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Book SynopsisGenerative Worlds. New Phenomenological Perspectives on Space and Time accounts for the phenomenological concept of generativity. In doing so, this book brings together several recent phenomenological studies on space and time. Generative studies in phenomenology propose new ways of conceiving space, time, and the relation between them. Edited by Luz Ascarate and Quentin Gailhac, the collection reveals new dimensions to topics such as the generation of life, birth, historicity, intersubjectivity, narrativity, institution, touching, and places, and in some cases, the contributors invert the classical definitions of space and time. These transformative readings are fruitful for the interdisciplinary exchange between philosophy and fields such as cosmology, psychology, and the social sciences. The contributors ask if phenomenology reaches its own concreteness through the study of generation and whether it manages to redefine certain dimensions of space and time which, in other orientations of the Husserlian method, remain too abstract and detached from the constitutive becoming of experience.
Table of ContentsIntroduction. Generativity: Between Generation and Life
Luz Ascarate and Quentin Gailhac
Part I. Emerging Life
Chapter 1. Born to Oneself
Natalie Depraz
Chapter 2. Decision as Urstiftung
Bruce Bégout
Part II. Generations
Chapter 3. Between Generation and Genesis: A New Stiftung
Mariana Larison
Chapter 4. Generative Temporality
Claudia Serban
Chapter 5. Thinking Space-Time as Earth-World: Husserl, Heidegger, and DeLillo
Tanja Staehler
Part III. Homes
Chapter 6. On the Generation of Meaningful and Valuable Space: The Place of Feelings in Generativity
Andrew Barrett
Chapter 7. Phenomenology of the Book and Hermeneutics of the Text: Touching and Interpreting Space
Francisco Diez Fischer
Chapter 8. Belonging and Cosmology
Renaud Barbaras
