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Book Synopsis1 On Exploring the Intertwining: Engaging with the Thoughts and Writings of James Mensch.- Part I Reconfiguring Subjectivity.- 2 Another Beginning: On Birth, Childhood, and the Existential State of Being Human.- 3 Jan Patocka and James Mensch on World and Movement.- 4 The Path of Phenomenology: James Mensch and Jan Patocka on Subjectivity.- Part II Unthinking Embodiment and its Implications.- 5 Self-Identity from the Perspective of the Body.- 6 Paradigm Changes in Times of Pandemics, Embodied Vulnerability, and Responsibility.- 7 Merleau-Ponty's Parallel Between Art and Philosophy: The Case of Poetry from Baudelaire and Akhmatova.- Part III Unfolding the Phenomenology of Time.- 8 Ego Splitting and Intuitive Presentifications.- 9 Intersubjective Constitution of Time in the C-Manuscripts.- 10 In the Flow of Experience: Genetic Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis Toward a New Subjectivity Model.- Part IV Probing the Foundations of the Ethico-Political.- 11 Empathy and Trust as Different Foundations of Ethics.- 12 Living In: A Sketch for an Oikology.- 13 Pandemic Times and James Mensch's Political Philosophy.- Part V On Violence and the Wager of Dialogue.- 14 Shame: Experiencing, Enduring and Resisting the Violence of Vulnerability.- 15 Jan Patocka on War: From Hysterical Men to the Solidarity of the Shaken.- 16 The Affective Ambiguity of Violence: A Study in the Phenomenology of Spectacular Violence.- 17 Epilogue.
