Existential Husserl

Marco Cavallaro (Ph.D., University of Cologne) is Assistant Professor at the Institute for Philosophy of the University of Koblenz-Landau. He earned his Ph.D. degree with a thesis on Husserl’s System of a Theory of Science (forthcoming). He has published several articles on Husserl and phenomenology, including in Husserl Studies, Phänomenologische Forschungen, and Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology. He is co-editor of the volume Phenomenology of Phantasy and Emotions (WBG, 2022). His current research focuses on phenomenological ethics, philosophy of digitality, and philosophical anthropology. George Heffernan (Ph.D., University of Cologne) is Professor of Philosophy at Merrimack College. He specializes in phenomenology, existentialism, and hermeneutics. He has presented numerous papers, including at the Husserl Circle, the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, and the World Congress ofPhilosophy, and published numerous papers, including in Husserl Studies, The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, and Studia phaenomenologica. He has also published several books, including Isagoge in die phänomenologische Apophantik (in Phaenomenologica). He has received numerous awards, including from the Basselin Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

• PART I: HISTORICAL HORIZONS OF PHENOMENOLOGY OF EXISTENCE.- Chapter 1. Husserl, Heidegger, and Jaspers in the 1920s and 1930s.- Chapter 2. Kierkegaard and Husserl.- Chapter 3. Husserl and Heidegger on radical responsibility and authentic existence.- Chapter 4. Transcendental phenomenology and existential phenomenology.- PART II: BASIC OUTLINES OF HUSSERL’S PHENOMENOLOGY OF EXISTENCE.- Chapter 5. Essence and existence in Husserl.- Chapter 6. The individual and the universal in Husserl.- Chapter 7. The existential situatedness of the transcendental ego.- Chapter 8. Birth, death, and sleep: Limit problems and the paradox of phenomenology.- PART III: PHENOMENOLOGY, EXISTENTIALISM, AND EXISTENTIAL PHENOMENOLOGY.- Chapter 9. Husserl’s phenomenology of existence in Limit Problems of Phenomenology.- Chapter 10. Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology of ego, existence, and praxis.- Chapter 11. Phenomenology, existence, and personhood.- Chapter 12. Transcendental anthropology and existential phenomenology of happiness.- Chapter 13. Existential dimensions of Husserl’s late ethics.- Chapter 14. Individualism and cosmopolitanism in Husserl’s late ethics.- Chapter 15. Husserl’s “existentialist” ethics.- Chapter 16. Husserlian ethics, embodied ethics, and feminist ethics.- LITERATURE.- INDEX.- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS.

“No single edited volume can do everything, and what this volume does do, it does very well. … This is a welcome addition to the scholarship, and an excellent demonstration of the ongoing relevance of the Husserlian philosophical project.” (Denis Džanić, Husserl Studies, Vol. 40 (1), 2024)“This volume is the direct result of a contingent encounter with existentialconsequences. … The contributions of this volume demonstrate that Husserl’s phenomenology provides rich resources not only for conducting investigations involving theoretical inquiries concerning logic, epistemology, and theory of science, but also for engaging in practical sense-reflections (Besinnungen) on existential—and perhaps even ‘existentialist’—questions concerning the meaning of life or a life of meaning.” (Scriptable, rtreview.org, Issue 117, December, 2023)