Phenomenology and Human Experience

Phenomenology and Human Experience is a volume of eleven essays generated from part of the works presented at "Border-Crossing: The 4th International Conference of P.E.A.CE (Phenomenology for East-Asian CirclE)" held in December 2010 at the National Sun Yatsen University, Taiwan. The themes treated include: interconnection between ethical space and space of truth, freedom in the biotechnologically enhanced world, wildnature facing the extension of urbanization, landscape as a way of thinking and living, Husserl's meditation on death, the subtle difference between Heidegger's and Gadamer's hermeneutics, Merleau-Ponty's reversibility thesis revisited, Pato ka's phenomenology of body and subjective movement, and Edith Stein's phenomenology of education. They are original contributions or renewed reflections from East-Asian phenomenologists, joined by their Western colleagues, on the most divergent aspects of human experience. This is another concrete proof that more than a century since its emergence on German soil, phenomenology has spread across linguistic and geographical borders to become one of the most vibrant global philosophical movements.
The editors: Chung-Chi Yu is Professor at the Institute of Philosophy, National Sun Yatsen University of Taiwan, and currently Director of the Institute. - Kwokying Lau is both Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Director of the Edwin Cheng Foundation Asian Centre for Phenomenology at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

ContentsEditors' PrefacePart IVarieties of Human Experience:Contemporary Phenomenological Approaches1. Ethics and the Commitment to TruthJeff MALPAS2. Crossing the Boundary of Being Human:Enhancement Technology and the Problem of Free WillJunichi MURATA3. Culture, Wilderness, and Homelessness: Eco-Phenomenology 2Tetsuya KONO4. Toward a Phenomenological Reading of Landscape:Bachelard, Merleau-Ponty, and Zong BingKuan-min HUANG5. Some Phenomenology of Not RetiringLester EMBREEPart IIThe Human Genre:Revisiting Attempts of Classical Phenomenologists6. A Phenomenological Attempt to Cross the Border:On Husserl's Meditation on Death in Manuscripts CXianghong FANG7. Heidegger's Concept of Fore-structure and Textual InterpretationKa-wing LEUNG8. Understanding, Historically Effected Consciousness,and Phenomenology in GadamerYiu-hong WONG9. Reversibility and Its Philosophical Implications:A Phenomenological Explication of a Late Concept of Merleau-PontyChon-ip NG10. The Subjective Movement of Body and World:Observations on the Phenomenology and Metaphysics of Corporealityin the Reflections of Jan PatockaKarel NOVOTNÝ11. Edith Stein's Phenomenology of EducationMaybelle Marie O. PADUAContributorsEditors