LOGOSOF PHENOMENOLOGYAND PHENOMENOLOGY OF THE LOGOS. BOOK TWO ANALECTA HUSSERLIANA THE YEARBOOK OF PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH VOLUME LXXXIX Founder and Editor-in-Chief: ANNA-TERESA TYMIENIECKA The World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning Hanover, New Hampshire For sequel volumes see the end of this volume. LOGOS OF PHENOMENOLOGY AND PHENOMENOLOGY OF THE LOGOS. BOOK TWO The Human Condition in-the-Unity-of-Everything-there-is-alive. Individuation, Self, Person, Self-determination, Freedom, Necessity Edited by ANNA-TERESA TYMIENIECKA The World Phenomenology Institute, Hanover, NH, U.S.A. Published under the auspices of The World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning A-T. Tymieniecka, President Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available ISBN-10 1-4020-3706-6 (HB) ISBN-13 978-1-4020-3706-1 (HB) ISBN-10 1-4020-3707-4 (e-book) ISBN-13 978-1-4020-3707-8 (e-book) Published by Springer, P.O. 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TABLE OF CONTENTS THEMATIC INTRODUCTION ANNA-TERESATYMIENIECKA /TheHumanConditionwithin the Unity-of-Everything-there-is-Alive and its Logoic Network ix SECTION I THE NETWORK OF THE LOGOS: BODY, PERSON, LIFE ANGELA ALES BELLO / The Language of Our Living Body 3 PETER REYNAERT / What is it Like to be Embodied, Naturalizing Bodily Self-Awareness? 15 MOBEEN SHAHID / Edmund Husserl’s Anthropological Proposal in the IIIdeen I/II 23 ANDREAS BRENNER / Non-Intentionality of the Lived-Body 33 OLENA SHKUBULYANI / Plato’s Teaching about ‘‘Living Creature’’ and Phenomenology 45 VICTOR GERALD RIVAS / An Enquiry Concerning the Dialectic of Personality and its Practical Consequences 61 SECTION II FROM INDIVIDUATION TO INTERSUBJECTIVITY MARIA GOLEBIEWSKA / Discussion on the Notions of ‘‘Life’’ and ‘‘Existentia’’ in the Philosophical Conceptions of Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty 93 MARTIN NKAFU NKEMNKIA / ‘‘Vitalogy’’: The African Vision of the Human Person 101 WILLEM VAN GROENOU / Conflict with Our Self 121 ROBERTA DE MONTICELLI / Essential Individuality: On the Nature of a Person 171 MARZENNA JAKUBCZAK / Ego-Making Principle in Samkhya Metaphysics and Cosmology 185 v vi TABLE OF CONTENTS MARIA MERCEDE LIGOZZI / The ‘‘Person’’ and the ‘‘Other’’ in Marıa Zambrano’s Philosophical Anthropology 197 MARIA MANUELA BRITO MARTINS / Les figures de l’intersubjectivite chez Husserl 215 AGNES B. CURRY / The Logos of Life and Sexual Difffffference: Irigaray and Tymieniecka 231 SECTION III FREEDOM, NECESSITY, SELF-DETERMINATION CARMEN COZMA / Phenomenology of Life’s Opening to the Moral Philosophy – The Virtue’s Issue 245 MICHAEL STAUDIGL / The Vulnerable Body: Towards a Phenomenological Theory of Violence 259 PIOTR MRO´Z and TRISTAN ACE / Phenomenology of Life in Border Situations: The Experience of the Ultimate 273 KADRIA ISMAIL / The Phenomenology of Resistance 293 EDDO EVINK / Patocˇka and Derrida on Responsibility 307 STELLA ZITA DE AZEVEDO / ‘‘Perfect Health’’ and the Disembodiment of the Self. An Approach to Michel Henry’s Thought 323 LAURA HENGEHOLD / Beauvoirian Existentialism: An Ethic of Individualism or Individuation? 339 MARIA TERESA DE NORONHA / The Creationism of Leonardo Coimbra and Saudade as a Moral Gift 357 SECTION IV TRANSCENDING THE HORIZON OF LIFE ANN W. ASTELL / Mater-Natality: Augustine, Arendt, and Levinas 373 MICHAEL F. ANDREWS / Religion Without Why: Edith Stein and Martin Heidegger on the Overcoming of Metaphysics, with Particular Reference to Angelus Liesius and Denys the Areopagite 399 TABLE OF CONTENTS vii CARMEN BALZER / Hermeneutics of the Mystical Phenomenon in Edith Stein 429 INDEX OF NAMES 449 APPENDIX / The Program of the Oxford Third World Congress 453 WWWadhamCollege. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS When this volume – Volume Two – of a five-volume series: Logos of Phenomenology and Phenomenology of the Logos, gathering papers per- tainingtothesubjectattributedingeneraltophilosophicalanthropology from the Third World Congress of Phenomenology: Phenomenology World-Wide: Phenomenology of the Logos and the Logos of Phenomenology (Oxford, August 15–21, 2004) goes to press, thanks are due to those who were helpful in preparing this grandiose affffffair. First of all,itistheinitiativeofWilliamJ.SmithwhobroughtustoOxford,who with his wife Jadwiga and Gary Backhaus have also undertaken with expertisethetaskofthelocalarrangementsthatmeritsourappreciation. Professor Grahame Lock, of Queen’s College and Matt Landrus from WolfsonCollegeshouldbethankedfortheirpreciouscontributiontothe local organization. Tadeusz Czarnik, my personal helper, cannot be forgotten. I wish to express special thanks to Jeff Hurlburt, our secretary, for his assiduous and dedicated work in preparing this gathering. A-T.T. ix THEMATIC STUDY