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Preface
Contents
About the Authors
Husserl's Phenomenology of Existence: A Very Brief Introduction
1 Historical and Philosophical Horizons of the Theme
2 Husserl's Existential Crises
2.1 The First World War
2.2 The Disillusionment with Heidegger
2.3 The Antisemitism of National Socialism
2.4 The Crisis of Philosophy as a Rigorous Science
3 Existential Readings of Representative Works of Husserl
3.1 A "Breakthrough" and Its Existential Applications and Implications
3.2 Essence Precedes But Does Not Supersede Existence
3.3 Making Space for Axiological, Existential, and Practical Evidence
3.4 Taking a Practical Turn to "the Struggle for Existence"
3.5 Sense-Reflections for Cultural, Ethical, Existential, and Religious Renewal
3.6 Enhanced Clarity About Evidence and the Possibility of Existential Evidence
3.7 The Questions Concerning Meaning or Meaninglessness of Human Existence
3.8 "Vernunftglaube": 'What Must I Believe in Order That Life Might Make Sense?'
4 Conclusion: "Infinite Tasks" in Husserl's Phenomenology of Existence
References
Edmund Husserl: Gesammelte Werke or Husserliana (Henceforth: Hua)
Briefwechsel or Husserliana Dokumente III
Other Authors
Transcendental Anthropology and Existential Phenomenology of Happiness
1 Introduction: A Preliminary Delimitation of the Inquiry
2 Striving Toward Happiness and Intentional Experience
3 Happiness Intentionality and the Ambivalences of Time Consciousness
4 Evaluation of Life in the Tension Between Satisfaction and Happiness - The Ethical Dimension of Intentional Happiness
5 Conclusion: Opening a New Horizon on Happiness Inquiry
References
"I Want, Therefore I Can": Husserl's Phenomenology of Heroic Willing
1 The Foundations of a Phenomenology of Willing in the Göttingen Lectures and Manuscripts
2 The Discovery of the Problem of Practical Irrationality in the Freiburg Years
3 Heroism as Husserl's Solution to the Problem of Practical Irrationality
4 Conclusion
References
"Mag die Welt eine Hölle sein": Husserl's Existential Ethics
1 Introduction: "An Existential Husserl"?
2 The Existence and Imaginative Destruction of the World
3 From the World of Objects to the World of Values
4 The Shift of Focus After Ideen I from the Constitution of Objects to the Constitution of Values
5 The Contingency of Facts, the Fragility of Values, and the General Insecurity of Life
6 What Should I Do If the World Is Hell?
7 Conclusion: Existential Intimacy
References
The Development of Husserl's Categorical Imperative: From Universal Ethical Legislation to Individual Existential Exhortation
1 Introduction: A New Approach to Husserl's Ethics
2 Elaboration: Kant's Categorical Imperative and Its Several Formulae
3 Reconstruction: Husserl's Categorical Imperatives
Preface
Contents
About the Authors
Husserl's Phenomenology of Existence: A Very Brief Introduction
1 Historical and Philosophical Horizons of the Theme
2 Husserl's Existential Crises
2.1 The First World War
2.2 The Disillusionment with Heidegger
2.3 The Antisemitism of National Socialism
2.4 The Crisis of Philosophy as a Rigorous Science
3 Existential Readings of Representative Works of Husserl
3.1 A "Breakthrough" and Its Existential Applications and Implications
3.2 Essence Precedes But Does Not Supersede Existence
3.3 Making Space for Axiological, Existential, and Practical Evidence
3.4 Taking a Practical Turn to "the Struggle for Existence"
3.5 Sense-Reflections for Cultural, Ethical, Existential, and Religious Renewal
3.6 Enhanced Clarity About Evidence and the Possibility of Existential Evidence
3.7 The Questions Concerning Meaning or Meaninglessness of Human Existence
3.8 "Vernunftglaube": 'What Must I Believe in Order That Life Might Make Sense?'
4 Conclusion: "Infinite Tasks" in Husserl's Phenomenology of Existence
References
Edmund Husserl: Gesammelte Werke or Husserliana (Henceforth: Hua)
Briefwechsel or Husserliana Dokumente III
Other Authors
Transcendental Anthropology and Existential Phenomenology of Happiness
1 Introduction: A Preliminary Delimitation of the Inquiry
2 Striving Toward Happiness and Intentional Experience
3 Happiness Intentionality and the Ambivalences of Time Consciousness
4 Evaluation of Life in the Tension Between Satisfaction and Happiness - The Ethical Dimension of Intentional Happiness
5 Conclusion: Opening a New Horizon on Happiness Inquiry
References
"I Want, Therefore I Can": Husserl's Phenomenology of Heroic Willing
1 The Foundations of a Phenomenology of Willing in the Göttingen Lectures and Manuscripts
2 The Discovery of the Problem of Practical Irrationality in the Freiburg Years
3 Heroism as Husserl's Solution to the Problem of Practical Irrationality
4 Conclusion
References
"Mag die Welt eine Hölle sein": Husserl's Existential Ethics
1 Introduction: "An Existential Husserl"?
2 The Existence and Imaginative Destruction of the World
3 From the World of Objects to the World of Values
4 The Shift of Focus After Ideen I from the Constitution of Objects to the Constitution of Values
5 The Contingency of Facts, the Fragility of Values, and the General Insecurity of Life
6 What Should I Do If the World Is Hell?
7 Conclusion: Existential Intimacy
References
The Development of Husserl's Categorical Imperative: From Universal Ethical Legislation to Individual Existential Exhortation
1 Introduction: A New Approach to Husserl's Ethics
2 Elaboration: Kant's Categorical Imperative and Its Several Formulae
3 Reconstruction: Husserl's Categorical Imperatives