato 278 The Movement of Human Existence and Asubjective Phenomenology by Ľubica UĊník 294 PatoĊka and the Phenomenological Epochē by Anita Williams 308 Biographies 326 Index 330