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, Patoka'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.

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Contents Editors' Preface Part I Varieties of Human Experience: Contemporary Phenomenological Approaches 1. Ethics and the Commitment to Truth Jeff MALPAS 2. Crossing the Boundary of Being Human: Enhancement Technology and the Problem of Free Will Junichi MURATA 3. Culture, Wilderness, and Homelessness: Eco-Phenomenology 2 Tetsuya KONO 4. Toward a Phenomenological Reading of Landscape: Bachelard, Merleau-Ponty, and Zong Bing Kuan-min HUANG 5. Some Phenomenology of Not Retiring Lester EMBREE Part II The Human Genre: Revisiting Attempts of Classical Phenomenologists 6. A Phenomenological Attempt to Cross the Border: On Husserl's Meditation on Death in Manuscripts C Xianghong FANG 7. Heidegger's Concept of Fore-structure and Textual Interpretation Ka-wing LEUNG 8. Understanding, Historically Effected Consciousness, and Phenomenology in Gadamer Yiu-hong WONG 9. Reversibility and Its Philosophical Implications: A Phenomenological Explication of a Late Concept of Merleau-Ponty Chon-ip NG 10. The Subjective Movement of Body and World: Observations on the Phenomenology and Metaphysics of Corporeality in the Reflections of Jan Patocka Karel NOVOTNÝ 11. Edith Stein's Phenomenology of Education Maybelle Marie O. PADUA Contributors Editors