Description
Book SynopsisThe main topic of the volume encompasses three areas of phenomenological research: person, subject, and organism. These three topics are interrelated in various ways. On the one hand, the question is Husserlian phenomenology of personhood and subjectivity, and on the other hand, it is a broader problem including epistemological, ontological and biological approaches. Those great traditional and contemporary themes of subjectivitiy and intersubjectivity, concepts of person, community and interpersonality, questions of humanity, value and biological status of human beings all became part of Edmund Husserl’s focus. The contributors intend to show that a number of inspiring and unexplored questions arose from these thematic areas, questions which are related to various specific and interconnected fields of study.
Table of ContentsContents: Elizabeth A. Behnke: Operatively functioning subjectivity: Toward a history of the received interpretation – Javier Enrique Carreño: Recollection, Perceptual Phantasy, and Memorials: A Husserlian Proposal – Kevin Marren: The Limits of Communication: A Phenomenological Account of Indication and Expression in Response to Derrida – Sam Cocks: Husserl on Type, Animal Life, and Cross-Species Morality – Elena Pagni: Individuality and Incorporation: Renewing the Concepts of «Life» and «Biological Organism» – Anton Vydra: Dissatisfied Life: Philosophy of the Living in Canguilhem and Merleau-Ponty – Jana Tomašovičová: Heideggers Humanismuskritik und der gegenwärtige Transhumanismus – Corry Shores: Self Shock: The Phenomenon of Personal Non-Identity in Inorganic Subjectivity – Josef Hrdlička: Cruelty and Melancholy: The Stones of Roger Caillois.
