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Jan Patočka and the Phenomenology of Life After Death
This volume contains for the first time in English, Jan Patočka’s seminal essay “The Phenomenology of Afterlife”, as well as contributions...
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To Live After Death: Where? Patočka’s “Phenomenology of Afterlife” and Its Contexts
Situating the study on the “Phenomenology of afterlife” within the whole of Patočka’s thought, one can find several threads or complexes of ideas...
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Husserlian Phenomenology of Limit-Problems: a “‘Geometry’ of Lived Experience”?
The proper way in which limit-problems [ Grenzprobleme ]—birth, death, dreamless sleep, the “prior to birth” [ das vor der Geburt ], the “after death” [ da...
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The Phenomenology of Afterlife
The essay “The Phenomenology of Afterlife” was left unfinished by Patočka and was never published during his lifetime. In fact, we still do not know...
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The Unconscious in Husserl’s Phenomenology
Although Husserl’s analyses of the unconscious are scattered throughout various writings, many of which have been published in Hua III/2, Hua VI, Hua...
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Towards a Phenomenology of Racism
This chapter begins by considering the significance of Said’s 1967 essay “The Arab Portrayed” for the development of his critical scholarship. The...
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“Unresting Death, a Whole Day Nearer Now”: Parfit and Patočka on Death and False Consolations
Jan Patočka opens “The Phenomenology of Afterlife” by indicating that philosophers always tend to focus on questions about the mortality or...
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Dying With the Other: Death as the Manifestation of Community
In Patočka’s later thought, death is a recurring theme. It is something that he analyzes phenomenologically and existentially, but also a theme that...
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Grenzprobleme of Phenomenology: Metaphysics
With the publication of the Husserliana series and Heidegger’s Gesamtausgabe both nearing completion, a strikingly different picture of their work...
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The Problem of Standpoint in Phenomenology
The aim of this book is to argue for a standpoint approach to phenomenology grounded in the idea that social oppression and marginalization can, in...
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Hegel and Husserl on Phenomenology, Logic, and the System of Sciences: A Reappraisal
Husserl envisages transcendental phenomenology as a radically founding science that lays bare the higher-order experiences whereby logic and a theory...
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Husserl and Fink: From Philosophical Systematics to a ‘Phenomenology of Phenomenology’
Husserl’s intensive collaboration with Eugen Fink is a particularly apt point of departure for a reading looking to clarify Husserl’s complex notion...
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Adorno’s Genetic Phenomenology
There is a certain consensus among contemporary phenomenologists tackling Adorno’s criticism of Husserl in saying that, while some of Adorno’s...
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An eyewitness account of Edmund Husserl and Freiburg phenomenology in 1923–24. Towards reclaiming the plurivocity of historical sources of the Phenomenological Movement
The early phenomenologist József Somogyi was one of, if not the first to write a monograph specifically dedicated to the history of the nascent...
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A New Day for Perennialism: the Case for a Perennial Phenomenology, or ‘Soft’ Perennialism
This paper argues for a ‘perennial phenomenology’ (or ‘soft’ perennialism) varying from the traditionalist notion of a ‘perennial philosophy.’...
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Critical Phenomenology
Phenomenology has always extended into a vast array of questions that are the primary concern of other disciplines, including fields such as...
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Between Memory and History: Retracing Historical Knowledge Through a Phenomenology of Afterlife
How can Jan Patočka’s phenomenology of afterlife enable us to understand the historiographical process in general and the role of testimony in the...
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Benjamin and the Essence of Phenomenology
The present chapter addresses Walter Benjamin’s reception of phenomenology by focusing primarily on his interest in phenomenological eidetics. To...
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Birth, Death, and Sleep: Limit Problems and the Paradox of Phenomenology
One of the most commented upon passages of Husserl’s Crisis involves what he calls “The paradox of human subjectivity.” This involves our “being a...
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Issues for a phenomenology of illness – transgressing psychologizations
Phenomenology of illness has grown increasingly popular in recent times. However, the most prominent phenomenologists of illness defend a...