Phenomenology and Existentialism in the Twenthieth Century, 2010 Book III. Heralding the New Enlightenment Analecta Husserliana Series, Vol. 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.

Theme.- Heralding the New Enlightenment.- Inaugural Lecture.- The New Enlightenment.- Section I.- The Development of the Living Seed of Intentionality. From E. Husserl and E. Fink to A.-T. Tymieniecka’s Ontopoiesis of Life.- Phenomenology in a New Century: What Still Needs to be Done.- Tymieniecka’s First Philosophy.- Jean Wahl And The Renewal Of Metaphysics.- Section II.- 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.- On the Meaningfulness of Man’s Existence: from the Existentialist Thinking to Phenomenology of Life.- Creative Imagination In Harmony as Full Maturity Of Phenomenological Inquiry.- Hermeneutics and the Vocative Structure of the Divine: Toward a Dramatic, Redemptive Phenomenology.- Arriving in the World-of-Life.- Section III.- Intersubjectivity– an Existentialistic, Phenomenological and Discourse Ethical Approach.- Is the Phenomenon of Non-Intentional “Self-Other”? Relation Possible?.- Two Dimensions Of Human Being In Karl Jaspers’ Philosophy– Existence And Hermeneutics.- The Guilt Which We Are: An Ontological Approach To Jaspers’ Idea Of Guilt.- Section IV.- Freud, Husserl And “Loss Of Reality ” : Classical Psychoanalysis, Transcendental Phenomenology And Explication Of Psychosis.- A Contribution To Phenomenology Of The Human Normality In The Modern Time.- Toward A Phenomenological And Existential Psychology.- Paradoxes Of Intention: Logotherapy, Phenomenology And Existentialism.- Section V.- Phenomenology Of Utilitarian-Aesthetic Dynamics Of Nature.- Human Flourishing Beyond Economic Well-Being: The Contribution Of Phenomenology Towards A “Richer” ?Idea Of Personhood.- Section VI.- PhenomenologicalPerspectives On Philosophical Didactics.- Phenomenology Of Education: Contemporary Dialogue Of Philosophy And Pedagogics.- Concluding.- The Phenomenological Way: A Philosophical View On The Vitality Of Being.

Presents the third phase of the unfolded and disseminated flux of phenomenology and existentialism which did transform our culture Its powerful inspirations are spent, without answering the crucial questions with the self-validation of phenomenology which Husserl failed to answer By retrieving its originary sense in the subjacent ontopoiesis of life, of becoming, of reason, we witness the novel upsurge of phenomenological spirit inaugurating the New Enlightenment