Man Within His Life-World : Contributions to Phenomenology by Scholars from East-Central Europe

"Back to Man Himself": The Philosophical Inspiration of Zurab Kakabadze.- I Historical Origins Revisited.- The Phenomenological Ontology of the Gottingen Circle.- II Man Constituting His Life-World: The Origin of Sense, Meaning, Objectivity, Transcendental Consciousness and Actual Existence.- The Formation of Sense and Creative Experience.- The Interrogation of Perceptive Faith.- The Concept of Attitude in Edmund Husserl's Philosophy.- Delineation and Analysis of Objectivities in Edmund Husserl's Phenomenology.- Meaning as the Reality of the World.- III Constitutive Consciousness, Transcendendentalism, and the Problem of "Actual Existence".- Controversy about Actual Existence: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka's Contribution to the Study of Roman Ingarden's Philosophy.- An Attempt to Reconcile Intersubjectivity with Transcendental Idealism in Edmund Husserl's Works.- The Ingarden-Husserl Controversy: The Methodological Status of Consciousness in Phenomenology and the Limits of the Human Condition.- Husserl's Transcendental Paradox and an Attempt at Overcoming It.- On Some Presuppositions of Husserl's "Presuppositionless" Philosophy.- IV Human Existence in its Moral Significance: The Origins of Morality, Values, Foundations.- Man's Existence in the Realm of Values.- The Ontology of Values: From Neo-Kantianism to Phenomenology.- Ontological Bases of Morality: Moral Realism and Phenomenological Praxeology.- Meaning in the Social World: A-T. Tymieniecka's Theory of the Moral Sense.- On Responsibility.- V The Aesthetic Significance of Life: Ontology, Aesthetic Perception, Hermeneutics, and the Life of the Work of Art Reflecting the Deepest Concerns of a Culture.- "What Is Our Life?" Cultural History and Aesthetic Experience in Literary Reception.- The Aesthetic Core of the Work of Art: The Boundaries of Its Phenomenological Description.- Victor Iancu's Phenomenology of Art.- The Ontology of Objects in Ingarden's Aesthetics.- De Interpretatione: New Creative and Existential Dimensions of Hermeneutics in Post-Modernism.- The Reception in Polish Literature of Roman Ingarden's Theory of Painting.- Common Humanity and the Present-Day Romanian Novel (Reflection and Refraction).- VI Thought and Language.- Literary Semantics and the Concepts of Meaning and Sense.- The Limit and Reaching Beyond a Philosophico-Philological Investigation.- No Thinking Without Words.- On Roman Ingarden's Semiotic Views: A Contribution to the History of Polish Semiotics.- VII Prospects for an Adequate Phenomenological Anthropology: The Search for a "Method", the Natural World, Man's Self-Understanding.- Phenomenology and Self-Understanding in the Modern World: The Crisis of Modernity and the Possibility of a New and Critical Anthropology.- Un philosophe du monde naturel: Jan Pato?ka (1907-1977).- The Creative Explosion of the Life-World in Schizophrenic Psychosis: Its Import for Psychotherapy.- Phenomenology as the Method of Contemporary Philosophical Anthropology.- VIII Man's Historical Existence and the Life of the Spirit: Teleology, the Other, Freedom.- The Teleological Structure of Historical Being (The Analysis of the Problem Made in Husserl's Work, Crisis in European Science and Transcendental Phenomenology).- Husserl and Heidegger: Phenomenology and Ontology.- On the Paths of Cartesian Freedom: Sartre and Levinas.- Bibliographies.- Bibliography of Phenomenology in Poland.- Bibliography of Phenomenology in Yugoslavia.- Supplementary Bibliography of Phenomenology in Yugoslavia.- Index of Names.